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Where did last week go?

Estimate last week's hours by category. See what you worked against what you're paid for, and get one concrete thing to drop or shrink in each of your biggest time sinks.

~50 ha typical teacher's week, against about 39 contracted (RAND, 2025–26)
~6 ha week on meetings and admin work, more than on grading (EdWeek, 2024)
84%say the workday has no room for grading, planning, paperwork and email (Pew, 2024)
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Last week, roughly

Every slider starts at a typical teacher's week. Move the ones that were different for you. Rough is fine: half-hours are close enough.

Your paid work week. Often 37.5 to 40.
During the school day (and before or after it, at school)
Outside the school day

Only hours you worked away from school or on your own time. Don't count them twice: grading you did at home goes here, not in Grading above.

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51 h worked · 40 h contract See my results
Your week

You worked about 51 hours.

51hours worked
40contract hours
11hours beyond contract this week
396hours beyond contract a school year (x 36 weeks)

Worked vs. contract
Inside contractBeyond contract

Where the hours went

TeachingOther work at schoolOn your own time

Drop or shrink: one move for each of your biggest time sinks

Teaching is the job, so it's left out. These are workload moves, not self-care tips: each one takes something off your plate.

Share with my principal

A calm, anonymous summary with your numbers. No name, no school, no complaint: workload data and one specific ask. Read it, change anything, then copy or email it.

Put it in an email

Want it in your own voice? The AI prompt has your numbers and no names. Paste it into whatever AI your district approves (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, MagicSchool).

A school-wide anonymous version exists for whole staffs: everyone audits the same week and the principal sees the totals by category, never a name. Brian can set one up for your school.

My weeks

Save a week to start your trend. Doing this every Friday for a month shows whether your moves are working.

Your weeks live only in this browser. Export a backup now and then, or to move to another device.

Know a teacher who's grading at 10pm again?

Send them this. It takes 3 minutes, it's free, and it needs no student data, so nobody has to clear it with IT. Even better: get your whole team to audit the same week.