1. Teach your students how to work independently. I promise they can do it! I prioritize building independent work skills through work systems using highly structured tasks during the first 2-4 weeks of school so that my students can work independently (with adult proximity, for 20ish minutes at a time) for the whole year. 2. Stop spending your entire day in whole group instruction. It's exhausting for you, it's exhausting for your students, and it is really limiting their opportunities to meani