When I picture where we are going in education, I don’t see a long road or a map with an X that marks the spot. I actually picture teachers and administrators with their arms piled high with everything they carry with them every day into the classroom–not the coffee mugs and canvas tote bags filled

We have added Priority Updates to announce changes and new features. You won’t have to look for them. They will show up when you need them. We hope they are helpful to you so that you can enjoy and utilize all that My Lesson Planner has to offer. Let us know how you like this

We have just added a new feature to My Lesson Planner that cleans up the left margin area of your lesson and information blocks. Just mouse over the small knob icon and you will see all of your other editing icons. The click and drag arrows are beside the editing icon so you can still

The CCSS standards have been updated to show the format most commonly seen when referencing the Common Core Standards. (Ex: Math OA.5.1, Math.G.CO.1, English W.5.1a) If you can’t see the CCSS standards, make sure your Preferences show you have marked National Standards to show. Then click on NS, then CCSS, and you will see your

These Arkansas Family and Consumer Sciences CTE standards were recently updated: Child Care Guidance, Management, and ServicesHousing and Interior DesignClothing Management You may need to reattach standards to your lesson plans if you would like them to show in your standards usage reports. We apologize for any inconvenience for those of you who have attached

The Arkansas Marketing CTE standards have been updated to allow you to click on both the knowledge and the application standards. These standards were re-entered from scratch to make sure both skills were able to add to lesson plans, so it will likely affect your standards usage reporting. If you are wanting to run reports

Travel and Tourism has been added to the Arkansas CTE standards, and the standards for Sports and Entertainment Marketing have been updated and placed in the Business Category. My Lesson Planner Support Staff

The Pocahontas Math and Science Learning Skills have been added to My Lesson Planner. To get them to show on your lesson plans, go to Preferences (small knob icon on the top right), make sure the Show Pocahontas Math and Pocahontas Science is toggled on, and toggle off the ones you don’t want to see,

The AEMP Access Strategies have been added to My Lesson Planner for LA Unified. To get them to show on your lesson plans, go to Preferences (small knob icon on the top right), make sure the Show AEMP Access Strategies is toggled on, and toggle off the new components you don’t want to see, and

We want to wish all of you a very happy and successful 2011! We will be adding some new features for you this year and tweaking some of the features that are already in place. Keep watching the latest news for information on new updates.

Changes have been made to several subjects in the Arkansas standards. Below is a list of updates or added standards. Please let us know if you experience any problems or are seeing inconsistencies with the standards. K-8 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies (updates) K-8 8th Grade Social Studies – Arkansas History (newly added– AR