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You love being a teacher, but everyone needs some downtime. Sometimes it’s just not that easy. That’s why these posts are here. To help you save time so that you can have that work-life balance you need and deserve!

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Often when teachers are feeling burnout, they tend to put their work-life balance to the side. Check out this post where you will be given 8 must-do teacher self-care ideas so that you can manage burnout and take care of yourself. It also comes with a self-care challenge for free!

8 Must-Do Ideas for Teacher Self-Care

Free Up Time During the School Day

Teaching is stressful - captain obvious, right?! But, the stress of teaching really takes its toll on a lot of teachers. I've compiled many tips to help you stress less this school year. Get all of them in this post!

Stress Less This School Year (with These Ideas)

Teachers never seem to be able to leave work early, but why? I'm sharing a few tips to help you better manage your time so that you can leave work early more often than not, because it's an unhealthy habit to maintain, staying late at work all the time! Get all of the tips inside this blog post.

Tips to Leave Work Early

One of the most difficult things with teaching is being able to leave work early! It’s hard to not sit there hours after the kids

Do you find yourself hiding from chatty coworkers during your planning time? It might seem rude, but it's not at all rude to close your door and get to work, because your work time is, well, work time! This post shares a few ways - some humorous, some serious - that you can head off chatty coworkers to help you actually get some work done during your planning time.

Hiding from Co-workers During Planning Time?

I often would shut the door and sit in the darkened room with one light on (sometimes just the flood light). I had a small

There are many great teaching resources out there! These educational resources for your elementary classroom will save you both lesson planning time and money for teachers on a budget! Check them out!

Save Time and Money | Educational Resources

Who wouldn’t save time and money? These days everyone is in a hurry and duties are piling up. Sometimes I think being a teacher is

If you are like me, it's frustrating when students lose their worksheets and you have to make extra copies! This post has the solution for that classroom management problem with this simple binder!

You Need ANOTHER Copy?! Dealing with Extra Copies

“Mrs. D, I need another copy of Monday night’s homework,” Johnny said. As soon as the little kiddos head off to recess, I dash to

Sometimes teaching can be difficult and frustrating. We can feel like teaching is like a bowl full of sour lemons. When this happens, we need to turn our lemons into lemonade!

Moving Grades: Chaos! Lemons! Lemonade?

When life gives you lemons, what do you do? Look for the lemonade! This is what I did when I was approached about moving grades.

Five quick and easy steps to help you with organizing posters in just a few minutes! Check out this idea!

Organizing Posters: Five Steps to End Poster Chaos

Wait, posters? Does anyone use those anymore? I remember once cruising the teacher store catalog looking at posters, posters, and more posters. Oh, the variety