Get unstuck fast

Trying to finish every worksheet

The packet is generous on purpose. If a student understands the concept after the first two problems, move on. Mastery > completion.

Skipping the Friday review

The Friday review is the spiral — it is what makes the program stick. If you only have 20 minutes that day, do the Big Question and skip everything else.

Printing one day at a time

Use the Monday-morning Binder Packet workflow. One print job per week saves 4 hours over the year.

Reading every science passage cold

Use the Read-Aloud toggle on the Student Today page for any passage the student finds dense. Comprehension matters more than independent decoding at this grade.

Forgetting to pull the answer key pages

Amber-colored pages in the binder packet are teacher-only. Pull them out before the student opens the binder.

1. Read Getting Started and How to Use end-to-end.
2. Print the Year at a Glance and tape it inside the binder cover.
3. Run the Diagnostic for Math and ELA only.
4. Print Week 1 Binder Packet and gather the listed materials.
5. Plan to evaluate the schedule after Day 3, not Day 1.

1. Open This Week.
2. Skim the day card — note any materials you don't have.
3. Print the Binder Packet if you haven't already.
4. Pull the amber teacher pages out and clip them separately.
5. Set the student up with the cover sheet visible.

1. Run the Friday Weekly Review with the student.
2. Open Gradebook and log mastery for the week's standards.
3. Send Parent Digest by email or print for the fridge.
4. Glance at next week to see if any materials need ordering.

1. Open the Quarter overview page.
2. Walk through the milestones list — anything not yet mastered goes into Intervention for the first week of the next quarter.
3. Add the quarter's culminating project to Portfolio.
4. Reset the binder: archive completed packets, load the next 9 weeks.