Learning Xpress, combines on-site professional development and coaching with the power of a user-friendly software program (Lesson Plan Xpress) to help teachers ensure that they are addressing rigorous standards through research-based instructional methods-methods that enable student learning.

Learning Xpress immerses teachers in standards-based teaching and learning practices over a one-year period. The model helps teachers understand the important task of curricular planning that is tied to rigorous standards for student learning. Learning Xpress first engages teachers in understanding curriculum mapping and alignment to state and local standards. Specifically, Learning Xpress includes formal training, on-site coaching and software.

The Collaborative is pleased to make Learning Xpress available to help educators understand and implement truly effective standards-based teaching. Learning Xpress offers professional training from educators highly skilled in research-based best practices. Teachers will receive Lesson Plan Xpress™ software to help them use state/district standards to plan their classroom instruction and collaborate with their colleagues in purposeful and appropriate ways for years to come!

Lesson Plan Xpress™
Lesson Plan Xpress™ is a software program developed out of necessity after two principals and their schools realized that there was nothing on the market to satisfy the REAL needs of teachers. Lesson Plan Xpress™:

• Helps ensure that lessons are driven by district or state standards.
• Keeps resources a key stroke away. No more flipping through book after book to find the resources you need.
• Enables the curriculum that drives the planning process to stay visible to the teacher while skills, strategies, assessments, and other areas of the lesson are being developed.
• Allows school, district, or state curriculum to be entered into the program before it is installed on the network.
• Encourages a truly dynamic and responsive approach to evolving curriculum needs by allowing in-school technical administration.
• The lesson plan need only be designed from the ground up once. Once in the system, plans are easily adapted, revised and expanded.
• Provides ease of sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration with other teachers, including new teachers and specialists.

With Lesson Plan Xpress™ you get:

• Networked software for every teacher
• 2 days on-site professional development on curriculum mapping in a standards-based environment and use of software
• 1 day customized follow-up
• One-time fee-no annual or other recurring fees
  

Lesson Plan Xpress™ was developed by Educators' Solutions, and is distributed by the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning. Lesson Plan Xpress™ is not available without the installation and training components that comprise Learning Xpress.

For More Information
For more information about Learning Xpress, contact Christie Maloney at (502) 895-9500 or (800) 995-3965.