You probably don’t know this about me, but I wasn’t always the picture of teacher organization that I am today ;-). I used to do all the things they say not to. I had piles of paper everywhere (gasp!) I planned my lessons at midnight on Sunday night before teaching for the week. I realized 30 seconds before students were due to walk in that I didn’t have any copies run for the lesson they were about to start. I scrambled to get technology set up after students were already seated and ready to go, resulting i downtime and chaos. Basically, I spent tons of time and increased my stress all because I didn’t have a plan. It was frustrating, discouraging, and to add insult to injury, I didn’t even really enjoy what I was teaching. If you’ve ever felt like this, lesson planning and prepping ahead of time is a total game-changer. Once I started lesson planning earlier, my professional educator journey got a whole lot easier. Here are some of the lessons and how they've radi