FlexiLingo
The 4 Types of Decisions (And the One Most Teachers Skip)
Ever catch yourself reacting on autopilot when a parent email hits your inbox or your admin drops a last-minute request? In this episode, Kelsey shares a session she taught live at Summer Refresh in front of 1,000 teachers, all about making decisions before you're tired and stretched thin — not in the middle of the chaos. You'll learn the four types of decisions every teacher can make ahead of time, including the one most of us skip entirely (and it might be the most important one of all). If you've ever felt like everything on your plate is "important," this episode wi...
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There's a moment that's going to happen at some point this school year. You're going to be tired and stretched thin and something is going to come at you, whether that's a parent email, a behavior issue, a last minute request from your admin. And in that moment, you're going to react immediately and potentially with patterns
that your brain has already created. And from my experience coaching teachers, a lot of that is just continuing to put everything on your plate, continuing to do everything. And because we didn't decide ahead of time what we are able to do, what we are not.
And here's the thing we're going to talk about today. You can decide how you're going to handle a lot of these moments right now before they actually happen while you actually have the capacity to think clearly. And there's one specific type of decision, one most teachers never think of ahead of
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