Two years ago, I shared a set of calendars that I created for my school site to help students say organized. Well, back by popular demand…Here are the 2019/2020 calendars!
At one of my previous school sites, our students were given a year-long, physical agenda to track their daily assignments. As a school policy, our students were required to fill this out and teachers would sign/stamp that students had filled out the daily agenda at the beginning of class. It was a great system for students and taught them how to be organized. As our district went 1-1, our site did not purchase these agendas since there was the technology that could replace them at no cost. Unfortunately, I have noticed that using Google Calendar is not exactly what the teachers are looking to use in their classrooms and/or they are not comfortable using it themselves. Although I am a big Google Calendar user and have had success with my students, I can see their concern. The calendar isn’t broken up by subject type and all of the information a student writes does not show up on the calendar view. For my students, they were used to navigating Google Calendar but I decided to create something that more teachers would want to use with their students.
So…I created a series of calendars to help students stay organized, whether by a weekly or monthly basis. In addition to this, I also created a project and mindfulness calendar templates.
Enjoy! 🙂
2019/2020 Weekly Academic Calendar (Link)
- Students can use this Slide Deck to track assignments, plan for projects, and more!
- Students can quickly navigate by clicking on the months at the beginning of the Slide Deck or in the “Timeline” at the bottom of each slide.
- Students/Teachers can delete any unused months from the template.
Click HERE to make your own copy.
2019/2020 Monthly Academic Calendar (Link)
- Students can use this Slide Deck to track assignments, plan for projects, and more!
- Students can quickly navigate by clicking on the months at the beginning of the Slide Deck or in the “Timeline” at the bottom of each slide.
- Students/Teachers can delete any unused months from the template.
Click HERE to make your own copy.
The calendars above were primarily created to help students track assignments. Once I started building those calendars, I started thinking about how I could create something for the 20Time Projects that my students would be doing in my AVID and Tech classes next year. Immediately, I realized I had already created something useful while working on my Google Innovator Project. For my project, I created a monthly planning process with new goals, ongoing goals, questions/comments/ideas, and status check.
Below are some “project planning” Slide Decks:
Weekly Project Planning Goals (Link)
- Students can use this Slide Deck when planning weekly goals for 20 Time Projects, Genius Hour, and PBL.
- Students can duplicate the following slide for the number of weeks of the project.
- When students complete tasks on the “New” and “Ongoing Goals”, students can right click and change to check marks.
Click HERE to make your own copy.
Monthly Project Planning Goals (Link)
- Students can use this Slide Deck when planning weekly goals for 20 Time Projects, Genius Hour, and PBL.
- Students can duplicate the following slide for the number of weeks of the project.
- When students complete tasks on the “New” and “Ongoing Goals”, students can right click and change to check marks.
Click HERE to make your own copy.
Mindfulness Calendar (Link)
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- Students can use this Slide Deck when planning weekly goals for 20 Time Projects, Genius Hour, and PBL.
- Students can duplicate the following slide for the number of weeks of the project.
- When students complete tasks on the “New” and “Ongoing Goals”, students can right click and change to check marks.
Click HERE for your own copy.
Feel free to use these with your class. If you do, I would love your feedback and any ideas that you have to improve these resources!
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These calendars are great, Meagan. I remember the days of printed agendas/organizers provided to each student — that was a middle school must. I think too often we assume that our high schoolers figure out organization on their own… and too often they don’t. These will be a great help to my students. I love the project planners — they’ll fit nicely with my NHD research project in the fall. Thanks for sharing and making my job easier!
I absolutely agree! And they can get our of the habit of so quickly. I would love to hear how it goes if you use them!
I love the idea of a mindfulness calendar. I want to incorporate more of it. Any ideas or thoughts on how to get the students actually trying the ideas??
Thank you so much!! I’m so excited about this that I’ve already started adding slides to my copy for student reference, mainly how-to and ideas for use. We’ve never EVER had access to technology at my school, but next year…fingers crossed…we will have Chromebooks in classrooms!! We were told the same in the past, so I hope we really get them this time! If not, I’m excited to use the calendar myself. Thanks again for your hard work!! 🙂
I am so glad you have found this helpful! Please let me know if I can be of any further help!
This looks awesome! I just shared this with another teacher so we can help our students structure their PBL projects! Thanks!!
That’s so great! Let me know how it works out!
Thanks so much for creating and sharing these. What a great idea!
You’re welcome!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing!!!
I love your mindfulness academic calendar! Will you be making one for the 20-21 academic year?
Yes, that’s the plan! 🙂