File Cabinets...Friend or Foe?

As I began the year in my new classroom I had every intention of starting off on the right foot with a highly organized space. But with more unpacking, organizing, and arranging work to do than time to do it in, something was going to have to give. In my case, it was the file cabinet drawers. What I first considered an amazingly vast space to fill with amazingly organized files quickly became more appealing as a great big pit to fill with the junk I didn't know what to do with and didn't want parents and other classroom visitors to see.

Here is a photo of one of the drawers early in the school year...sort of hard to see just how messy this is, but it is basically a heaped up pile of discombobulated posters, pocket charts, bulletin board materials, and other assorted "stuff."


Here are the file drawers now. I am not going to lie and report that they ALL look this neat but I am about 80% there at this point.