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Your Maryland center gets every age group and every classroom unlocked from the moment you register.
Watch how a teacher in a Maryland classroom pulls up today's activity, materials and ELBY coaching on a tablet, with no copies to make.
Explore 52 weeks of lessons across five age groups, with Maryland alignment documents for infants, toddlers and 3–5 year olds.
Get a walkthrough shaped around your Maryland program, whether you're working toward an EXCELS rating, applying for pre-K slots or serving Scholarship families.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. Maryland programs get 52 weeks of lessons, ELBY in every activity, bilingual English and Spanish materials and LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand PD, plus alignment documents for the Maryland Early Learning Standards.
LBP's Maryland alignment documents cover four bands: 0–12 months, 13–24 months, 25–36 months and 3–5 years. Lessons are mapped to Maryland Early Learning Standards indicators, the core requirement MSDE sets for curricula in EXCELS Quality Rating 5 and accredited programs. Directors can open the documents any time from our alignments page.
ELBY is the coach inside each lesson plan. It suggests how to simplify an activity for a child who needs more support, how to raise the challenge for one who is ready, and what to look for while children play, so Maryland teachers have help between visits from a director or coach.
LBP University's 49.5 hours of on-demand PD come with your subscription. Maryland asks directors and teachers for 12 clock hours of continued training a year, at least 6 in Core of Knowledge areas. LBP University adds curriculum-focused learning; check with MSDE before counting its hours.
Curriculum documentation is part of moving up in Maryland EXCELS. With LBP, lesson plans, alignment documents and observation notes are already organized, so you can show how daily teaching connects to the Maryland Early Learning Standards without building a binder for the occasion.
A new teacher in a Maryland classroom can open the week's plan, see the materials and read ELBY's tips before children arrive. You spend less time re-explaining routines and more time on the coaching only a director can give.
English and Spanish content comes with every LBP subscription. MSDE runs some of its own pre-K information sessions in Spanish, and LBP lets your classroom materials and family updates do the same.
Your yearly plan covers infant, toddler, preschool and pre-K rooms alike. A Maryland director pays one bill for the whole center, however many classrooms it runs.
Your Maryland center gets every age group and every classroom unlocked from the moment you register.
Each teacher signs in on whatever device they have, chooses an age group and week, and gets the activity steps, materials list and ELBY's coaching note. They can be ready for the first lesson the same morning.
Yes. LBP publishes Maryland alignment documents for four age bands, 0–12 months, 13–24 months, 25–36 months and 3–5 years, mapping lessons to Maryland Early Learning Standards indicators. MSDE asks that curricula used with children from birth to five be aligned with those standards, as its early childhood curriculum guidance explains. You can download each document from our curriculum alignments page.
Learning Beyond Paper is Maryland EXCELS approved. EXCELS awards Quality Ratings 1 through 5, and MSDE requires programs seeking Quality Rating 5 or Maryland Accreditation to use a curriculum aligned with the Maryland Early Learning Standards, such as a published curriculum. LBP supports that criterion with aligned lessons, daily plans and observation tools, but your rating still depends on your whole program, from staff qualifications to family engagement.
Child care centers and family child care homes are licensed through MSDE’s Office of Child Care, within its early childhood division. Each program has an unannounced inspection every 12 months, which includes a check on staff continued training. LBP doesn’t handle licensing paperwork, but it gives you a written curriculum for each age group and a clear daily plan in every room, which is easier to walk an inspector through than loose activity sheets.
Yes. Under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, private child care centers, family child care homes, Head Start, Montessori and faith-based programs can join the mixed-delivery pre-K system alongside public schools. The FY27 Prekindergarten Expansion Grant funds $19,950 per slot, and applicants set goals tied to kindergarten-readiness curriculum and instruction. LBP’s 3–5 year lessons, daily plans and observational assessment tool give you a concrete plan to describe. The grant guide sets the final requirements.
The Child Care Scholarship Program helps income-eligible Maryland families pay for care while they work, study or train. It is running with a waitlist because demand exceeds funding, and since July 1, 2026 MSDE has been awarding scholarships to a small number of waitlisted families as space opens. LBP doesn’t change scholarship eligibility or payments. It gives every child in your program, scholarship or private pay, the same curriculum and family engagement tools.
LBP University gives your staff 49.5 hours of on-demand professional development as part of the subscription. Maryland asks directors, teachers and family child care providers to complete 12 clock hours of continued training each year, at least 6 in Core of Knowledge areas, and aides 6 hours. Staff with an active Maryland Child Care Credential at Level 2 or above are exempt from the 12 hours. Confirm with MSDE before counting LBP University hours toward any of this.
One school-wide yearly subscription for every classroom in your Maryland center, infant to pre-K. That includes ELBY, LBP University, English and Spanish content, family engagement tools and the Maryland alignment documents, with no charge per teacher or per room. Materials kits are available through Lakeshore Learning, and customers get grant-writing support, which can help if you are applying for Pre-K Expansion funding.
Yes, at no extra cost. Every activity is available in English and Spanish, and family engagement materials can go home in either language. MSDE itself offers some Push to Pre-K information sessions for providers in Spanish, and LBP lets your classrooms do the same with families. Teachers can also use the observational assessment tool to share each child’s progress at home.
Start a 30-day trial, and every classroom in your Maryland program gets full access on day one. Use it to run a few weeks of lessons in a toddler room and a pre-K room, look through the Maryland alignment documents and try ELBY with a new teacher. If you’d prefer a guided start, book a demo first. When 30 days are up, you choose whether to continue with a yearly subscription.
Yes. Family child care homes take part in Maryland EXCELS and can join Blueprint pre-K, and one subscription gives a home provider lessons for every age they care for. Head Start and Early Head Start programs get alignment to the Head Start ELOF plus CLASS® keys on each activity. Read more on our family child care and Head Start pages.
Sensory, language, and attachment-focused lessons for ages 0–12 months.
Independence, early language, and mobility activities for ages 12–24 months.
Creativity, communication, and social growth for ages 24–36 months.
Standards-aligned, play-based lessons for children ages 3–4 years.
Kindergarten readiness and school-preparedness for children ages 4–5 years.
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Every age band has a Maryland alignment document, so curriculum evidence for EXCELS, accreditation and licensing visits comes out of the teaching you already do.
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