Planning for the New School Year, Part 1
Planning the Year Using Spreadsheets It's the end of June, and I still have a month of vacation. While on vacation, I'll be sharing a few tools and strategies for taking a proactive approach to school library management and activities. My first share is the template I use for planning out the year. Using Spreadsheets for the Year at a Glance I use Google spreadsheets to create the Year at a Glance sheet. The first column includes a rowfor each week in the year, and the rows are divided by month. For each month, I also include a row for School Curriculum. On this row, I write what unit/s of study the teachers are working on for each month. As you can see from the image, I label each week simply with "week 1, week 2, etc." and not with specific dates. The reason for this is to allow for flexibility in the schedule. In my case, I need to work my activities around district testing, state testing, CELDT testing, school-wide events, grade level eve