The 20-Minute Friday Reset
A simple routine to clear your desk, capture next week’s priorities, and leave on Friday with your brain already half-finished with planning. It won’t fix everything, but it can soften the Sunday pressure.
Save Teachers’ Sundays is a calm corner of the internet with realistic, time-saving ideas for teachers. No guilt, no “do it all”, just small changes that protect your evenings and weekends.
A few gentle starting points if you’re reading this on a Sunday evening.
A simple routine to clear your desk, capture next week’s priorities, and leave on Friday with your brain already half-finished with planning. It won’t fix everything, but it can soften the Sunday pressure.
Instead of reinventing every slide deck or worksheet, build one flexible template and reuse it. You can still be creative, just not from scratch every single week.
Block out one hour that is protected from marking, emails, and planning. No productivity, no self-improvement – just breathing room so you can show up as a human again on Monday.
This site isn’t about pretending you can “time-manage” your way out of an unfair workload. Instead, it focuses on realistic, teacher-tested ideas that reduce friction in your week:
You can dip in and out whenever you have a spare five minutes – there are no perfect systems to build, just ideas you can borrow and adapt to your own classroom.