Every September, schools hand out planners. By November most of them are doodle pads, and homework lives in screenshots of the whiteboard. It is tempting to read this as a discipline problem. It is not.
A paper planner asks a student to do three hard things every single day: capture the work accurately, estimate how long it will take, and find a realistic slot for it around sport, family, and everything else. Adults with calendars and reminders struggle with this. We ask fourteen-year-olds to do it with a pen, from memory, on the bus.
The schools that get independent study right do not ask students to be more organized. They remove the organizing. When the work a teacher sets arrives on the student's timetable with time already found for it, the student's job shrinks to two things: show up to the session, and mark it done.
That is the entire idea behind Lock In. Not another planner to fill in, but a plan that fills itself in.