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Your Montana center or home gets the complete curriculum for every age group as soon as the account opens.
Follow a Montana teacher from opening today's plan to setting out materials and reading ELBY's tip before the children join in.
Look through 52 weeks of plans for infants to pre-K, with the matching Montana Early Learning Standard listed on each activity.
Get a demo shaped to your Montana center, group home or family home, including your Montana's Treasures goals and Best Beginnings families.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. Montana programs get weekly plans for five age bands, English and Spanish materials, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning, all mapped to the Montana Early Learning Standards.
LBP publishes four Montana documents (0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years), each lining up LBP skills with the 2014 Montana Early Learning Standards, across the Emotional and Social, Physical, Communication and Cognition domains. Each band is also aligned to the Head Start ELOF.
In a small program the director is often the only coach on site. ELBY fills in during the lesson itself, suggesting how to simplify an activity, how to extend it for a child who is ready and what to note while you observe.
Montana teachers get 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning through LBP University, included in the subscription. Staff watch at the center or at home, without driving hours to a workshop, and apply it in the next day's lesson.
Stage 2C of Montana's Treasures recognizes continuous quality improvement through coaching, cohorts and improvement plans. LBP's lesson records and observation notes give you real classroom data to bring to those conversations.
Montana staff complete annual training to stay current on the ECP Practitioner Registry, and curriculum is one of the approved categories. ELBY's in-lesson prompts help teachers practice those skills with children every day.
Family homes care for 3 to 8 children and group homes for 9 to 15, often across several ages. LBP's five age bands let one provider plan for the whole group from a single account.
A single yearly subscription covers every Montana classroom and teacher, infants through pre-K, with no per-room or per-teacher fees.
Your Montana center or home gets the complete curriculum for every age group as soon as the account opens.
Teachers load the plan on a tablet or phone, glance at the materials list and ELBY's tip, and start, whether the activity happens at the sensory table or out in the snow.
Yes. LBP has Montana 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 Montana Early Learning Standards (2014 edition). Each one lists the Montana benchmark beside the LBP skills that support it, and all four bands are also aligned to the Head Start ELOF. Find them on our curriculum alignments page.
Montana’s Treasures is the Quality Recognition System DPHHS launched on October 1, 2026, replacing the STARS levels. Licensed and registered programs reach Stage 1 through on-time renewal. Stage 2 lets you choose a path: career path, specialized training or continuous quality improvement. Stage 3 recognizes national accreditation and Head Start. LBP supports the improvement work with aligned lessons, observation notes and classroom records. Stages are awarded by the state, not by LBP.
DPHHS Child Care Licensing registers family homes (3 to 8 children) and group homes (9 to 15) and licenses centers (16 or more), with a pre-inspection, ongoing monitoring and an annual inspection. LBP gives every room a written plan for its age group and a record of completed activities, which makes it easier to show a licensing specialist how you plan and observe learning.
Yes. Montana’s preschool-age children are served in licensed centers, group and family homes, Head Start and public schools, and school districts run state-funded early literacy and numeracy programs before kindergarten. LBP’s pre-K plans, mapped to the Montana Early Learning Standards, work in any of those settings, alongside an observational assessment tool and family materials.
Yes. The Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship helps Montana families earning under 185% of the federal poverty level pay for licensed or registered care, with a sliding-fee co-payment, and families apply through the child care agency for their county. Using LBP has no bearing on a family’s scholarship or your payments. It means every child in the room, scholarship or private pay, follows the same planned lessons.
We do not claim that. Montana rules require directors and teaching staff to complete annual training approved through the Montana Early Childhood Project to stay current on the ECP Practitioner Registry, with free courses available on ChildCareTraining.org. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning come with the subscription and help teachers use the curriculum well. Check with the ECP before counting any of them.
One yearly subscription gives school-wide access. That one price covers every classroom from infants through pre-K, every teacher, ELBY’s coaching, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, English and Spanish content and the Montana alignment documents. There are no extra fees per teacher or per room, and LBP offers grant-writing support to customers.
Yes, at no extra charge. Every activity and family resource comes in English and Spanish. Spanish is the most common language other than English spoken in Montana homes, so for programs welcoming Spanish-speaking families, teachers can share each week’s learning in the language a family uses, while the rest of the class works from the same English plan.
Sign up and your Montana program gets 30 days of full access for every classroom and age band. Teachers can run real lessons with their own group before you decide. Programs that use Procare may qualify for a 90-day trial. Nothing is billed when the trial ends unless you choose to start a yearly subscription.
Yes. A Montana family home can care for 3 to 8 children and a group home for 9 to 15, often infants, toddlers and preschoolers together. LBP’s five age bands let one provider plan for that whole mix from a single login, with activities that work in a living room or a backyard. Learn more on our family child care page.
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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Lessons map to the Montana Early Learning Standards for each age band, and daily teaching builds the records licensing and quality reviews ask for.
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