How are you supposed to lead instruction if you can't see it?
Common Planner gives school leaders real-time visibility into lesson plans, pacing, and alignment across classrooms — without adding more meetings, emails, or admin work.
You're responsible for instructional quality. But the truth is...most leaders are flying blind.
You can't support instruction you can't see.
You don't know who has and hasn't completed plans
You can't easily tell what's being taught and when
You have no idea what standards have or haven't been covered
You spend hours chasing updates, sending reminders, and tracking down documents
Alignment across grades and subjects is inconsistent
And when you do find time to give feedback, it's buried in email threads
What Common Planner gives you
Instant Visibility
See which teachers have submitted plans, what standards are being taught, and where there are gaps — all in one place.
Better Alignment Across Classrooms
Ensure pacing and standards coverage stay on track across grades, subjects, and schools.
Faster, Clearer Feedback
Comment directly on lesson plans and support teachers without more meetings or long email chains.
Hours of Time Back Each Week
No more chasing documents, checking folders, or manually tracking planning completion.
AI-Assisted Insights
Identify missing standards, pacing issues, or instructional gaps instantly.
Happier, Less Stressed Teachers
When planning is faster and simpler, teachers feel more supported and more successful.
For the first time, I can actually see what's happening instructionally. Common Planner has changed how we support teachers.
How It Works
Teachers plan in one shared system
No more scattered docs, drives, or templates. Everything lives in one place.
You get real-time visibility
Check planning completion, standards alignment, and pacing in seconds.
You provide targeted support
Comment directly on plans and help teachers strengthen instruction.
Everyone saves hours every week
Less admin. More coaching. Stronger instruction.
Stop Hunting for Plans. Start Leading Instruction
Review lesson plans and send feedback in minutes, not hours.
All plans in one place
See all your teachers' plans in one place — organized, current, and ready to review.
Planning status at a glance
Know at a glance who's planned, who's planning, and who needs support.
Big picture to granular
Go from big picture to granular in seconds — click into any teacher, any class, any week.
Feedback where it counts
Leave feedback right where teachers are working, not buried in email threads.
Where Standards-Aligned Planning Actually Happens.
Track coverage, identify learning gaps, be prepared for testing season.
Tag standards in seconds
Teachers tag standards in seconds, not minutes — search, click, done. No typing, no guessing.
Spot the gaps early
Spot the gaps before they become problems: one teacher covering a standard 18 times while teammates skip it entirely.
One coverage dashboard
Know what's taught, what's skipped, and what's over-covered — all on one dashboard.
Testing season confidence
Walk into testing season confident, not guessing, about what students have learned.
Create and Customize Your Own Templates
Align lesson plans with school priorities
One template, unlimited uses
Create it at the district or school level and every teacher and team can use it.
Common language for all
Give new teachers a roadmap and veteran teachers a common language — everyone plans with the same essential elements.
Built-in requirements
Stop chasing consistency: build your requirements into the template, and teachers can't skip what matters most.
High Quality Feedback in Less Time.
Comment directly on lesson plans and support teachers without more meetings or long email chains.
Celebrate and address
Celebrate strong planning while addressing missing plans — bulk email any group with one click.
Quality feedback, routinely
Make quality feedback routine, not random: when teachers know you're looking, planning quality goes up.
Coaching record over time
Every comment you've ever left gets logged with timestamps — turn scattered feedback into a coaching record.
Private coaching feedback
Leave coaching feedback that stays between you and the teacher — separate from the collaboration teachers do with each other.
Built-In AI for Support Where You Need it
Use AI to differentiate, add activities, improve questioning and more.
Custom AI prompts
Customize AI prompts to reinforce your instructional vision — without adding work.
Meets teachers where they are
Every teacher struggles with something different — AI meets them where they are. No more staring at a blank template.
Import existing curriculum
Import existing curriculum and lesson PDFs — AI helps turn them into usable plans.
Scale coaching impact
Scale the impact of your coaches to give every teacher high-quality planning support.
Curriculum and Planning in One Place — Finally
Create units and add pacing that align with daily plans.
Curriculum inside the planbook
Curriculum lives right inside the plan books — no more tab-switching between Google Drive and lesson plans.
Big picture and daily view
Teachers see the big picture (units) and the daily view (lessons) side by side — copy from the curriculum into their plans with one click.
Build as much or as little as you want
Just pacing, full units, or anything in between — then push it out and teachers import it in one click.
All unit resources in one spot
Attach all your unit resources in one spot: assessments, anchor texts, templates, rubrics — teachers see it all when they need it.
"I used to spend hours tracking down plans. Now I get everything I need in seconds."
Collaboration Made Easy
No duplicated planning required for ELL, SPED, and service providers.
Plan inside gen-ed plan books
SPED, ELL, and service providers plan directly inside gen-ed teachers' plan books — add modifications, notes, or full sections without creating separate copies.
Shared plan books for teams
Grade-level or content teams can share one plan book where everyone contributes — perfect for lead planner models or divide-and-conquer teams.
Separate but visible
Keep plans separate but visible: teachers maintain their own plan books while staying aligned with what teammates are doing.
Common Planner helps us empower teachers to do what they’ve been hired to do and what we need them to do. The quality of lessons has improved, and we see it showing up in the quality of the teaching.
Copy Plans Year-to-Year
Never start from scratch again — build on what works, year after year.
Copy forward each year
Teachers copy their plan books forward each year with one click — comments, reflections, and improvements come with them.
School-wide archive
Build a school-wide archive over time: every teacher's plan book is preserved, so when someone leaves, their successor inherits years of institutional knowledge.
Share the best stuff instantly
Coaches push model units to teachers, lead planners share with teams, departments align without endless meetings.
Sub plans without the scramble
Teachers generate a shareable link with one click — no more emergency binders or frantic printing.
Why leaders choose Common Planner
Built for teachers and leaders
Not just one side of the work.
Easy to roll out, even mid-year
Simple onboarding for your whole school.
Works for any subject, grade, or model
Flexible enough for every classroom.
Secure, FERPA-compliant, IT-friendly
Built with security and compliance in mind.