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Tracking work across five teachers
Can do: Keeps one system that captures every deadline from every subject, and checks it daily.
Why it matters
Middle school failure is far more often organisational than academic. Nobody is holding the whole picture for them any more.
What it looks like when it's wobbly
Deadlines live in their head, work is remembered the night before, and "I didn't know it was due" becomes routine.
⏱️ Two-minute check
"What's due in the next seven days, in every subject?"
Solid looks like: A complete list, from one place rather than from memory.
The full activity for this topic · 15 minutes to set up, 5 minutes daily
One Place for Everything
- 1Choose exactly one system. Two systems is the same as none.
- 2Every task goes in with its subject and its due date, the moment it's set.
- 3Add a fixed daily check — same time, same trigger, like straight after dinner.
- 4On Sunday, look at the whole week and put big tasks on specific days.
- 5Review on Friday: what got missed, and what would have caught it?
If it's too hard
A single wall calendar you fill in together each evening.
If it's too easy
They add estimated durations and schedule the work, not just the deadline.
Say this
"Not in your head — in the system. If it isn't written down, it doesn't exist."