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I will stop by and/or go into their classrooms to say hello and catch up with them about their day or weekend.  We will also send silly texts to one another.

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How do you strengthen the relationship between you and your teaching team?

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I agree seesaw is good for quick messages and updates, but like emails, opens the door for miscommunication.  speaking to the parent is always best for better discussions.

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Seesaw was mentioned as a beneficial way to communicate and although e-mail is nice, phone calls are often more efficient.

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Quick messages on see saw work.  However if the issues are more complex, a google doc shared with parents to journal the day helps.  This allows parents to be in the loop and reach out when needed.

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Parent Communication can feel like an added time-consuming stress at times during the school year. What are ways to communicate with parents that are both quick and transparent?

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It seems that finding the balance between work and school will always come down to accepting what is "enough" at school, because there is always more to do!  Several of the people that we talked with were trying to leave schoolwork at school rather than bring it home each night.  Often it doesn't get done at home and only creates a cloud over the evening.

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We talked about keeping them separate; go home and try to let the school day "go". As for getting the professional duties in, there is always more to do, so draw a line at some point and say that's enough for now!

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How do you manage professional duties with your personal life? Is it possible to be "present" for both without feeling guilty?

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I try not to fit so much in a lesson. I typically never get to all of the activities with the kindergartners I plan so instead of planning more I plan more concise effective lessons. This takes me less time to write these lessons. It helps meeting as a team so that we are on the same page and can check in on where we are suppose to be in each unit.

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We talked about as a grade level team we are there for one another sharing ideas, plans, sending away for copies, and sometimes we simply just need to check in with one another for sanity. It’s so nice to hear how my teammates are teaching various skills because it stretches my thoughts on how to best teach my students new skills. One other thing we talked about is to not get caught in the comparison trap because we each have our unique style of teaching with strengths to best meet our students needs. We need to believe that we are equipped with exactly what we need to create growth in our students.

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We talked about efficiently completing lesson plans, but also being flexible while implementing them. We also had a nice discussion about budgeting our time and balancing life and work!

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We talked about how it would be nice to be able to allow teachers at the elementary level to "specialize" or focus on one or two subject areas that they could teach with greater mastery and less stress with planning. For something we can work on fixing "right now" is sharing a lesson plan template or example across grade levels so people can learn ways to consolidate their plans so they stress less. A suggestion was made for grade levels to have time allotted for them to plan out units ahead so that writing lesson plans each week would be much easier and less stressful.

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We discussed being efficient by creating some resources that could be used throughout the unit/year so that we don't need to constantly redo our resources.  Some suggestions of this are sending out for the "remembering pages" and for the differentiated instruction cards in booklets for the students

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What are some ways you and your team work to help each other lesson plan?