Hello and welcome to Vest Laid Plans. This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent, and this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger. And today is our much awaited teacher planning episode. I think I put my feelers out for teachers to send me some of their favorite planning strategies a few weeks ago. And I got some fantastic answers and some sound clips which I'm going to share with you today. I think some of the themes that really came out are customizing your planning

tools to make them work for you. A lot of Google type resources, Google Docs, Google Sheets,

etc. Some people have some really cool specialty products to recommend. And I feel like weekly

rhythms and batching came up more than once. So all of these really cool themes.

And I also just want to say thank you to the teachers who listen to this show. Thank you to the

teachers who teach my kids, who have taught me. Your profession is so appreciated and so important.

And you are the ones who probably set some of the earliest thoughts of how to plan

in motion for our next generation, so incredibly important. In the second half of today's episode,

after I share some of the tips from various teachers, I have on another teacher named Hannah Taylor,

who is going to talk a little bit on the flip side about how teachers,

or at least her as a teacher, feels that we can get our kids and teens to plan effectively

from that teacher's perspective. So kind of like two sides of the coin in this episode so that

if you're not a teacher, but you have children, that second half may be particularly

valuable for you. But I thought the first half was still super, super interesting because I love

the behind the scene looks about how teachers do it. So without me talking much more, I'm going to

introduce our first voice memo, which is from a teacher named Robin Hernandez.

She's a veteran teacher, and in this clip, she's going to share an overview of how she

plans, including her batching and weekly routine practices that really maximize her prep time.

So here we go with Ms. Hernandez.

Hi, Sarah.

My name is Robin, and I am a third grade teacher going into my 23rd year of education, and

I'd like to share my planning process.

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