The Full Tax Calculator

Now widen the lens. Put a rough weekly number on every line item. Be honest, not heroic. The total updates as you type. We run it across a 15 week semester so you can feel the real weight.

Grading and written feedback (hours per week)

Discussion boards (hours per week)

Syllabus and document churn (hours per week)

Email triage (hours per week)

Lesson prep and slides (hours per week)

The Leverage Sort

Here is the move that changes everything. Go line by line and tag each one. Is this work that genuinely has to be you? Or is it a pattern a system could carry? Be ruthless. The judgment is not “do I like it,” it is “does it require my actual mind.”

Your Time Tax Statement

Last step, and this is the one you share. Finish the sentence below, then build your statement. Post it in the SeedStacking Resources space. Naming the tax out loud, with your own numbers, is how you stop paying it by accident.

If I got even half of those hours back, I would:

One more thing. I got tired of paying this tax, so over the last few months I built a fix for my own teaching. Thursday, I am going to open it up and show you exactly what it looks like. Share your statement in the community so you are there when it drops.