You are not disorganized. You are running six systems in your head at once.
A Notion planner built by a former teacher, math coach and principal who homeschools two kids. Everything you touch during a school day lives in one place, and ten quiet minutes at night is all it takes to be ready for the morning.
The real problem
It is all in your head. That is exactly the problem.
The paper planner was supposed to fix this. But flipping back to find where you left off in math takes longer than just remembering, and nothing in it shows you at a glance what tomorrow needs you to have ready. So you find out at 8:40 in the morning that science needed measuring spoons and food coloring, and everyone waits while you dig through a cabinet.
That is not a planning problem. You plan constantly.
How it works
Add it once, and it shows up everywhere it matters.
One connected Notion workspace where your lessons, materials, library requests, rhythms and weekly reflection all feed each other.
Add a lesson once. It shows up on today's dashboard, on tomorrow's prep list with its materials, and on next week's planning calendar. Request a book once. It shows up on your weekly reset until it is in your hands.
You stop rewriting. You stop remembering. You start opening one page and seeing the whole day.
The daily dashboard
Today's lessons grouped by your own time blocks. Tonight's dinner. Your daily habits. Attendance in one click. A running wins log for the good moments, because those are the ones that vanish first.
Tomorrow's prep
The ten-minute evening routine. Tomorrow's lessons with every material listed beside them, so you gather once instead of five times. A checklist that logs what you did, with a progress bar, so you can see the nights you skipped and why those mornings felt hard.
Weekly reset
Seven steps from closing out last week to planning the next one, with three reflection questions that actually get answered because they are sitting in front of you instead of buried in a random notebook. Your library requests and supply orders are right there when you need them.
Setup and records
Twelve connected databases doing the quiet work. Students, subjects, lessons, attendance, rhythms, meals, events, resources and more.
A look inside
What you actually open every morning.
The design
Most planners are a place to write your plan down.
This one is built around the two moments that actually keep a plan alive.
Look at tomorrow, gather what it needs, tick the boxes. The materials are already listed beside each lesson, so this is walking around the house once, not searching.
Close out last week, answer the three reflection questions, plan the next one, request the library books. Everything you need is on one page, including the links.
Skip everything else if the week gets away from you. Those two carry the system. That is the whole design.
What changes
The same week, run two different ways.
Now
- Sunday night rebuilding the week from scratch, again.
- Finding out at 8:40 what today needed you to have ready.
- Remembering the library book the day you needed it.
- Reflection that never happens, so the same thing goes wrong in October that went wrong in September.
With this
- Half an hour on Sunday, working down seven steps that are already written.
- Materials gathered the night before, in one lap around the house.
- Books requested the moment you plan the lesson that needs them.
- Three questions answered every week, sitting in front of you instead of buried in a notebook.
Whether this fits
Worth being honest about.
This is for you if
- You homeschool one to four kids and the logistics are the hard part, not the teaching.
- You have tried paper planners and abandoned them by October.
- You want your whole day on one screen without opening four apps.
- You are willing to spend an hour setting it up once.
This is not for you if
- You want something you can print. This lives in Notion.
- You want a curriculum. This is the system around your curriculum, not the curriculum itself.
- You want zero setup. Your kids, your subjects and your rhythms have to go in before it fits.
Erica Harrell
The Organized Homeschool
Meet your host
I built this for myself first.
I taught, then I was a math coach, then a principal.
Then I started homeschooling my own two kids and discovered that none of it transferred. There is no front office. No prep period. No one else who knows where the glue sticks are.
So I built this over two years of school days that went well and school days that fell apart. It is the actual planner I open every morning, with my family's details taken out and yours ready to go in.
Before you buy
All you need is a free Notion account.
The template works on the free plan, on your laptop and on your phone. You will get a link that duplicates the whole planner into your own workspace in one click, and it is yours to change however you want.
I have never used Notion. Is this too much?
Setup takes about an hour and the template includes a Read Me First page that walks you through it in order. Nothing is built from scratch. You are renaming and filling in.
How many kids does it handle?
As many as you add. Everything is filtered by student, so more kids means more rows, not more work.
Can I change it?
All of it. Rename the checklists, delete the sections you will not use, add your own. It is a Notion page, not locked software.
Will this work for my state's record keeping?
It tracks attendance, lessons taught and materials used, which covers what most states ask for. Check your own state's requirements, since they vary.
Do you offer refunds?
No. The template link is delivered immediately after purchase, so all sales are final. If something in it is not working, contact me and I will make it right.
Eighteen dollars. One click to duplicate.
The next school year runs on something other than your memory.
$18 · delivered immediately · all sales final
You are not disorganized. You are running six systems in your head at once.
A Notion planner built by a former teacher, math coach and principal who homeschools two kids. Everything you touch during a school day lives in one place, and ten quiet minutes at night is all it takes to be ready for the morning.
The real problem
It is all in your head. That is exactly the problem.
The paper planner was supposed to fix this. But flipping back to find where you left off in math takes longer than just remembering, and nothing in it shows you at a glance what tomorrow needs you to have ready. So you find out at 8:40 in the morning that science needed measuring spoons and food coloring, and everyone waits while you dig through a cabinet.
That is not a planning problem. You plan constantly.
How it works
Add it once, and it shows up everywhere it matters.
One connected Notion workspace where your lessons, materials, library requests, rhythms and weekly reflection all feed each other.
Add a lesson once. It shows up on today's dashboard, on tomorrow's prep list with its materials, and on next week's planning calendar. Request a book once. It shows up on your weekly reset until it is in your hands.
You stop rewriting. You stop remembering. You start opening one page and seeing the whole day.
The daily dashboard
Today's lessons grouped by your own time blocks. Tonight's dinner. Your daily habits. Attendance in one click. A running wins log for the good moments, because those are the ones that vanish first.
Tomorrow's prep
The ten-minute evening routine. Tomorrow's lessons with every material listed beside them, so you gather once instead of five times. A checklist that logs what you did, with a progress bar, so you can see the nights you skipped and why those mornings felt hard.
Weekly reset
Seven steps from closing out last week to planning the next one, with three reflection questions that actually get answered because they are sitting in front of you instead of buried in a random notebook. Your library requests and supply orders are right there when you need them.
Setup and records
Twelve connected databases doing the quiet work. Students, subjects, lessons, attendance, rhythms, meals, events, resources and more.
A look inside
What you actually open every morning.
The design
Most planners are a place to write your plan down.
This one is built around the two moments that actually keep a plan alive.
Look at tomorrow, gather what it needs, tick the boxes. The materials are already listed beside each lesson, so this is walking around the house once, not searching.
Close out last week, answer the three reflection questions, plan the next one, request the library books. Everything you need is on one page, including the links.
Skip everything else if the week gets away from you. Those two carry the system. That is the whole design.
What changes
The same week, run two different ways.
Now
- Sunday night rebuilding the week from scratch, again.
- Finding out at 8:40 what today needed you to have ready.
- Remembering the library book the day you needed it.
- Reflection that never happens, so the same thing goes wrong in October that went wrong in September.
With this
- Half an hour on Sunday, working down seven steps that are already written.
- Materials gathered the night before, in one lap around the house.
- Books requested the moment you plan the lesson that needs them.
- Three questions answered every week, sitting in front of you instead of buried in a notebook.
Whether this fits
Worth being honest about.
This is for you if
- You homeschool one to four kids and the logistics are the hard part, not the teaching.
- You have tried paper planners and abandoned them by October.
- You want your whole day on one screen without opening four apps.
- You are willing to spend an hour setting it up once.
This is not for you if
- You want something you can print. This lives in Notion.
- You want a curriculum. This is the system around your curriculum, not the curriculum itself.
- You want zero setup. Your kids, your subjects and your rhythms have to go in before it fits.
Erica Harrell
The Organized Homeschool
Meet your host
I built this for myself first.
I taught, then I was a math coach, then a principal.
Then I started homeschooling my own two kids and discovered that none of it transferred. There is no front office. No prep period. No one else who knows where the glue sticks are.
So I built this over two years of school days that went well and school days that fell apart. It is the actual planner I open every morning, with my family's details taken out and yours ready to go in.
Before you buy
All you need is a free Notion account.
The template works on the free plan, on your laptop and on your phone. You will get a link that duplicates the whole planner into your own workspace in one click, and it is yours to change however you want.
I have never used Notion. Is this too much?
Setup takes about an hour and the template includes a Read Me First page that walks you through it in order. Nothing is built from scratch. You are renaming and filling in.
How many kids does it handle?
As many as you add. Everything is filtered by student, so more kids means more rows, not more work.
Can I change it?
All of it. Rename the checklists, delete the sections you will not use, add your own. It is a Notion page, not locked software.
Will this work for my state's record keeping?
It tracks attendance, lessons taught and materials used, which covers what most states ask for. Check your own state's requirements, since they vary.
Do you offer refunds?
No. The template link is delivered immediately after purchase, so all sales are final. If something in it is not working, contact me and I will make it right.
Eighteen dollars. One click to duplicate.
The next school year runs on something other than your memory.
$18 · delivered immediately · all sales final