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An Organized Student: Your School Life

Empower your child with the essential organizational skills needed to achieve a future of personal and academic success!

Life can be out of control for a student lacking organizational skills. Today's kids are over-programmed, overwhelmed and over-stressed. This innovative, kid-friendly book will instill fundamental organizational skills and positive time management strategies needed to meet the demands of today's challenging world. "Your School Life" can be completed independently by the student, guided by a parent or incorporated into a teacher's curriculum. Every student can benefit from these invaluable, lifelong organizational skills.

The benefits of an organized life are:

Be proactive in your child's organizational future. (ideal for middle and high school students)

Reviews

"This book is a tremendous asset for my students, as well as for me. Heisler's expertise is clear and the organizational strategies are highly practical. This book enriches my work as a whole-child educator; the students' organizational skills, academic achievement and personal growth are all interrelated." -6th grade teacher

"What an insightful book! This workbook provided a great method for getting my child organized. It was easy to follow and very informative. I've seen a tremendous improvement in my child's academic and personal organization in such a short time. I've already recommended this book to many of my friends." -parent of student

"As a teacher for over 30 years, I was surprised to find so much quality and helpful information in one place. This book has helped me gain enough knowledge to organize my own students without overwhelming them and frustrating myself in the process. The author has compiled easy ideas that can be useful for anyone to use. Thank you for putting a complicated task into simple formulas." - teacher

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Your School Life - CD Training Course

Research shows that without critical organizational and time management training, students are more likely to suffer from plummeting grades, low self-esteem, ineffective productivity and a great deal of anxiety. To help address this crisis, An Organized Student has developed a self-directed, kid-friendly online course to instruct essential organizational and time management methods directly to all students.

Developed by an expert in the field of student organizing, Your School Life incorporates colorful images, simple self-assessments, pictorial step-by-step demonstrations and interactive activities presented in an uncomplicated, supportive way. This motivating, eight-unit program can be implemented independently by the student, guided by a parent, mentor or incorporated into a teacher's curriculum.

Every student can benefit from these invaluable lifelong skills. Be proactive in their academic future. Order your CD today!

An Organized Student: Your School Life
Comprehensive CD Training Course $48 + $6.00 S/H

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Workshops

The following workshops have been developed by Margie Heisler, founder of An Organized Student. They are designed to target critical organizational challenges of school age children and instruct fundamental skills and strategies to parents.

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For Parents of School Aged Children

Creating An Organized Student

Less stress, more free time, increased confidence, productivity and better grade potential are just some of the benefits students gain from having improved organizational skills. With the typical schedule of activities, obligations and online distractions, an unorganized student has little chance to survive the challenges and workload of school. In many cases, parents are working outside of the home, making supervision and parental management impossible. Through illustrative examples and assessments, parents will identify their child's unique organizational and time management style and learn techniques and strategies to teach and empower them to achieve their best academic outcome.

The Dog Ate It - Managing School Papers

Middle and high school students are drowning in paperwork and stress. Developing a well-organized and functional binder system in which to organize and transport work from school to home and back again, helps to alleviate your child's stress and forgetfulness while achieving greater academic success. As parents, you will learn how to create fully functional school binders, taking into account your child's unique styles, habits and specific school requirements.

The Student Filing System

Excess paperwork is the number one culprit to a disorganized life. Many students, unsure where to put their papers, end up stuffing them into the bottom of their locker and/or backpack for "safe-keeping", never to be found again. We will create a customized student filing system where papers will "live". This home filing system will serve as a place for your child to file paperwork, notes, study guides and test, while utilizing it as a reference file for future exams, research papers or reviews.

The Black Hole - Inside the Backpack and Locker

Do textbooks, folders and assignments disappear into your middle school or high school student's backpack and locker? Is time wasted in the desperate search for lost homework? Ultimately, both grades and self-esteem will take a nosedive. This workshop will lay the groundwork for an organizational overhaul by addressing the negative impact of a disorganized backpack and locker, and provide suggestions on ways to improve them. You will learn the C.A.L.M method of organizing and maintaining, and explore ways to reassess and redesign both the backpack and locker space for optimum efficiency.

It's About Time:
Utilizing the School Planner for Enhanced Time Management

On a daily basis, students are expected to keep track of all assignments, test, projects, activities and family/peer obligations. Although they swear that they can remember it all, if it's not written down, it will eventually be forgotten. Wouldn't it be great if they had access to a second brain, one that could alert them to all of the important things in their lives? You will discover why the planner is one of the most important tools your student will use in school. By learning tips and strategies for proper use, you will discover how the planner can enhance your child's time management skills while improving their academic and personal stresses.

Adults Organizational Workshops

Where's My Toothbrush?
Your Ticket to Stress-Free Travel

Traveling is a wonderful experience for most, but the process of preparing for a trip can be extremely stressful. Conquering airline security measures, avoiding extra baggage fees, working through complicated documents and the task of planning what to pack, makes traveling trickier and more exhausting than ever. We will discover the key to effortless, low stress travel through useful tips and strategies, helping to make your future journeys trouble free.

It's About Time - Avoiding Procrastination

People love to procrastinate, yet they hate how it makes them feel. By putting off what really needs to be done, we think we are avoiding pain, but in fact, we are actually making the situation much harder and stressful. By developing time management skills for home or office, we will learn the secret to a more balanced life. And discover added free time in the process!

SIMPLI-FILE Your Life: Managing Paper Chaos

Is your home or office desk buried in clutter? Do you waste precious time digging through piles of paperwork in search of lost documents? Are you stressed out by the chaos surrounding you? If you answer yes, it's time for a SIMPLI-FILE Intervention! Excess paperwork is the number one culprit in a disorganized life. We will learn dynamic strategies for developing a personalized filing system that will streamline your efficiency and provide clarity in you life.

Know Thyself - Discovering Your Personal Learning Style

Michael Jordan is a kinesthetic learner. Abe Lincoln was an auditory learner, while Frank Lloyd Wright was a visual learner. Each one of us has a unique way to process, organize and retrieve data. To be fully efficient in what we do, it's important to understand how we react to information around us. By discovering and defining our own learning style, we can develop useful strategies to aid us in maximizing our strengths.

How To Keep Clutter From Making You Sick

Did you know that being disorganized could actually be detrimental to your health? We will discover and explore ways that daily clutter and disorganization can make us sick, while learning tips and strategies to maintain a healthier lifestyle.