The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

In the final podcast of the S.O.S. podcast series, the U.B. Smart Middle School students race up Motivation Mountain where they learn grade and activity goal setting, along with other strategies for ruling their middle school world!

Scattered Sara has been acting a little odd -- she thinks she's being followed. In this podcast, Sara realizes that her social studies project is sneaking up on her! It's due in two days, and she hasn't done any of the work! Homework detective Ace Bandich helps Sara solve The Case of the Sneaky Social Studies Project, by showing her how to successfully manage a long term project. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Books, homework, permission slips, lunch… Perfect Polly is totally dependent on her mom to remind her of what she needs to bring to school every day. In this podcast, Polly learns how to use her amazing mental powers to remember, on her own, everything she needs to bring to school every day. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Jamal receives low scores on his Health class project because he didn't use the rubric correctly. In this podcast, Jamal, Larry, Polly, Chris and Sara take a Rubric Road Trip to learn the rules of rubric road! Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Perfect Polly did well on tests and quizzes, and expects a good grade in her history class. But, when her report card arrives, she is shocked to discover that her failure to follow directions, and missed due dates and deadlines, doomed her grade. Polly learns about grade averaging, and why it's important to take notes on due dates, deadlines and directions. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Jamal is troubled when he dreams he is a middle school teacher. He soon realizes that his dream isn't about being a teacher, it's about being a responsible middle school student – being prepared, persistent and polite. U.B. Smart Middle School students call into the "Responsible Student Hotline", for advice about responsibility dilemmas. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Superhero Study Bud rescues Larry from yet another homework disaster, then drops by U.B. Smart Middle School to tell the students about the buddy system. Larry solves a group project crisis by using his Awesome Group Project Organizer. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

In this podcast, Chronically Disorganized Chris learns that he has PPD -- Personal Planner Disorder. He turns to planner expert Dear Blabby for help. She teaches him that using his planner is as easy as 1,2,3! Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

Due to disastrous binder conditions, Scattered Sara has lost homework and a permission slip! In this podcast, Sara reorganizes her binder to "goof-proof" and shares the secret of the Goof Proof Binder with listeners. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!

In this introductory podcast, students explore the organizational challenges of middle school. In an "I Spy an Organizational Error" exercise, they meet the organizationally-challenged students of U.B. Smart Middle School. Based on Tween Publishing's organizational skills workbook The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World!