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How I Plan & Reflect

I've tried a lot of different methods for planning & reflecting on my plans over the years, and I'm still trying to figure it out. Last year I used the Happy Planner for Teachers, and I loved it because there are a lot of stickers and I could add my own pages, basically customize it however I wanted. But, it was very large and I ended up not using it a few months into the school year.
So Pretty

So Unused


I'm still very tempted by the new packages they have for teacher planners but am holding firm in not buying it because it will cause guilt and shame when it falls out of use.

I did get a Passion Planner to keep track of time sensitive things, and am going to give myself a bit more grace about not filling it out. It'll be more personal/to do listy than lesson planning.
So shiny!

Mostly blank the week before school starts. There's things I need to add but shh let's ignore that right now

I'm ALSO going to be using Common Curriculum for actual lesson planning & daily reflections.

First day of school for CSD


Most of what I do is digital (code.org curriculum for CSD, handouts to go on Google Classroom for absent students...) and it's really convenient to link to the resources I'll be using from Drive. They have a feature to publish everything to its own website for students to access, but I haven't really used that yet since I post everything on Classroom. I'm trying to decide if I should so parents have access. You can only have certain parts on the class website, so my reflection wouldn't end up there.

I'm hoping that by blogging about it, I'll keep up with my planning better. My goal is to blog every Friday, and planning & reflecting each day will help me to remember what happened, and I'll also have a record for next year to look back to. I always start the year with the best intentions but fizzle out, so I'm really hoping the accountability will help. It is definitely good to know, from reading other blogs and twitter posts, that other teachers go through the same thing. It's motivating to know you're not alone in the struggle!
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  1. druinAugust 2, 2018 at 12:03 PM

    You might not have kept it up, but your Happy Planner is beautiful! :)

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    1. Kim CharltonAugust 17, 2018 at 7:57 PM

      I somehow didn't see this until now, but thank you! I actually ended up buying a new one! It's just so pretty haha

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