Students with executive functioning challenges struggle to consistently write down their assignments.  Their complaints about the student planners sold at school are a dime a dozen.  The most common complaint I hear is, “There’s too much distracting stuff on each page! I start to write down my homework, then I see an interesting study skills fact at the bottom of the page, and I forget to write down the assignment.” Another common concern is, “There’s not enough room to write down the details of my assignments!”  As a result of all these excuses complaints, I developed this No-Frills No-Excuses Student Planner.  This PDF document is for one month, so if you like it, you’ll need to print out a copy for each month of the school year.  If your school allows you to use a laptop, ipad, or other electronic tools*, you can actually type your assignments onto this PDF form and save them.   Here are some suggestions for using a student planner: