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The episode you\\u2019re about to hear is a free coaching call I conducted with a graduate of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. It\\u2019s a combination of instructional coaching and life coaching all sort of rolled into one, where I\\u2019m answering teachers\\u2019 specific questions about productivity and balance and managing it all.

This particular call is a teacher named Claire who teaches special education. She works with kids in grades K-6 and actually splits her time between 2 schools, so she\\u2019s at one school with one group of kids in the morning and another in the afternoon.

Claire\\u2019s initial question is about how to use her summer to get ahead for fall when she doesn\\u2019t know the needs of the students in her classroom. Her caseload can change a lot from year to year and that makes it difficult to plan ahead. So we talk through some systems she and any teacher can create during the summer that will make the following school year easier to manage. We talk about getting digital files organized, getting procedures in place, and so on.

I then challenge Claire to figure out 2-3 of her biggest time-wasters and use her summer to figure out a better way. It\\u2019s very hard to find the time and mental bandwidth to take a step back during the school year and analyze systems, so summer is really perfect for that. And when she told me what her biggest time suck is, when she talked about collecting data on student progress and grading their writing, she had a really big aha moment that I think is going to resonate with you in a powerful way, too.

Claire and I dug really deeply into how to analyze if something really has to be done, if the things we perceive as mandated are in fact requirements, and analyze teaching practices through the lens of whether they\\u2019re actually effective for kids rather than if they\\u2019re the way they\\u2019ve always been done, and they way everyone else does them. I love that moment in our conversation and I can\\u2019t wait to share it with you.\\xa0

At the end of the call, I mention a free on-demand video series I\'ve created to help you plan out how to use your summer. You can sign up for that here:

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/secrets

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