Hey there, Reader

Let's hear it for the top 3...

Positivity

You hear about practicing gratitude, but have you ever made it a daily habit to write down positives from your day?

If you’ve been around education for a few years, you know the start of the year brings all sorts of emotions.

If this is your first year, you might already be feeling overwhelm.

As we enter the new school year, we encourage you to spend a few minutes each day writing down 3 things you’re thankful for or 3 positives from the day. Big or small. There really isn’t a limit to the size of what you note. Some days are full of positives and some days, you might have to search a little bit more.

And there’s no reason you couldn’t start this daily or even weekly habit with your students.

Pondering

What does success really mean to you? What will that look like this school year?

As nice as it would be to think this will be the year you tackle every.item.on.your.to-do.list, let’s be realistic.

Let this be the year you decide one or two days of the week you close down your computer and you leave pretty soon after your contract time ends.

Choose one day of the week you might stay a bit later if needed to be better prepared for tomorrow or next week. You don’t win awards for being the first in the parking lot or the last to leave. Being success at school also means taking care of yourself outside of school too.

Working out, reading a book that isn’t PD related, watching Real Housewives, getting a massage, spending time at the park with your family. Choose it and stick to it!

Polishing

One way to really find ways to feel you have time to write down positives in your daily life or the ability to walk away from your always growing to-do list is to have systems of operations.

What tasks repeat in your classroom (or at home) that you can create a system of operations?

Here are a few ideas-

• spend a little time at the start of a unit and create a module in Canvas
• choose one day of the week to make copies instead of spending frantic moments each morning and fighting the copy machine and the other last-minute teachers
• Set a 10 minute timer each day after school- clean your desk, rapid-fire grade a smaller assignment, change the board or daily slide for tomorrow

What daily tasks could you assign to responsible students?

• Change the date on the board
• Train a student to pass out papers from a graded work spot
• Water your plants
• Straighten up the bookshelf
  ​

Talk soon,
Andrea and Amy

Just a reminder, the Monthly Membership Academy is open and looking for founding members. Use the code, FOUNDING25 for 25% off for the lifetime of your membership.

​

PS. Which emoji best suits you and your focus going into this school year from this email? Hit reply, we want to know!

❤️ = Positivity

💙 = Pondering

💚= Polishing

PO Box 261 Lampe, MO 65681
​Unsubscribe · Preferences​