A research-backed executive function curriculum, delivered in a student planner.

This isn't a new initiative competing for a slot in the master schedule. It's the ten minutes you already scheduled, the teacher already standing in the room, and a planner with the lesson printed inside it.

It costs more than a blank planner.

It usually isn't a motivation problem.

The student who does the work and never submits it, the one who starts the project the night before, the one whose IEP goal says "will use organizational strategies" with no tool attached — that's executive function, and it is teachable.

Both are planners.
Only one teaches how to plan.

Not a bulk order of notebooks. A curriculum, the instruction to deliver it, and the support to keep it running all year.

“I absolutely love the Middle School Master Plan. I created a small group with this for students who struggle with procrastination, planning, or balancing school and extracurriculars.”

“The planner allowed students to organize assignments, school and home activities. I would highly recommend it for all students.”

My son's school counselor called and asked what planner we were using. She'd noticed how organized he was and wanted to recommend it to other families. It was the Middle School Master Plan, still in testing.

The research below is about middle-grades systems, not about this product. It's the evidence base a campus can cite when it justifies putting executive-function instruction in front of every student.

If a system breaks down the same way every time, the user isn't the problem.

To the counselor or principal reading this,

For years I watched capable middle schoolers fall into the same pattern: they could see every deadline in the online portal, and still not turn the work in.

The standard response is to hand a student a blank calendar and tell them to prioritize. That's an impossible instruction. A traditional planner assumes executive function that an adolescent's prefrontal cortex is still building. We were giving students a place to record work and never showing them how to execute it.

So I built the thing I couldn't buy — at my kitchen table, self-funded, grounded in peer-reviewed cognitive science. Instead of worksheets a student fills out once and forgets, I built structures they use on their own work every week: a concrete priority equation, task-breaking brackets, strategic Plan B lines.

We don't teach executive function as its own subject. We embed it in the homework students already have, so the habit forms on real work.

My goal isn't to sell a million planners. It's to partner with the schools and counselors who are tired of the daily homework battle and want to coach adolescents into self-regulated, confident learners.

With appreciation,
Dr. Jenn

Funding sources other campuses have used

Your business office has the final word on eligibility. This is a starting list for that conversation, not a legal determination.

The Counselor 5-Pack

Five planners and five Hub seats — enough to run one small group for a full year. No purchase order, no committee, no campus adoption. Try it with the five students you're already worried about.

For verified school counselors and case managers.

The Classroom Pack

Thirty planners and a staff Hub license — one advisory section, one bell, one teacher. Enough to run the whole year with a real class instead of a pilot group, and small enough to clear most campus discretionary budgets without board approval.

More than one section? Ask for a grade-level quote.

Group & campus pricing

The 5-Pack and Classroom Pack are fixed price and can be ordered directly above. For a grade level, a campus or a district, pricing is quoted by quantity — tell us the number, the grade levels and the date you need them on campus, and a formal quote comes back the same business day.

Not ready to commit a campus? Start with a pilot cohort — one counselor's group or a single grade level — and expand next year.

How do we get a quote and a W-9?

Email [email protected] with quantity, grade levels and your delivery date. You'll get a formal quote and a W-9 the same day, in whatever format your business office needs.

Do you accept purchase orders?

Yes. Send the PO and we produce and ship against it; invoicing follows your district's terms. No credit card required.

Can we pilot it before adopting campus-wide?

That's the recommended path. Run a cohort — one counselor's small group or a single grade level — for a semester, look at the missing-work data for those students, and scale from evidence you collected yourself.

Can we see one before we buy?

Yes — request a sample planner to evaluate. Most counselors want to hold it and flip through the EF activities before bringing it to a team meeting.

How much training does staff need?

None to start — the instruction is printed on the page and the Hub videos speak directly to students. Campus orders include a live implementation session so your team knows which pages to use where.

Does it work for students with IEPs and 504 plans?

It was built with executive dysfunction in mind. It gives case managers concrete, repeated, documentable practice against goals that name organization, task initiation, time management or self-advocacy — using the student's real coursework, in the same book their classmates carry.

What's the deadline for fall delivery?

Order as early as you can — quantities for the 2026–27 edition are limited and campus orders are produced in the order received. Tell us your first day of school and we'll work backward.