14 Teachers, One Survival Guide
A free Holiday Survival Guide from seasoned teachers, packed with advice and free resources to get you through November and December.
There is a moment every year, usually somewhere between the last Halloween wrapper and the first paper snowflake, when I realize I have been running on my own ideas for too long.
Same strategies. Same fixes. Same tired version of me trying to solve December with the tools I had in September.
And every year, the thing that pulls me out of it isn’t a new idea of my own. It’s a conversation with another teacher. Someone who says, “Oh, here’s what I do,” and hands me exactly the system I didn’t know I needed.
That’s what this guide is. Sixteen of those conversations, in one place.
What’s inside
I teamed up with other teachers to build the Holiday Survival Guide. Each of us shared our best advice for getting through November and December, along with free resources you can put to work right away.
This guide for upper elementary, the one I’d grab if you teach my favorite age group!
Why borrow from other teachers
This whole month on the blog has been about systems over stamina. When your energy runs low, the structure you built is what carries the room.
But here’s the part we forget. You don’t have to build every system yourself.
The best teachers I know are shameless borrowers. They borrow routines. They borrow phrasing. They borrow the one trick that saves them ten minutes every afternoon. Borrowing isn’t a shortcut. It’s how good teaching spreads.
So borrow from sixteen of us.
Get your free Holiday Survival Guide
Grab it now and save it for the weeks when you need it most.
