A practical resource library
Find a guide by the teaching problem you are solving. Use the search and topic filter for a quick route, or start with the cornerstone guides below.
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Objectives and Standards · Guide and template · 20–30 minutes
Use a step-by-step guide, checklist, sentence frame, template, and worked example to justify lesson choices with learner needs, objectives, and evidence.
Objectives and Standards · Source and citation guide · 30–45 minutes
Find credible teaching evidence, match each source to a claim, record usable notes, and cite sources clearly in a lesson-plan rationale without overclaiming.
Objectives and Standards · Alignment planning guide · 20–30 minutes
Use a practical alignment map to connect one learning objective with classroom activity, student evidence, access supports, and the next teaching decision.
Instructional Strategies · Transfer planning guide · 20 minutes
Plan for transfer by varying contexts, comparing examples, fading prompts, asking students to select a strategy, and collecting evidence in a new situation.
Subject-Specific Teaching · Workshop planning guide · 30 minutes
Plan a reading workshop with a concise mini-lesson, sustained reading, teacher conferences, accessible text choices, response evidence, and predictable routines.
Assessment and Feedback · Assessment planning guide · 20 minutes
Replace one worksheet with an assessment method that elicits the intended knowledge or reasoning, while keeping criteria, access, and scoring manageable.
Multilingual Learners · Planning template · 25 minutes
Write an ELD standard into a lesson plan by linking language function, language demand, proficiency support, content objective, and observable evidence.
Classroom Management and Routines · Integration guide · 20 minutes
Choose an explicit SEL skill, teach it in context, protect voluntary disclosure, use observable evidence, and connect concerns to the school’s support route.
Instructional Strategies · Student evaluation guide · 20 minutes
Teach students to check authorship, purpose, evidence, currency, context, and corroboration through a short web-source routine with worked comparisons.
Subject-Specific Teaching · Activity sequence · 15–25 minutes
Use a clear oral-language sequence for rhyme, syllables, onset–rime, and phoneme work, with short sound games and an observable response at each step.
Student Engagement · Task-design guide · 25 minutes
Design a mathematics task that requires conjecture, representation, collaboration, and revision, with teacher questions and evidence beyond answer speed.
Teacher Development and Mentoring · Coaching cycle guide · 20–30 minutes
Plan a non-evaluative coaching cycle with a teacher-selected focus, agreed evidence, observation boundaries, feedback meeting, and follow-up decision.
Multilingual Learners · Model implementation guide · 25–35 minutes
Use the SIOP framework to connect content and language objectives with comprehensible input, interaction, practice, review, and observable lesson evidence.
Student Engagement · Project lesson-planning guide · 30–45 minutes
Craft a project-based lesson with a standards-aligned question, staged inquiry, individual evidence, collaboration roles, checkpoints, and a feasible final audience.
Lesson Planning Fundamentals · Lesson example · 25–35 minutes
Select a read-aloud, vocabulary, sequencing, writing, or art activity connected to the picture book, with materials and a clear literacy evidence check.
Lesson Planning Fundamentals · History lesson framework · 30 minutes
Use a source-based history lesson to connect present questions with chronology, evidence, perspective, corroboration, and the limits of historical claims.