Distance Learning or Remote Teaching: Useful Tips for Making it Work

I want to provide tips for distance learning or eLearning especially as we find that at the present moment a majority of schools in the United States and other places around the world are closed. This is definitely something that we as teachers have not been prepared for and there's a big learning curve here. I think it's also important to say that no one person has all the answers. There's so much variation between different school districts and States and the number of digital resources that your school or district has access to. I think that's also why it took me a little longer to make this content even though some schools have already been doing e-learning or distance learning for over a month. At this point, it's just because I wanted to make sure I was adding meaning and helpful content. There's also no shortage of free resources at this point but we have to be intentional about it. Hopefully, you'll be intentional about today's tips. 

Maintaining motivation 

Now it can be difficult working at home alone. So it really important for you to reach out with other teachers and form a community so you can talk, solve problems, and share successes. With you doing this you won't have to be lonely. 

Free of distractions

Find a dedicated workspace that's free from distractions. Also, make sure during class contact hours that nothing behind you is making such noise. This is going to interfere with contacting your students. The number one most distraction for most people is their phones. Make sure the sound is turned off and it's out of sight so it's not interrupting you.  

  

Office Hours

Unlike a regular school, in which you might have office hours. Students are sometimes uncertain of when they should contact you. Of course, they can always leave an email and encourage them to do so. By the same token also check in on your students regularly reaching out to them just to make sure everything is okay and that their studies are progressing. If your students are struggling Zoom with your students, so they can ask questions about their work and then go finish it.

Give meaningful feedback

In an online class, it's extremely important to give meaningful feedback. In this feedback, you should always try to say something very positive to help encourage students. Of course, you can also go through and correct all the errors and problems that students have, but giving them a hopeful tone is important. In my own classes, I always pick one good thing that each student has done, and then I shared with all the rest of the students. This helps to create a sense of community among the learners and it shows even the least able student that they can do something right.

Online etiquette

In their online classes, students should be practicing good online etiquette. Which is treating others and the teacher with respect. It's important for students to understand these rules and one way to create them is to ask the students themselves. Ask students to write a list of what is and is not acceptable online. This also fits in with a general idea that runs throughout the idea of online teaching and that is to shift responsibility to the students. Make them more involved in the everyday decisions about their online education.

Set Expectations

In general, students can work on their homework at home. However, this does not mean that you simply say yes do your assignments for this work. You have to set up your expectations. What are they supposed to be doing, how should they be doing it, what should they be looking for, what skills should they be applying, so you have to start off by giving them a briefing on what is expected of them and then follow up. Once they've done the work to see again what questions and problems they've had but also for them to demonstrate what they've learned.

Goals and Paths

Building on those expectations that we mentioned earlier our goals and paths to get them there. Use your textbook to explain the tasks that students have to complete and the deadlines by which they need to complete them. To give students a sense of achievements set short medium and long term goals. Short term goals can be things like learning new vocabulary every day. Medium-term goals should be something like completing a project over the course of a week. A longer-term goal could be reading a new book.

Personalize assignments

You can improve students' motivation by personalizing your assignments and personalizing their goals. Make it a more student-centered online classroom in which you encourage students to conduct their own research on personal projects rather than having every single student do the same assignment so this helps avoid plagiarism.

Scheduling

The quick answer is that your schedule should mirror the hours that you normally have with the students in class as well as any homework expectations that you have of them. But you may divide up this a little bit, for example, it's probably unusual for you to talk for an hour in a class rather you're more likely to talk for maybe 5-10 minutes and you could videotape that and share that with the students. Then have them go off and do their work before they watch the next video about the next step of what you expect them. 

Deliver instruction in different ways

A big advantage of dividing your lectures or your talks into smaller segments is they're easier to share, but also it's easier for students to watch them and watch them again and again so they get a lot more exposure to the idea.


Grading: avoid being overwhelmed!

Grading can be a challenge don't be overwhelmed. There are a few things that 

you can do. First of all, here's a simple grading solution! If a student completes an assignment give them 2 points. If a student partially completes an assignment give them 1 point. If a student doesn't do the assignment give them 0 points. Another strategy is to only mark the first ten errors in any essay. Now for some students, this may all come in their first paragraph in others you make it through the entire essay. In this way, you're rationing your time and because students often make the same errors over and over again just correcting a few of them will probably give them guidance as to what else they should fix on their own.

Give regular open-ended questions

Another way to engage students is to give them regular open-ended questions. Maybe a question of the day or a question of the week that they're expected to discuss with other students. For example, you might say what job would you love to have and what job would you not like to have and why, so students have to think of individual jobs and compare them and then discuss them with each other. Get them into a process of putting together their ideas discussing them reflecting on what they hear.

Get your students reading!

Finally, get your students reading. It's the most important lifelong learning skill for continuing to improve their English. They'll improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills all at the same time. Also, look for resources that are available in your community perhaps from libraries or digitally online.

Thanks for reading,

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10 Ways to Practice Self Care | Tips for Teachers

Being a teacher can be a hectic and stressful job, so start implementing some of these 10 self care strategies! The best news is that these self care tips for teachers do not cost anything and you can practice them during the school day! 

What is Self Care?

Before we begin, however, I think we have to clear up some things about self-care. You see when a lot of people think about self-care I think what comes to mind is treating yourself, an idea which is great. I'm not saying not to treat yourself, but we're looking at overall wellness, caring for ourselves. 

When we're caring for other people and getting caught up in the daily grind we might go into debt. Not financial debt but sleep debt and joy debt.  We kind of starved for these fundamentals, and when we live that hustle and bustle it makes it really tough to actually nourish ourselves and heal ourselves from some of the stressors we're dealing with. The idea is that these are going to help nourish you as a person so you are in much better spirits, overall and you're promoting wellness you're really caring for yourself. 

#1  Make healthy food choices

Whatever food you bring, let's these food items help nourish and sustain. We're not thinking about that quick frozen meal or something that super low calories. Our bodies need fuel to function and about 1/4 of the calories we eat are needed to function our brain. We want to make sure we're feeding enough of the right foods. This can include healthy snacks such as hummus and carrot sticks, for instance. Easy, quick, and nourishing! Figure out what some healthy snacks are for you! 

It also means fewer treats. I'm not sure about you and your school but it was very common to have treats in our teacher's lounge and sometimes the stuff looks pretty good but if we know that eating that kind of thing is more of an indulgence and not making this an everyday thing is going to lead to long term wellness. A lot of that stuff might just be a sugar crash and that's not going to help you feel your best self-care.

# 2  Avoid Negative Nancies

Basically, those people who just really like to suck the joy out of teaching or out of your own experience are the kind who don't make it as much fun to be around and to be at school. Try to spend less time with the negative nancies and instead focus on people who build you up, celebrate your ideas, care about the profession and being the best teacher they can be. Shifting your focus to be spending more time with these positive examples is going to give you a much better overall picture of the job.

# 3  Take some time to yourself

Really take some time that's quiet just for you to reflect. One thing that I find to be true is when we are caught in that hustle and bustle cycle and always moving to the next thing we don't have time to really step back and reflect on what's happening. Sometimes we don't make the best decisions when we actually don't have time to reflect.

This doesn't have to be an everyday thing but if you give yourself some quiet moments with no phone, other people, and music just you and your thoughts. To really, figure out is life going well right now, how I'm teaching the best thing, am I taking enough care of myself. When you really take the time to reflect and take away the extra noise and distraction that's when you get the clarity to those aha moments. So make sure you're giving yourself the time here and there to just be. Even if it's just five minutes that does matter so really try to prioritize some of that.

#4  Play relaxing music

This can actually happen with your students and it involves plain relaxing music during class. If you search for relaxing music on YouTube there are so many beautiful instrumental tracks put together that are a couple hours long and make really nice calming music. I also enjoyed using some soft jazz in the classroom as well this music no lyrics just nice calm music can be very healing and I think both you and your students will enjoy it.

#5  Keep your desk tidy 

It's very easy for your desk to look like a warzone at the end of a school day. I've been there, but if we can focus on trying to reset your desk as well as keeping fewer items out it leads to more peace of mind. It's very common to have items on your desk that you actually don't use and don't really need out on the desk. When you've got an extra moment during the day take a close look at what's on your desk. Does all of that stuff need to be on top of the desk or could it work in a drawer? It's the concept of a cluttered desk leads to a cluttered mind and a clear desk can lead to a more clear mind. See if there are a few items you can remove from your desk to help promote self-care.

#6  Leave promptly 

Yes, you can stay as late as you want but when you set boundaries about what time you leave, you're saying yes to so many positive experiences that can happen once you leave the classroom. Even if you just start leaving right away after school one day a week start enjoying the benefits of that is a positive step in the right direction. Maybe you have something you need to get done you could stay after school and do it or it could be an enjoyable task when you're at home. It doesn't mean that you would never do work at home and the truth is a lot of things can just wait till tomorrow. Many of the things we're doing that education are not so urgent that they must be done right away that night. Yes, there are moments but it's not every moment. It doesn't hurt too much to say "I'll deal with it with a fresh perspective tomorrow."

# 7  Exercising

 Well at school see if you can squeeze in a little bit of physical activity during the day. Now chances are you're probably on your feet kind of running around the entire day when you have students in your room but there are little moments you might be able to stick in some exercises. For example, when you are making copies you can do lunges, squats, or calf raises. Simple little exercises and it doesn't require any additional time so see if there are little things you can do like a few yoga poses in your room.

#8  Stay hydrated 

Unfortunately, as teachers, we do often have to control the amount of water we're drinking because you probably can't go to the bathroom whenever you want. Try to set a schedule for yourselves to stay as hydrated as possible within that framework based upon when you can take breaks trying to stay hydrated. Especially if you're talking a lot and interacting with other students it's really important to help keep your energy up, keep you feeling your best. This really promotes wellness in a lot of different areas of life. When teaching focus more on water you will benefit from this.

#9 Practice deep breathing 

Whether it's dealing with an encounter with a challenging student or when you got an angry parent email. These things can really cause us to be in a more negative state and can cause us to feel stressed. When we feel stressed there are lots of physical signs in our bodies. Taking the time to breathe deeply and take a step back can be very helpful. A very simple breathing strategy focus on taking a deep breath in as you count to 10 hold the breath for a few moments and then exhale the breath. Practicing that a couple of times a day honestly can work wonders for stress levels. This can be a great strategy to help you stay calm and level-headed and not feel that physical stress as much in some of those tough situations.

#10  Self-care activities for your spirit

Self-care activities for your spirit are things that can give your soul a lift and enrich your life. This can be so different for everyone.

I know that by just cutting some beautiful roses or lavender from my garden and arranging them in a vase for my room, helps give me such a wonderful joyful lift to my spirit.

What lifts your spirits? It might be listening to a favorite song and singing out loud to the words or just lighting a scented candle. Give it a try!

In the comments, how do you choose to practice self-care as a teacher?

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How to Motivate Students Using These Tips!

 Do you know how to motivate students? Or are you having trouble? We’ve all been there at some point or another in our teaching careers. Most good students aren't born good learners. Yes, individual personality plays a big part in a child's willingness to learn and their overall disposition when it comes to schooling and education, but most children who are good learners at some point had to become good learners. More importantly, any student, who possesses the basic aptitude and receives the right motivation, can become a good learner.

One of the biggest mistakes teachers and parents can make when it comes to developing students and children who are good learners is to limit learning to the classroom. While the classroom will likely be the primary source of instruction, intellectual, social and academic growth should extend outside the walls of the classroom – if you want to really enhance a child's desire and ability to learn. The following are proven tips and strategies that will motivate your child to learn. Apply them correctly, and you'll see your students discover the joy of learning.

Allow for Student Choice

A great way to motivate students is to give them a choice. When giving students an assignment, offer students a menu of options to choose from. When students get the option to choose what they will learn and how they will learn, then they will become intrinsically motivated.

Keep Students Interacting

When students are interacting with their peers, they are engaged, and when they are engaged they are motivated and therefore not bored. The more activities that have your students interacting with one another (think cooperative learning groups), the more you will see the classroom motivation level rise.

Teach in a Different Environment

Sometimes all you need to spark student interest is to move your students out of the environment that they are used to and into somewhere new and exciting. Going on a field trip or even just taking your lesson outdoors can be a great way to gain student interest.

Teach to All Students’ Abilities

Every student learns differently, and when you are able to reach each student to the best of his own abilities, then you will have successfully engaged them. To ensure that each learner will be engaged and motivated to learn, be sure to differentiate lessons and activities.

Develop an atmosphere of reading

Some people would argue that reading it the key to success in life. We would most certainly argue that at minimum reading is a key to success in learning. Children who develop a love of reading, develop a love for learning. Children who struggle with reading, struggle with learning.

Reading not only helps children develop a much richer vocabulary, but it also helps their brain learn how to process concepts and formal communication. And the skills gained from reading extend far beyond increased performance in language art classes. Students who read well experience an enhanced ability to learn in all subjects – including technical subjects such as math and science.

A key to developing good readers, it to make reading fun – not frustrating. If a child decides that reading is boring or frustrating, they won't want to read and their ability to learn will be diminished. Let children pick their own books to read, help them read, and create activities for them that make reading fun.

Have Students Establish Attainable Goals

One of the best ways to motivate students is to have them establish a few attainable goals for themselves.  Have students think of a few academic goals that they would like to set for themselves such as get an A on their math test, or know all of their multiplication tables, etc. Then have them set a time for which they want that goal to be reached. Goals are the perfect way to help to intrinsically motivate students.

Create a Friendly Classroom Competition

There is no denying that children love a little competition. So having students be able to compete against their peers is a great way to create some excitement in your classroom. Try breaking students into two groups and compete in a relay race or play a Jeopardy!-style game. Any kind of academic spin that you can put on a fun competitive game will help to boost student engagement and motivation.

Using games as an education tool not only provides opportunities for deeper learning and development of non-cognitive skills, it helps motivate children to want to learn. Games that are entertaining provide the added benefit of motivating children to want to engage in the learning process and want to learn more.

Share your enthusiasm for learning

Enthusiasm rubs off, especially when it comes to learning new things. If your student sees that you're sincerely enthusiastic about learning, they're likely to become enthusiastic about learning. Whether it's history, science, reading, writing or even math, help him see that learning is a journey of exciting new discoveries. Take every opportunity – without being overwhelming or overbearing – to discover new information with him. As your student sees the joy and excitement learning brings to your life, they'll begin to share your enthusiasm for learning new things as well.

Share Achievements

No matter how small they may be, it's important to recognize and celebrate your students' achievements. This is especially important for elementary age school children who require constant positive reinforcement to keep them motivated to learn and challenge themselves to do better. Promote the efforts of your students by sharing their accomplishments and achievements. You can share them with the classroom and you can broaden the range by sharing them with the entire school as well as the outer community.

Give Up Some Control

When it comes to education, all some kids experience is control, control, control. When a child feels controlled, or out of control when it comes to their education, they often withdraw from learning. It's important to guide children through the learning process, but it's just as important to allow children to have control of their own learning experience. For example, when assigning a writing project, allow children to choose their topic to write about. Allow your students to decide where they will take their tests or read their books. You can even allow them to control how they will take their test (multiple-choice, short answer, etc.) or what they will.

Make Your Lessons Relatable

There is no denying that when you make your lessons more relatable, your students will care more about what they are learning. Try and intertwine whatever you are teaching your students to what is going in their lives or to something that they have already learned or no about. 

Make every day a learning day

Turning every day into a learning day may sound like a bit much, but it really isn't, if you go about it the right way. Whenever possible, encourage your child to explore the world around him, ask questions and make connections. Help him categorize, classify and thinking critically of what he sees and experiences. Turning every day into a learning day will help your child develop the internal motivation to learn in the classroom, at home or wherever he may be.

Give Students Something to Look Forward to

A great motivator is to give your students something to look forward to. Have it be a class field trip, a Fun Friday celebration, or a get-out-of-homework pass. For an unmotivated classroom, earning something even as little as a little free time can be a huge motivator.

What are some ways that you motivate your students? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below, we would love to hear what you do in your classroom.

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New Year, New Habits: 8 Tips to have a Great Start Getting Back to School!

                                             Happy New Year everyone!

Exhausted teachers and punchy students: a perfect recipe for winter break. While everyone’s looking forward to a few weeks’ respites from teaching, grading and classroom crowd control, now is a good time to set goals for the new year. Here are five tips for teachers to remember in the new year:

Plan a January reboot

While the beginning of a school year is an essential time for establishing classroom rules and expectations, returning from the long winter break provides another chance to help students be good citizens of the classroom. Reviewing academic and behavioral expectations can help everyone refocus for the last half of the school year.

This time also provides an opportunity to reset bad habits if students were starting to slip before the break. Gently modeling classroom rules can get everyone back on track for the new year. Rewarding students who are well-behaved helps ensure that everyone understands your expectations.

Help students find new study habits

Students may need help rebooting their out-of-class behavior as well. By winter break, they have received semester and trimester grades, and they may return with new study skills or better grades in mind.

Reviewing the importance of active reading, effective note-taking, studying, and completing homework in a timely manner will help students refocus on their academics in the new year. Some students might not even know they need help in these areas. Often we give them homework or expect them to study without training them in how to do so effectively. A short January session on soft skills may be exactly what they need to improve their performance moving forward.

Start note-taking for next year

If you don’t already keep a teaching journal, now is the time to start. After each day’s lessons, take a few minutes to reflect on what worked, what did not work, and why. If students had unusual or surprising questions, record them as well.

These notes will be essential in creating next year’s lesson plans. Even if you don’t plan to teach the course in the following school year, keeping such notes is an ideal way to record the work you do as an instructor and ensure your best lessons are not lost to time.

Set professional development goals

Teaching is a dynamic career that requires professional development and continuing education. While some professional development is institutionally driven, you owe it to yourself to look outside of school to pursue personal research, continuing education, and participation in professional organizations.

Sit down in January and consider your personal goals, including short-, medium- and long-term achievements. If concurrent enrollment or a part-time professorship is among the goals, consider finding continuing education opportunities that align with your immediate licensing requirements and long-term priorities.

While they may not count toward credit for professional development, finding online communities or connections through social media and Tweetchats can provide ideas and support, often making curriculum and assignment development easier. Consider broadening your professional connections to your short-, medium- or long-range goals.

Strive for more balance

One of the biggest issues of the teaching profession is maintaining work-life balance. This is key to maintaining a long and healthy career. During your note-taking and professional development goal-making, consider also setting healthy limits to your at-home grading and planning time, and brainstorm ways to make teaching a more manageable career.

A short writing assignment can be as challenging or more so than a long one, and answering one or two questions for thoughtfully created student homework still requires students to engage content outside of the classroom in a meaningful way — but both reduce grading workload.

Whatever habits you strive to set, January is a perfect time to examine practices, both student and personal, and adopt some school New Year’s resolutions. Despite being in the middle of a school year, the long break and new calendar year provide the perfect time for a reboot.

Try to make time for your friends and family, because they're the ones who will keep you sane when work gets overwhelming. Make sure to try that exercise class, join that book club, and embrace all the things that keep you happy. Happy teachers make for happy classrooms!

Clean Up!

If you're anything like me, you're organized, yet working in conditions of almost-chaos at the same time. Yes, I generally know where the materials I need are located, but I may have to dig through a pile of student work, intervention resources, and curriculum guides to get them.

I try to leave work on Friday afternoons with a clean desk because it helps me feel ready to begin the week when I come back in on Monday morning. One of my own personal New Year's teaching resolutions is to keep my desk and materials organized. While realistically I know this will be a challenge for me, I believe being more mindful will help!

Have Fun

As you frantically work to get through 100% of your curriculum within the allotted time period, remember that the days you let social studies slide in favor of some independent reading time, group activity, or a fun craft are the days your kiddos will remember.

When I think back to my own time in fourth grade, I remember going to the school store, doing extra credit assignments, the boundless energy of my math teacher, and playing tetherball at recess. I have no idea what the standards were or what my grades on pre- and post-assessments looked like.

I remember the fun. Your kids will too.

Be Realistic

As beautiful and grand as New Year's resolutions tend to be, they are also easily left by the wayside. If you don't miraculously have a clean and organized desk on February 1, if you sometimes forget to prepare for that small group, if you don't do all of the things you pressure yourself to do, it'll be okay.

We all love our kids, and that driving factor truly is the most important thing.

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Time Saving Tips For Teachers

There never seems to be enough time, right? Between our lesson plans, gathering materials, teaching, grading, classroom management, and scores of other tasks, we teachers are pretty much maxed out. Even if we find time to do everything that we’re supposed to, we feel like we’re not really doing them all that well. How can we maximize our time and classroom management? Here are some handy tips that might help you save time and accomplish more throughout your day.

Clear your laptop

If you clear your computer and organize your digital workstation, you could gain back time that would be otherwise squandered.

Delete documents you don’t need anymore, transfer important files to a cloud service, and make an organizational system that works for you.

Organize your desk

Piling things on your desk is a sure way to lose them.

Therefore, declutter and organize your physical space:

– Use shelves or labeled bins for everyday submissions.

– Use an inbox/outbox system for permission slips, notes from home, and other things that come to your desk.

– Each item on your desk should have its own place; make sure you put it there every time.

Manage papers efficiently

Are you overwhelmed with the piles of tests, memos, attendance forms, and letters? If so, it’s time to bring some order.

– Assign a file drawer for every subject you teach.

– Use colored files to classify papers by topics, like red for quizzes and tests and blue for lesson plans.

– If you haven’t used the paper in six months or more, recycle it.

Grade papers effortlessly

Grading student papers is one of the most tiring and tedious tasks for teachers. Pointing out each mistake on a student’s writing can be so time-consuming. Instead, focus on the errors that are directly related to the lesson. Then, create a document with frequently-used comments you can copy and paste. That way, you will automate the process and save time and energy.

Not every detail needs your excruciating attention. Instead, focus on one or two major aspects where you’d like to give feedback. This will increase your grading speed. Remember: Every single paper-and-pencil task a student completes does not have to be graded. Allow students to self-grade or peer-grade when appropriate.

Plan your lessons online

Planning your lesson is another activity that takes a lot of effort. However, it doesn’t have to be like that if you use lesson planning sites which are great time-saving tools.

Use CommonCurriculum or Planbook to create lessons easily and quickly. Not only can you organize lessons around Common Core standards, but you can also design custom schedules for every class and allow students and other teachers to view your plans online.

Use the 2-Minute Rule

When you need to tackle tasks that actually aren’t difficult to do, you tend to procrastinate and wait for the last minute to start. An efficient way to crush your procrastination is to apply the 2-Minute Rule.

The rule says that if a task requires less than two minutes to complete, then do it right away. Don’t wait to answer your email or file a document.  Instead, embrace the 2-Minute Rule and boost your productivity.

Plan your day

To make the most of your time and use it wisely, it’s crucial to plan your day. Spend a few minutes after school each day jotting down what you’ll do tomorrow. Use an agenda with time slots to schedule every task at the appropriate time. That way, you will use your time more efficiently and get more things done. Without proper planning, you won’t be in control of your time so you’ll be at the mercy of other people’s schedules.

Eliminate all distractions

Nowadays there are many distractions, such as social media notifications, emails, text messages, or incoming calls that pull teachers away from their plans and waste precious time.

For that reason, limit your time on social networks or check your emails only twice a day. Also, put your smartphone on Airplane mode while working and avoid unpleasant interruptions. Everything can wait until you finish your job.

Automate some tasks

Sometimes you don’t need to work harder to be more efficient, just work smarter. This means you can automate some tasks and save some time.

For example, you probably send many emails to parents and students on a variety of matters. Instead of squandering your time writing the same email over and over again, create some templates you can quickly revise and compose emails in no time at all.

Go digital

Printing and copying class materials take a lot of your time. Besides, it requires time to store all the papers and find one when a student needs it.

That’s why you should consider going digital and using cloud services for storing your documents. That way, you will always have a ready copy that your students can download and more importantly you will save time and drawer space.

Create templates for materials you create regularly. For example: store on your computer a lesson plan template, then use "save as" to name the lesson plan.

Learn to delegate

Learning to delegate is a crucial skill that every teacher should learn. Use tools that can give you a hand and work more productively.

You don’t have to do everything yourself. Don’t shy away from using aides, paras, or even asking parents or students to lighten your load. There are always some simple tasks that they can assist you with and many are more than happy to do so. As a result, you’ll avoid burnout and feel more energized

Take advantage of your mornings.

 Your mind is the freshest in the mornings before school begins. Take the extra time to organize your tasks and materials and time to think through your day. It’ll streamline your productivity.

Learn to say no.

Administrators, teachers, parents, and students all make requests of us. But believe it or not, the world will still function if we have to turn down a few. Focus on your priorities, and feel the freedom to dismiss the rest.

We have a seemingly interminable list of to-dos hanging over our heads throughout the school year. If we can take steps to whittle down that list and control how we use our time, then we might have some breathing room to realize that we are doing a great job. Consider applying some of these tried-and-true teacher time-saving tips as you hit the ground running this school year!

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