Angela Kulcsar warns teachers not to waste the first week with unstructured time or overly relaxed activities. Establish clear routines and schedules from day one, even while keeping things fun and engaging. She covers this in depth in her membership community.
Back to school tip: do not let your first day and week of school just be like open, hanging out, chill. We want to come in with structure, with routine, with those schedules, but we're gonna keep it fun. What we're doing within that schedule and in that routine is fun, engaging, on level with student interest, but we want to be having that routine by day one. This is something we talk about so much in the membership, and it's so important. I actually have a whole video called What to Do the First Week of School.
