Building Savvy Learners Presents

A free live workshop for parents of kids in upper elementary through high school.

When the back-to-school honeymoon ends and the first report cards arrive...

Somewhere in your house, there's a planner. You bought it in July or August, probably alongside a highlighter set and a genuine sense of optimism.

If it's still in use — congratulations, truly, and you may close this tab.

If it's currently functioning as an archaeological artifact of a more promising time, you're in excellent company, and there's a reason that keeps happening.

Picture an air traffic control tower. Planes landing, taking off, circling — one controller keeping every single one straight to prevent crashes. That's part of your child's brain called executive function: the mental control tower that holds the plan, blocks distractions, and remembers what's due Thursday.

That tower isn't finished being built until the mid-twenties. And every year of school adds more planes. Upper elementary brings the first real long-term projects. Middle school means at least six teachers, a locker, hormones, and dramatically less reminding. High school stacks on GPA, a job, sports, clubs, social events, and a schedule they're supposed to run themselves.

So when your bright, capable kid "forgets" the thing that's right there in the folder — it usually isn't laziness or defiance. It's a control tower still under construction, running more traffic than it can handle.

You can't nag a control tower into managing traffic faster. But you can take planes off the controller's plate by building simple systems on the outside — and the same three systems work whether your kid is nine or seventeen. What changes is how much the student runs and how much you scaffold.

That's what I'm teaching on October 15 at 7:30 pm.

In 45 minutes, you'll leave with:

• A home base — so the morning scramble for the charger, the planner, and the permission slip stops being a daily event
• A capture system — one place every assignment lives, instead of five places that each hold a third of them
• A weekly reset — ten minutes on Sunday that ends the ambush project you found out about the night before it was due

Each one is shown at three levels, so it fits a 4th grader, a 7th grader, or a 10th grader.

Doors open Monday, October 12. Drop your email, and you'll get the link the moment it's live — plus a reminder the night before the workshop, because you have enough to remember.

Made by Alison Eber, PhD & founder of Building Savvy Learners