Been teaching 7 years and have tried probably 30+ "productivity tools" that admins push or other teachers swear by. Honestly most of them just create more work (looking at you, LMS discussion boards no one reads). Here's what actually saves time after testing everything.
1. For planning organization - Notion
Honestly changed how I structure my entire year. Unit planning calendars, tracking what worked, housing templates. Best part is sharing pages with your team so we're not all reinventing the same solar system unit. Free for teachers with .edu email, takes like 30 min to set up but worth it.
2. For good looking materials - Canva
Making handouts or posters used to take forever in Word. This has templates for everything, drag and drop, looks professional in 5 minutes. Free for teachers. Warning: can get sucked into tweaking fonts for 20 minutes.
3. For lesson planning - TeachShare
Tried ChatGPT but it's just generic. MagicSchool has 80 tools but quality over quantity. Been using TeachShare because of Leslie Fisher. Saves 2-3 hours. Still have to review everything but starts me at 60% instead of staring at a blank page.
4. For classroom management display - ClassroomScreen
Timer, noise meter, random name picker all on one screen you can project. Saves fumbling with different tabs. Free for basic stuff.
5. For digital feedback - Kami
If you're 1:1 devices, students submit PDFs and you annotate directly. Way faster than printing or LMS comment boxes. Free tier works fine.
Unpopular opinion maybe but I think AI planning tools are gonna be standard in 2-3 years and honestly... good? The time we waste formatting lesson plans is time we could spend teaching. AI handles the busywork if we check its work. It's not replacing teachers, it's replacing administrative bullshit.
What am I missing? Always looking for tools that actually work.
Submitted October 03, 2025 at 03:09AM by ApocalypseSloth https://ift.tt/x0N2KHO
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