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Every room in your Alabama program, from the infant room to pre-K, sees the full curriculum the same day.
Watch an Alabama toddler teacher open Tuesday's plan, gather the listed materials and read ELBY's tip before circle time starts.
Browse a full year of weekly plans for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and pre-K, each activity linked to the matching age step in Alabama's Early Learning Guidelines.
Talk with our team about your Alabama program: the rooms you run, your STARS goals, families whose care is subsidized through DHR, or a home with mixed ages.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. An Alabama subscription covers 52 weeks of plans across five age bands, bilingual family materials, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of on-demand training through LBP University, with crosswalks to Alabama’s Early Learning Guidelines from birth to age five.
LBP keeps four Alabama crosswalks, one each for 0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years. They follow the age steps of Alabama's Early Learning Guidelines, from the birth-to-six-month expectations up to the five-year-old ones, so an infant teacher and a pre-K teacher can both see which guideline an activity supports. The same lessons also carry Head Start ELOF, CLASS® and Teaching Strategies GOLD® references.
Inside each activity, ELBY gives Alabama teachers a short prompt: how to scale the task down for a child who is struggling, how to add a step for one who is ready, and which behaviors are worth jotting down while watching.
LBP University adds 49.5 hours of on-demand courses to every Alabama subscription. Teachers can learn the curriculum between classes, and directors gain a ready resource for bringing new staff up to speed during the year.
Alabama Quality STARS scores programs on a Best Practice Rubric, which includes a Curriculum and Instruction domain, alongside CLASS observations. LBP keeps written weekly plans, a CLASS® reference for each activity and your observation notes in one place, so the documentation side of a review is easier to gather.
DHR's center rules ask child care teachers for at least 12 clock hours of training a year and directors for 24. LBP's guided lessons and ELBY's prompts let teachers practice what those courses cover with children in the room.
Census figures summarized by USAFacts show about 313,000 Alabamians age five and older speak a language other than English at home, and Spanish is the most common of those languages. Every LBP activity and family handout comes in English and Spanish at no extra cost.
A single yearly subscription covers all of your Alabama classrooms and teachers, infants through pre-K, with no per-room charge and no separate infant curriculum to buy.
Every room in your Alabama program, from the infant room to pre-K, sees the full curriculum the same day.
Each Alabama teacher picks their age group, opens the week's activities and reads the materials list and ELBY's coaching note before children arrive. Lessons work at a table, on a rug or outside.
LBP’s Alabama crosswalks follow Alabama’s Early Learning Guidelines, the age-by-age expectations that run from birth to six months up to five years. There is a separate document for each LBP age band: 0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years. Every lesson also lists Head Start ELOF outcomes, a CLASS® dimension and Teaching Strategies GOLD® objectives. You can open each crosswalk on our curriculum alignments page.
It can help with the preparation. Alabama Quality STARS is voluntary, runs from STAR 1 to STAR 5, and scores programs on a Best Practice Rubric plus CLASS observations. The rubric’s domains include Curriculum and Instruction, Screening and Assessment, and Family Engagement. LBP gives you written plans, CLASS® references, an observational assessment tool and bilingual family materials to work from. The rating depends on your whole program, so no curriculum can earn it for you.
The Alabama Department of Human Resources, through its Child Care Services Division, licenses and monitors child care centers and homes. LBP gives each classroom a planned program of daily activities and keeps a record of what was taught, which is useful to have ready when licensing staff visit. Your licensing obligations stay the same, so keep working from DHR’s minimum standards for your type of facility.
Many Alabama centers run a First Class Pre-K classroom next to infant, toddler and three-year-old rooms. First Class Pre-K is a grant program of ADECE’s Office of School Readiness, and its classrooms follow ADECE’s requirements, so take curriculum questions for that room to your ADECE contact. LBP is built for the rest of the building: one subscription gives your younger rooms a full year of guideline-linked plans and keeps every teacher on a shared planning routine.
Yes. Alabama’s subsidized child care program is funded through the Child Care and Development Fund and run by DHR through four regional Child Care Management Agencies. Choosing LBP does not change a family’s eligibility or the payments your center receives. It means children whose care is subsidized learn from the same planned lessons, English and Spanish family materials and observation tools as every other child in the room.
Alabama’s center rules call for at least 12 clock hours of training a year for child care workers and teachers, and 24 for directors. Your subscription includes 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning through LBP University, focused on teaching the curriculum well. Ask DHR licensing which courses can be counted toward those yearly hours before you log any of them.
One yearly subscription gives your whole Alabama site access: every classroom from infants to pre-K, every teacher, ELBY’s coaching, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, Spanish and English materials and the Alabama crosswalks. There are no per-teacher or per-room fees, and our team can help customers with grant writing.
Yes. Each activity and family resource is available in English and in Spanish without an added fee. Spanish is the most common language other than English spoken at home in Alabama, with about 195,000 speakers age five and older in recent Census data, so many centers have families who prefer it. Teachers can send the week’s learning home in whichever language a family reads.
Create an account and every classroom in your Alabama program gets the complete curriculum for 30 days. Teachers can try real lessons with children, and you can look through the Alabama crosswalks before deciding. If LBP fits, continue with a yearly subscription for the whole site.
It does. DHR licenses child care homes as well as centers, and a home provider often has a baby, a toddler and a preschooler together on the same day. LBP lets one educator pull plans for each age from a single login, with Spanish and English family pages included. Read 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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Every lesson points to the Alabama guideline for its age band, so everyday teaching builds the curriculum and observation records that licensing visits and STARS reviews ask about.
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