Simple Systems with Sam
Let's create simple systems for your teacher tasks and never ending mom-life schedule! We will chat about small steps that can increase task list productivity and help you efficiently grade, meal prep, and minimize your effort while maximizing your "me" time. From the classroom to the living room, we will use small changes to create big results in all areas of your life. Many of these time saving strategies come straight from self-improvement books, efficiency systems in factories, and my personal experiences with classroom management (managing everything from organization to mindsets, that is). As a former engineer turned high school science teacher, let me do the nerdy data collection and reporting for you.
Let's take a journey from teacher tired to well rested!
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
30: The Productivity of Relaxation
Sometimes we need an actual reason to relax. Let's talk about that!
29: Digital Decluttering in Simple Steps
Take some quick steps to clean up your digital spaces!
28: Productivity Hack; Time Yourself
Here's a quick step to help you get back a little pep in your step when it comes to school: time yourself.
Let me tell you more in the episode
27: Block Schedules for Teachers and Students on Winter Break
Winter break is coming and it's a unique stress to want to get everything done while also needing to...not do everything.
Let's create a special block schedule together to help you stay on track!
26: Holiday Prep and Planning
This Extra Credit Episode is about preparing your home for the holidays. If you have a direct line to Santa and know what's coming your way, let's prepare for those items NOW!
25: Simplify your Classroom To-Do List
Teachers have too much on their plate and this episode was inspired by my own struggle with the "too much to do and so little time" this time of year.
Let's take a deep breath and tackle 5 small steps…
24: Classroom Check-up and Declutter
Welcome to our first Extra Credit episode! These episodes will give you a short task/challenge to complete and simplify your systems.
Today we talk about giving your classroom a pre-holiday check up.
23: Simple Steps to Planning Thanksgiving
With major holidays right around the corner, this episode gives you a few simple steps to achieving a manageable and reduced stress Thanksgiving meal.
22: Low-Prep Lesson Plans to Use All Year Long
Teacher focused- creating lesson plan templates where you can modify one of 4 "add ons" for variation. Templates are key, and students thrive with template assignments, so why not template lesson pla…
21: Taking a New Perspective on Life's Priorities
Getting a little nerdy with space and different ways we can shift our perspective to keep us out of a funk and moving in the positive (badumchhhhhh) direction.
19: Top 5 Underrated Productivity Tools
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17: 3 Types of Habit Stacking for Time-Saving Productivity
Using the time you have to build habits and make the most of your time.
16: Setting Goals Based on your Season of Life
As seasons of the world and our own lives shift, let's take a look at how to navigate setting main priorities. This might seem a little different than our normal podcast, so I'd love to know what you…
15: Can't Find Things? Organize the Location
It's not just for real estate, but it can be real important for your sanity and saving you some time! Let's talk about how to evaluate and adjust locations.
Episode 12- Decide Once
Episode 8- Simple Cl…
14: A Cure for the Sunday Scaries
Try this simple switch to get rid of your Sunday Scaries and begin to thrive instead of just survive.
13: Creating Everyday Standard Operating Procedures
If you want something done right, then do it yourself...I mean writing the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) so that you can pass it off to someone else!
Let's chat about simple ways to create a way…
12: Simple Decision Making: Decide Once
Decision fatigue is such a literally exhausting problem for moms and teachers, but if we can spend more time "deciding once" then we can free up our own mental stress and time.
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11: Using Color Coding as a System
Color coding is more than just rainbow bookcases, it's also a simple way to cut down on the way your brain sees the world, tasks, and collection of things. Let's chat about a few ways to color code y…