Reviewing How My Time Was Spent in SY2017-18

Each year I find it useful to look back at the data I have gathered about how my time was used for the year to think about planning ahead for the coming school year. I'll be sharing this with my admin team at our next meeting. Currently our middle school and first program are smaller than our high school, so the fact that the middle school and first program combined receive about the same time as the high school by itself actually does make sense. However, I think that my office being located in the high school makes a huge impact on the first program and middle school teachers access to me. Some one of my requests will be a more centrally located office/professional development space. I will also continue having one day of each week where I am located in the first program for the entire day.

If you would like to see how this data was gathered, you can read this blog post.

Time Management Tools -- Google Keep and Tasks

Do you have a problem with time or task management? Do you know a student or colleague that does? Do you have GSuite for education? If you answered yes to either of the first two questions and yes to the third question as well, then you are in luck, because you can actually solve the problem with GSuite. Google Keep is a rather new product from Google and I like to think of it as an Evernote-lite. Tasks exist in your Gmail account and you probably never notice them at all. Either one of these products can help your organize your time and tasks better.
This presentation walks through the basic features of each product and also makes a comparison of the two. The basic choice comes down to what you want to be able to do with your task list. Do you want to share it with others you are collaborating with? Then Keep is best option. Do you want to use it on your own (and possibly sent a list to someone)? Then Task is part of your Gmail account already, so why use another tab?