BONUS: Bridget's Week in a Life COVID-19

04/14/20 • 40 min

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Teachers all around the world are working to establish a new "normal" routine as schools are being shut down and teachers are asked to give instruction from home.

Join Bridget as she invites you to see how she navigates being a teacher during the COVID-19 shut down, a mom to two boys at home and a wife to a work-from-home husband.

You will hear how she works to schedule her day, accomplishes her goals and has to make adjustments because things just happen.

This is a week-in-the-life of a teacher at home.

Teachers all around the world are working to establish a new "normal" routine as schools are being shut down and teachers are asked to give instruction from home.

Join Bridget as she invites you to see how she navigates being a teacher during the COVID-19 shut down, a mom to two boys at home and a wife to a work-from-home husband.

You will hear how she works to schedule her day, accomplishes her goals and has to make adjustments because things just happen.

This is a week-in-the-life of a teacher at home.

Previous Episode

015. 5 Easy Steps to Clean and Organize Your Classroom

We can probably all identify the areas in our classrooms that could use a little TLC, but actually doing the action steps to getting it all done, without losing your sanity, is a whole other story. In our previous episode, we talked about the essentials areas in your classroom where you may want to give a little TLC in order for you to feel organized and refreshed.

In this chat, we are sharing the actionable steps on how to follow through with the actual organizing we previously shared!

***Also note, that these steps that we are sharing will work for any area in your life! We encourage you that as we share this during the COVID-19 shutdown you can find areas in your home where you can give a little TLC.

Many of you have heard of Marie Kondo. She took the nation by storm with her systems for finding the joy in the objects around you, or maybe you’ve heard of Clean Sweep, the hit tv series where a team of experts help homeowners transform their homes from a disaster to functional. We LOVE these two methods and have decided to make our own little method by combining the two and calling it.... The Kondo Sweep!

Now let’s dive into The Kondo Sweep steps to organizing your space.

STEP #1: Gather it

STEP #2: Sort it

STEP #3: Organize it

STEP #4: Store it

STEP #5: Label it

Click HERE to download the FREE 5 Easy Steps to Clean and Organize Your Classroom!

CONCLUSION

While the process of cleaning and organizing the materials in your classroom may seem like a treacherous task, when you have clearly defined steps, you can easily schedule what you are going to complete on specific days to reduce the overwhelm and make the task more manageable.

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Next Episode

016. Simple Decluttering Hacks for Your Classroom

We all love hacks that have a way to make your life a little bit easier. We have enough going on in our lives that finding simple ways to minimize friction is key. Gadgets are one way to create simple hacks to make life easier but no matter how fancy your gadget is, having hacks to help you with organization is essential.

Today, we want to share some simple decluttering hacks that have worked wonders in getting us organized and more importantly, staying organized!

SIMPLE DECLUTTERING HACKS

[3:51] Decluttering Hack #1: Set a timer for 5-10 minutes and work through decluttering one area.

[6:08] Decluttering Hack #2: Create a list of things you want to declutter during the month and make it a challenge

[7:22] Decluttering Hack #3: Focus on one area at a time

[8:07] Decluttering Hack #4: Use a bucket to gather things that need to be decluttered.

[9:34] Decluttering Hack #5: Use your students to help

[13:06] Decluttering Hack #6: Create a space for everything

CONCLUSION

[15:00] All of these hacks will give you the results you need, but we have to give a little tough love and say that if you do not have an organizational system, things will get messy! You have to have a system in play in order to maintain the chaos that can be our lives.

Check out episode #015: 5 Easy Steps to Clean and Organize Your Classroom to help you with the decluttering process.

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