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About this Writing Workshop tracker
This Weekly tracker is built specifically for Writing Workshop, where weekly planning revolves around mini-lesson, drafting block, and conferencing schedule. It is the page a subject teacher prints once a week and keeps clipped to the front of the planning binder for that course.
The grid is sized for handwritten planning. The columns match the structural rhythm of Writing Workshop — not the generic weekly grid that gets used across every subject and never quite fits any of them.
What's on the page
The Writing Workshop Weekly tracker captures the planning elements that actually matter for the subject.
- A focus column tuned to mini-lesson, drafting block, and conferencing schedule
- A standing column for differentiation — extension for advanced learners, scaffolding for those who need it
- A standing-meeting marker for the department or PLC where this subject is discussed
- Federal-holiday overlays so a holiday week reads as a four-day week without manual re-drawing
- A reflection footer for what to carry forward into next week
How Writing Workshop planning differs
Writing Workshop has its own particular planning shape. The tracker is built around mini-lesson, drafting block, and conferencing schedule because that is the rhythm the subject actually runs on, and it leaves room for the elements that other generic planners squeeze out — the long-arc work that this subject depends on, the cross-class coordination, and the assessment cadence that matches how students actually demonstrate progress in this discipline.
How teachers use it
Print the tracker at the start of each week, fill in the focus and assessment columns from the unit calendar, and pin it to the inside of the planning binder for the subject. At the end of the week, take two minutes to mark what worked and what didn't, then start next week's tracker from that note.
Department leads find a stack of weekly trackers from a year extremely useful at curriculum-review time — it is a real artefact of how the year went, not a memory.
Holidays and the subject calendar
Federal holidays are overlaid on the page. Subject-specific dates — competition dates, performance dates, lab-equipment availability windows — are left blank for you to fill in, because they vary too much from one school and district to the next.
Print and binder
Print on three-hole paper, drop into the subject binder, and the tracker stays where it is needed. The Weekly tracker for Writing Workshop prints to the same dimensions as every other PlannerGrid template so trackers from different subjects stack neatly together when a teacher carries multiple preps.
Pairs well with
These printable templates from PlannerGrid are commonly used alongside the Writing Workshop — Weekly tracker. Open any of them, print together, and clip into the same binder.
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About PlannerGrid templates
Every template on PlannerGrid is built for the U.S. school calendar — an August-to-July cycle that lines up with how teachers, students, and homeschool families actually plan their year. We overlay U.S. federal holidays from the Office of Personnel Management list so school breaks and observed days never collide with planned instruction. The grid is the same across every page so you can print, hole-punch, and mix layouts in one binder.