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Each classroom in your Colorado program, from infants to pre-K, has the full curriculum as soon as your account is open.
Follow a Colorado teacher from login to activity: this week's plan, the materials, ELBY's coaching tip and the children already playing.
See 52 weeks of lessons for infants, toddlers, preschool and pre-K, each age band mapped to Colorado's Early Learning and Development Guidelines.
Book time with our team to see how LBP fits your Colorado program, whether you are a UPK provider, a CCCAP-enrolling center or a family child care home.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. Colorado programs get a year of lesson plans for five age bands, English and Spanish materials, an observational assessment tool, 49.5 hours of on-demand professional development, and alignment to the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines for every band.
LBP publishes Colorado alignment documents for infants (0 to 12 months), young toddlers, older toddlers and three- to five-year-olds, all mapped to the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines. The ELDGs' preschool content is anchored on the Head Start ELOF, which LBP is also aligned to, so the two frameworks reinforce each other in your lesson records.
ELBY works inside every lesson, giving Colorado teachers on-the-spot coaching: ways to simplify an activity for a child who needs support, ways to extend it for a child who is ready, and what to notice and note while observing.
Colorado teachers get 49.5 hours of on-demand professional development through LBP University, built into the platform. New staff learn the curriculum while they teach it, alongside the annual training CDEC already requires.
Colorado's Universal Preschool director has said providers will need a state-vetted curriculum or an approach that meets state standards, plus observation-based assessment. LBP's ELDG-aligned lessons and observational assessment tool give you a documented starting point while the rules are finalized.
Every licensed Colorado provider needs 15 hours of training a year, including 3 on social-emotional development. Between those courses, LBP's guided lessons and ELBY coaching help newer teachers practice the skills in front of children.
Being a dual-language learner is one of Colorado Universal Preschool's qualifying factors, which can open preschool to some 3-year-olds and, with income, more hours for 4-year-olds. LBP includes English and Spanish versions of every activity and family resource at no added cost.
Colorado programs use one yearly subscription for every room, from infants to pre-K: one login, one renewal date and no separate curriculum to buy for each age group.
Each classroom in your Colorado program, from infants to pre-K, has the full curriculum as soon as your account is open.
A Colorado teacher brings up the day's plan on a tablet or phone, checks the materials and ELBY's suggestion, and gets started, whether the activity happens at the art table or on the playground.
Yes. LBP publishes Colorado alignment documents for all four of its age bands (0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years), each mapped to the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines. The ELDGs cover birth to age eight, were updated in 2019, and anchor their preschool content on the Head Start ELOF, which LBP also aligns to. You can view each document on our curriculum alignments page.
CDEC is moving from the Colorado Shines QRIS to a new Quality Improvement System between May 2026 and January 2028. Programs keep their Level 3 to 5 ratings during the transition, and an interim pathway to a Provisional Level 3 opened on September 20, 2026, with more focus on coaching, professional development and program goals. LBP supports that kind of quality work with a standards-aligned curriculum, lesson records and an observational assessment tool. It does not earn or promise a rating.
CDEC’s Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration (DELLA) licenses family child care homes and child care centers in Colorado. LBP gives you a written curriculum for each age group, tied to the ELDGs, and a record of the activities each classroom completed, which helps when a licensing specialist asks how you plan learning. It does not replace any licensing rule, and a state task force is currently reviewing how licensing could be streamlined.
Yes, Universal Preschool providers can use LBP today. Colorado’s UPK director has said that in the next couple of years providers will need a state-vetted curriculum or an approach that meets state standards, along with observation-based assessment. Those rules are not final, so we cannot say yet whether LBP will be on a state list. What we can offer now is ELDG alignment for every age band, ELOF alignment and an observational assessment tool. Check CDEC’s UPK Resource Bank and provider handbook for current requirements.
Yes. The Colorado Child Care Assistance Program is managed by each county’s Department of Social or Human Services together with CDEC, and each county sets its own eligibility rules within state limits. Using LBP does not affect CCCAP authorizations or payments, and we make no reimbursement promises. It simply gives programs serving CCCAP and UPK families the same curriculum, family materials in English and Spanish, and observation tools in every room.
We do not claim it does. Colorado requires 15 hours of annual training for licensed child care providers, including 3 on social-emotional development, and many required courses are offered through the Colorado Shines Professional Development Information System (PDIS). LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning are included with your subscription and help teachers use the curriculum well, but check PDIS or your licensing specialist before counting any hours.
Colorado programs use one yearly subscription for school-wide access. That one price includes every classroom from infants to pre-K, every teacher, ELBY coaching, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, English and Spanish content and the Colorado ELDG alignment. No per-teacher fees, no per-classroom fees. LBP also offers grant-writing support for customers.
Yes. Every activity and family engagement resource is available in English and Spanish at no extra charge. That matters in Colorado, where being a dual-language learner whose home language is not English is one of the Universal Preschool qualifying factors used for extra eligibility, and where CDEC publishes the Early Learning and Development Guidelines in Spanish as well as English. Teachers can share the week’s learning with families in either language.
Yes. Your Colorado program gets 30 days of full access for every classroom and age band. Programs using Procare may qualify for a 90-day trial. Nothing is billed automatically. At the end of the trial, start a yearly subscription only if LBP fits your program.
Yes. Family child care homes are licensed by DELLA and can also take part in Universal Preschool. Home providers often care for infants, toddlers and preschoolers together, and LBP’s five age bands let one educator plan for a mixed-age group from a single login, with Spanish and English family materials. Learn more on our family child care page.
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