Designing My Ain Instructor Planner Business Office 1

I'm inward the middle of designing my ain instructor planner for side yesteryear side year, in addition to I'm besides excited to expect until the in conclusion production is done to commencement blogging most it.  I dearest browsing the network for pretty instructor planners.  There's only something most a novel planner that makes me happy inside.  However, the occupation alongside most planners that I catch on the Internet is that they appear to hold out focused on the uncomplicated grades.  I don't demand champaign trip planners or a zillion pre-made seating nautical chart pages.

I started thinking most what I would desire inward a planner, in addition to this is what I came upwardly with.

* Weekly Calendars (With Lines!  I cannot write inward a direct occupation to salvage my life...)
* Flexibility to add together to a greater extent than pages in addition to motion things only about every bit I figure out what I actually want/need

Really, when it comes downwards to it, all I desire flexibility.  I desire to hold out able to alter things when they aren't working.  I'm tired of buying a planner in addition to spending a twelvemonth dreaming most when I acquire to purchase a novel planner because it only isn't working for me.  My husband introduced me to the Arc Notebook System yesteryear Staples a distich of months ago.  It's a discbound organization that lets yous rearrange your pages to your heart's content.  You tin flaming add together pages whenever yous desire in addition to wherever yous want.  It gives me the flexibility of a three-ring binder without the annoying volume of a binder.  Plus, it lies completely flat!  

I designed my ain weekly spread dorsum inward May, in addition to I've been using it to catch what I *really* desire inward a planner.  After using my ain pages for a few days, I figured out what was working in addition to wasn't working.  I've redesigned my weekly spread pages, in addition to I'll hold out blogging most those soon.  Promise.

What I actually desire to weblog most today is the "extras" I receive got made to become inward my planner to dice along me organized.

All of the pages inward this post service tin flaming hold out downloaded here.  If yous download the editable Publisher files, you'll demand to also download these complimentary fonts: HVD Comic Serif Pro in addition to Ostrich Sans Heavy.  The PDF files volition save all of the fonts in addition to formatting.

Address Book Pages - One matter that planning a marriage (and writing post-wedding give thank yous you notes) taught me was that I demand a meliorate organizing organization for my addresses.

Calculator Sign-Out Sheets - My schoolhouse provides students alongside graphing calculators instead of making them purchase their own.  This is largely because nosotros are inward a depression socio-economic expanse where many families could non afford to purchase a graphing reckoner for their students.  I receive got a classroom gear upwardly of calculators that serves us well.  The occupation arises when our students demand a graphing reckoner to accept the ACT.  In 4 years of teaching, I even in addition to thus haven't come upwardly up alongside a proficient organization for tracking who has borrowed which calculator.  Usually, I resort to writing reckoner numbers downwards on post-it notes, but they tin flaming acquire buried inward my messy desk in addition to lost.  If students appear me write downwards their reckoner check-out inward my book, they'll know that they must render it inward a timely fashion or I volition rail them down.

Birthdays - One matter I desire to practice a meliorate project of this twelvemonth is keeping rail of birthdays.  When someone takes the fourth dimension to ship yous a birthday card, it only makes yous experience special.  I desire to practice that to a greater extent than this year.  I overheard a educatee nation a distich of weeks agone that only 1 somebody had wished her a happy birthday on her birthday.  Her ain parents hadn't fifty-fifty remembered her birthday.  How deplorable is that!  This was convicting to me because I only practice an okay project of recognizing birthdays inward my classroom.  Usually the way I bargain alongside birthdays is this: If yous tell me it's your birthday, I'll give yous a birthday badge sticker to wear.  Sometimes, I'll fifty-fifty throw inward a "Happy Birthday" certificate that I picked upwardly at Dollar Tree.  What most the students that are besides shy to tell me it's in that place birthday?  I demand to brand a computer program to recognize all of my students on their birthday.  I even in addition to thus think my seventh storey math teacher: Mrs. Sellars.  She gave each of us a pencil on our birthday.  If students had a birthday that roughshod inward the summertime months, she gave them a pencil on their half-birthday.  This year, I desire to recognize all of my students (and coworkers) on their birthdays.  To assist me dice along rail of this, I made some birthday tracking sheets to dice along inward my planner.  

I haven't tested these out yet (mainly because I've yet to impress all of my planner pages in addition to gather them.)  I'm thinking that the educatee birthdays canvass powerfulness hold out besides modest to lucifer all of my students.  So, I powerfulness demand to redesign it in addition to thus it takes upwardly 2 pages...  If so, I'll percentage it every bit well! 

Future Dates - I'm ever running into the occupation of having a appointment I desire to spot inward my planner when my planner doesn't become that far.  I decided that making a canvass to tape dates for the side yesteryear side 4 years should assist alongside this.  Now, I receive got a house to tape random dates I desire to dice along an oculus on such every bit driver's license expirations, instructor registration expirations, in addition to other random stuff.  

Items Borrowed in addition to Items Loaned - I perpetually receive got students coming to me to borrow stuff.  After 4 years, students receive got learned that if yous demand scissors, glue, colored pencils, markers, rulers, or whatsoever crafty materials that I'll belike receive got it.  The occupation is that these things receive got a vogue to non come upwardly back.  I'd rail downwards the educatee who borrowed it, but I frequently don't think who that was.  And, I frequently don't realize it never came dorsum until a calendar week or in addition to thus later.  This year, I'm going to dice along a log of items that are borrowed in addition to thus I tin flaming ensure that they are returned.  Students won't hold out able to leave of absence the the room alongside the borrowed detail until it's logged inward my book.  

I also created a canvass for items that other people receive got loaned me.  It's rare that I borrow something from someone, but it does happen.  

Meeting Notes - I receive got a novel principal side yesteryear side twelvemonth who promises that he rarely calls a faculty meeting.  My previous principal insisted on having a faculty coming together every Friday.  Even though in that place volition hold out less meetings to attend, I even in addition to thus desire to dice along organized at these meetings.  My commons approach to a faculty coming together has been to accept notes on a calendar page inward my planner.  This is unremarkably less than ideal.  So, I designed this canvass to assist me organize my coming together notes.

Student Council Meeting Notes - As Student Council sponsor, I host a unremarkably weekly coming together for my educatee council kids to speak over upcoming events that they are planning.  I've never been organized alongside educatee council stuff, in addition to it makes it incredibly difficult to detect things later.  I adapted my Meeting Notes page to a Student Council Meeting Notes page.  I'm hoping this leads to to a greater extent than organized educatee council meetings this year!

Parent Contact Log - One expanse I know I demand to improve inward is parent contact.  I loathe talking on the phone.  It scares me.  But, I know that contacting parents agency I volition hold out meliorate able to run across my students' various needs.  This year, I am going to endeavor to contact 5 parents each calendar week (at a minimum).  I wanted a house to dice along rail of the parents I contact in addition to accept notes on what was discussed.  This is what I came upwardly with:

Passwords - As a teacher, I receive got in addition to thus many passwords to dice along rail of it's non funny.  I've ever relied on trying to usage the same password if at all possible.  This industrial plant for the most part.  But, there's ever that website that wants fourteen missive of the alphabet passwords alongside 5 particular characters or something crazy.  Keeping rail of my various passwords volition assist me dice along my sanity in addition to salvage fourth dimension yesteryear non having to become through the "Forgot My Password" page at to the lowest degree 1 time a week.

Project Planner - Okay, I'm non exclusively certain what I'm going to usage this for.  I powerfulness usage it inward the educatee council department of my notebook to assist various events such every bit the Veterans Day Assembly or the Annual Blood Drive.  I also play a large purpose inward preparing for the Awards Assembly at the cease of the twelvemonth which involves lots of modest to-do listing items.  

Reading Log - Now that grad schoolhouse is done, I think I powerfulness finally receive got fourth dimension to commencement reading for pleasance again.  I of late got a library bill of fare from a nearby town that allows me to access complimentary good books in addition to e-books.  The type column is to differentiate betwixt e-books, good books, in addition to good actual physical books.

Tutoring Log - My schoolhouse pays teachers to practice after schoolhouse tutoring, but there's 1 catch.  We receive got to dice along a log of our hours in addition to the students nosotros assist inward social club to acquire paid.  I frequently assist students after school, but I'm terrible at keeping records.  This agency I rarely acquire whatsoever compensation for my time.  This year, I am going to receive got a tutoring sign-in canvass for students to sign when they acquire into in addition to acquire out my room.  Then, I'll transfer the data (neatly) to my tutoring log.  

To-Do Lists - I receive got designed half-sheet to-do lists for this side yesteryear side year.  My thinking is that since they only accept upwardly one-half a canvass they tin flaming hold out inserted inward the middle of my weekly spread.  I've tried keeping my to-do items on my weekly spread, but that only ends upwardly besides messy.  Plus, I unremarkably receive got way to a greater extent than to-do items than space.  This volition allow me to alter out the to-do listing inward the middle of the calendar week if I demand to.  Of course, yous tin flaming only impress these, chop them inward half, in addition to usage them every bit a normal to practice list, too!  

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