You want to work your contract hours and feel confident leaving at the bell each day, but you have been writing lesson plans all day, so after school is catch up time.

I know that you are committed to teaching your students everything that they need to know, and doing it in a way that is fun and engaging. 

But most teachers struggle to keep up.  Many teachers stay up late writing lesson plans, or grading papers.  We even bring work home to work on during nights and weekends. 

But somehow, no matter how hard you work, no matter how many hours you put it, you

There are so many of us that are simply over worked.  

We've come up with reasons that somehow this is the way it's supposed to be.   

We've let ourselves get to the point that we largely shut down our personal lives from the first day of school until the start of summer. 

Two days after I was hired for my first teaching job I was engaged.  Six weeks after that I had a brand new puppy (my pride and joy).  I was working long after the sunset and I was missing out on life for far too long. 

After months of grueling hours of school work, at both work and home and grew frustrated.  I took a pair of scissors to my standards and I have NEVER looked back. 

I'm a different teacher than I was then.  I'm happier.  I'm healthier.  I have so much less stress in my life.  Work is rarely on my mind after hours.  In fact, when I think about my lesson plans, I'm actually excited to go to work and teach an epic lesson.