I use breath mint cans to hold pushpins. I take pictures of anything that I've organized well in August because by September it's a wreck. I save the pictures in Google Keep or Wakelet to refer back to when I'm buried under chaos.

Use a dish rack, plastic white ones, to hold Chromebooks for charging. You can find these at the Dollar Store!

Use old lunch meat containers to store things like ELA or math task cards. You can also use them to store manipulatives or other supplies.

If you move around from class to class or teach PE you need an easily accessible place for your stuff like keys, phone, first aid supplies, pencil, and maybe a notebook right? A fanny pack, you can call it a teacher pouch if you'd like, would be the perfect solution!

Wrap a rubber band around the pumping dispenser of a hand sanitizer bottle to keep the pump from going all the way down and squirting out too much.

✨Looking for more ideas like this? Check out Classroom Hacks: The Rubber Band Control Valve and the Duct Tape Anti-Clicker

Get the dollar store microfiber cloths and cut in half or in fourths to use as whiteboard erasers. Want to get extra fancy? Hot glue a magnet onto it and keep it on your whiteboard so that you never lose your eraser again.

The Dollar Store is a hot spot for finding great supply hack resources! Try getting a stack of plastic plates to have on hand as extra personal whiteboards.

✨Need MORE Dollar Store hacks? Check out The BIG List of Dollar Store Hacks for Teachers from We Are Teachers.

Play-doh can do double duty as glitter clean up! Have an extra container on hand just for this purpose. It makes all of those glittery art projects seem less scary. Plus now you have cool glitter play-doh!

✨Want some more great Play-doh fun and ideas? Check out our FREE course Creating a Playful Classroom with Jed Dearybury.

Index cards are a must have supply in every teacher's classroom. You can use blank cards for exit tickets, play a game of Hed Banz, or create your own flashcards. Mandi Tolen uses index cards in a clever way to sort her students into different collaborative groups all year long.

✨Read how to sort kids with index cards AND get a copy of her pre-made sorting cards in her post Collaborative Group Sorting Cards.

Sharpen your pencils ahead of time and keep them somewhere easy to access. You can put them in a straw holder and keep near your work station.

These super cheap spice racks from IKEA make GREAT display shelves to show off your favorite classroom library books and get kids excited about reading.

Tie a string around the end of an old whiteboard marker and spin it overhead to get the ink flowing back to the tip. Just be careful! If you hit something you could end up with ink all over your walls as M Adkins warns us.

✨Don't want to risk the potential ink splatter? Try these other ideas too.

Sean Fahey keeps his own teacher "go-bag" handy with an extra pair of pants, shirt, snacks, coffee, water and supplies in case of emergency. As teachers we know how many unplanned surprises there can be each day!

Put numbers on the back of your students chairs. That number can be used for all sorts of things like finding their own slide in a collaborative slides presentation or spreadsheet!

✨Try this idea with lots of different collaborative activities! Check out 30 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools for more.

Sometimes those composition books barely get filled up! We end up with lots of blank pages. Ask your local Office Depot or Home Depot to cut your notebooks in half for you. You'll have smaller, more manageable writing space for half the price.

Wakelet is a great way to organize the things you want to refer back to later. Try using the Wakelet extension to organize all of your tabs into one collection.

Here is a fun idea from Rayna Freedman: Use Wakelet to make a collection of Ted Talks for students to listen to at a center. You can share your collection with a QR code for easy access too.

Keep a doc with your year outline handy. Either print it out and keep it on your desk or create a shortcut to it on your desktop for easy access. It will help keep you on track and save time when planning future lessons.

Using a color coding system in Google Drive will help keep all of those files organized. Looking for a way to REALLY step up your Google Drive organization game? Use emojis at the beginning of your folder names for easy access to specific files.

Keyboard shortcuts are a lifesaver and can save you so much time throughout the year. 

✨Use a cheatsheet to help yourself remember all of those shortcuts. You can find a printable one in our post 22 killer keyboard shortcuts (and a challenge!) for busy educators.