Teacher's new years

Teachers essentially have three "restart" days a year. The traditional new year's day, birthdays and then first day of school in the fall. My professional restart day is August 15th! Quite honestly I have super plans for each academic year, do great for a few weeks, then settle back into my blah ways. Then I usually finish out strong but it bothers me not to have a cohesive semester as much as both the subjects I teach and the students deserve. Stuff that is rolling around my head today 1) I am not going to officially start on the fall semester until beginning of August. 2) I am excited to incorporate more of what I learned last fall in a class I took. 3) I am concerned about my new mixed learning class I am teaching 4) Ahhhh just talking about this stuff simultaneously gets me excited and mournful of the pending end of my summer vacation! The biggest problem I have in running a classroom definitely is organization. Papers, people, curriculum, tests, buying groceries (I am a fcs teacher) fccla, all of that truly is my downfall. I don't beat myself up too much I do have many students and many preps. but still I think if I get the organization better- the classes will be much smoother. So here is to my academic new year! My next entry will have the specifics of my new year resolutions.