Laying out a school year is hard work — and keeping it alive past October is harder. So we built the planner we always wished we had: calm enough to think in, strong enough to actually run the year.
We were tired of the beautiful planners that end up in a drawer by October, and the subscriptions we couldn’t keep up with. Good planning shouldn’t cost a monthly fee or a guilt trip. So this one is free — and it always will be.
Start with a blank sheet. Jot down your subjects, drop in the curricula you already own, and watch the year take shape across the months.
It begins as a scratch pad — then quietly grows into a calculator and a planner. Every tool sits right at your fingertips, and none of it is asked of you until you reach for it.
Open any curriculum and the planner gets to work. Tell it you have 54 chapters between August and December, and it tells you the truth: nineteen teaching weeks, about three chapters a week, with four weeks set aside for your breaks.
No spreadsheets. No guessing what “on track” really means.
19 teaching weeks · about 3 chapters per week · 4 off for breaks
We built this planner around simplicity, and around flexible rhythms instead of rigid dates — most weeks just need a gentle cadence, not a deadline.
But when you want the detail, it’s there. Title a lesson, add the books and supplies, pin it to a day, and plan your year right down to a single Tuesday. Simple either way.
Your year becomes a calm weekly rhythm — math on weekday mornings, co-op on Tuesday, the checkup on Wednesday. Tick off what’s done. Print it for the fridge. It’s the kind of plan you’ll actually keep.
What’s the catch? There isn’t one. You might spot a few classes from our wonderful teachers tucked along the bottom while you plan — that’s the whole arrangement.
