Hello Transparent Classroom Team, Anthony from Forestville Montessori School, Sydney Australia.

Once again, loving your product. I'd like to make a feature request which I believe could enhance your product and help teachers stop duplicating lessons and plans across multi-documents and apps.

Currently Transparent Classroom makes the task of generating lessons and organising them into lists such as weekly, by lesson, or by student very easy. The piece that we have identified that is missing is the actual individual lesson. Most schools have a requirement that teachers, especially in elementary plan lessons from their albums. The album provides the basis for the lessons, it is the user manual on how to present lessons but is not the lesson plan. The lesson plan feature in Transparent Classroom builds a lesson list, it is not a lesson plan from a curriculum point of view.

The lesson plan has very specific features:
- Subject Area
- Term or Semester
- Week or Date
- Lesson Title
- Album Reference
- Direct Aim
- Lesson Summary
- Designated Follow-up
- Children
- Additional Notes
- There could be the ability to add or modify these headers as required by school

Would it be possible to build this feature into Transparent Classroom?

I would see the following scenario happen when a teacher starts the planning process:

1. Select the lesson title
2. Select the children
3. Select the date
4. It would also flag the lesson for presentation as it currently does
5. It would also build the current Weekly Lesson Plan list

This would then auto populate a page that is the beginning of the detailed lesson plan.

1. Teacher then fills out the rest of the document
2. Album Reference
3. Direct Aim
4. Lesson Summary
5. Designated Follow-up

6. Additional Notes

7. These documents are then saved securely in Transparent Classroom as a ‘one-shop-repository’. There would need to be some sort of nomenclature or file structure so that the plans are easily accessible e.g. Top Level: Anthony’s 9-12 Class 2020 / Next Level: folders for subject areas / The plan is then stored in the appropriate folder with a date stamp eg. 2020-Wk6-28Aug.

The reason I’m proposing this is that we are moving away from paper documentation and storage. Also, we are trying to streamline the process and make it consistent across the school. Some teachers use Word docs, other use spreadsheets, some use OneNote etc. We are looking for ease of use, collaborative documents, easy access and storage.

What do you think? Would love to discuss further as it is getting very frustrating have documents all over the place. Could be a ‘WIN-WIN’ for Transparent Classroom and Schools. The lesson plans would not be available to parents.