Are you spending late nights, early mornings, weekends…grading, planning and stressing? I hope not because if so, you may have some disordered boundaries. You’re not being paid to work on the weekends so you shouldn’t! With four preps, I have found myself in this position and drowning in work because I was working: 1. Harder than my students and 2. Harder than smarter. If your workload is overwhelming and you find yourself putting in way more hours than you should be, have you thought of ways to streamline some processes? Some ideas might be to… ➡️Grade tests as a class or use Google forms or Canvas to automate. ➡️THROW away practice work they turn in, not everything has to be graded! ➡️Choose just one day a week to grade work for a level or class period (example : I only grade French IV on Mondays) ➡️ Use class time for students to work on independent items such as math homework so they can ask questions as they go and you can informally assess and give feedback. What else can you think of to eliminate extra work outside of class? What are you already doing? I’d love to hear about it! And if you try any of my suggestions above, I’d love to hear how it worked for you!