About Managing the Madness: Kinder Management Made Simple
Managing the Madness is your go-to guide for classroom management in Kindergarten! This podcast helps you ditch the chaos, restore peace, and thrive in your classroom with practical tips, relatable stories, and a touch of humor.
Whether you’re a new teacher or a seasoned educator, you’ll find encouragement, inspiration, and management strategies to create a calm, positive learning environment. Each episode delivers practical classroom management strategies to simplify routines, tackle behavior challenges and gives actionable steps to ditch the chaos and find the calm.
In this episode, I'm sharing the simple strategies that helped me survive Meet the Teacher nights.
We'll talk about creating a welcoming first impression, organizing school supplies without the chaos, and focusing on what really matters before the first day of school.
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24 Jul 2026
Feeling Overwhelmed by Procedures? Start Here.
Back to School season can feel overwhelming. Everywhere you look, someone is sharing another list of procedures you "have" to teach, leaving you wondering where to even begin.
In this episode, I'm cutting through the noise and sharing the 8 core procedures I believe every you should prioritize during the first days of school. These are the routines that lay the foundation for a calm, confident classroom where students know what to do, feel successful, and can focus on learning.
We'll talk about:
Why you don't need to teach every procedure on Day 1
The eight routines I teach first every single year
How to explicitly introduce each procedure
Why modeling, practicing, and reviewing expectations is the key to long-term success
How these simple routines help build classroom community and student independence
Whether you're a brand-new teacher or a veteran looking for a fresh start, this episode will give you a simple roadmap for planning your first days with confidence.
Resources Mentioned:
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Thank you so much for listening! If you enjoyed today's episode, I'd be so grateful if you'd subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a teacher friend who's getting ready for Back to School.
8 Jul 2026
It starts with the layout!
On this week's episode we are diving into the classroom layout and important things to keep in mind.
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Less is more when it comes to decor
The power of students helping to decorate
If your teacher brain has started to turn on, you are going to want to listen to this episode.
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