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Empowering Educators: How Common Curriculum Transformed Frances Diaz’s Teaching Experience

Switching from the “really ugly and…really tedious” Gradelink to Common Curriculum was a game-changer for Frances Diaz, a 5th and 6th grade teacher who found…

Stories From the Field: Simple Lessons Are Often the Strongest

Ten years ago, on a warm late-July morning, I was adjusting my necktie, watching myself in the mirror of the staff restroom at STEM Preparatory Academy.…

Don’t Throw Away The Gold! 3 Powerful Ways to Reuse Your Best Lesson Plans!

Every once in a while, we teachers stumble upon a great idea: a catchy hook, a sticky pneumonic device, or a simple way to teach a tough concept. And…

Google Classroom and Common Curriculum: A match made in lesson planning heaven

Common Curriculum, the best online lesson planner in the world, now works seamlessly with Google Classroom! You’ll be amazed at how much time you save and how…

A Call for Help: What We Can Do about Police Brutality & Racism in and out of the Classroom

Dear Teachers,

Our template library got bigger and better!

We know setting up your lessons and planbook can be a drag. We want to make lesson planning a breeze by creating super-powered tools, like our new expanded…

Cc’s guide to Covid planning

We know times are strange. Like, really really strange. There’s no denying that education looks incredibly different today than how we imagined the year might…

Cc Teacher Highlight: Leah Pfeiffer

Cc Teacher Highlights are where we introduce you to the innovative teachers across the country who are using Cc to take the busy work out of lesson planning.

Cc Teacher Highlight: Dominique Jones

Cc Teacher Highlights are where we introduce you to the innovative teachers across the country who are using Cc to take the busy work out of lesson planning.

From teachers to techies: The Cc Story

Meet Robbie, Scott and Marika, three former teachers who design technology that makes teachers’ lives easier. Robbie and Scott are the founders of the digital…

Cc Teacher Highlight: Erin Nutsugah

Ready for more back-to-school inspiration? Meet Erin, another Baltimore City teacher, illustrator, and fiber artist using Common Curriculum to write creative…

Real Teachers Love Cc!

Just ask Erin and Meghann, two Baltimore City teachers and best friends who use Common Curriculum to make lesson planning fun.

4 Reasons to Love Cc 5.0

Introducing Common Curriculum 5.0! We’ve unlocked some pretty awesome stuff for back-to-school season, including free collaboration (woo!). Here are 4 ways…

Cc Teacher Highlight: Meghann Harris

We’ve known Meghann since 2012 when she came to the launch of Common Curriculum! Since then, Meghann has used Cc to help her develop a 3-year graphic design…

It’s Time to Tame Your Lesson Plans

Do you ever feel like your lesson plan binder takes on a life of its own? We want to change that.

6 ways Cc saves new teachers

The first year of teaching is exciting and overwhelming, all at the same time. Just ask Rachel, Nicole, and Sam, three teachers who used Cc to help them…

Cc Teacher Highlight: LaQuisha Hall

LaQuisha’s energy fills a room the minute she walks in and flashes you her big, warm smile.

We just added 3,000 new standards!

Yup, you read that right! We just added 3,000 new standards for the 2019–20 school year, bringing our total number of standards to a whopping 828,206. That’s a…

Search for and reuse your old lessons and units

We’re excited to announce Common Curriculum’s new lesson importer! It lets you search your old planbooks (or your friends’ planbooks) and then quickly reuse…

New Feature Alert: Search Lesson Plans

That’s right! You can now search all your past lesson plans!

We’ve Made Cards Even More Powerful in Cc

As you can tell, our developers are working hard to bring the most-requested features to Common Curriculum. We are committed to making Common Curriculum the…

Directly Post to Google Classroom from Cc!

We listened to our hundreds of users who are using Google Classroom and wanted to see possible integrations with Common Curriculum. In the past few months, we…

Tell us what you want. (What you really really want.)

We take teacher feedback seriously here at Cc. In 2017 alone we answered over 10,000 messages and feature requests. We are a company that actually uses the…

The 5 most important things you should know about Common Curriculum 4.0

We are so incredibly jazzed to be releasing Common Curriculum 4.0 today! Over the last year, we’ve read thousands of feature requests, written 55,000 lines of…

Everything we’ve added to Cc 4.0 to shave off hours from your weekly planning routine

When we taught, we spent most of our planning time writing lessons for the following week, so anything that made weekly planning faster, made our lives…

Step up your monthly planning game with these 5 awesome new month calendar improvements!

We’ve made some huge improvements in this latest release of Cc, and a bunch of which have gone to making monthly planning faster and more responsive. Since…

Take control of your long range plans with Cc 4.0’s new and improved unit planner

At Common Curriculum we believe that there’s no meaningful difference between long-range and daily lesson planning. Good unit planning informs good lesson…

Five ways Cc 4.0’s new day menu will speed up your lesson planning

Busy work is the enemy of creative and happy teachers. That’s why we’re launching the day menu in Cc 4.0. With the new day menu, when there’s a snow day or a…

Slice and dice your planning however you want

A sheet of paper is a lesson planning straightjacket. Once you write an idea down on paper, it’s stuck there, immobile, forever imprisoned on that one…

Cc now has a universal undo button

Click to see Cc4.0’s undo button in action!

Five Ways to Organize Your Day in Cc

Common Curriculum isn’t just a tool to organize lesson plans, it is a tool to organize your entire day! Use these tips and tricks to make 2017 your most…

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