How to Set Up Your School Year in Book Taco

Book Taco uses your school year dates to organize student progress, track reading activity by period, and automatically transition students to the next year. Here's how to configure it.

• Step 1: Open your Teacher Panel
• Step 2: Fill in the school year dates
• Step 3: Save and confirm

Step 1: Open your Teacher Panel

Log in to your Book Taco account. If your account has an active paid plan and your school year has not been configured yet, the Set up your school year modal will appear automatically on your panel.

This setup is only available to independent paid teachers. If your account is linked to a Super User, your school year dates are managed by your Super User and are applied to your account automatically.

Step 2: Fill in the school year dates

The modal asks for two dates:

• Current year ends on — the last day of the current school year. This is pre-filled with a suggested date based on the platform calendar; adjust it to match your school's actual end date.
• Next year starts on — the first day of the next school year. This must be a date after the current year's end date.

Screenshot of the Book Taco school year setup screen showing how teachers can define the end date of the current school year and the start date of the next school year to organize student progress and reporting.

Don't worry about the summer break gap between the two dates. Any reading activity your students complete during that period is never lost — it stays attached to the current school year and remains available in your reports.

Step 3: Save and confirm

Click Save school year. Book Taco will apply the current period to your account and schedule an automatic transition to the next school year on the start date you entered. Your students are enrolled in the new period automatically — no manual action is needed at the start of the next year.