5 Mistakes I Made Setting Up My Classroom During Back to School Season

Summary

In this insightful talk, 'The Present Teacher' shares invaluable lessons from five years of classroom setup experiences. She outlines common pitfalls new teachers might encounter during their initial classroom setup, offering advice on how to avoid these traps. By prioritizing organization, classroom management, and clear communication along with aesthetic setup, teachers can cultivate an effective learning environment. The video highlights the significance of assessing classroom resources before purchasing and emphasizes planning even the first week ahead to reduce stress. Through personal stories, practical tips, and reflective insights, this video serves as a guide to creating a balanced, engaging, and well-prepared classroom setting.

Highlights

• Focusing too much on classroom themes can lead to neglecting other crucial aspects 🎨
• Buying supplies without assessing existing resources leads to unnecessary expenses 📦
• Not planning your first week can leave you feeling behind before school starts ⌛️
• Overlooking classroom management affects student behavior and learning 🍎
• Lack of communication with parents can deteriorate the teacher-family relationship 📞

Key Takeaways

• Balance aesthetics with functionality to avoid overwhelming chaos 🎨✏️.
• Assess classroom resources before spending unnecessary funds 💸.
• Plan the first week of school during the summer to ease stress 📆.
• Invest time in clear classroom management strategies to maintain control 📚.
• Maintain consistent communication with student families for a supportive environment 📧.

Overview

Setting up a classroom is a thrilling yet challenging task, especially for new teachers. In her engaging video, 'The Present Teacher' delves into the common mistakes educators make during this process and shares tips to avoid these pitfalls. From focusing too much on aesthetics to buying unneeded supplies, she reflects on her own experiences to offer practical advice.

One of the significant errors she discusses is the importance of planning and preparation. By failing to plan her initial week, she found herself overwhelmed once the students arrived. This chapter encourages teachers to take advantage of the summer to methodically plan their first few weeks and establish a classroom management plan ahead of time.

Communication with parents is another crucial aspect of classroom setup. The presenter emphasizes the need for ongoing, positive dialogue with student families to foster a cooperative and supportive environment. Her advice underscores the importance of transparency and consistency in communication to build strong relationships and a thriving classroom community.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: Introduction The chapter 'Introduction' provides insights into setting up a classroom effectively. It draws from the speaker's five years of teaching experience to suggest best practices and pitfalls to avoid. The intention is to help new teachers create an optimal learning environment while avoiding common mistakes.
• 01:30 - 03:30: Mistake 1: Focusing Only on Aesthetics In this chapter, the narrator introduces themselves as H, a teacher who started their career in 2018 as a kindergarten teacher and later became a second-grade teacher. They plan to discuss five mistakes they made while setting up their classroom during the back-to-school season, explaining why each was a mistake and how to avoid them. The chapter sets the stage for a discussion about the importance of balancing aesthetics with functionality in classroom setup.
• 03:30 - 05:30: Mistake 2: Buying Supplies Without Checking Classroom The author reflects on the second mistake made while setting up their classroom, which was purchasing supplies without first considering the actual needs of the classroom. The focus was initially only on aesthetics, driven by excitement after obtaining a teaching degree and position. This led them to impulsively seek out kindergarten themes without assessing the practical requirements.
• 05:30 - 07:00: Mistake 3: Not Planning the First Week The chapter discusses the common mistake of not planning appropriately for the first week as a teacher. The narrator talks about how they spent weeks focusing on decorating their classroom and creating a visually appealing environment, including making their own decorations and purchasing from Amazon and Dollar Tree. Despite the effort put into setting up a travel-themed classroom, the narrator implies that this focus might have detracted from other important preparations.
• 07:00 - 14:00: Mistake 4: Ignoring Classroom Management The chapter titled 'Mistake 4: Ignoring Classroom Management' discusses the common error that some teachers make by concentrating too much on classroom aesthetics rather than effective management. The author shares a personal anecdote about their own teaching experience where they were overly focused on creating a themed classroom environment, such as a Harry Potter-themed room in second grade. Despite the appeal of a visually pleasing classroom, the chapter highlights that this preoccupation with aesthetics can lead teachers to neglect essential classroom management strategies, emphasizing the need for a balanced approach.
• 14:00 - 18:00: Mistake 5: Lack of Clear Communication The chapter titled 'Mistake 5: Lack of Clear Communication' highlights the pitfalls of insufficient preparation and the common mistake of underestimating the time needed for classroom management and lesson planning. It stresses the importance of effective communication, particularly related to classroom management and parent interaction, to avoid last-minute rushes and unnecessary expenditures on resources (denoted as TPD). The recommendation is to prioritize both aesthetics and essential classroom management skills to ensure smoother operations once school starts.
• 18:00 - 22:00: Mistake 6: Poor Organization of Resources The chapter discusses the common mistake of prioritizing the aesthetics of a classroom over practical preparation. The narrator reflects on their personal experience of being overwhelmed due to focusing solely on decorating the classroom. This chapter emphasizes the importance of balancing classroom decoration with planning, preparation, and organization of resources for effective teaching.
• 22:00 - 27:00: Mistake 7: Poor Classroom Layout Planning The chapter discusses a common mistake made by teachers when setting up a classroom: purchasing all necessary materials before actually seeing the classroom space. The author, who graduated in 2018 with a Master's degree in elementary education from Eastern Oregon University, shares a personal anecdote about moving from Oregon to a small town in New Mexico called Pecos. In anticipation of teaching, they bought all the things they thought would be needed, including books and paper, without first assessing the classroom's layout and needs.
• 27:00 - 29:00: Conclusion and Offerings In the 'Conclusion and Offerings' chapter, the narrator reflects on their experience of moving into a new classroom. They describe the inconvenience and surprise of transporting a large amount of educational materials only to discover that the classroom already had ample resources, including five cabinets of books at the required level and three cabinets full of colored materials. This chapter highlights the unexpected outcomes and overpreparation involved in transitioning to a new teaching environment.
• 29:00 - 30:00: Encouragement and Closing Remarks The chapter 'Encouragement and Closing Remarks' likely emphasizes the importance of assessing the actual needs of a classroom before purchasing resources. The speaker reflects on a personal experience where purchasing materials without first evaluating the classroom's requirements led to a misallocation of funds. They advise prioritizing essential purchases over immediate desires, although acknowledging the importance of buying favorite books if they hold particular value.

5 Mistakes I Made Setting Up My Classroom During Back to School Season Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 you're getting ready to set up your classroom and you're wondering what things should I make sure to set up for and what are some things I should definitely avoid setting up my classroom some mistakes I can avoid well I'm happy to say after 5 years of teaching I have plenty of experience on things you should definitely set up and do for your classroom and some mistakes you could definitely avoid and I'm going to share all of the mistakes I've made from setting up my classroom over the past 5
• 00:30 - 01:00 years if you don't know who I am hi my name is H I'm the Creator the present teacher I started teaching back in 2018 as a kindergarten teacher and then 3 years later I transitioned to a second grade teacher and today I'm going to be sharing the five mistakes I made setting up my classroom during back to school season and I'm going to tell you why they were a mistake and what you should do differently so with that being said let's Dive In [Music]
• 01:00 - 01:30 the first mistake I made while setting up my classroom was I only focused on Aesthetics meaning as soon as I graduated or as soon as I got my teaching degree and my teaching position the first thing I did was look up kindergarten themes or themes for kindergarten themes for kindergarten
• 01:30 - 02:00 classroom and I spent weeks pinning all these amazing classrooms I'd go on to Amazon and fill my wish list of hundreds of dollars of you know cute decorations and then I would go to the Dollar Tree and then I would start making my own decorations my sweet then boyfriend now husband of mine actually made a glow from scratch because I did a travel themed it while it was very cool my poor
• 02:00 - 02:30 husband that took a long long time I made hot air balloons it was it was a thing now don't get me wrong I personally love a themed room for example in second grade I had a Harry Potter themed classroom because my kids and I loved it so much so I'm not dissing on an aesthetically pleasing classroom however the problem was over the school year that's pretty much the only thing I focused on I focused on how my class would look and maybe organizing
• 02:30 - 03:00 a couple of things actually I would organize things when I got there and that was it the problem with that is what you will often find is when school starts you'll realize o I don't have a lot of time to prep ooh I don't know what I'm teaching I guess I'll go on tpd and spend more money and try to come up with something last minute so what I recommend doing is not only focus on Aesthetics but also focus on different items like our classroom manager management parent communication
• 03:00 - 03:30 organization planning and prepping and Grading I actually have content that I talked about this earlier in an earlier week I'll make sure to link that in the description but in general the first mistake I made was I only focused on making my classroom the cute and the theme and in the long term when I started teaching I was extremely overwhelmed cuz I had nothing else prepared so dedicating some time to make a cute classroom but also to focus on other as asps is going to be really
• 03:30 - 04:00 really important the second mistake I made while setting up my classroom is I bought everything I needed before seeing my classroom now a little bit of a backstory I graduated in 2018 with my M's in elementary education from Eastern Oregon University so I was moving from Oregon to New Mexico to a small town called PCOS and I was super nervous super excited so I bought all the things I could possibly need or I thought I could possibly need for my class classroom this included books paper
• 04:00 - 04:30 scissors and like everything and everything the problem was I moved all that I bought all that stuff and don't get me wrong a lot of my family members helped too but I got all that stuff I moved it across the country I came into my classroom only to find there were five cabinets full of books in the level I needed and there were not one not two but three cabinets full full of colored
• 04:30 - 05:00 paper now I am not complaining in the slightest however had I waited to look at my classroom first before buying all that stuff I would have known instead of designating those funds to those resources I could have designated it to something else that I was missing in my classroom which is why I recommend you look at your classroom first before you buy a bunch of stuff now am I saying don't buy your favorite books by all means you know if you have favorites and
• 05:00 - 05:30 absolutely wants or needs that you're okay with possibly having a duplicate in your classroom but you want your own personal version or personal personal one feel free to get it ahead time but before you spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a classroom take some time to get a good inventory of what is in your classroom first so you're not spending money on resources that you already have access to and instead you can designate them to something else the third mistake I made
• 05:30 - 06:00 while setting up my classroom for the school year was I didn't plan out the first week of school now at the time I did not know this but when I went on the district calendar I was told teachers will start by this date and then the students will be here by this date and there was like about a week in between and I'm thinking perfect I will use that time to plan out what I need for the school year during that week how however
• 06:00 - 06:30 I did not know that that week was spent primarily on meetings and when I moved a couple years later to second grade at a different District the same thing that time before students get there are mostly set up for meetings and the district has their own expectations that they have to follow every year and certain trainings that they need you to take every year that's when they do a majority of those trainings so I didn't plan out my first
• 06:30 - 07:00 week and what I found was I was staying late after these meetings I was working into the weekend the weekend before trying to get ready for the first week of school that's why I recommend taking some time over the summer now I'm not saying weeks and weeks on end but even a day to plan out what you're teaching during the first week of school that's going to help you in the long run because when you come in during that one week teachers that are given the week before school starts or however many days your classroom is all set up and you are already have the things you need
• 07:00 - 07:30 cuz you already looked at what you have and then you went ahead and bought what you were missing and then you also already planned out the first week of school so you can walk in that much more ahead and that much more at ease cuz you're going to probably be learning a lot of different things cuz every district is different they have different ways of doing things and you can really spend that week getting to know people and just getting to know all the expectations in the school district as a quick recap of all the mistakes I've made setting up my classroom over
• 07:30 - 08:00 the summer is the first one is I only focused on Aesthetics AKA making my classroom look cute or matching the theme the second thing is I bought everything I needed before seeing what was in my classroom beforehand the third thing is I didn't plan out the first week in advance so when I came in expecting to have time to do that I actually didn't have that much time to do that so I was behind before the school year even started the next mistake I made when it came to setting up my classroom over the summer is I didn't focus on classroom management now
• 08:00 - 08:30 I did have a quick preface I did have student teaching experience for my Master's Degree that entire year those 10 months I was in that program I was required to be in student teaching at a two different placements and then for my bachelor's degree that I finished in 3 years I was required for two of those years to do placements throughout my time there however my mentor teachers just came in knowing how they were going to manage their classroom I never got to see that planning piece that they were doing the
• 08:30 - 09:00 summer before and so I had no idea that I should be doing that which meant when my students came in I didn't know what content to teach I didn't know how to model what I expected of them what happened was I kind of went over the rules briefly but then my students Fel it felt like my students were never listening to me from day one and that's because I didn't have a clear classroom management plan I would often give them multiple warnings I would look up strategies on on social media or
• 09:00 - 09:30 Pinterest and I would use those strategies like blurt beans dust pets everything that was trending clip charts at the time and what I realized was none of it was aligned to me and none of it was working cuz I didn't have a strong classroom management at from the get-go think of classroom management as like the cake the actual Cake part and then those positive strategies you see online those are like the frosting the positive reinforcement you need the cake first otherwise your Cake's going to be flat and not actually a cake that what that's
• 09:30 - 10:00 what happened during my first couple years of teaching which is why I recommend you focus on classroom management ahead of time now I've talked about this in a previous week I'll go ahead and Link it as well but in general I recommend focusing on building relationships how are you going to connect with students how are you going to help them build relationships with each other after relationships you also want to have clear expectations and procedures how do you want students to interact with the different items each other and
• 10:00 - 10:30 throughout the room what are the expectations of that what does it look like and sound like focus on those during the first week of school they'll save you so much time what are the rules that you teach or that you're using in the classroom are they positive do they model what it should look like and sound like in the classroom what are the consequences are you giving people 10 20 30 warnings before you take action or do you have Step One is this step two is this step three is this step for is this
• 10:30 - 11:00 now a common misconception I want to explain to you and I know it's kind of hard to kind of get the gist of that based off of just you know me being here but I'm kind of an up engaging fastpaced fun bubbly teacher even though personally I'm actually quite reserved and an introvert besides the point you can have high expectations with your classroom management so your students have behave well and they you know
• 11:00 - 11:30 behave with excellence and academically they are strong and still be the fun bubbly engaging teacher trust me I was told from the GGO that I was going to be a terrible teacher because I was engaging and fun and my students would walk all over me that is not the case you can have high expectations and have students practice until they reach your expectations while still being fun it's not mean kids love structure and when you have structure you have more freedom to be the goofy lovable lovable unique
• 11:30 - 12:00 you and let your teaching style go so just a quick caveat with that make sure you focus on your classroom management make sure you focus on those things I talked about earlier and with that it's kind of a side note I just feel kind ofed to share it you're going to find a lot of strategies online I know it's very different the world we live in from 2018 when I started but here's the deal you need to get clear on what values are
• 12:00 - 12:30 true to you what kind of teacher do you want to be are you going to be the positive bubbly engaging one are you going to be the reserved and you know sarcastic what is your personality what kind of classroom do you want to be in and then while you're taking in different content online think to yourself is this aligned with my values that would have saved me so much time had I not I saw resources online about classroom management like the blurt beans or the clip chart that
• 12:30 - 13:00 when I looked at them I thought I don't know that doesn't feel right but if it's working for them I'm going to try it there's a reason I was kind of hesitant about it it's because it wasn't aligned with my energy the clip chart when I used it my students would dis regulate and have a hard time coming back once I ever had them clipped down that's why I don't do clip charts anymore my second year I got rid of it and I tried something else because I don't feel like a students
• 13:00 - 13:30 overall day is a reflection of them needing a sideline conversation instead I laid out exactly how I'm going to respond proactively respond to disruptive behavior to get my students back on track and work together as a team to get them there so with all that being said whether it's me whether it's another teacher online whether it's on Instagram Tik Tok YouTube podcasting whenever you hear a strategy make sure to ask yourself what are my values is
• 13:30 - 14:00 this align with me if someone gives you a strategy that doesn't feel aligned with you don't do it just don't do it because you know yourself best I know that was a tangent I felt like honestly it's really good advice that I wish I got sooner so anyways the mistakes I've made setting up my classroom the first one is I only focused on Aesthetics the second one I bought everything I needed before seeing my classroom the third one I didn't plan out my first week and struggled and paid for it later the fourth thing I didn't focus on my
• 14:00 - 14:30 classroom management so from the getco my students were weren't listening to me and I couldn't figure out why the fifth one is I didn't focus on clear communication now parent Knight approached and I was frantically asking teachers going on to TPT researching all I could on how I wanted to prepare for parent night and it was extremely stressful instead take some time ahead of time to think about what are you going to do for parent at night how are
• 14:30 - 15:00 you going to be consistent with your communication with your families and then third how are you going to have a positive relationship with your families because here's a mistake I made is I only reached out to my families during the first year of school occasionally I use Class Dojo occasionally I would send them a picture of their students working a majority of the time I reached out to them to let them know when we had an activity when it was a field trip or when something happened at school that I needed their help with the problem with
• 15:00 - 15:30 this is it's kind of like a relationship if you and I were friends and I only reached out to you and I needed something from you you would feel a draining energy and you wouldn't want to be friends with me because it's not a give and take it's not a positive relationship I'm constantly taking from you now if you're doing this I don't want you to feel guilty like I said I did this my first couple years of teaching and I learned better so I do better and I bring it to your attention now so instead what I do is I focus on having positive relationships with my
• 15:30 - 16:00 families and I talk about doing this a couple different ways feel free to look at my previous weeks cuz I've definitely talked about this in depth quick overview though positive communication I'm reaching out to my family so let them know one positive thing about them every single month or once a quarter at least that I noticed about their students they did great on this they made a great friend with this they had a great idea when we asked about this that way I'm showing I'm here not only to help support during the hard times I'm
• 16:00 - 16:30 here to celebrate the good times and it makes my family that much more of a give and take and they were that much more likely to help support me because it's a give and take relationship there the second thing is consistent communication I'm making sure that I send them weekly newsletters you don't have to do weekly if that feels draining to you or like I said earlier if that's not ly to you don't do it you know you can start off with monthly updates semi-weekly whatever feels best for you but making
• 16:30 - 17:00 sure my families were in the loop that way I didn't get any I didn't hear about that field trip I could be like here's all the newsletters that I mention it and I actually just uploaded the pdf version on dojo every Monday when I sent it home that way they had a digital version and a paper version so I always said you know they knew exactly what was coming up for them so those are the things that I recommend doing and another thing I like to do is I like to work on making sure we're a team so whenever I'm talking to them about a concern I talk about how we can work
• 17:00 - 17:30 together how we can help that student that'll help bring them into the positive and help build that relationship and help show that you're on their side you want what's best for their child because you do you're a genuine human being who cares for them and you can work together to get there and you're willing to hear their thoughts so we can contribute together and make this a successful place for your student okay so that was another mistake I made and I learned from years
• 17:30 - 18:00 of experience the hard way the next thing I learned is I didn't organize my resources honestly after I set up my cute classroom and if I'm being 100% honest my first second and third year I didn't actually care about how my resources were set up in my classroom my manipulatives my extra materials here's how that showed up in my classroom what would happen was when students were working say they need another cray they would would walk all the way over here to grab a crayon then they sit down well
• 18:00 - 18:30 then their pencil broke and then they'd walk all the way over here to grab a pencil and since or they turn something in and they walk all the way over here and then turn it in meanwhile being Primary students and just students and you know social human beings they would talk to their friends as they were going and now I have 20 22 27 of them doing that it's no wonder I had so many disruptive behaviors instead if you're
• 18:30 - 19:00 intentional about your resource area you have a majority of the resources your students will need in one spot so they can go and you practice that procedure what it looks like sounds like to get there and come back you're minimizing Behavior once I learn this it is honestly like some of the smallest things that you don't think can Aid disruptive behavior does so being intentional about that organizing your
• 19:00 - 19:30 resources in one area that makes sense and showing what it looks like to and sounds like to give those resources is going to help you in the long run it also helped me because I would go to the store thinking I didn't have any more mats and lo and beholds in one of my drawers that was randomly crammed full of supplies they were there and I could have saved a lot of money that way so don't recommend doing that I recommend taking some time and organizing your resources ahead of time now supplies aside [Music]
• 19:30 - 20:00 I can't help as d as I think about this um paper resources and digital resources I can't tell you how many times I went to the search bar on TBT of my resources to see what I had already bought because I didn't have a good system and I can't tell you how many times I would Reby something that I already had a different version of because I didn't know I had it I can't tell you how many times those first two
• 20:00 - 20:30 three years I had a stack like this of papers to file that I just kept adding to because I never had time to make the folders for them I can't tell you how many time I had to sift through my downloads spot on my desktop looking for resources okay here's the deal if you do this it's going to feel like you're working harder and harder and harder each year it's never gonna feel like
• 20:30 - 21:00 You' got the hang of things because you're always searching for the same things so over the summer here's what I recommend doing set up your vanilla folders ahead of time look at your curriculum look at your standards here's all the great levels I'm teaching here's all the subjects I'm taking here's all the skills I'm teaching and put vanilla folders there that way when you have a paper and you've printed it out you just file it right away right away you already have a folder you don't have to put it in the file bin because haven't made a folder for it and
• 21:00 - 21:30 then if you don't have a folder for it put a marker with the vanilla folder on the front clip it together that way you can just jot it down really fast and file it doing this ahead of time will save you years of stress on your desktop make folders those same folders that you made a paper version of do a digital version going to help you so much time please do do that trust me or going to thank me for that so make
• 21:30 - 22:00 sure you're organizing your resources because when you have it set up once you can go back and look at what you already have and sure you're going to add as you go but adding and tweaking is a lot easier than starting I'm going to say that again adding and tweaking what you already have is a lot easier than starting so start now start right please don't make that same mistake I did and if you already have no worries now's a
• 22:00 - 22:30 great time to start that all right so the last and final mistake I made was I put up my different areas in my classroom without considering the flows of the classroom now you may have noticed I'm a bit of a classroom management well I wouldn't say Guru I've learned from my mistakes and I'm not ashamed to share them with you so you don't make the same mistakes and I've learned from trial and error cuz teaching is one big experiment so here's the deal where you put different areas
• 22:30 - 23:00 in your classroom does matter and sure you can look at what your Mentor teacher did the other teacher did and copy but if they're not taking into consideration the flow of the classroom then how do you expect to minimize disruptive behavior of your you don't know better so here's what I mean my first year of teaching I had this super cute classroom library with a canabe until I found out that I was allowed to have the canopy
• 23:00 - 23:30 cuz it was a certain height and the students pulled it down I had to take it down side note like don't do that or you know teach procedures better than I did cuz I didn't want regardless I have the library next to the lineup area and what happened was whenever a student came in late came in early whatever my students that were quietly working at the library and reading with me or reading or reading with the teachers's assistant were then disrupted by that student being intentional with which areas you set up next to each other is very
• 23:30 - 24:00 important I also had my small group area where I pulled students back for intervention or for small group work by the lineup area and then I got upset when students would come in late or teachers came in for a quick question they would see me there and they would come in and ask me for something or students would come in late and families would see me and they'd want to CH out while I was teaching be intentional of the flow of your classroom you'll learn that some areas work well and some areas don't now
• 24:00 - 24:30 if you feel a little intimidated you're like well then I don't know what areas to work put next to each other if you make I want to give you this reminder if you set up areas that don't work well together what's the worst case scenario you find out it doesn't work and you move it like I mean I can dive really deep I don't know if I've covered this yet but I can dive deep into which areas I do
• 24:30 - 25:00 recommend and don't recommend next to each other however think about okay what areas are next to this what's the flow in my classroom is this going to be disruptive to other students and think about that it doesn't have to be perfect teaching is one big experiment the reason I'm sharing all these lessons with you is because I made mistakes mistakes are just a way to get closer to having a smoother ride so with that being said consider the flow of your classroom and which areas you're putting next to each other cuz it may be adding to disruptive
• 25:00 - 25:30 behavior happening and distracting students so those are all the mistakes that I can think of that I've made setting up my classroom as a quick recap the first one was I only focused on Aesthetics or making a themed or cute classroom the second one was I bought everything I thought I needed before seeing the actual classroom the third one was I didn't plan out the first week ahead of time and the fourth one was I didn't fot focus on classroom management
• 25:30 - 26:00 so when my students came in they I was having a hard time managing behaviors that's cuz they didn't start off strong from the goodgo the fifth one is I didn't focus on clear communication and consistent communication with my families the sixth one is I didn't organize my resources ahead of time which in turn turned to more disruptive behavior and seven I put up my areas without considering the flow of the classroom which again led to more disruptive behaviors all in all if you do these intentionally and even if you
• 26:00 - 26:30 make mistakes cuz clearly I've made plenty of them it'll help you become a better teacher each year you learn stuff that works well and that didn't work well and you learn better so with all that being said those are the mistakes I've made I'm happy and kind of curious what kind of mistakes did you made I'd be curious let me know and then with all that being said if you want to learn all my tips and strategies and the common questions I get asked about setting up your classroom for success I recommend
• 26:30 - 27:00 downloading the ultimate classroom setup guide this is a free guide I put the compiled all the questions and top tips I have for setting up your classroom in one single space so my gift to you feel free to make sure to download that I'll put a link in the description down below I know when I started I was sifting through so many different resources and I wish I just would have had one spot that answered all my questions cuz would have saved me a lot of time the second thing I want to invite you to do if you
• 27:00 - 27:30 want to dive deeper into this and you want me to teach you how to set up everything I talked about previously in not take your entire summer because I don't like working on my Summers I found a way to set up my classroom in four weeks with everything we just mentioned I would love to invite you to join us inside the classroom Kickstart mini course now this is a course that I typically Bally do or a
• 27:30 - 28:00 program or a resource that I do have open enrollment year round however during the summer is it's special because I do a live cohort meaning you get extra support from me and other people going through the course at the same time when you join during the summer so if you want to join this summer I'm only doing it once this summer this cohort I highly recommend you get on the wait list for that classroom Kickstart download below I'll put the link down below the reason I
• 28:00 - 28:30 recommend getting on the weight list is cuz if you're on my weight list you may get a heads up ahead of time meaning you get first dibs on the slots meaning you also get for being the first ones to join so if you want to join us make sure to go ahead and join us and get on the wait list in the description down below I'll be happy to see you what questions do you have about setting up your classroom I would love to to hear more about what questions you have with all that being
• 28:30 - 29:00 said just know it's going to be okay I know it can be overwhelming I know there's a lot of content I know there's a lot to take in just know take one inspired step after another you can do this if I can do this you can do this if the teacher next door can do this you can do this we all started in the exact same place you got this you are going to get better and better it's going to get easier and easier each year that you do this I believe in you 100% you are doing an amazing job you are not behind you
• 29:00 - 29:30 are exactly where you need to be all right teacher bestie I love you and as always remember we are stronger together and I will see you in the next one teacher bestie bye [Music]