1.) Spice liners – I can’t believe how many kitchen spices we have. I have purchased MANY spice organizers, all of which I hated after a week. These liners are greater because you can see ALL THE SPICES AT THE SAME TIME. Its like when you finally find the perfect seating chart for your classroom. Thank you Target for your innovativeness. Bless your heart.

2.) Fabric Organizational Baskets – As organized as I am, I have my little stashes of miscellaneous items that I don’t know where to put, especially in my home office. As a teacher and TpT author, I find myself needing random bits and bobs for all my tasks. These baskets help me hide my chaos in such a cute way.

3.) Bathroom acrylic organizers – Anyone that knows me knows I love makeup, so my collection has grew over the years. I store this organizer in the top drawer of my bathroom counter for the makeup I use all the time. Yes, I put all this on my face everyday. Just kidding. But I do love this organizer because it can hold different options for the average makeup junkie.

4.) Plastic Baskets – I probably have about twenty of these plastic bins for my classroom and home. They house everything and I love the variety of dimensions Target offers. These last for forever and are easy to clean out. I use these bins at school for group bins because of the sturdiness. They hold manipulatives, supplies, or whatever fits your needs!

5.) Cube Organizers – If you’re looking for some big organizational finds, the Treshold cubes are fabulous. You can store anything your heart desires. I made my husband drill a bunch of holes in my 4 cube organizer so I could add the matching Treshold shelves to make a paper organizer.

What organizational baskets and supplies do you have from Target? I’m always looking for new ways to keep my house organized and looking tidy.

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I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful teaching partner who had a year of experience departmentalizing. She gave me a list of tips and tricks to get started and stay structured throughout the year. Here are three ways to organize student work that are stress free.

1.) Designate a place for each class to turn in work – This is such an easy, but highly effective tool. At first I had all of my classes turning work into one location. Then I would have to separate all of the paperwork. It was so time consuming. I eventually got nice deep baskets (from Target of course!) and assigned a basket to each class. I taught two classes of math and science so we called them the “AM group” and the “PM group.” Short and easy.

2.) Color-code your classes – I’m all about binder clips. I really stepped up my paper organization when I started using color-coded binder clips. Because you have more students than the average class that means double the amount of strangler papers that come in. I would grade a set of quizzes and feel a sense of accomplishment. Then the next day I would have 3 students that needed to make up that quiz. It became a chore to find the correct stack to file the make-up work in. I bought binder clips from Amazon. I used blue and pink to separate my two classes.

3.) Designate a place to store paperwork that is graded and ready to go home – Graded work is the liquid gold of the paperwork world. You need to keep those papers safe. There is nothing worse than losing a completed quiz or test. Remember those bins for students to turn their work in? Pick up a few more and use them to store graded work. This will make your grading life so much easier.

These quick ways will help you create your own organized, departmentalized classroom!

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