Google Calendar

We are implementing Google Calendar as the students' digital planners this year. We have created an academic calendar for each grade. These calendars have been shared with "view only" permissions to all students and parents. (If you did not receive an email letting you know that a calendar has been shared with you, please let us know.) These calendars will be maintained by the teachers and will include the "big" things - tests, quizzes, projects, and long-term assignments.
We will be giving each class some training in Google Calendar, and each student will be expected to keep up their own personal calendar as well. This is where they will be responsible for entering the smaller, daily assignments, like math and any unfinished work that will need to be finished at home that night. We encourage you to have a conversation about this with your child and have your child share their personal calendar with you, so that you can track how they are doing with the responsibility.
We find that by sharing the responsibility the students learn to care for themselves in the areas of time management and organization while not letting the big things fall through the cracks. They might fail a few times at tracking those smaller assignments, but if they are learning from their mistakes, they should get the hang of it.
Some students prefer to have a paper planner. If your child is one of them, this is absolutely acceptable and may be brought in at any time.
As always, let us know if you have any questions.