Digital Curriculum Aligned to Arizona’s Early Learning Standards and Guidelines

LBP has four Arizona alignment documents. The 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 month bands map to Arizona’s Infant and Toddler Developmental Guidelines (2012 edition), and the 3 to 5 band maps to the Arizona Early Learning Standards (2018 edition). Both frameworks are listed on Arizona’s early childhood standards and guidelines page, and every band also aligns to the Head Start ELOF. See each document on our curriculum alignments page.

Quality First, run by First Things First, rates participating programs from 1 star (Rising Star) to 5 stars (Highest Quality) through observations every two years, looking at learning environments, teacher skills and teacher-child interactions. Many participants also get coaching and funding for learning materials. LBP adds daily planned activities, conversation prompts from ELBY and lesson records. Stars come from Quality First’s own assessment, and LBP does not award them.

The Arizona Department of Health Services licenses child care facilities and certifies child care group homes, and the Department of Economic Security certifies family child care home providers caring for four or fewer children. LBP gives each classroom or home a written plan for its age group and a record of completed activities, which helps when an inspector asks how you plan and track learning.

Yes. Quality First Scholarships, funded by First Things First, help families with incomes up to 300% of the federal poverty level pay for care for children from birth to age 5, at programs rated three stars or higher. NIEER counts these scholarships as Arizona’s state preschool effort. LBP’s lessons for every age band, its observational assessment tool and bilingual family materials work the same way for scholarship and private-pay children.

Yes. The Arizona Department of Economic Security provides Child Care Assistance to eligible working families, families leaving cash assistance and children referred by the Department of Child Safety. Using LBP does not change a family’s eligibility or your payments. Every child in the room, assisted or private pay, gets the same planned lessons and family materials.

We do not claim they count toward state requirements. ADHS rules set annual training for child care staff, and the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry, run by First Things First, records your team’s training, education and career lattice level. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning are included with the subscription and help teachers use the curriculum well. Confirm with ADHS before counting any hours.

One yearly subscription gives school-wide access. That covers every classroom from infants to pre-K, every teacher, ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, English and Spanish content and all four Arizona alignment documents. There are no per-teacher or per-classroom fees, and LBP offers grant-writing support for customers seeking outside funding.

Yes, with no added cost. Every activity and family engagement resource has English and Spanish versions. About 1.86 million Arizonans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and nearly three in four of them speak Spanish. Arizona also publishes its early learning standards and infant-toddler guidelines in Spanish, so teachers and families can follow along in either language.

Start a 30-day free trial. Every classroom and age band in your Arizona program gets full access, so teachers can run real lessons and try ELBY with their own children. Programs using Procare may qualify for a 90-day trial. If it fits, start a yearly subscription after the trial. Nothing is billed automatically.

Yes. Every LBP lesson, from infants through pre-K, aligns to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, and Arizona programs also get crosswalks to the state’s infant-toddler guidelines and Early Learning Standards. NIEER counts 10,344 Arizona three- and four-year-olds in federally funded Head Start. Teachers get daily plans, ELBY coaching and an observational assessment tool in one place. Read more on our Head Start page.