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Have your kids write their assignments in their new planners and on a family calendar for all to see

Week Three

Empty out leftover school supplies from backpacks and desk drawers

Make a list of what you have and what you need, then take advantage of end-of-the-school-year sales.

Week Four

Organize your home’s designated homework spot

Week Eight-ish

restart routines around two weeks before the first day of school. That includes pushing up bedtime, setting back-to-school screen schedules, and practicing getting up and out the door on time in the morning.

Right Now

Take time now to create your summer calendar to feel more prepared. Add vacations, kids’ sports activities or summer camps, family reunions or parties, and any events you’re committed to attending.

Make sure to use this time to schedule the unscheduled!

Bonus tip: Involve your children in your activities and summer plans.

For emails that will take longer than two minutes to read or respond to, schedule time on your calendar, or add this as an action on your To-Do List , to do later. Most email programs allow you to highlight, flag, or star messages that need a response, so utilize this handy feature whenever you can.

Gmail, allow you to establish "Rules" that sort email into a particular folder as soon as it comes in.

If you regularly receive email such as newsletters, blogs and article feeds, you could re-route these to another email address, or use rules, so that they're instantly delivered to a particular folder.

For instance, if certain team members regularly send you long, drawn-out emails, let them know. Tell them gently but firmly that because of the demand on your time, you'd appreciate emails no longer than a paragraph or two. Anything longer than that should warrant a phone call. Alternatively, they could drop by your office for a discussion.

PosterMyWall (4) is a fantastic tool for creating artistic, high-quality posters (5), collages, photo calendars and/or photo cards that can either be shared online or printed out and inexpensively shipped home.

PosterMyWall is slightly restricted in terms of the amount of options available for customization (mostly pictures and text), but other services, such as Glogster (6), offer a wider range of options.

Screencast-o-matic (7) is a powerful screen recorder that allows users to capture anything (8) happening on their screen, as well as voice and video from the webcam for up to 15 minutes in the recorder's free version.

Some high-quality alternatives to Screencast-o-matic are Jing (9) and Ezvid (10), both of which are very powerful and offer unique features.

Padlet (11) is another free program that facilitates the creation of virtual walls (12) where students and teachers can post sticky notes with almost anything they want.

Other similar sites are Linoit (13) or NoteApp (14).

Step 4: Evaluate Your Goal

Step 5: Find the Habits to Achieve Your Goal

Step 6: Assess Time Needed for Specific Habits

Step 7: Calendar Your New Habits

7a. Schedule Large Habits

7b. Aggregate Smaller Key Habits

Step 8: Set Up Visual Cues and Trigger Environments

Step 9: Enlist a Support Group

Step 10: Adapt and Reset

Count the Cost and Resolve to Change

Recommended Reading Problogger (19) by Darren Rouse and Chris Garrett The War of Art (20) by Stephen Pressfield Manage Your Day-to-Day (21) by Jocelyn Glei Platform (22) by Michael Hyatt Teach Like a Pirate (23) by Dave Burgess Fred Jones Tools for Teaching (24) by Fred Jones The Power of Habit (25) by Charles Duhigg