A Planner That Finally Speaks Your Language (Literally)

If you teach French Immersion, or you're a Francophone teacher planning your entire year en français, you already know the frustration. Most planners on the market are English planners with a French sticker slapped on top. The headers don't quite make sense. The layout wasn't built with your program in mind. You end up translating things in your head anyway, or writing your own labels over top of someone else's design.

We wanted to fix that.

French Planning Deserves More Than a Translation

A planner isn't just a place to jot down dates. It's the tool you use to think through your entire year, your units, your routines, your communication with families. If that tool is fighting your language instead of working in it, it's adding friction to a job that already has enough of it.

French Immersion and Francophone teachers make up a huge, dedicated part of the teaching community, especially here in Canada. And yet so much of what's available to plan a school year assumes English first, French as an afterthought.

Here's the thing though, we (Katie and Megan) are teachers. We build every page of every planner based on what we actually need to survive a school year, because we're living that same school year right alongside you. This isn't a planner designed by someone guessing at what teachers might want. It's built by people who were marking papers at 9pm the night before, too.

We also get out from behind our desks and talk to teachers face to face, thousands of them a year, at conventions across the country. And over and over, we kept hearing the same thing from French Immersion and Francophone teachers: there just aren't enough tools out there built for them. We're a proudly bilingual country, and we felt like teachers deserved a product that reflected that, not an afterthought.

So we consulted with numerous French teachers throughout the process to make sure this planner actually works the way French classrooms work. Our lead consultant on this project is an Alberta teacher, born and raised in Quebec. Proudly Canadian, through and through, and we couldn't be prouder of what we built together.

Enter: Our French Planner

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Our French Planner isn't a basic planner made with AI. It includes every teacher-specific page our English teacher planner has, from month-at-a-glance spreads to weekly planning pages, all written and structured in French so nothing feels like it's working against you.

It comes with the same non-negotiables as every planner we make: a durable laminated cover that can handle a full year of being tossed in a bag, and a sturdy metal coil that lies flat and holds up to being flipped open forty times a day.

Right now, the French Planner is available in our blocked layout, and that wasn't a random choice. It's our most popular layout across all of our planners, and one of the biggest reasons is how flexible it actually is. You can use it vertically or horizontally, so it adapts to however your brain naturally organizes a day. Beyond the basic day-by-day plan, teachers use the blocked layout to:

• Plan by subject, giving each block a dedicated content area instead of squeezing everything into one line

• Plan by theme, blocking out time for units, seasonal activities, or classroom events at a glance

• Colour-code by prep period, duty, or specialty class so your week is visible in one look

• Track small group rotations or centers, giving each block its own group or station

• Separate teaching time from admin time, so planning periods and marking blocks don't get lost in the shuffle

However you plan, the blocked layout bends to fit you instead of forcing you into one rigid structure.

One more thing worth mentioning: this version is non-dated. We're still newer to the French market, and we wanted to be upfront about why we made that choice. Dated planners require a much bigger print run to make the cost work, and since we're just getting started here, going non-dated let us bring you the exact same price as our English planners right out of the gate. We didn't want anyone paying more just because their planner is in French. So we printed a higher quantity to keep the cost as low as possible, and we didn't hesitate to make that call, because giving teachers an affordable, quality tool matters more to us than the extra margin would have.

And the planner isn't the only French item we offer. Our French Bookmarks are made with the same high-end, lasting quality as their English counterparts. They snap right into the metal coil, so you can move them week to week or month to month as you flip through your planner, and since they're built to fit the coil, they work across our planners, notebooks, and gradebooks too. Grab one to keep your own spot, or pick up a little matching set as a gift for a French-teaching colleague.

We know this is a small but mighty step for our teaching community peers, and we're genuinely excited to keep exploring more French-language items for our store in the future.

Here's what we hear from French Immersion and Francophone teachers:

• They stop mentally translating headers and labels every time they sit down to plan

• Their planning finally matches the language they teach and think in all day

• They can hand their planner to a colleague, a student teacher, or even show it to families without switching languages mid-conversation

• They feel like their program was actually considered, not just accommodated

That last one matters more than it might seem. French Immersion programs are often treated as a smaller, secondary offering inside a school. Having a planner that was actually built with your program in mind, rather than retrofitted, is a small thing that adds up to feeling seen.

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Who This Is For

If you teach in a French Immersion program, a Francophone school, or you're bilingual and simply prefer to plan your year in French, this one's for you. It's also a great option for administrators or program coordinators looking for a planning tool to recommend to their French-language staff.

The Bottom Line

Planning your year shouldn't require translating your tools first. Our French Planner gives you the same quality, durability, and thoughtful layout as our English planner, built in the language you actually teach in.

Shop our French Planner at twoplannerbabes.com

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