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| Contents of the CD | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Get Clear on What Matters | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Planning, Organization, and Efficiency Matter Even More for Teachers | |
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| What Do I Mean by Together'? | |
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| Why This Matters to Me | |
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| How the Book Is Arranged | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Rules Over Tools: Create Your Ideal Week | |
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| It Can Get Easier-A Step-by-Step Approach | |
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| I'm Not a Dictator, but There Are Some Rules | |
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| The Tools | |
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| Components of a Great Organization System | |
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| Let's Get Started | |
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| Take the Long View | |
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| No More Missed Deadlines: Make a Comprehensive Calendar | |
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| The Multiple-Calendar Dilemma | |
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| The Comprehensive Calendar: What Is It? | |
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| Together Teachers' Comprehensive Calendars | |
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| Pick Your Tool: Where Will You Keep Your Comprehensive Calendar? | |
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| The Up-Front Investment: Create Your Comprehensive Calendar | |
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| Keep Your Comprehensive Calendar Alive | |
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| Why Is This Important, Again? | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Nilda: A Day in the Life | |
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| Corral the To-Dos: Create an Upcoming To-Do List | |
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| Upcoming To-Do List: What Is It? | |
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| Using Your Upcoming To-Do List | |
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| Together Teachers Upcoming To-Do Lists | |
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| Pick Your Tool: Where Will You Keep Your Upcoming To-Do List? | |
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| Get Started Slogging Through the Post-its | |
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| Keep It Alive: Enter It Immediately! | |
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| Why Is This Important, Again? | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Never Forget! Capture Your Thoughts | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| A Closer Look at Thought Catchers | |
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| Together Teachers' Thought Catchers | |
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| Pick Your Tool: Where Will You Keep Your Thought Catchers? | |
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| The Initial Investment: Setting Up Your Thought Catchers | |
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| Making Your Thought Catchers Work for You | |
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| Why Do We Need Thought Catchers Again? | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Gilbert: A Day in the Life | |
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| Beware the Notebook Vortex: Take Great Notes at Meetings and Professional Development | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Beware, the Notebook Vortex | |
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| The Explanation: What Are Meeting/PD Notes? | |
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| Back from the Dead: Doing Something with Our PD Notes | |
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| Pick Your Tool: Where Will You Keep Your Notes? | |
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| Making the Most of Small-Group Meetings | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Narrow Your View | |
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| A Week's Worth of Readiness: How to Look Ahead | |
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| The Tote Bag Calls to You from the Corner of the Room | |
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| A Closer Look: What Is a Weekly or Daily Worksheet? | |
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| Together Teachers� Weekly Worksheets | |
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| Together Teachers' Daily Worksheets: A Different Option | |
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| Choose a Product That Works for You | |
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| Get Started Customizing: Narrow Your View | |
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| Why Do I Need to Narrow My View? | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Jeff: A Day in the Life | |
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| Automate: Create Routines for Planning | |
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| The Power Workout: The Weekly Round-Up | |
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| Daily Routines: Making the Most of Openings and Closings | |
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| Use Those Preps to Their Fullest | |
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| Creating Routines: Why Does This Matter, Again? | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Ward Off the Demons: Keep Those Organizational Muscles Strong | |
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| Keeping Those Organizational Muscles Working: Your Daily Exercise | |
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| I'm Routined, I'm Planned, but the Work Still Isn't Getting Done | |
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| Five Demons That Haunt Us: Some Common Human Behaviors | |
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| Anna: A Day in the Life | |
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| All That: Other Stuff! | |
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| Tame the E-Mail Beast: How to Manage Your In-Box | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| E-Mail Is Not the Enemy, but… | |
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| Set Up Your In-Box for Success | |
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| Admit You Are Part of the Problem: Create Better E-Mail Habits | |
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| Clarity Is King | |
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| E-Mail: Use It, Don't Abuse It! | |
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| Get Started: Next Steps | |
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| Create Stations: Arrange Your Classroom to Run Like Clockwork | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| An Overview of the Stations | |
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| Enter and Exit Carefully: Create Your Classroom Foyer | |
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| Stocking Up the Kitchen: Keeping Necessary Ingredients on Hand | |
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| Battle of the Books: Classroom Libraries and Textbooks | |
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| Tame the Technology: Get Those Cords Under Control | |
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| Spic-and-Span Classroom | |
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| Why Does This Matter, Again? | |
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| Dan: A Day in the Life | |
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| Subdue the Backpack Explosion: Set Expectations for Student Stuff | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Contain Student Papers | |
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| Past and Present Student Work | |
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| Pencils and That Other "Stuff" | |
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| Why Does This Matter, Again? | |
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| Deal with Your Paper and Stuff: How to Find What You Need in Under Ten Seconds | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| What to Carry When You Are on the Move: Your Together Teacher System and a Teacher Clipboard | |
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| Use Your Desk for Something Other Than Storage | |
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| Create a Suitcase: Transporting Work Between School and Home | |
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| Your Teaching Materials | |
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| Finding What You Need When You Need It: Reference Information and File Cabinets | |
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| Why Does This Matter, Again? | |
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| Become a Together Teacher | |
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| Conclusion: Become a Together Teacher | |
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| Dealing with Deluge: Can Your System Survive Under the Pressure? | |
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| Get Started: A Month-by-Month Implementation Plan o Why the World Needs Together Teachers | |
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| Sue: A Day in the Life | |
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| Recommended Resources for the Together Classroom | |
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| Resources: Books, Blogs, Applications, and More! | |
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| Meet the Together Teachers | |
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| Join Us Online | |