My Plan for Surviving Another Pandemic School Year- Thoughts and Reflections

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How will I survive this school year!  Another pandemic year?!  EEEK 
My Self Care comes first

Daily self care

Meal Planning/shopping on weekends

Fixing my breakfast, and my lunch

Preplanning all my outfits for the week

Doing a toiletry/personal care check on the weekends

Spending time with my dogs and husband phone free

Practicing things that lower my blood pressure

Shoe check - because of gout/etc, 

In school 

At school.  It’s inevitable- contract hours are not enough to lesson plan and copy all the things.  So you need a plan

I like choosing late or early.  Will I come in early or stay late.?  But never both.  Or a balance of both. 

Check to see if your school’s pta or something like it will make you copies?  This can save a ton of time. 

Embrace activities that don’t feel like work.  Don’t guilt yourself over that time.  The job is so diverse there are things that don’t feel like work, and I just let myself feel that FLOW. 

Each week, fix your space. Clean organize, beautify an area. 

 I start the week asking.. What can I do to make this week easier for myself and my students?

So much drama over papers, and work, and grading, streamline the processes. 

PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE I”””F YOU DON’T MICROMANAGE AND PLAN EVERY LITTLE THING FOR THEM!!!!  
Everything will work out.  Sometimes we need to let go.  Duder always says “why do you care about that?”  She’ll just keep asking me why until I run out of answers and I realize that everything I’m worried about is just stuff that I’m imposing on my own belief system 

If you need a little paper with 180 days, that you can shade in each day to see progress.. Do it.