Team APHG,

I want to share something that I’ve been working on. It’s a teacher planner. And I think it’s pretty kick-ass.

Most teachers don’t know where to start when they’re thrown our course, or how many days to plan for X. I wanted to help alleviate some of those anxieties.

🔗Kick-Ass APHG Teacher Planner🔗

(Best for a laptop or computer. You won’t like this on your cell phone.)

But basically, I started this because I wanted a better way to organize my never-ending library of content that I’ve collected (and made) throughout the years.

Here’s what the planner includes:

Google Log-in and Auto-Save

• You’re going to want to bookmark this planner. Hell, it might be an opened tab year round. Your calendar auto-saves as you edit, and to your Google account that you’ve used to log-in. Go ahead, edit something small, log out, and then log back in to see for yourself.

Auto-Populate your units

• Don’t want to drag every single day into place by hand? Auto-Populate will lay out your units across the calendar for you based on your schedule type and semester structure, giving you a full first draft in seconds. You can always go back in and adjust it manually. Did I mention that auto-populating is based on the College Board’s recommended proportion of instructional days per unit? Sweet, right?

Drag-and-drop schedule builder

• The heart of the planner is a full drag and drop school-year calendar that you control from day one. You can mark your No School days, Institute/Work Days, Bridge Days, Inclement Weather days, Field Trips, Review Days, and AP Exam Day before you assign a single lesson. Need to move something? Click and drag it to a new spot, and the planner handles it, asking whether you want to swap, push everything forward, or just overwrite that one day.
• Once your calendar exists, assigning content is as simple as dragging a unit or special day onto the date you want. Start assigning each block a unit topic and get going!

Standards & Skills alignment

• Every day you plan is automatically tied back to the relevant Course and Exam Description standards and skills, front and center when you open a day’s detail panel. So you can stop guessing whether your plan aligns with the unit topic of the CED. You’ll find that when you select each EK, I’ve written ideas to help you pull off the lesson. There is more content suggestions than available time to teach, but at least its a good start to help you decide what to do for Unit 1.

Lesson Plan Builder (drag-and-drop steps)

• For each day, you get a full lesson plan builder where you can drag and drop procedure steps into place.
• Need to print it for your admin? There’s a button for that too!

Unit 1’s curated resources are free

• I’ve picked the best of the best. My curated resource library is unlocked for Unit 1. That means the Essential Knowledge teaching ideas, the curated resource library, the daily “Did You Know?” facts, and the PD tips for Unit 1 are ready to get you going. Looking for Unit 2 and beyond? The premium version will be available mid-August.
  

  

Notes on every day

• Need to jot down a reminder, a modification for a specific class period, or something that came up in a PLC meeting? Every day has its own notes field, saved right alongside your plan. Shhh…you’ll be able to import these next year, so go ahead and write those reflections!
  

  

Full disclosure – I’m in beta.

I am still building out content and working out the bugs, which is why I’m holding off on the premium version until mid August. While I’ve done a decent job building out unit 1 for you to preview, I will continue curating the remainder of the units for the rest of the school year and beyond. Every time you log back in or refresh, new content will populate per unit topic and EK. If you are interested in the curated content for Unit 2 and beyond, look for the premium version mid-August. Regardless if you decide to go full version or not, the other features and Unit 1 will always remain free.

See a bug that I can fix? Let me know. Just go easy on me – I’m not a coder, just a full time social studies teacher. It’s a work in progress, just like me.

Use or refuse.

But I really hope you’ll use 🙂

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