KEEPING TEACHERS ORGANIZED

Keep Organized Next Fall With Simple and Fun to Use Products
by Louise Kurzeka, organizing expert

Organizing classrooms and teaching materials can help teachers save time and stay efficient throughout the school year. By relying on helpful organizing tools teachers can perform their best. To keep classrooms organized, here are a few of my favorite organizing products.

Smead Hanging Folders: Choose different colors to code various class subjects using an attractive assortment of color choices. Use with matching interior folders to help eliminate misplaced files. Benefit: Makes creating a custom filing system easy and user friendly.

Smead Interior Folders: Interior folders keep documents organized when removed from the file drawer and are cut specifically to fit inside a hanging file folder. Benefit: Interior folders eliminate the “visual clutter” regular file folders create when they stick out above the edge of a hanging file folder.

Viewables® Color Labeling System: Since “seeing is believing” for many of us when we organize, it makes sense to use a system that creates easy to read labels. To see a sample of Smead’s standard Viewables Labeling System and to download the free software, go to www.smead.com and click on “Downloads.” Benefit: The PC generated Color Viewables are larger than standard label tabs and can be read from the front, back and top making it easier to retrieve and replace papers.

Smead Inndura Poly Expanding Files: To contain papers that students might use as reference information, use a durable poly expanding file. Benefit: This file is offered in several varieties that can be placed free-standing on a desktop or placed in a file drawer to allow for a more effective organizational scheme. This expanding file is heavy-duty and includes thirteen letter-sized pockets along with twelve indexed dividers for easy retrieval.

Smead Rolling Files: Mobile rolling files are ideal when storage must be portable and flexible such as when large projects require information to be shared. Benefit: This rolling file can be stored easily under a desk allowing for additional space.

Smead Desktop Sets: These four-drawer sets offer sturdy storage with maximum style keeping paperwork at your fingertips. Benefit: This handy drawer keeps piles of paper out of sight and is available in many of today's popular colors add flair to any classroom.