
Are you drowning in lesson planning and still taking work home every night? Trying to make teacher time management work when you’re juggling multiple preps? Wondering if work life balance is even possible as a secondary teacher? Let’s be honest… your planning period disappears fast. If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place. This podcast is for overwhelmed secondary teachers—especially elective teachers, CTE teachers, and any multiple prep teacher—who are tired of feeling behind and ready for secondary teacher strategies that actually work. You’ll learn how to use your planning time effectively so you can finish your work during the school day, reduce your Teacher workload, and stop taking everything home. Because you don’t need a better planner. You need a system that fits the reality of your secondary classroom. Hi, I’m Khristen Massic. I’m a former high school teacher in career technical education who spent 10 years teaching courses like engineering, drafting, robotics, digital media, and more—and at one point, I was teaching nine preps in a single school year. I’ve also worked as a middle school assistant principal and now support teachers at the district level, so I’ve seen this workload from every angle. And here’s what I learned the hard way: It’s not that you’re bad at teacher planning. It’s that most systems were never built for teachers juggling this many different classes. I used to overplan, rebuild everything from scratch, and try to make every lesson perfect—until it became completely unsustainable. What changed? I stopped chasing perfect plans and started building simple, repeatable systems. Now, I help high school teacher and Secondary classroom educators simplify their planning, reuse what already works, and actually finish something during their prep period. Inside this podcast, you’ll find: • Simple teacher time management systems that help you use your planning period effectively • Practical teacher planning routines to reduce teacher wo