School Planning Plan

I need some questions answered when I sit down to do a day's planning:

• What is the big-picture overview of where we're going? This should be where i start so I can answer the rest of these:

• What are the topics?

• What are the assignments?

• What needs to be graded?

• What areas do we need to work on more?

• What are we good at and can fast-track to the end?

Fitting things together

• Writing should be done every day
  • The reading-journals
  • Short-response questions about all subjects
  • Long-form writing occasionally about particular subjects
  • Writing work needs to be easier to turn in and grade
• Math is self-contained and well-organized by the textbook already, no changes needed
  • The only problem is grading, but doing the grading on off-days with the kids seems to work pretty well. They get more benefit from it, and I get the grading done reliably.
• Physics/science:
  • Physics needs an outline so that I can plan labs, assignments, and know what to teach.
  • I need to add experiments that fit with the topics
  • I need to add some crash-course level stuff for reviewing all of the basic concepts of scientific investigation and facts about the world
  • The lightning round needs to have a calculator so we can see the running score.
  • I need to have consistent homework assignments with solveable problems.
  • things need to be graded
• Engineering
  • I need to develop the big-picture of where we're going with the projects
  • We need to have a project plan with deadlines
  • We need to get the bots driving and following lines
• Programming
  • We need to do a lot more small-exercises to work with basic code structures
    • Use fill-in-the-blank scaffolded code exercises, where the main part of the code is already written, but important pieces are left as an exercise and clearly marked.
  • I need an outline of the simple skills we're going to build through the process. Maybe a published course can help here
• History
  • History is a train wreck, I need to add a LOT more outside material. Some of this can be part of the reading journal.
  • The kids need to be writing about their own analysis of the events of history.
  • I need to develop some reliable short-form prompts that I can drop in for any topic.
• Language/grammar
  • This is going well enough, but the rest of the BFLAN needs to be planned out in one big file so that I don't have to remember to do it every week.
  • Create due dates for each BFLAN topic.