April 15, 2025

Finish the Year Strong-ish Making a Plan for your M.S.O.- Motivation, Self-Care and Organization

Finish the Year Strong-ish Making a Plan for your M.S.O.- Motivation, Self-Care and Organization

In this episode:

            I talk about the what, why and how of leveraging the behind the scenes of being an upper elementary reading teacher to help you end the year strong-ish.

We talk about:

1.What is the behind the scenes of teaching.

2. Why you should focus on controlling the controllables at the end of the school year. 

3. What is your M.S.O. and how do you plan for it?

Quotables:

-Teaching requires a lot of teachers and most of what it requires is intellectual. This means that there is often not a lot of room leftover for unnecessary real estate in our brains and yet we give a lot of this space away rent free.  

-It's important to give some thought to our M.S.O. (our motivation, self care and organization) It’s also important to put some intention behind these so that we have enough mental bandwidth to generate creative solutions to all of the other things that are running around rent free in our minds. 

- I like to think of self care as an act of resistance, because education is a system that will try to take all of everything you give it.

 

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