What is it with educators and binders? I swear to god, some idiot either gives us one, or makes us keep up with them.<\/p>\n
I hate binders.<\/p>\n
Seriously.<\/p>\n
Nothing is worse than having to pull something out of a binder, use it and then have to put it back in.<\/p>\n
My system: folders<\/p>\n
Seriously, folders are much easier. When I had a real job, worked real hours, and made real money, everything was kept in a file cabinet. I loved my last cube. I had a nice square cube, with a really nice horizontal file cabinet. Everything went in it. My purse, my files, everything. When I went to a meeting, I pulled out the hanging folder that contained that project with all the materials that went with it. When I came back, I just dropped it all into the cabinet. <\/p>\n
I just went into a huge hissy fit over the binder we are required to keep this year. We are up for cycle 3 for the Texas Educators Grant and we have to document everything we do to death. They’ve given us a binder, dividers and tabs for it. <ARGH!!!!><\/p>\n
My solution? A file box. They make lots of different sizes. So I have hanging folder for each portion of the things we have to document — like the task force I’m in. Then I use separate folders for things individual items I have to keep up with. When I come back from a meeting, I toss the stuff in the box and periodically file it (I never have time to file). I even toss the binder in the box just in case someone wants it some day and when it comes time to turn in the binder, I’m putting a big rubber band around the files and putting them in the binder and turning it in that way.<\/p>\n
It appalled our department chair until she saw it and then she agreed it was better than a binder.<\/p>\n
And when people give me a binder in the future, I’m just going to do the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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