01 / Record
Student rated task initiation 3 of 4; teacher rated it 2. Both noted that the written first step helped.
Grades 6-12
Check in across classes. Keep the student involved.
A private check-in can follow a student across classes. Use age-appropriate layouts, invite the student’s own rating and keep the context with each mark.
A fictional classroom moment
Give the student a voice in the record.
02 / Review with the team
Use the difference to start a conversation. Agree on what each rating means before comparing days or classes.
03 / Choose what to share
Choose the summary that belongs in the family update. Keep an individual record without a public class ranking.
Printable charts need no account. Keeping digital records and publishing family updates requires a teacher account.
Built for a schedule, not a classroom.
Explore the tools behind this workflow
Class Period Check-In
One row per period, a box for each teacher's initials, and a daily total. The pattern across six or seven classrooms shows up on one sheet instead of living in six gradebooks nobody compares.
Student Self-Assessment
Turn on student entry and the student rates the same goals you do, from their phone, in the family portal. Their rating and yours sit side by side, so the conversation becomes about the gap rather than about your word against theirs.
Executive Function Tracking
Ten pre-written goals for task initiation, materials, planning, and turning work in: skills students can practice and reflect on across classes. Hard-ruled weekly layout, no decoration.
Behavior Contracts
Measurable goals, what the student earns, and three signature lines on one page. The document a dean, a student, and a parent can all sign at the end of a meeting.
Private By Default
No points on the wall, no class leaderboard, no public ranking. Choose how to use and carry the printed sheet with the student, and keep their record private.
Progress Reports
Daily marks roll into trend charts over weeks and months, with the student's own ratings included when self-assessment is on. Export a PDF for the IEP meeting or the 504 review.
Transition Goals
Post-secondary transition goals (self-advocacy, disclosure, career exploration) track the same way as everything else, so the transition section of the IEP has real data behind it.
Family Updates
The day's check-in goes home and opens on a parent's phone, in their own language, with no app and no login. Covers 28 languages.
Let the student rate themselves.
Self-monitoring is the version of this that fits an older student, and it builds a metacognitive skill rather than a compliance one: notice your own behavior, compare it to a standard, record it. Turn on student entry and they submit their rating from their phone; the self-monitoring rubric prints student and teacher columns side by side, rated 1-4 independently. The gap between the two columns is the conversation worth having, and it gives the team something specific to discuss.
The research, what it does and does not show, and how to build a rubric a teenager will use: self-monitoring in high school.
Start with goals written for this age band.
Browse executive-function and transition examples, then adapt the goal, wording, and rating scale with the student and their team.
Manage time effectively during class and independent work
Begin tasks promptly without excessive prompting
Advocate for themselves when they need help or clarification
Keep materials, notes, and digital files organized
Adapt when plans or expectations change unexpectedly
Stay focused on a long-term goal despite setbacks
Hold and use information to complete multi-step tasks
Recognize and manage emotions in stressful academic situations
Break large assignments into smaller steps and prioritize them
Reflect on their own learning and identify what strategies work best
Common questions
Will a middle or high school student actually use a behavior chart?
Choose the format with the student. One option is self-monitoring: the student rates their own behavior against a defined standard and an adult checks the accuracy at first. A 2022 meta-analysis in the International Journal of Educational Research pooled 36 experimental studies (2,617 students) and found moderate gains in academic performance. Sixty percent of those studies were in higher education and the rest in K-12, so read it as evidence worth considering alongside age-specific research, rather than proof of an individual high school program. Our layouts for grades 6-12 have no faces, no stickers, and nothing that reads as a reward chart.
How does tracking work when a student has seven different teachers?
The class period check-in is one sheet with a row per period and a box for each teacher's initials. The student carries it, each teacher takes five seconds, and by the end of the day the pattern across the whole schedule is on one page, so the team can compare the recorded check-ins across classes.
Can the student rate themselves instead of the teacher doing it?
Both, which is the point. Enable student entry on the chart and the student submits their own rating from the family portal on their phone. The self-monitoring rubric prints the same way: student column and teacher column, rated 1-4 independently. Where the two disagree is the useful conversation.
Is anything visible to the rest of the class?
No. There is no leaderboard, no public points display, and no class ranking anywhere in the product. A teacher sees their own students, the support team sees what its role allows, and the student's sheet is the student's.
Does this feed IEP and 504 progress monitoring?
Yes. The same daily check-ins build the trend data, so an executive-function or transition goal that a team writes in the fall has months of dated evidence behind it by the review, without a separate data sheet.
Is it free?
Printing charts is free and needs no account: pick a layout, set the goals, print. An account adds the saved roster, the trend data, the family portal, and the exported reports.
Want paper first? The class-period check-in, self-monitoring rubric, and behavior contract open in the free chart maker. Comparing tools for a middle school? Read ClassDojo alternatives for middle school.
One sheet, the whole schedule
Walk into the meeting with the pattern across all seven periods.
Every check-in is dated and attributed. By the review, the team can see which class, which time of day, and which week things changed, and what the student said about it themselves.