The Schoolyard Podcast S2, E1: Again to College Magic

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Whats up associates! Welcome again to the Schoolyard Podcast delivered to you by College Specialty. That is our Episode 1 of Season 2.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
I’m your host, Nancy Chung, a fun-loving trainer and content material creator also referred to as @fancynancyin5th on social media, and I’m thrilled that you simply’re right here. A particular shout-out to College Specialty, who gives important academic provides and full studying atmosphere options that can assist you rework greater than school rooms. That is the Schoolyard Podcast, a podcast by educators, for educators, the place the magic of studying unfolds. At present, our great friends, Stephanie Osmondson and Loreal Hemenway of @happilyeverelementary have again to high school in thoughts. Like many academics proper now, we might be discussing what we love a lot, which is sharing classroom setup ideas and sensible concepts on creating useful and alluring areas. These two academics are usually not solely colourful and inventive, they’re so enjoyable and dynamic. Stephanie and Loreal deliver a wealth of expertise to the desk. Stephanie has a background in early childhood training with over a decade of expertise specializing in creating participating and interactive studying environments. Loreal comes from a background in elementary training, specializing in integrating know-how and inventive instructing methods to boost scholar studying. Collectively, they based @happilyeverelementary on Instagram and TikTok, the place they share their progressive concepts, classroom setups, and instructing ideas with the colourful group over 279,000 followers. Their mission is to encourage and help fellow educators by offering sensible recommendation, uplifting tales, cute outfit concepts, and a complete lot of positivity. Welcome again to the schoolyard, Stephanie and Loreal. It’s so good to have you ever again.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Thanks. What a heat welcome, Nancy. Good to nearly see you.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
I do know, it’s been too lengthy. I understand how busy you guys are. So thanks a lot for carving out your time to be right here right now. Final time you have been on our podcast, you share some superb tips about creating an inclusive classroom atmosphere that may spark creativity. We acquired an unbelievable quantity of constructive suggestions in your episode. And I’m not shocked by this, however it was our hottest, most streamed episode.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
So thanks. Thanks for listening, guys.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
You guys are superior. You’re clearly liked by everyone. So I do know we’re recording this mid July. However I can see that you simply’re in your classroom and you’ve got been getting into. How excited are you for a contemporary new faculty yr?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
We’re all the time excited to form of soar again in. There’s simply one thing concerning the vitality you get on a college campus that sadly, despite the fact that we’re like filling our personal cup in the course of the summer season, it’s not essentially the identical vitality, particularly as two mothers. We’re residence and we actually aren’t resting that a lot proper now with our littles. And there’s something about checking in together with your faculty group that does provide you with this like elevate and this jolt of vitality that we’re actually excited to faucet again into seeing our employees members and our college students once more.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, I really like that. And I do know you’re you’ve been redoing bulletin boards for lots of academics in your campus, proper? Sure.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
How’s that going? Yeah, this summer season, we’re not doing a classroom makeover. And so we determined how can we serve academics nonetheless doing the issues we love. And we regarded in our lockers which can be sitting behind us proper now. And we have now two panels which can be filled with bulletin board kits that we’ve created for our Lecturers Pay Instructor Retailer. We’ve had them on show, after which we all the time save the items in a pleasant Ziploc bag, and so they’re simply sitting there. So we thought, what higher means to assist our personal academics in our constructing by providing to do their bulletin boards? So we’re engaged on 12 to fifteen bulletin boards that we’re delivering throughout our faculty, throughout grade ranges, and we all know how a lot it’s serving to our academics proper now, and they’re simply so grateful to take one thing off of their plate.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, my gosh, I guess. I guess for those who took signups on-line, you’ll get like 1000s and 1000s of individuals saying come to our faculty and do a board for us.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
We regularly get folks within the feedback like come see me and do my board. And we have been that the majority of our employees did fill out the Google type and was and it made us really feel very flattered. But additionally we have been like, man, I want we might do actually everybody’s combat big. And we’ll do that once more. As a result of it’s been such an expertise. I don’t assume we couldn’t. beginning it and it feels good to take one factor, only one tiny factor off of a gen ed trainer’s plate as a result of we all know how rapidly issues pile up on the again to high school season and having peace of thoughts that they’ll are available and their board is completed was one thing we have been actually excited to provide to them.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
That’s superb. You guys are simply giving again to your faculty and simply all the time trying to assist others. I really like that. So once you’re planning your classroom group and decor for the next faculty yr, the place do you begin? Properly, I all the time have to start out out like after I get again to high school, I simply stroll round in circles for the entire day. I’m like, actually, actually strolling round in circles. The place do you begin?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
I’ve observed that as properly with different folks is like, once they’re like day one classroom arrange the primary day watching all the things like yeah. We’ll see as artwork academics, our dynamic and listing of duties is so extremely completely different. We’re not having to prep our Meet the Instructor letters in the identical means. We now have alternatives like that as specialists, however it’s not the identical means you’re answerable for your class. We’re not having to laminate homework folders or issues like that. Nonetheless, we do have a tendency to start out with operate. And for us as artwork academics, and we did this within the Gen Ed classroom as properly, we try to take into consideration, properly, what might enhance from final yr and make it possible for we’re like form of reflecting on the actual fact of like, oh, that that was a wrestle for me like time and time once more. And actually, we might in all probability be serious about that the earlier faculty yr after which begin working in the direction of implementing one thing higher in the summertime. However going again to high school, it’s like the joy, however like behind making an attempt one thing new that would work and I feel that’s why on our social media we’re so captivated with saying like we’re making an attempt this new factor and we need to share it with you guys and see if it might give you the results you want is as a result of like we’ve simply realized time and time once more that as you study and develop your college students have extra alternative as properly um however yeah I feel for our academics particularly there have been issues like um that we wished to enhance A kind of issues for us specifically was like settle down kits to make it possible for we’re accommodating the wants of all of our college students. And so I do know we put a giant give attention to that this summer season. But when we have been within the classroom, that might be a wide range of issues, whether or not it’s like, , adapting to new curriculum or wanting higher scholar group. However I feel these are issues that we and the college you’re wanting ahead to bettering going into a brand new one.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
I really like that quite a lot of instances skilled academics form of get within the rut of doing the identical factor yr after yr. And I feel that’s that would trigger burnout, too, in my my opinion, like our personalities, we’ll get so bored. Proper. So yeah. Yeah. So it’s not I imply, it’s in fact, it’s for the youngsters, too. However for our sake, too, after we are attempting new issues, we really feel , we really feel extra refreshed and we really feel extra impressed for the college yr. Completely. In your expertise, what classroom design components have probably the most constructive impression on scholar engagement and studying outcomes?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
There’s quite a lot of school rooms that Stephanie and I’ve designed in our instructing careers from our personal school rooms to summer season makeovers. After which our personal artwork room. And when it comes all the way down to it, creating an aesthetic of a welcoming atmosphere with colours and vibrancy and issues that have interaction college students actually does make a giant change within the scholar tradition and having the youngsters really feel welcome into your room. There’s nothing higher than wanting on the face of a scholar strolling right into a classroom the primary time. It’s palms down one in every of our favourite experiences. After we do makeovers, we love seeing the trainer’s response. That’s fairly rad. However when the scholars are available, it brings us to tears. as a result of you may see it on their face. They mild up and see the little touches that you simply assume nobody’s going to note. And youngsters will stroll proper as much as them and need to contact them or take a look at them. And it’s actually magical creating these environments for college students. And it simply units the tone for the complete faculty yr. So I simply assume the general aesthetic of a room and the vibrancy and the power to make it welcoming for college students is tremendous necessary. And it’s undoubtedly one in every of our favourite elements.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, and I’m positive that fuels you much more, proper? Since you don’t need to get that response once more. I really like that.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
And that’s how it’s with all of our occasions. Once more, as specialists, we’re placing on quite a lot of occasion primarily based issues with our college students. And that’s how we meet our group. Since we don’t have like a category with mother and father, they’ll come up our occasions, after which they’ll see what we’re about. And quite a lot of the instances there may be this preliminary shock issue with the areas we create. And like Laura mentioned, it’s normally the youngsters, however there’s been a pair mother and father that pull us apart and so they’re like, if I used to be coming to this faculty as a scholar, I’d be so excited to return again. They usually’ve mentioned issues like, clearly, like, I want our faculty had this sort of factor rising up. And like, I can completely relate to that. And so like Loreal mentioned, it’s it’s there’s like this Feeling that atmosphere may give and that’s what we stand behind is a way of security safety Pleasure after which when children are like purchased in in that means, they’re able to study

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, I do know. Oh my gosh. Like each time you share tales and present us like your classroom and what you guys are doing in there. I’m like, I want I might simply go stay in there. Like, not solely do I need to train with you at your faculty. Yeah, I’ll take the I’ll take the decrease one. The largest one you’ve gotten. Okay, so what’s what’s the most transformative low finances change you’ve seen in a classroom makeover? I do know you guys are actually good with finances too.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Okay, so we talked about this as a result of there’s other ways to go about it. And folks’s budgets are completely different and generally you’ve gotten extra help financially out of your faculty. Then others in terms of like our massive classroom makeovers and issues that like we have now been recognized for on social media, we’re clearly in a position to do much more as a result of we do have a finances. And we have now gotten quite a lot of permission from the college from the district from the trainer. And so paint can go a good distance for those who’re in a position to. Nonetheless, Loreal and I are considering again to love, the times after we weren’t a enterprise. And we have been doing makeovers for associates and for faculties with zero finances and so we might solely use what the college had like of their lounge or of their trainer room and that meant paper. And so there’s a pair makeovers that come to thoughts instantly the place we solely use butcher paper and enormous building paper after which like had like possibly a $50 finances and we’re shopping for issues like burlap or like cricut mats and utilizing like our cricut machines that we each received gifted for commencement presents in order that wasn’t even one thing we paid for however the distinction that it will possibly make if you’re prepared to love form of assume creatively and assume outdoors of the field like we had one of many makeovers was for a dad or mum volunteer room or a dad or mum work room and we would like the the principal had requested for it to be like actually inviting and on the time like farmhouse and burlap and like Buffalo examine have been popping off and we made probably the most we liked it beautiful paper flowers that have been like three toes in diameter I keep in mind I keep in mind this I’ve been following you for a very long time you’ll paint the paper. We did all types of issues, and we printed some buffalo examine with black ink on white paper. I keep in mind this, yeah. And that was free as a result of we have been printing at college on white paper, however the flowers have been huge as a result of we used the 18 by 9 inch paper. After which we additionally folded a protracted piece of butcher paper and minimize out a bit, what’s that known as? like a picket fence that went throughout the entire room and it was so stinking cute. After which we made an enormous buffalo examine wall simply by stapling up squares of paper that we had black, white, after which had drawn on to create that buffalo examine overlap look. However the impression that it made, and I’m positive the volunteers, as a result of that was not our faculty on the time, the volunteers that went in there, we might solely think about, have been like feeling heat and comfortable and cute. And that was the purpose. And we solely used paper and a few burlap for that complete makeover. And I feel the impression was nonetheless there, ? So don’t restrict your self to your finances. , assume outdoors the field and run together with your creativity as a result of so much may be completed.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Mm hmm. I feel that’s proper after I was beginning to observe you guys. And we’re doing all these murals. And also you have been doing like, I really like the truth that you guys are simply utilizing paper and creating these superb, not only a focus wall, I simply felt like only a magical atmosphere that , that’s like, like a change of only a easy classroom. You guys have a magical contact.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
We by no means need academics to really feel like with a view to have a classroom of your desires or a classroom area that’s stunning and alluring that it’s important to pour cash into it since you actually. shouldn’t and don’t should and thoughts you we have now ideas and methods on how one can get cash if you need and free issues in your classroom however the backside line is you are able to do so much simply being inventive with the issues which can be both offered to you or issues you’ve gotten round the home and we all the time wish to take home items and different issues round that we might present that like this might be one thing that’s stunning and you might rework it into one thing stunning and it doesn’t have to interrupt the financial institution.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Proper. A number of the questions that I get on-line is how a lot cash did you spend on the classroom? And I’ve to inform them, see this merchandise, I upcycled, I took an outdated shelf repainted it or like this, , I received like my I don’t know for those who guys have seen my sweet machines. I name them my data dispensers. That was a storage sale discover that I repainted and simply added little cute cricut letters onto. And so it was actually low finances however persons are like that’s a lot cash and I’m like no you simply should get inventive and spend the time.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Yeah, considering outdoors the field is the way you ask for issues. I feel some persons are snug simply asking, however like we used to place in our like open home slideshow, your trash might be our classroom’s treasure. So outdated toys or outdated books or outdated furnishings, simply possibly ship an e mail to your trainer as a result of they might use that bookshelf or they might use that ottoman or no matter. And such as you mentioned, upcycle it for positive.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
So that may form of naturally result in a unique query, which is, what’s the most uncommon or inventive upcycled merchandise you’ve ever included into a category journey design?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Um, I feel we’re most recognized for our lockers. I feel that proper behind you, quite a lot of our content material as a result of they’re stunning. And to be trustworthy, after we initially created this area, um, we flipped this classroom in 48 hours for a TV present. And in that point, we have been simply making an attempt to deliver magic to each nook, however we’re lacking the operate and what we had their operate. Properly, however as soon as we truly had children within the room, we’re like, it might simply operate so significantly better. And so Stephanie on Fb market discovered a gentleman who’s promoting these outdated, outdated, they’re grey, dusty, beat up lockers. And the method was truly terrible to color them. We simply had somebody ask us like, what particular paint did you utilize? And my girlfriend, we use leftover paint, spray paint. I imply, with a view to paint colours, I imply, we don’t know what we’re doing half the time, however we’re not afraid to do it. however we took one thing that actually was somebody’s trash and made it into one in every of our most useful. A kind of is jam-packed. We use it every day and it’s stunning. It simply suits their area so significantly better and it simply took a little bit of a danger to purchase them and to provide it a strive.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
I’m simply curious the place he even received a set of lockers.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
He advised us, proper? He received them from a highschool and had them in his storage and he had like a piece setup. It was for odds and ends, however he was transferring and so they have been fairly dusty. He left, keep in mind? Yeah, he left like a backpack and a few instruments. We’re just like the male. Yeah. Oh, wow. However it’s attractive.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
It’s stunning.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
For those who ever see one thing on the facet of the street of a desk, we’ll discuss like our studying nook tables or small group tables or any tables we had a littles in our classroom have been most the time one thing we discovered on the facet of the street, a small picnic desk, painted it, made it new and getting that new life in our classroom. And so it didn’t should take us going to the shop and shopping for a $200, $300 desk.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Proper. And what I really like is you’re not simply bringing these things into your classroom as a result of they’re fairly or as a result of they’re cute, however you discover useful gadgets. Like, I feel you’ve gotten a imaginative and prescient. You see one thing you’re like, I can use this for this. And it’s not simply to brighten, however it’s making a useful area. So how do you steadiness creating an aesthetically pleasing room which there’s nothing flawed with. We spend a lot of our faculty day within the classroom. So in fact, I would like it to be very aesthetically pleasing too. However how do you discover the steadiness between simply having a wonderful classroom versus sustaining a useful studying atmosphere?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
So we love this query. And Nancy, we received to know you first at a convention the place we have been each presenting, and we truly introduced on this. And we’re so fast to say, we’re operate first. We’re aesthetic girlies, but in addition aesthetic is subjective. And for those who’re not there with the operate first, the area isn’t going to serve you. And in the end, that’s our backside line, is the area is there to serve each the trainer and the scholars for the utmost efficient engagement and instruction. We’re actually captivated with like after we, we do classroom makers for others we like have this complete interview course of the place it’s like what’s working what’s not working what do you completely must see once more that you simply’ve had in your. And what would you want to enhance upon like we talked to having this actually reflective course of and for us. uh operate and aesthetics go hand in hand and like we mentioned aesthetics are subjective and and actually traits and issues are form of fleeting so if you’re have like a stable group system you probably have scholar group you probably have your supplies organized and issues after which you may simply form of change and tweak the issues that deliver you pleasure as a result of that can change additionally all through time um you’re going to be stable so we might advise folks to start out by what their classroom must operate, whether or not that’s like, okay, my carpet time must function this manner, or I would like my studying nook to ask college students in with this sort of ebook group. Begin with these issues after which discover like the lovable aesthetic labels and discover the world rug that you simply’re like, oh, that is how I need to invite them to the carpet, , however As soon as you’re feeling such as you perceive like your personal wants as a trainer instructionally, then it’s it provides the additional enjoyable to say like, okay, I’d actually like this sort of a studying chair with like possibly like a pom pom on this throw pillow. However making an attempt to suit your classroom into an aesthetic is one thing we might not advise. As a result of traits form of come and go. And we after we began instructing was it rainbow with chalkboard? Yeah, it was like actually aesthetic. uh-huh you do not forget that it was like oh yeah rock board and that i keep in mind chevron was like popping off oh yeah uh-huh chevron all the things we’re each in our classroom for positive and clearly that point has handed um however we stand by the issues that we’re in a position to do functionally in our classroom so we might say begin there make a listing of your whole main educational wants after which form of fill within the gaps with the issues which can be stunning and that deliver you pleasure

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Now, our listeners can’t see, however I’ve this like, dorky smirk on my face proper now. , as you guys are speaking, I used to be simply smirking away as a result of, , after I was youthful, my motto was like style earlier than operate, proper? It’s like, , whether or not it’s no matter it was style earlier than operate, so I might be sporting like probably the most uncomfortable footwear and persons are like, how do you stroll in these and I’d say like style earlier than operate, however

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Now that I’m outdated, it’s like operate, operate, operate, operate, no, no, truly, I feel with our garments, we might relate to you on that. I’m sporting a wedge that like, actually, isn’t practical for a trainer to be sporting. However in terms of the pregnant trainer to be sporting actually however like as an individual who um began instructing and was thrown right into a classroom like like a pair months into the yr and was extraordinarily unorganized my first yr it devastated me i felt like i used to be always like making an attempt to love hold my head above water and now realizing the programs that like we have now in place collectively in our artwork room it brings us a lot peace of thoughts um realizing that like even when stuff comes up in a day like our classroom is serving us so like we’re good we are able to determine something out as a result of there’s so many different issues which were achieved so deliberately and nonetheless stunning in fact however um yeah so we might have style and performance Sure.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
So change the mannequin. Yeah, we’ll change the mannequin to style operate operate.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
All the identical style operate enjoyable.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, oh, I really like that. Go up on my wall. Yeah, I do know we talked about finances earlier than. So for those who had an infinite finances for only one space, not for the entire, like for the entire classroom, however possibly only for one space of the classroom, which might you select? And the way would you make it completely extraordinary?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Oh, wow, this query received us considering. So thanks. bringing that to mild as a result of we don’t ever take into consideration a world the place we have now an infinite finances. It’s by no means crossed our thoughts. So to dream a bit bit was actually enjoyable. And after we assume to our makeover winners, A number of instances, quite a lot of our finances does go to different seating choices of their classroom. As a result of quite a lot of the instances in your classroom, what you’re given by your faculty is a set of furnishings that won’t serve your college students. And so versatile seating is one thing that We like to reward academics within the instances the place we do have a finances and quite a lot of our finances does go to no matter their wants are and if that’s what their wants are and so they need to see versatile seating for his or her college students, we love to do this. So I feel within the artwork room, We have been serious about our tables don’t serve us the best way we wish to see it in an artwork room both. They’re very massive tables. We regularly have little college students reaching throughout which may be disastrous. Paint cups and waters and paintbrush. So I feel that we might in all probability do some improve on our desk state of affairs. We’d eliminate the classroom tables that have been simply handed to us that we simply make work in the environment and possibly get some capabilities higher for our artwork room. However I feel quite a lot of academics would agree that Whenever you’re handed the desks that you simply, and generally academics do not need a alternative at our faculty, they’d stroll into their room and so they had tables once they wished desks, or that they had desks once they wished tables, and also you simply should make these issues work. And we’ve achieved a fairly good job making it work. However in that state of affairs, we had an infinite finances. I feel we might regulate our furnishings state of affairs in right here, as we’re oftentimes welcoming 50 college students at one time, 8 college students round one desk and so they’re sharing a small quantity of provides and you may think about it. It’s not all the time clear and it’s not all the time functioning the perfect to its capacity. , finances, we’d make smaller class sizes.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Yeah. Oh, is that even an choice?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
You mentioned one space. Perhaps we’d add chandeliers and disco balls. Yeah, I don’t know. If it was limitless, we’d in all probability go, I do know.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Proper. In January, I used to be lucky sufficient to go together with College Specialty as they did a classroom makeover for a trainer. They shocked this trainer in Houston. And guess what sort of room it was? It was an artwork room. So the furnishings, the tables, simply the group programs, not simply the provides, however the entire room was simply remodeled. And I used to be like, drooling. I used to be like, I didn’t even know they made issues like this. So it was superb to see College Specialty coming in and like simply remodeling this complete area. And it was unbelievable. So you might try a few of these tables and desks too. Yeah. And there might be like Barry that might be like, right here you go.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Listed below are the tables. Yeah. Somebody on the market.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Wink wink. Wink wink. I do know. Okay. Think about you might journey again in time to your first yr of instructing. What’s the single most impactful classroom group hack you’d share together with your youthful self and why?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
It’s humorous as a result of we truly assume so fondly of our first school rooms as a result of clearly it was like our first impression of instructing and we cared a lot about our school rooms that we dreamed of for years. And I realized so much from Loreal in faculty as a result of she graduated two years earlier than me and had had a classroom for 2 years. So I’d like go in and like volunteer for her simply to love, , get a bit style of like instructing whereas I used to be nonetheless in faculty. However I keep in mind each of our first school rooms and one factor that we each valued a ton was clearly storage. We now have a a lot bigger room now as artwork academics, however on the time there have been so many issues in kinder and first grade that you might maintain on to as like manipulatives or as like, , with sure thematic learn alouds that you simply’re like, oh, I’ve to maintain this stuffy for that one lesson. Like, there’s simply so many issues. After which in terms of storage within the rooms that we had, it was, there was, Both you wanted to go a bit bit excessive and have issues anchored excessive above your wardrobes or have issues low. Loreal was actually good. Her complete again wall was bulletin boards, however she had tables in entrance of them. And so then beneath each desk, she had totes or storage bins that have been actually massive that held a ton of stuff, however you wouldn’t see any of it as a result of she had this like stunning curtain that was like a theme. colour scheme that lined all the things that was alongside the sting of her desk. And so like issues like that, the place it’s important to like, not simply take the storage. We got these apothecary wardrobes the place there’s 1,000,000 drawers. And issues like that don’t slot in these drawers. At the least ours have been very slim and lengthy and deep. And so there have been issues that like a storage tote is what you would want. And so issues like that, we’d get inventive with and you may cowl it up for those who’re in a position to stack issues excessive. I do know there’s some instances the place it’s important to be sure security is, thought-about. However there’s a number of issues like that the place it’s like if it is advisable to retailer stuff, like get inventive about it, cowl it up. It’s all good. However I’ll conceal all of them. Personally, for first yr academics and for second yr academics or no matter. For those who’re not utilizing it, I’d say don’t really feel the trainer guilt of like, however it was free or somebody left it for me. Do away with stuff for those who’re not utilizing it. Or if it’s not truly purposeful in your room, as a result of that was one thing I struggled with for in all probability 4 years, at the least was like, holding on to a ton of stuff. And it like form of frazzled my mind, however I always felt like there was potential to make use of sure issues instructionally. And thoughts you, once more, backyard I had facilities circulating and altering each single week. So something might have been used for a middle, however don’t be scared to form of edit your stuff yearly. Edit it down. Is that this working for me? Is it not? Might one other trainer use it greater than I might? I might reward it to another person or simply donate or trash it relying on what it’s. However I feel that was one thing that like took me a very long time to study personally as a result of Loreal has been all the time actually good at enhancing her stuff. I really feel that I really needed to work on as a result of for the longest time I hoarded stuff in my wardrobes and stuff. And till I removed it, did I actually see group, like true group the place I’m like, all the things right here has a house, has a objective.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Yeah. And I do know we’ve had earlier conversations about that being like organized hoarders or like having like, oh gosh, my home proper now, my summer season trip purpose was to eliminate quite a lot of my stuff. And it’s

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
all right here nonetheless. Each summer season child, each summer season.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
By yourself time. Perhaps spring break, winter break, yeah.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Properly I feel it’s exhausting for folks such as you and I too as a result of once you’re a inventive individual you see potential that you might change this or that or have this particular operate and so I feel that doesn’t assist. I do know. And I’ll simply paint it or I’ll simply carry on it.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Uh-huh. Properly, we simply want anyone to return and say, I really want this. Can I’ve it? And we’ll be like, right here you go. So you’re feeling like there’s a objective, that may be a dream. I simply can’t eliminate it.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
However I do know, however otherwise you want a Loreal as a result of she’s like professional.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Sure, sure, I do know. Loreal, what are you doing tomorrow?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
She wasn’t instructing. I really feel like she might simply be like a house organizer.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Yeah, you’re like, say goodbye. Say thanks for the enjoyment that it introduced you. Marie Kondo it. Yep. I really like that. Yeah. No, however thanks a lot for being right here. Now. We now have a phase on our podcast known as Tag You’re It, the place the listeners write in with a query. And right now’s query isn’t instructing associated. It comes from Jordan P. And the query is, for those who might swap locations with somebody, anybody for a day, who would it not be? And why?

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Oh my gosh. Okay. I’ve my reply.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
I’ve mine too.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Oh, I wouldn’t have mentioned it on the digicam. Oh, yeah.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Okay, right here’s Stephanie Taylor Swift, Taylor.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
You’ll change your reply as a result of we talked about this on a regular basis. We stay the identical life, however so no completely different. And it could be so useful, insightful, and so insightful. And simply each of us to really which is humorous as a result of like, I’d be residence and he or she could be right here and it could be I desire a day within the life along with her on her days. And as a lot as like, I really feel like we do stay a mirrored life, it could be very insightful to simply spend a day in her footwear. Now, you’re proper. I used to be not considering massive.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Okay, no, I do know.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
He’s proper, although. I’ll say I feel as mothers too the truth that we’re extraordinarily clear with one another it actually helps how trustworthy we’re as a result of it provides us quite a lot of perception when like quite a lot of issues as mother and father you’re feeling like oh am I doing the fitting factor or what are my decisions like there are issues Loreal has introduced right into a dialog I’m like I’ve by no means considered that and our kids are so completely different too that it brings completely different methods up clearly my son’s on the spectrum so there’s quite a lot of issues that come up that she’s like I I didn’t know that and vice versa

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
However I need to know why you selected Taylor Swift.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Let me let you know. And it’s not essentially as a result of folks at Travis can see something. No, I simply really feel like that is so egocentric now. I really feel horrible. Don’t really feel dangerous. Rising up, I had this, and I’ve to thank my mother for this, I had this unreal, like I simply accepted the truth that someday I used to be going to be a well-known pop star. And I in all probability believed that with full certainty till I used to be like 15 years outdated. After which actuality began hitting after I received my first job and I’m like, what’s a W-2? Like, I used to be like, oh, this isn’t on the desk for you and that’s okay. However I used to be like a theater and choir child and I really believed that. And so I feel someday similar to realizing what it’s actually wish to be like a pop star and like, she’s clearly a mega icon. and businesswoman and similar to all the things, I simply assume it could be enjoyable. Like, , and to be on a stage and all that. That’s so egocentric in comparison with the place Loreal is. I simply give it some thought day by day as a result of I’d love to simply stroll a day in her life. And I’d love for her to stroll a day in my life. And I simply assume that may be so cool simply to, yeah, simply expertise.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
And I simply Stephanie that you might stroll round, you might stroll round and say, Loreal needs to be me.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
She needs to be me. No, there’s issues although, if I used to be in Loreal’s like life that I really feel like I’d be like, okay, let me do that on for measurement. As a result of like she mentioned, it’s humorous how mirrored are like, yeah, there’s like very particular issues that like might by no means even be near the identical. Yeah, it could be attention-grabbing. However that’s enjoyable.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Oh, you guys are so fortunate to have one another and dealing collectively so properly. Yeah. I want each trainer had a piece buddy, like work sister work buddy like that, , of their faculties, lots of people reaching out, they’re like, I want I had that.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
And we want so deeply that everybody brings the consolation and care of like a superb good friend, particularly occupation. Yeah.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Properly, it actually you guys actually shine by means of within the quick little reels and the tick tocks that you simply guys share it actually your positivity and love for one another and love for the youngsters actually shine by means of. So thanks for making that contagious love, , simply, , unfold to everybody who follows you.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
We’ve had a privilege to see you, Nancy, and it has been such a privilege as a result of we’ve realized a lot.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
So thanks for sharing your time with us. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Properly, it was great having you again. Properly, I hope to have you ever guys again once more for for different extra episodes. However thanks. Thanks for being right here. We love you.

Company: Stephanie Osmundson & Loreal Hemenway @happilyeverelementary:
Love you. Thanks, guys.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Bye. Thanks for becoming a member of us for the seventh episode of The Schoolyard Podcast.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Bear in mind to pack your curiosity and meet us again within the schoolyard for our subsequent episode.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
However earlier than you go, tag you’re it! Now it’s your flip to write down in with a query which we’ll reply right here on The Schoolyard Podcast for our phase known as Tag You’re It.

Host: Nancy Chung @fancynancyin5th:
Tag us on Fb, Instagram, Pinterest, or Twitter, at SchoolSpecialty, and hashtag SchoolyardTagYourIt, with a query that you really want answered. One query might be chosen per episode to be answered by our featured visitor and myself, and in case your query is chosen to be answered on the podcast, we’ll ship you a really particular Schoolyard Podcast t-shirt. Class dismissed!