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143. Stop Over-Preparing Your Classroom
If your summer has been spent working nonstop, prepping every center, and printing decorations right up until the last hour before school starts, and you still end up feeling exhausted instead of ready, this episode is for you. Overpreparing your classroom feels productive, but it is often not the thing that actually sets you up for a successful first day.
In this episode, I share:
why overpreparing your classroom can feel like control and confidence even when it is not actually preparing you to teach
how the pressure of seeing "perfect" classrooms on social media can push you to prepare the…
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