Binders

Your Core binder should have four sections

1. Notes
2. Handouts
3. Reading
4. HW/Tests

It often doesn't matter to me so much where you put things, it simply matters that you know where you put them. Having an organized system is much better than the stuff it in the backpack routine. I don't mind if you have this binder within another binder, or if you have accordion files or anything like that. What does matter is that you have an organized system (stuffing them into big, overloaded folders doesn't count!).