The Secondary Teacher | Classroom Routines, Secondary Teacher Strategies, Workload Management

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**Are you looking for secondary teacher strategies, elective teacher resources, and teacher planning systems that actually work when you're juggling multiple preps?** Are you drowning in lesson planning and still taking work home every night? Wondering if managing your workload is even possible when every class needs something different? 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 need practical secondary teacher strategies built for the reality of teaching multiple courses. You'll learn how to simplify teacher planning, build classroom routines that reduce your workload, and find elective teacher resources that help you keep students engaged without creating everything from scratch. Because you don't need a better planner. You need systems that fit 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 taught **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 the teacher workload from multiple angles. And here's what I learned the hard way: It's not that you're bad at teacher planning. It's that most planning 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 secondary teachers simplify teacher planning, reuse what already works, and actually finish something during their prep