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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning

-Use regularly scheduled assemblies & large group presentations to merge classes with fewer adults supervising; trade off supervision duty to create released time for planning

-Find a buddy teacher in another grade, and combine classes for buddy projects between students, alternating supervision to provide individual planning time

-Ask for funding (principal, parent group, grant) to provide substitutes that move through your building to release teams for collaborative planning 

-Communicate the need for planning time with your school board

-Find another grade level team of teachers to coordinate grade buddy projects; alternate weeks