Innovation and Creativity Flow Out of Routines
Over the past fifteen years working as a mentor teacher with both new and veteran teachers one consistent needs arises. How to organize, categorize, and control the amazing amount of “stuff” that enters your life as an educator. In few other professional are you asked to manage as much paper work and in no other field are you asked to answer to so many elements of critique. They come in a variety of forms... your county evaluation system, your administrator, your students, your students’ parents not mention federal mandates, state initiatives, local pilot programs, etc... etc... etc. Need a really good remedy for dealing with all this stuff? Here is it... Routines!
The routines discuss here differ from other sources because they specifically address the (mundane but necessary) steps that enable you to move from teaching “survive mode” to “thrive mode”. In “thrive mode” innovation and creativity flow. Time and opportunity also come together allowing you to actualize good ideas... all because the mundane stuff that can often control your time is dealt with via simple, short, premeditated routines.
Suddenly, the perceived monotony of routines is translated into freedom. Book keeping, planning, prep work, project investigation, etc. don’t get the chance to build up! They all stay in check and controlled with simple routines!
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| Week One - Day One from the Routines Flip Chart! |
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Suddenly, the perceived monotony of routines is translated into freedom. Book keeping, planning, prep work, project investigation, etc. don’t get the chance to build up! They all stay in check and controlled with simple routines! 
