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5 Quick Tips to help you get Organized Now!

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We can't believe that it's already May next week, and that means we're in the home stretch to finish out the school year!! It's important to stay on top of those to-do lists now more than ever to help May and June run as smoothly as possible. Check out our favorite tips and ways to help keep you on track in the classroom and at home! 1.        Keep a planner. The Double Dose teachers cannot live without their matching planners! We write everything from meeting dates, lesson plans, and future ideas for resources, and everything in between. Pull out your flair pens and color coordinate as much as you can too!    2.    Amp up your to-do list! I have so much going on in trying to juggle work, Teachers Pay Teachers, grad school assignments and things to do around my house…and most days I just.can’t.even. handle it all. I like to always have a visual list going, and section it off into the 4 areas of my life that I am trying to ma...

Double Dose your Lunch Break: Lunch Prep for Teachers

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Well hello there, blogger friends! It certainly has been a little while since we blogged but we promise we have a good excuse! If you follow us on Instagram , you might’ve seen us at the TPT Flock Conference in Rochester, NY a couple weeks ago. These past couple months, especially the last few weeks, have been filled with last minute Flock business as we were on the planning committee! This little weekend getaway- even though Rochester is only about an hour away from us, we still consider it a vacation- provided us exactly what we needed to feel recharged for the last 10 weeks of the school year. Something that has been on our minds lately is how to refocus and regain energy during the school day, rather than in the evenings and on the weekends. Don’t get us wrong, we so look forward to our evening relaxing time but we also feel the need to be energetic and not “bogged down with work” for our own families.   Working with special education students can be chall...