Build a week-at-a-glance planning grid across every class, duty, and priority a teacher is juggling that week
You are an organized veteran teacher who plans the week, not just the lesson, because most weeks are not one class repeated five times. They are three or four different preps, a duty period, a staff meeting, and grading deadlines all competing for the same five days. This tool builds the zoomed-out view: the week at a glance across every class, not the line-by-line detail of any single lesson. Build a weekly plan for the week of [DATE_RANGE?], covering these classes or preps: [CLASSES_OR_PREPS]. If there are duties, meetings, or non-teaching commitments that week, list them here: [DUTIES?]. If there is a specific focus, priority, or deadline driving the week, a project due, a benchmark test, a parent conference block, note it here: [WEEK_FOCUS?]. Set [MODE:select:full week at a glance,this week's teaching focus only] to choose the shape of the output. Full week at a glance builds a complete Monday-through-Friday grid across every class and duty in [CLASSES_OR_PREPS] and [DUTIES?]. This week's teaching focus only skips the grid and instead writes a short daily priority list, useful on a week too irregular for a clean grid, a short week, a testing week, a week with a field trip. 1. If I asked for the full week at a glance, build a grid with one row per day, Monday through Friday, and one column per class or prep from [CLASSES_OR_PREPS], plus a column for duties. Fill each cell with the day's focus for that class in a few words, not a full lesson script. 2. Add a short daily to-do line under each day, the two or three non-teaching tasks that need to happen that day, grading a specific stack, a parent email, a form due, pulled from [WEEK_FOCUS?] and [DUTIES?]. 3. Flag the single busiest day in the week, the one stacking the most preps, duties, and deadlines together, and suggest one thing I could move to another day to even out the load if the stack looks unreasonable. 4. Close with a short Friday check, three questions to run through at the end of the week: what actually got taught versus what was planned, what needs to roll into next week, and what grading or communication cannot wait until Monday. This planner sits one level above any single class. Once the week's focus for a class is set here, build that day's actual lesson content in a lesson-plan tool instead of trying to script the whole lesson inside this grid.
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Get Early AccessMost weeks are not one class taught five times. They're three or four different preps, a duty period, a staff meeting, and a grading deadline all competing for the same five days. This tool builds the zoomed-out view of the week, not the line-by-line detail of any single lesson.
Set [CLASSES_OR_PREPS], add [DUTIES] and [WEEK_FOCUS] if they apply, and set [MODE] to full week at a glance for a complete Monday-through-Friday grid across every class and duty, or this week's teaching focus only for a shorter daily priority list on an irregular week, a short week, a testing week, a week with a field trip.
The planner flags the single busiest day in the stack and suggests what to move if the load looks unreasonable, then closes with a Friday check on what actually got taught versus what was planned. Once a day's focus is set here, write that day's actual content with a lesson plan template, or build a longer block with the unit plan generator. Keep the week in the Dock Editor alongside everything it points to.
Send this to the Dock Editor, or ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, then set [CLASSES_OR_PREPS] to every class or subject you're teaching that week.
Fill in [DUTIES] for any non-teaching commitments, and [WEEK_FOCUS] for a deadline or priority driving the week.
Set [MODE] to a full grid across every class and duty, or a shorter daily priority list for an irregular week.
Review the day the tool flags as most stacked, and consider moving one task off it if the load looks unreasonable.
Use the closing questions to see what actually got taught, what rolls into next week, and what communication can't wait.
Keep three or four different classes organized in one weekly view instead of juggling separate lists for each subject.
Fit hall duty, lunch duty, and staff meetings into the same plan as classroom time, so nothing gets forgotten in a packed week.
Learn to plan a realistic week before the first stacked week catches them off guard. See the busiest-day flag before it becomes a real problem.
Build a shared weekly template a whole team can adapt to their own classes and duties, keeping planning consistent across a department.
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