School Specialty. Planning & Student Development

At every grade level, the Classic supports the development of organized students by providing age-appropriate activities in goal setting and time management.

At the primary level, communication between home and school is strongly encouraged and supported with space dedicated for this purpose. Other features include:

• onTRAC^® prompts students to Think, Record, Act and Check their goals, work and responsibilities each week.
• Best Book area suggests book titles and promotes reading at home.
• School Talk encourages open lines of communication between parents and teachers.
• Words of the Week keeps spelling and words handy and top of mind.
• Weekly Activity section supports Language Arts development.
• My Week reflects on student behavior on a daily and weekly basis and encourages home-to-school communication.
• The title page design invites students to personalize their planner and make it their own.

At every grade level, the Classic supports the development of organized students by providing age-appropriate activities in goal setting and time management.

At the elementary level, communication between home and school is strongly encouraged and supported with space dedicated for this purpose. Other features include:

• What Matters Most^® section is a weekly snippet that helps students feel inspired and motivated about their learning environment.
• onTRAC^® prompts students to Think, Record, Act and Check their goals, work and responsibilities each week.
• Home-to-school communication encourages open lines of communication between parents and teachers.
• Best Book area suggests book titles and promotes reading at home.
• Read Me! encourages reading with a weekly book suggestion.
• My Week reflects on student behavior on a daily and weekly basis and encourages home-to-school communication.
• The title page design invites students to engage with this planner.

At every grade level, the Classic supports the development of organized students by providing age-appropriate activities in goal setting and time management.

At the middle level, goal-setting and time-management skills are strongly encouraged. Other features include:

• onTRAC^® prompts students to Think, Record, Act and Check their goals, work and responsibilities each week.
• What Matters Most^® section is a weekly snippet that helps students feel inspired and motivated about their learning environment.
• Home-to-school communication encourages open lines of communication between parents and teachers.
• Best Book area suggests book titles and promotes reading at home.
• Daily Hall Pass helps students and teachers monitor out-of-class time.
• The title page design invites students to engage with this planner.

At every grade level, the Classic supports the development of organized students by providing age-appropriate activities in goal setting and time management.

At the high level, goal-setting and time-management skills are strongly encouraged. Other features include:

• onTRAC^® prompts students to Think, Record, Act and Check their goals, work and responsibilities each week.
• What Matters Most^® section is a weekly snippet that helps students feel inspired and motivated about their learning environment.
• Offbeat Oddities is a "best-rated" feature by students! Fun facts and thoughts help expand student general knowledge.
• The title page design invites students to engage with this planner.

Supported with educator tools.

To ensure our products are easy to use and provide the most impact possible, we provide extra resources that help educators integrate the program into the classroom. Learn more about our product support in the Online section above.

A collaborated effort.

The Classic planner promotes parent involvement, educator use and feedback and student engagement. When the planner is used to its fullest, all three parties are actively working toward helping students improve skills in planning, goal-setting, time-management and organization.

Skills that transfer into the real world.

The skills taught through our planner programs are essential for successful academics, but, more importantly, they are necessary life skills students will use beyond their school years.

The included educator support pieces elevate the program's effectiveness without adding more work for busy teachers. That is why we created Classic.schoolspecialty.com, a password-protected website where educators can download support pieces.

• Resource support package: Program overview, staff support guide, classroom teacher guide, and parent/family guide—all available for download to help teach the onTRAC® planning system.
• PDFs for use on interactive whiteboards: Download a reusable onTRAC® calendar PDF that helps educators model planner use and teach the onTRAC® planning system. Go one step further and order the full planner PDF to model the student planner in its entirety.
• Family newsletters: Send this already prepared newsletter to encourage home-to-school communication and address planning with parents.
• Quarterly educator newsletters: These newsletters provide information and tips to administrators and educators about the resources available and how to utilize them effectively. Delivered four times per year: August, October, January and March.

All this support adds additional value and helps educators get the most from the Classic planner program.

Planners are great tools for your students, but why not have them work a little harder for you. Customize them with your school's information, and use them as a continual communication piece between administrators, teachers and students.

School Handbook:

The most efficient and cost-effective way to communicate school policies, schedules and events is to add your important school information right into your planners. Learn more about school handbooks.

Handbook Resource Pages:

Add additional academic resources to your handbook. Choose from more than 100 resource pages. Our extensive library of helpful resource pages can assist students in a number of subject areas. View our complete library of resource pages.

Content Supplements:

Put a spotlight on important issues relevant to your school by choosing from our vast library of supplements. Advance school priorities with resources tied to current curriculum and standards, critical life skills, health and wellness, and more.

Cover:

Design your own cover that reflects school spirit, or choose from one of our templates that align with the goals you've established for your school. Incorporate your school name front and center, right on the cover!

Enhancements:

Add a few more features to make your planners truly inspiring to students. Planning stickers, pagefinders, trackable hall passes, planner tabs, student ID/CD/Home-School pouches, two-hole ruler attachments – choose the enhancements that raise the cool factor.