A January Refresh Plan

Are you diving into curriculum on your first few days back after the ball drops in Times Square?

Do you think your students are ready to dive right back into their daily school routine?

I’m not saying to play games and have parties. 

I’m just saying think about a January Refresh for your students.

What Is A January Refresh Plan?

A January Refresh is intended to get your learners back into school mode after the holiday break. 

Having students of all ages reflect on improvements they can make is always a good idea.

Starting a brand-new year is the beginning of a fresh new start. It’s time to reflect on ourselves and decide how we can make changes to keep improving to be the best we can be.

You can put together your January Refresh Plan by deciding what lessons your students will need to get back into ‘school mode’.

You could start by creating a series of lessons to guide your learners in becoming more reflective and revisiting their purpose for reading.  Have your students set personal actions for the new year, as well as student created goals for reading and writing.

Helping students understand the process of creating new year's resolutions and action steps for evolving to become better is always a good idea.

From here you could put together a series of lessons to help guide readers into getting back into school mode when it comes to reading.  These lessons should guide them back into preparing to read a text, talk about the text and analyze text.

This January Refresh plan can be used for however many days you wish it to last.  You decide how your learners will respond to the lessons you put together. 

How To Create Your January Refresh Plan

So, a January Refresh plan sounds like a great idea, but maybe you’re wondering what lessons you should put together.

Take a look at the January Refresh plan I always used as your starting point (psst...it's a freebie😉)