Start a Quiet Time List. Even though teachers do 12 months of work between September and June, the summers aren’t “vacation.” They’re needed for building emotional, physical, and mental capacity they will use the next school year. They’re for planning, programming, and strategizing for new challenges in the school year to come. And they’re for tackling projects they just don’t have time for in the jam-packed school year.
With that last one in mind, as you inch toward the last day of school, start a Quiet Time List. Find a single spot (a Trello Board, a journal, a note on your phone) to list all the projects you’d like to tackle when you’re not spending all waking moments working with, or thinking about, your students.
Remember: you won’t remember. So start building that Quiet Time List to give yourself the best possible start to the next school year.