Project "Household Binder" {Link Party!} All free printables mentioned within the post are now expired and available for sale! Please check out my Etsy Shop for a large selection of personalized printables to fit all of your household organizing needs! Thank you! It's been thirty-one days of Household Binder heaven! We created, we shared, we drained our printer cartridges, we were binder-makin' fools! Let's recap why the Jones abode is sure to run smoother as a result: 1. 2. Now instead of digging through individual mail stations, all current school related materials are located in one easy to find location. 3. I also took full advantage of having pockets in the binder divider tabs! And the other is a great place to slip those billing statements as they come in the mail and need to be paid: Now, twice a month when we pay our bills, we can go right to the Finance tab and log our expenses and send out our payments. 4. I also added a baseball card sleeve for any business cards we accumulate along the way! 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Office of Learning Resources - Proactive Time Management | University of Pennsylvania Proactive Time Management for Learning Online In this module, our learning specialists offer videos and interactive resources to support students in developing proactive time management strategies, specifically for online coursework and remote learning. Our partners in the Penn Online Learning Initiative were invaluable in supporting the development of this resource. We recommend starting with the self-guided Time Management Self-Assessment. Time Management Self-Assessment This self-assessment will help you think more deeply about your habits and what you can do to improve your time management skills, especially as you prepare for online coursework and remote learning. Proactive Time Management Videos and Resources Your Feedback After you have a chance to engage with this module, we would appreciate your feedback. Evaluation Form
2014 Daily Planner FAQ's I am SO very excited to introduce the 2014 Daily Planner Printables, now available in my Etsy shop! Last year's planner rocked my world, but this year, I adore it even more. Here are some of the things you can find within the 2014 version: Colorful Intro Page! The front page of the planner printable kit is a vibrant welcome page introducing the happy pages behind it. Prefilled Dates The entire planner is pre-filled with dates from either August 2013 - Dec 2014 or Jan 2014 - Dec 2014, depending on which you select: Two Page Portrait Monthly Calendars Each month begins with a two page calendar spread. Two Page Daily Spread Each week comes dated, and spread across two colorful, portrait pages. This year you can snag the planner pages as an instant download file! And there are all sorts of extra options and add-on pages to select from as well. Select from a total of 15 colorful options here! Keep track of the important holidays, birthdays and anniversaries with a Special Dates printable.
Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success Curiously (pun intended), curiosity is also virtually absent from the field of gifted-and-talented education. A recent survey of required identification methods across all states found that only three considered motivation a part of giftedness. IQ, on the other hand, is required by 45 states, while 39 require standardized tests of achievement. A recent feature story in Scientific American further punctuates this point. Misleadingly titled “How to Raise a Genius,” the article summarized the results of a 45-year study of children who at age 12 scored in the top 1 percent on the SATs and were subsequently tracked and then supported. At least 95 percent of the participants experienced some type of educational acceleration as a result of their identification, and most participated in enrichment programs such as Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Much to the researchers’ delight, the results confirmed their expectations. But is this really true?
How We Meal Plan For Our Clan After the recent stint on HGTV, I have been getting quite a few questions about my meal planning process. I actually did a post on it quite awhile ago here, however, it's since evolved a bit and I thought it was time for a little update. First, it is important to take a moment to chat about why I go through the process:To prepare for the week: We typically meal plan on Sunday and plan out what we are having for breakfast, lunch and dinner each week. Because we know what we are eating each morning and night, it means less stress, less money eating out and the ability to pull anything frozen out of the freezer the night before. When my husband gets home from work, there is none of that, "What is for dinner?" banter. I would reference this to quickly check it against our inventory {which is easy since I don't over purchase and everything is in clear containers}. Eventually, the list was engraved in my brain, but I always kept a copy on my meal planning clipboard, just in case.
Choosing Your Major from Afar – Total Advising | University of Virginia Still searching for the major you love? Don’t worry that you aren’t on Grounds – you can do a lot remotely! Please note that this guidance was written primarily for students from the College of Arts and Sciences, as they are less likely than students in other schools to have decided upon a major by their second year. However, much of the general advice will be helpful for any UVA student who is considering their options for majors. Although a handful of jobs require specific majors, most employers are open to hiring candidates with diverse degrees, backgrounds and skill sets. What subjects capture your attention? If you are unsure, you can take the PathwayU assessment to explore some of your interests, values, and strengths – then see which majors and career fields you are matched with. Using SIS, browse all undergraduate classes by subject. Remember: You can always complement any major with additional classes, research, and internships. Here are links for those offices:
Free printable laundry list of to do’s and to do itinerary form Get your weekly to-do’s Buttoned Up with these 2 free printable forms! Step 1. Your laundry list of to do’s Buttoned Up. Use this sheet to capture all of your to-do’s. Don’t worry about prioritizing or editing—the purpose of this sheet is to get them out of your head and onto a piece of paper so you don’t have to waste precious gray matter worrying whether you’ve forgotten one. Step 2. The trick to tackling a long laundry list of to-do’s with a minimum of stress: scheduling!
How to Really Find Your Passion Dweck, one of the paper’s authors, has previously studied different types of mind-sets as they relate to intelligence. People who have a growth mind-set about their own intelligence tend to be less afraid of failure, according to her research, because they believe smarts are cultivated, not inherent. Interests are related to, but distinct from, abilities, the study authors told me: You can be interested in something but not very good at it. “I’ve been playing guitar for 25 years, but I can’t say that my abilities have gotten that much better in the past 10 years,” O’Keefe said. Dweck told me that “find your passion” has a laudable history. The authors also had students learn about either fixed or growth theory and then exposed them to a new interest: Astronomy. This study was a preregistered replication, meaning the authors stated at the outset what their hypothesis and methods would be. K. Dweck told me that “find your passion” has a laudable history. K.
The Everything Planner – Updated for 2014 | genniferbursett Hello! It’s Laura O’Donnell on the blog today sharing my planner put together with Gennifer’s The Everything Planner digital kit. If you remember Gen’s post from last year she had the whole thing spiral bound. Here is the kit, updated for end of 2013 through January 2015. I sent all of the PDFs to Staples for printing and they came out great. Here is a look at the binder, then I’ll open it up and show the insides The binder, tabs, and pockets are all from the Martha Stewart/Avery collection sold at Staples. I put the monthly sheets in first. Then the weekly sheets. Then I thought a notebook section would be helpful with some plain lined paper, tabs, and stickers. This is where I put all of the Organize Me printables. This is the sheet for important contacts – neighbors, babysitters, doctors office, etc. A Party Planner. Weekly menus, shopping, and to do lists. School information. Gift Giving Record. Special Dates. Did you notice I didn’t print the Chore Charts? The Organize Me Printables $4
Excellent Books For College Bound Students To Read Before Starting School Back in 2014, I served on a committee tasked with developing a list of up to 125 titles of outstanding books for the college bound. Since the creation of that list—and knowing the myriad hours that went into finding great titles for it—I’ve kept notes on things I’ve read after that would fit the bill of being a great book for college bound students. The list below is meant to be a jumping off point. It’s meant to encourage life-long learning, interest in areas within and beyond one’s preferred major studies, and develop a love of reading for information, as well as for pleasure. They should spark conversation and provide a means of thinking about a variety of social and cultural realities and challenges through new or sharper lenses. I’ve organized these books for college bound students in the same style as the list above: by the Liberal Arts topics they might best fit under. Category ID: 476 Book Deals Newsletter Thank you for signing up! By signing up you agree to our terms of use
Blog Planner Sheet Dividers + Free Cut Files | Titicrafty by CamilaTiticrafty by Camila Recently I shared how I revamped my old and damaged Blog Planner Folder and a few months ago I shared My Blog Planner, which has ben my best friend during my blogging time LOL. Now I decided to go a bit further and create these cute sheet dividers so I could get rid of my uuuuuugly ones LOL. I’m really so happy with the results. Now it looks new, bright and colorful. I got so inspired by this that now I’m creating my own blog planner sheets =D. Yayyyy I’ll be sharing them very soon. What I like the most of this project is that I only used paper/cardstock and of course my Silhouette Cameo with its supplies such as sketch Pens. I made the whole divider shape for the base and then added some details such as a cute flower, divider borders and the name of the divider. I prepared the cutting files so you can download them depending on your needs: Once all the cutting files were ready I started cutting. Finally cutting and sketching the sheets dividers! Here you have the first sample =D
Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals | First Year Course Modules | UMass Dartmouth Specific A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six "W" questions: *Who: Who is involved? EXAMPLE: A general goal would be, "Get in shape." Measurable Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set. To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as......How much? Attainable When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Realistic To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be accomplished. Timely A goal should be grounded within a time frame. T can also stand for Tangible Retrieved from topachievement.com June 2, 2011 1.
My Blog Planner | Titicrafty by CamilaTiticrafty by Camila As I mention before, when I first started blogging I had no idea what was blogging really about, so my Organization was nil. I was completely lost in blogland and I had just found out about link parties so visiting some links I ran across My May Sunshine, a lovely blogger that was featuring her blog planner. Oh! my life got so much better LOL. She made an awesome job, she made sheets for every aspect of blogging and I found it awesome!… The best part was that IT WAS A FREE PRINTABLE yayyyy. I downloaded ALL of them and since those were her design with her brand colours and patterns, I modified them in Illustrator so I could use my brand design and colours. I have to confess that for a second I thought I might not keep up with it, but the truth is that I use it every day. I’m not sharing the printables because the are not mine even though I modified them but you can find them at My May Sunshine Printables! Here is what I did: These are some of the planners I use: Weekly planner I also use: