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5 End-of-the-School-Year Tips to Make Back-to-School Teaching Easier

June 4, 2019

5 End-of-the-Year Tips to Make Back-to-School Teaching Easier
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Does anything feel better than walking out of your classroom and into the sunshine on the last day of the school year? I understand that desire to rush out of the building as soon as you can! But before you leave for the summer, stop and think about Future You. Do you want to walk into a disorganized mess in September when you’re stressing about new students and new units? Or do you want to walk into a beautiful space, perfectly organized for educational success? This blog post is going to cover a few end-of-the-school-year tips for closing out your classroom to make coming back to school easier.

Tip #1: Throw it away!

Ok, as far as end-of-the-school-year tips go, I know this one isn’t earth-shattering. But it IS the most important!

I have a coworker, who will remain nameless. Every day, she does current events. By the end of the year, her classroom is COVERED in old newspapers. The daily news piles grow into skyscrapers, and you can’t see anything. Boxes of other tools and resources seemed shoved and piled into every nook and cranny. Walking into that room is suffocating. It doesn’t feel good.

Don’t be that teacher.

The easiest way to keep a classroom clean is to not have anything extraneous. If you haven’t used it–a resource, furniture, a poster, a book, anything–in a couple of years, toss it. That poster you haven’t hung up since your first year of teaching? Toss it. That file of worksheets you didn’t use this year? Toss it (especially if you have digital copies).

Give away furniture you no longer use. Ask the custodian if you can throw extra supplies in a storage room somewhere. Place used books in Little Libraries around your community or give them to students. Whatever “it” is that’s taking up space, find a way to get rid of it.

I highly recommend signing up for Building Book Love’s Classroom Design Challenge for this. If you’re not familiar with Ashley Bible’s amazing English resources, then get familiar! They’re fantastic! But only do so after you signed up for her classroom design challenge–perfect for the end of the school year.

It walks you through seven days of organizing and designing your classroom. I did it last year and while my process for organizing and cleaning didn’t change much, it did give me some ideas about reorganizing my room and how to get rid of some furniture. It also inspired me to add some fun decorations to my classroom, like a couple of beautiful (but fake) cacti!

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Tip #2: Organize Anything You’ll Reuse

Now that you’re left with only the essentials, you’ll want to systemize how you store them.

I organize my files, for example, in a hanging file drawer. They’re grouped together by unit and the folders themselves are all labeled. I put worksheets away with the answer keys on the front, so I can find them easily.

My classroom library is organized alphabetically by author’s last name, although I hope to move to a genre system soon.

My art supplies are divided amongst totes. When we need markers, glue, or colored pencils, I take them out of my cabinet and distribute them amongst tables in my room.

You can find all kinds of organizing tips and ideas for the end of the school year. Find a system that works for you–may KonMari your whole classroom!–and stick with it.

Everything in your room should have a proper place. If it doesn’t, make one or consider tossing it. By the end of the school year, you should know exactly what you have and where everything goes.

Tip #3: Do the Chores You Hate (or Ask a Student to do It!)

I hate making bulletin boards. I don’t know how elementary teachers do all these cutesy ones. To make putting them up easier in fall, I try to take the time to really clean them up at the end of the school year.

Yes, that means even busting out the stapler remover and pulling out each individual staple. To me, it just makes putting up next year’s bulletin board a little easier (and neater looking).

Removing staples
It’s the stupid things–like pulling out old staples from your bulletin boards–that will make you feel *SO* much better when you return in the fall!

This philosophy should be applied to anything you hate doing in the classroom. Brainstorm some small chores that you–or better yet, a student–can do to help make your room feel clean and ready next year.

Empty the pencil shavings in your pencil sharpener. Wipe out bins and totes. Test those markers to see which ones have completely died.

Reorganize and number the laptops in your computer cart. Finally add those genre labels to your classroom books. Take five minutes to really, really clean your blackboards.

If you generally use the same back to school activities each year, you could even run those copies now. I mean, you know how long that line for the copier is going to be in September!

Use all that weird, extra time after finals and during prep time to really prep your space and do what you can to make that first week back as easy as possible.

Tip #4: Make a list of what you need

I did this for the first time last year and it was so helpful! As I was cleaning up and throwing things out, I made a note of everything I was low on.

Make a to-buy list
I make my summer to-buy list in Evernote on my computer, and then check it in the app on my phone whenever I see a sale over the summer

For example, as I was throwing out the old markers that were dried out or missing caps, I took stock of my coloring supplies. I was pretty good on markers and crayons, but my colored pencils supply was pitiful. So I added colored pencils to my summer shopping list.

I keep my summer shopping list in Evernote. This way, the list is on the cloud. (You could use any cloud-based notetaking app, like Notes or Trello.) If I’m browsing Amazon deals, I can pull it up on any computer. If I walk by a great sale in a store, I can pull up my list on my phone.

It really helped prevent me from overbuying supplies I didn’t need, so I could save money on the supplies I really did–like new Sharpies for blackout poems!

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Tip#5: Measure Your Classroom and Everything In It

This was a lifesaver that I implemented last year. I use fabric as my bulletin board backing (it’s cheap and way more durable than butcher paper). When I go to JoAnn Fabrics, I’m always guessing about how many yards I need to buy, so I either overbuy or end up going back for more. I have the same problem with bulletin board borders–I never know how many packs I need.

Measuring bulletin boards
Measuring my bulletin boards save me time, money, and trips to the store! Measure now, and you’ll know exactly what you need later!

This year, I measured my bulletin boards so I would know exactly what I needed. I was able to get everything I needed in one trip to the teacher store and one trip to JoAnn’s.

You may also want to measure blank walls if you plan on acquiring new art or decorations. Or measure your whole classroom dimensions if you’re going to be browsing Ikea for new class furniture.

Do the prep work now so you won’t have to make unnecessary trips back to school in the middle of your summer.

I hope some of these tips help you out. I spend the last two weeks of school each year accomplishing these tasks. By the last day, my classroom is bare, and I’m satisfied. There’s always more room in my closets and filing cabinets, my classroom library is prepped and organized, and I can just focus on getting to know my new students the first week.

My classroom at the end of the year
Everything packed, cleaned, labeled, and ready for the summer! (I cover my free standing bookcases with butcher paper so the custodians can just move them around without worrying about what books go where.)

Do you have your own end-of-the-school-year tips for closing out the school year? I’d love to hear them in the comments! And while you’re prepping for summer vacay, check out 5 Self Care Tips for Teachers.

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𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 by Jenney Torres Sanchez was not on my radar, but a big shout out to @jordanapaola7 for the recommendation! I'm only a few chapters in, but I'm already hooked! ⁣
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𝗜'𝗺 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗔, 𝘀𝗼 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺!⁣
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#itslitteaching ⁣
#englishclasses #teachingenglish #elateacher #2ndaryela #englishteachers #englishteaching⁣
#highschoolteacher #iteachhighschool #iteachela #iteachwriting #educating #schoolteacher #secondaryela  #bookpost #readstagram #bookwormlife #bibliophilelife #avidreader #readersgonnaread #booksonbooks #booksaremagic #booksconnectus #bookgoals #toberead⁣
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These are my favorite emails!⁣ ⁣ To me, they'r These are my favorite emails!⁣
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To me, they're especially satisfying when they come through at night because it means I literally made money while sleeping! 😴⁣
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Want some of these emails for yourself? 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼!⁣
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#itslitteaching ⁣
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I suck at drinking water.⁣ ⁣ It seems really s I suck at drinking water.⁣
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It seems really stupid that I am so bad at doing something that is essential to my most basic survival, but I just can't guys...⁣
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𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗲. I spend an absurd amount of money on sugar-free flavor syrups, Nuuns, Propel and Crystal Light mix-ins, everything I can find to not have to drink plain, boring water.⁣
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So my fiance @zionthelyon bought me this water bottle for Christmas. ⁣
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I won't say that one product has magically cured me of my chronic dehydration, but the obvious, in-my-face reminder that my body needs freakin' water is helping. ⁣
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘄 2021 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻? 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆! 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀!⁣
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#itslitteaching ⁣
#englishclasses #teachingenglish #elateacher #2ndaryela #englishteachers #englishteaching⁣
#highschoolteacher #iteachhighschool #iteachela #iteachwriting #educating #schoolteacher #secondaryela #instateachers #instagramteachers #educatorsofinstagram #igconnect4edu #teachersonig #teachersoninstagram  #teachinglife #teachertired #teacherlifestyle #teachergoals #teacherprobs #productivityhacks #learninganddevelopment #productivityhabits #getstuffdone #prioritize
I LOVE reading journals and workbooks. ⁣ ⁣ (We I LOVE reading journals and workbooks. ⁣
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(Well, you know, when we're actually allowed to touch school materials.)⁣
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𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀. I don't know if it's because they're just so excited for something different or because it feels like something they can own and take pride in. ⁣
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👉 Either way, anything that engages my students is worth the extra work for me!⁣
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But you don't have to do the work of creating a 40-page workbook because I've already done it for you! 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗧𝗣𝗧 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟!⁣
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In fact, I recently bundled all of my teaching resources--included my reading journals--for The Hate U Give, Dear Martin, and All American Boys into ONE epic literature circles unit. ⁣
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𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗳𝗼𝗿-𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁, 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!⁣
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#itslitteaching #knowjusticeknowpeace #socialjusticeeducation ⁣
#englishclasses #teachingenglish #elateacher #2ndaryela #englishteachers #englishteaching #digitallearning #virtuallearning #virtualteaching #onlineteacher #teachonline #onlineenglishteacher #remoteteaching #distancelearningtpt #distanceteaching #highschoolteacher #iteachhighschool #iteachela #iteachwriting #educating #schoolteacher #secondaryela #instateachers #instagramteachers #educatorsofinstagram #teachersonig #teachersoninstagram
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