Your Child Doesn't Need Another Lecture About Getting Organized 

They need a system they can build and make on their own

DocOA™ is a hands-on organizing system that helps students learn how to manage their papers, assignments, information, and school life - from elementary school through high school. 

Does this sound familiar?

• Where's your homework?
• Did you bring your science paper home?
• Is it in your backpack or binder somewhere?
• I know I gave you that.
• Why didn't you write that down.
• If you wrote it down, where did you write it?

...and somehow, you're still the child's organizational system. There's another way. Your child can learn to build a system that belongs to them.

We call it Organizing Literacy. With this approach The Process Is The Product™. Students are taught to read, write, and do math, but who teaches them how to organize the information they are constantly being asked to manage? With The Schwartz Method, it's practical, it's economical, and it works.

In the organizing literacy approach, students are taught the practical skills of:

Capture-Organize-Find-Use-Improve

and the student builds the tool and owns the price...it's not about making the child "neater" but about helping the student become more independent.

Meet DocOA™ Organizing Assistant - it's the organizing system your chid builds for themselves. Instead of giving a child another planner or telling them to "get organized", DocOA™ lets them create a personalized system for managing the workflow that matters to them.

It's a tried and true basic idea that is simple:

BUILD IT-create the organizing system

USE IT-put it to work every day

IMPROVE IT-change it when something isn't working

In this way, organizing becomes a skill - not a rule. In the FREE introduction, you can see how it works.

Go as far as you like, at your own pace, in the on-demand multi-lesson course.

 The goal isn't a cleaner backpack...

The goal is a child who increasingly says: "I've got it". And I know:

• Where important information belongs
• Where to find it
• What I need to do with it
• What has fallen thru the cracks
• How to fix the system to make it better

THAT'S INDEPENDENCE

 Why this is different...

Most systems organize the child. DocOA teaches the student to organize. A Planner tells a child where to write something rather than allowing them to know why. A parent tells the student to remember something but not to know how. A teacher tells the child what to take or bring, but not where it is.

DocOA helps the parent ask the student "Can this system work for you, and if not, what would you do differently to make it better".  This single small shift changes the role of the student from user to designer.

We are all TOOL BUILDERS...

That's the single ingredient in our physiology and cultural DNA that allows us to "keep on trucking". What do I mean by that? It's as simple as 1-2-3: as a species, we encounter a problem, build tools to solve it, then move forward. We refine the tools, learn more, and solve further - basically "rinse and repeat". The difference in the Schwartz Method for Organizing Literacy is that students aren't told about the executive functions they need to hone, they build the organizing tools, use them in class, and discover them first hand, on their own.  When you take the course, you will get the IPO and STEM loop diagrams as guides along with the DocOA V2.0 User Manual, and a copy of Schwartz's original book, Growing Smarter, the intelligence of organizing. Check out the FAQ's below and the seminal 1995 Middlesex News article for reference. What's different today is Schwartz delivers the program using off the shelf stationery products making the program economical and universally available. May the Schwartz be with you.

More on the game  afoot...

It's not wishy washy at all...the "executive function" space in which Schwartz shares his model is not only complex, but also paramount in the big scheme of learning. Apply his method of critical thinking for organizing literacy, enable the formation of Actual Intelligence, boost outcomes, and help your student leverage the use of Artificial intelligence to achieve their learning goals and objectives.

Schwartz is recognized as "The Father of Organizing Literacy". How he arrived at that waypoint is as novel and unique as each and every one of your stories. What is the learning journey and story that you are fostering for your children? Take a page out of Dave's playbook. See his posts on how finder-binder came to be.

Dave looks very good on paper. National Merit Scholar, recipient of the MacMullen full tuition scholarship at Cornell where he received his BSEE in Electrical Engineering. Assistant Professor and Teaching Assistant to earn his MSEE at MIT in Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science. As a late business executive bloomer, he earned his MBA from the School of Business Management at Boston University and proceeded to invent and patent the original surface computer, along with forming and starting three start-ups.

Schwartz, now appreciated as a national treasure, has the single goal to show parents how to make america smart again. He is blessed to have had influential mentors in his life. He is a disciple of Doug Ross (inventor of SADT), indebted to the early thinkers in AI and early child hood learning...Marvin Minski and Seymour Paper who he studied under...and thankful to have had early mentoring from cousin Charles Steinhardt, and teachers Mr. Walker and Mr. Trinkosfky (find out about those stories later in his blog).  

In your hour of exploration, discover his framework and SAVVY theories of hands-on learning by doing. See if he has something that inspires you and your student. When you find The Schwartz Method is a fit for your application, then Just Use It™. Our learning management system provides rich landing pages with content to discover the secret of "Intellectual Property(IP)", to boost your Actual Intelligence, and to successfully achieve your goals step by step/day-in and day-out. Give your student child hope in how to use " their IP" to leverage AI(Artificial Intelligence)...don't let AI intimidate and diminish their hopes and dreams.

If you haven't seen or heard about DocOA before, as a little history lesson, read the FAQ's. Then read the 1995 article that shares the development of the original "HyperFlow Notebook" at FAY School in Massachusetts. Learn even more about the DNA of DocOA in the Productive Education Company History.

DocOA stands the test of time with it's V2.0 release as a result of the power of the underlying I-P-O framework that Schwartz researched and used to build the original tools. In the course enrichment materials, he shares the research and findings that continue to be an inspiration to parents, and especially for educators. Whether a parent or a teacher, don't hesitate to "rinse-and-repeat" with Schwartz,  your student, and DocOA V2.0.