PJS: The Live Workshop
Three mornings now, so you get your Sundays back all year.
Map your whole year. Build your first unit. In three mornings, with me.
Planned Just So™: The Live Workshop is three focused mornings where we get your entire next year out of your head and onto one page, and build your first unit together, so you walk into fall already ahead instead of underwater.
The problem…
You're a great teacher.
That was never the problem.
The problem is why planning still feels like this. Long. Overwhelming. All-consuming.
Every summer you promise yourself that this year will be different.
And every fall, you're back to planning one week at a time, always a little behind, bracing for Sunday night before Sunday even arrives.
The whole year lives in your head like a fog, and you can never quite see its shape. So you plan reactively, you grade everything, and you carry a bag of work home you swore you wouldn't.
It isn't that you don't work hard - you work harder than anyone.
It's that no one ever taught you how to see the whole year before it starts, and plan backward from there.
There's a better way, and it isn't more planning…
You don't plan your year. You map it.
Planning means trying to build nine months of lessons before you've met a single student.
Mapping means starting at the end, the place your standards already point to, and working backward, so every unit has a destination and every week has a reason to exist.
That one shift is what quiets the Sunday Scaries, because a year you can finally see is a year you can handle.
That's the whole method behind Planned Just So™, and in this workshop, we do it together, live.
This isn't a course you watch alone. It's three working mornings where I teach for a few minutes, then you build your own year while I coach you through it. And you're never staring at a blank page, because I hand you done-for-you tools at every step.
What we'll do, morning by morning:
Day 1 - Tuesday, July 28: Map your year. We translate your standards into plain language, choose a theme for each month, and place your standards across the calendar. You leave holding your whole year on a single page.
Day 2 - Wednesday, July 29: Design your first unit. We take the very first unit off your map and set its destination and its proof, the real task that shows your students got there. You leave with the backbone of a real unit.
Day 3 - Thursday, July 30: Build your first unit. We lay out the lessons, choose your texts, and pull it all onto one clean page you can teach from. You leave with a complete, ready-to-teach unit, and the exact repeatable method to build every other unit on your map.
Your whole year, mapped on a single page.
One complete, ready-to-teach unit.
The repeatable method to build every other unit yourself.
Every done-for-you template and tool we use together.
The session replays, yours to revisit anytime.
What you'll walk away with:
I want to be honest with you about what "mapped" and "built" mean, because I never overpromise. Mapped means your whole year laid out clearly, unit by unit. Built means one complete, aligned unit, done. Not "started." Built. You leave holding both.
Three live mornings. Tuesday to Thursday, July 28 to 30, at 10:00 a.m. ET, about 90 minutes each.
We do the work in the session. No homework piling onto your summer. You build while I coach.
You're never starting from scratch. Every step comes with ready-made examples and templates you choose from and make your own.
It's a small cohort. Capped at 20 teachers, so I can see your actual plan and help with your specific year.
Can't make one live? No problem. Every session is recorded, and the replays are yours to keep.
How it works:
Choose your plan:
One Pay
1 payment of $97
3 live planning sessions with me
Your entire year mapped and your first unit built
Dozens of done-for-you planning tools and templates
Session replays for you to keep
A small, supportive group of teachers doing the work alongside you.
Two Pay
2 payments of $97
3 live planning sessions with me
Your entire year mapped and your first unit built
Dozens of done-for-you planning tools and templates
Session replays for you to keep
A small, supportive group of teachers doing the work alongside you.
-
Jennifer's course was amazing! I feel this course is the foundation for truly building work-life balance.
Britton, Planned Just So™ student
-
I am looking forward to having my Sundays back and not feeling stressed or overwhelmed... I highly recommend this course for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the planning process.
Misty, Planned Just So™ student
-
Thank you for helping me organize all of the "stuff" I had collected in 5 short years! I feel more alive to show up each week and teach the students.
Julie, Planned Just So™ student
Frequently Asked Questions
-
We will meet Tuesday, July 28 - Thursday, July 30. Meetings start at 10 a.m. ET and end around 11:30 a.m. ET.
-
Go ahead and sign up! Because you get all of the tools and session recordings, you can complete the process on your own whenever it’s convenient for you.
-
Yes. All of the templates and tools included in the workshop are for ELA standards in grades 3, 4, 5, and 6.
-
Not at all! I take the burden of being a grade level expert off your shoulders by utilizing my 25 years of experience in education and creating everything you’ll need in advance.
-
Just your grade-level standards, your curriculum or pacing guide, and your school calendar. That's it.
-
Yes. This is the founding price for this first small cohort. Come be one of the twenty!
-
For this cohort, it will not. However, I will offer this workshop again and focus on teachers using mandated curriculum. If you’d like to sign up for the waitlist for that, you can do so here.
Jennifer Oatts
Meet Your Instructor
Hi, I'm Jennifer Oatts, a planning coach for upper elementary ELA teachers who believes planning well is the key to working less and living more.
I spent years in the classroom being the teacher who was first in and last out, until I learned to map my year instead of plan it, and got my weekends back. Now I help teachers like you implement the system that cuts your workload and reclaims your weekends.
I have a master's in literacy and advanced training in Understanding by Design, the backward-design approach this whole method is built on. Planned Just So™ is the system I built to take those principles and actually run a real teacher's whole year, on a real workload.
Can’t wait to see you inside!