Another Year, Another Organizational Scheme
"No plan survives contact with the enemy" and no school schedule survives the first few days of school. Accepting that as true, I am still thrilled that our new scheduling system has survived the first *day* of school. Every year, and sometimes more than once a year, we have to completely revise our way of tracking schoolwork and managing its implementation. This year we had students in three separate years plus a challenging (sometimes deliberately challenging) preschooler. Our previous methods of managing students and work simply wouldn't do. We are still using the chart format schedules I've described before. I have a copy of each student's schedule, and the older two also have their own copies. This year I categorized the work on each schedule so that all of the work that didn't merit its own separate line item in our daily work list was combined with other work to make three or four (or in a few cases five) days of assignments. Then I...