School starts next week for me and I am going to make my grade book prettier. I already ordered a new grade book in June so it was waiting for me when I got in to school today. I use a House of Dolittle Class Record Book. It has always worked well for me with plenty of spaces to keep attendance and grades, this is my third year using one. 
I have seen a lot of teachers writing their plans into their Bullet Journals, but I keep all of mine on the computer so that it is there for me the next year. I also really do not like it when you get to the opposite page of the grade book because you have to look all the way on the other page to keep track of the line for a student. I realize this is not a terribly big deal, but it is annoying when you have a stack of grading you have to enter in.
So here is a blank page for one of my classes. I have a class list, but there is no way I am going to fill in any names until the first or second day of class because schedules can change.
I decided to try to use my grade book in slightly different way so I would not have to use both sides of the page for grading.
I made my label for the class bigger so I can find it easily and made the months at the top much bigger. The highlighted columns are days where there is no school.
On the other page, I used washi tape to put my plans for the class for that week. I hope to keep track of notes regarding how far we got and how well the different activities went. We are using a new curriculum this year for science. Overall it makes my grade book look nicer and I hope it keeps me organized. I may put another piece of paper below the names because I will definitely not have 35 students in any of my classes.
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