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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)

Can You Trust Resources From TpT?

Have you ever found yourself wondering just how much you can rely on the materials found on Teachers Pay Teachers? Or maybe you have purchased

5 Ways to Destress before Back to School

It’s almost time. Soon you’ll be setting up your classroom, making copies, and memorizing your kids’ names (if you aren’t already!). You’ll be preparing insightful

5 (Guaranteed!) Ways to be a Happy Teacher

Do you feel like you are a happy teacher? Do you want to be a happy teacher? You can be. We all have our days

Did you know that there are phases of teaching? A recent study showed five phases of teaching that new teachers tend to experience, but in my opinion I think that nearly every teacher experiences these phases of teaching most school years! Read about the phases and what happens during each one, and use the information to help mentor yourself or another teacher who is struggling.

The Phases of Teaching Every Teacher Experiences

Sometime back when I was reading about how to better help new teachers, I noticed a study done by Ellen Moir. In her study, she

Teaching Elaboration in Writing

When I ask my students to put elaboration into their writing, I usually get more long, drawn-out details of what they did that day. You

Free Up Time During the School Day

Teachers are busy! I know – preaching to the choir here. There are so many things to do during the day and just not enough

Stress Less This School Year (with These Ideas)

Approximately 17% of new teachers leave the teaching profession within the first five years (source), and while that number is not as large as it

Time Management for the Teacher

Time management can be tricky. I know. I recall many times that I just didn’t have it under control. I would come to work early,

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

TRY MATH WORKSHOP!

You can finally take back your weekends with Math Workshop! How? It’s jam-packed with everything you need – lesson plans, math centers, independent work and so much more! Try it yourself. Enter your information below and check it out!

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