 Hello, my sweet apples and welcome back to another vlog. So today is gonna be more of like a sit-down video I promised you guys a planning video, and I am here to deliver I'm not gonna be actually planning any lessons today But I wanted to share with you guys some of the things that I'm going to be using to plan Since they are officially chosen. I know I'm really indecisive and I change things up all the time I don't know why that is. I'm just very Fickle? I don't know So a couple things I wanted to share with you guys as promised in my last vlog in my classroom setup vlog my first one I'm going to share with you guys our district's return to learn plan. So I'm going to be teaching in the District near Queen Creek. I don't want to say the exact name of the school district, but the Queen Creek area I'm gonna be teaching there And we have they have created a return to learn plan Parents will be given an option to send their children to school in person or send them to a Virtual Academy that is a complete different entity than the in classroom option so in person would have teachers me Other teachers and then online would have their own set of teachers their own set of curriculum It's kind of its own entity So parents are given the option whether to return in person or virtual if they choose virtual each student who needs a Chromebook Will be given one the district is going to give them a Chromebook if they choose to go online Students who will work in person will also have their own assigned Chromebook in the classroom So they won't have to share with any other student school district purchased more devices So that every student can have a one-to-one device Because we want to try to keep paper use to a minimum just because that's just one more way to spread You know what? So the students who return to school will be coming to campus five days a week There will be limited recess. There will be grab-and-go breakfast and lunch Students will be doing recess with their own cohorts So every class will have its own designated recess time so that cohorts of students can be kept together There's going to be temperature checks hand-washing you guys know all of the things but they are Expecting students to come five days a week if students want to switch online. They can but they do have to finish out the quarter I believe where they are. I don't know exactly that detail It said that they needed to finish the quarter Which to me sounds like they have to finish whatever quarter they're in in the classroom and then they can switch I think it's all because of grading purposes because they are moving from one Institution to another So we were supposed to begin teaching on July 22nd in my district and we were going to be virtual for the first two days of school It was going to be the 22nd and 23rd and then the 27th students were going to come to campus Since then Governor Ducey has announced that he is going to postpone opening schools in person to August 17th Which is when most of Arizona schools begin they usually begin like the first week of August My district is a year on district So we have longer breaks in the middle which I'm so excited about because I'd rather have a shorter summer and longer breaks But as far as opening schools go, I don't really know yet So I begin trainings next week July 7th and that whole rest of the week And I'm assuming we're going to begin virtually so that we can keep our district calendar So that means that we will be virtual from July 22nd to August 17th Pending everything goes well and we can actually go back to school My fingers are crossed that we can actually go to school to work like teachers can go to their classrooms to work Because I'm so unmotivated at home I will do so much better if I'm in my own classroom like my office I can just do all my like science demonstrations there. I can do all my lessons there I think it would be so much more productive if teachers could return to their classrooms and work from there You know, obviously we have a little bit more discipline We can stay away from each other as long as we stay in our own classrooms I feel like it would be no problem. Oh fingers are crossed for that. Okay. I'm starting to ramble so as far as planning goes I have sort of taken a standstill on Planning like what I'm gonna teach and when because I don't know if we're gonna go back Virtually or if we're gonna just wait until August so I do have like the first four weeks of like what standard I'm teaching and all my learning targets for those Standards and so I'm gonna just wait there because if I teach online It's gonna look very different than if I teach in the classroom So I'm kind of waiting for that. So I am gonna show you guys what I'm using to plan So I might be switching from this view to a computer view or to an iPad view So my iPad planner I talked about this in my last video One of my last videos that I was shopping for a planner I did announce this on Instagram But I wanted to share it with you guys here on YouTube so that you guys can be inspired and if you like it You can go and grab it. So I use good notes on my iPad to plan And the planner that I chose was the boss babe planner and I will link it down here below What I like about it is that it has and I'm gonna begin my screen recording here on my iPad What I like about this planner is that it comes with predated planning so I can Go without having to write every single date down in the corner of every box And it just saves me a little bit of time I can just swipe to the page that I want and then I'm done It comes with a full month layout, which is what I'm showing you here on my iPad And of course you guys can see that I've already filled in some important days It comes with a week at a glance. So if you want to just write basic things Have a week at a glance you can do that and then it also comes with a daily layout So it is predated for every day and in every day's area. You have a morning routine space You have a top three. So those are like your priorities. You have a to-do list. You have a meal tracker and a workout tracker You also then have a spot for your schedules and appointments and then of course there's a wellness tracker down there too If you want to track your water intake or things like that. So every day of the week. There is a Daily layout and then and the last day on the Friday There's a week of thought so you can kind of reflect on your week And then there's like a brain dump for the next week and then again There's another week layout. This goes all the way into June 2021 and it's really cool at the end of the planner She also includes sticker pages and other really cool templates that you could use if you're a really rigorous planner I am not But these are so this page that I'm showing you right here is a shortcut to the different templates So there's personal planning health and wellness. There are blank pages There's life organization cleaning checklist home inventory. There's stickers. There's project planning goal setting and dream Planning so that's why I really like this planner. I really love the font I really love the stickers that she made. They're more like doodle stickers that you can put in there So this is gonna be where I plan all of my personal and professional Dates so if we have an assembly which we probably won't have we have a staff meeting if I have an IEP meeting if there's any type of event that I need to write down or a due date that I have from As a professional I will be writing all of this in this planner so that I can keep track of everything I like to color code like personal plans and pink and then school plans in blue that way really can see what's going on So that is the planner that I chose for my iPad That is going to be my regular life planner and then as far as lesson planning goes I am going to use plan book comm. I love plan book comm Because it has all of your standards already typed in put in there You just click and drag them into your lessons You can type everything up separated by block one block two block three and then you can just print them So if your principal is someone who likes you to submit your lesson plans You can always share them through plan book comm or you can always print them It's really nice because they have an app on the iPad so I can plan using my iPad if I'm just working from home You can access it on your phone your laptop and then like let's say your accent You can email them to your teammates to print for your substitute. So I really like plan book comm I'm gonna show you guys a short little video that shares plan books features. So let's do that right now Okay, so here I am on the regular home page of plan book comm You can see that everything is able to be customized So I've changed the colors of my blocks and what I'll probably do is if certain things are Scheduled for certain blocks. I will write them in my digital planner in the same color so that it all can coordinate But basically you are able to create different Classes and then within each class you can change the plans up So if you're gonna teach the same thing for all three blocks if your departmentalized like me You can just copy and paste all of your plans down in there But it's if you are doing something different for each block Let's say one block is more ahead than the others. You can of course change your plans Within each block you are able to click and drag in standards Mine are labeled in the homework section right now. I need to change that but normally this would be labeled standard But you can literally click and drag certain standards that you're using into this plan book comm Planning system so let's say I'm using now I have set mine to the Arizona state standards and then I also have access to the next-gen standards So let's just say I'm gonna use this one It will pull up all of my standards that I'm gonna use so we're gonna just pretend We're using this one we click check and then it will automatically put your standards in for you You can also of course write your learning targets You can talk about what homework assignments the kids are gonna do and then you can Type up the activity you're using so instead of writing this with a pencil or a pen in a planner You can just type it in and then of course if you need to make changes you can do that You can also share Copy and paste lessons with your teammates So if you guys are teaching all subjects and one of you wants to plan reading and one of you wants to plan You can just send the lessons that you've planned to your teammate and they can just paste them right there in their plan book So this is really cool. You can do start times end times. You can obviously Edit text things like that. You can also attach things So if you are sending a lesson plan to another teacher You can attach the items that you're using and they have access right away So that is why I love plan book. It's just right there at your fingertips If you want to move a lesson you just click it and shift it to the next day It will ask you of course if you want to override it and then you can move it So if you don't get to something because something came up You can just push it to the next day and then of course you can print your plans in different formats landscape portrait Day by day hour by hour week by week You can also see your month at a glance Of you on plan book comm as well and that is really helpful for planning ahead of time So that is why I love plan book comm and I've used it for the last four years So it's kind of something that I am used to I thought about doing an Aaron Condrom planner or a happy planner and I just couldn't bring myself to do it Because plan book is so simple and I've been using it so long So one more thing I wanted to talk with you guys about this video is already 13 minutes long But I think I'm doing pretty good. I can keep it to under 20. I'm winning Okay, so when I got to my classroom last week, you guys saw if you watched it I did discover that I do have a curriculum. It wasn't complete. I am missing one of the modules. I Think I'm missing module one, but I believe my district did purchase me or my school at least PhD science which is made by great minds and I did have time to kind of zoom through it and see some of the lessons And they are really cool. There isn't a ton of hands-on. It's mostly like Observations and watching Demonstrations, which is fine So I'll probably use this as much as I possibly can and then throw in my own twists and turns in there So I do have PhD science. I have the first I have modules two three and four and so I have student books and then I also have Teacher editions here. So I'm kind of looking through those but again I'm waiting to plan until I know where I'm teaching if I'm gonna be teaching from here from school or at school So and then something else that I purchased over the summer was science fusion So I didn't know if I was gonna have a curriculum coming in and so I wanted to find something that I could use It's kind of like a roadmap. And so I did purchase this textbook from Amazon. It's just a student textbook So inside it's all student led Or student, I guess this is what the kids would have not for the teacher. This is not teacher edition But I really like it. It's really cool. It has hands-on activities inside labs really colorful pictures And it also has an online Component which I don't have but it would probably be really easy to create lessons using this So I just figured this is just one more thing that I can have if I need ideas Because I've never been able to actually teach science the way it should be taught The last six years of my career. I've had 30 minutes or less to teach science and social studies So I've never really been able to teach it correctly It's always just kind of been, you know, informational texts and then trying to get those standards Met in like an ELA area with an extra 30 minutes So I'm really excited to have 90 minutes a day if we go in person I'll have 90 minutes a day to teach science and social studies So I'm planning on doing like a bi-weekly plan so week a would be science week B would be social studies I've mentioned that before And so hopefully that will be really helpful. Okay, so that is the end of this video I know that it was really chatty and I pushed a lot of information at you guys That's all I got for you today I hope you guys enjoyed this video Thank you so so much for watching if you're not following me on Instagram make sure you do so I do post lots of updates there as Well, and I will see you guys in the next one