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Every classroom in your Alaska program gets the complete curriculum, infants to pre-K, the day your account opens.
Watch an Alaska teacher open the day's plan, gather the materials and read ELBY's tip before circle time starts.
Browse 52 weeks of plans for infants through pre-K, with each activity linked to the matching Alaska ELG stage and domain.
Talk with our team about your Alaska program, whether you run a licensed center, a group home, a family child care home or a district preschool classroom.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. An Alaska subscription covers 52 weeks of lessons across five age bands, 4,000+ activities, English and Spanish content, family engagement tools, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of on-demand training through LBP University, all mapped to the Alaska Early Learning Guidelines.
The Alaska Early Learning Guidelines follow children through four stages: infants to 9 months, mobile infants to 18 months, toddlers to 36 months and preschoolers to 60 months and beyond. LBP publishes a crosswalk for each of its four age bands against those stages, covering all five ELG domains, from physical wellbeing and motor development to communication, language and literacy.
When a lesson begins, ELBY is right there for Alaska teachers with short, practical coaching: a simpler version for a child who needs more support, a stretch for a child who is ready, and pointers on what to observe and record.
Alaska staff can work through 49.5 hours of self-paced professional learning in LBP University at no added cost. Courses focus on teaching the curriculum well, which complements the annual training hours your caregivers already track for licensing.
Learn & Grow looks at how programs use research-based curriculum and child assessments as they move through its five levels. LBP gives you ELG-mapped lessons and an observational assessment tool in one place, so evidence of your curriculum practice builds up as teachers teach.
Alaska rules call for 24 hours of annual training for each administrator and caregiver. Courses build knowledge; ELBY's in-lesson coaching helps newer staff put it into practice with children the same day.
Alaska's guidelines note that residents speak more than 20 Native languages and more than 80 other world languages. LBP provides every lesson and family resource in English and Spanish, and teachers remain free to bring local languages, stories and traditions into any activity.
One yearly subscription covers every classroom in your Alaska program, infant room through pre-K, with one login and no separate curriculum to buy for each age group.
Every classroom in your Alaska program gets the complete curriculum, infants to pre-K, the day your account opens.
Teachers pull up the week's plan on a tablet, phone or laptop, check the materials list and ELBY's tip, then teach, whether the activity happens at a table, in the gym or outside in the snow.
Yes. LBP publishes Alaska crosswalks 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 Alaska Early Learning Guidelines that DEED posts. The current guidelines date from January 2020, update the original 2007 version and run from birth to kindergarten across five domains. Lessons from infancy through pre-K also align to the Head Start ELOF. See every document on our curriculum alignments page.
Learn & Grow is Alaska’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System. thread manages it, participation is voluntary, and it recognizes five levels of quality, with attention to how programs use research-based curriculum and child assessments. LBP gives you ELG-mapped lessons, an observational assessment tool and a running record of what each classroom taught. It supports that quality work but does not award or promise a Learn & Grow level.
The Child Care Program Office in the Alaska Department of Health licenses and monitors centers, group homes and family child care homes, and in Anchorage programs can be licensed through the state or the Municipality of Anchorage. LBP gives each classroom a written, age-based plan and a log of completed activities, which is useful when a licensing specialist asks how you plan learning for each age group.
Yes. Under the Alaska Reads Act, district programs that meet DEED’s Early Education Program Standards can count four- and five-year-olds at 0.5 ADM. Curriculum is one required component of those standards, alongside developmental screening and Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment. Districts choose their own curriculum, and LBP’s 3 to 5 year lessons are mapped to the Alaska ELGs with GOLD® objectives on every activity, so teachers can connect daily plans to their checkpoints.
Yes. Alaska’s Child Care Assistance Program, also called PASS, is overseen by the Child Care Program Office, with thread handling the Northern, Interior and Southeast areas and tribal organizations offering their own assistance. Programs serving CCAP families use LBP the same way as any other program: every child in the room, subsidized or not, gets the same planned lessons, observation tools and family materials.
We do not claim they do. Alaska requires each administrator and caregiver to complete 24 hours of annual training relevant to child care and development, or 12 for part-time caregivers working 15 hours or less a week, and many educators track training in the Alaska SEED Registry. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning help teachers use the curriculum well, but check with your licensing specialist before counting any of it.
One yearly subscription gives school-wide access in your Alaska program. That covers every classroom from infants to pre-K, every teacher, ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, English and Spanish content and the Alaska ELG crosswalks. There are no per-teacher or per-classroom fees, and LBP offers grant-writing support to customers looking for funding.
Every activity and family resource comes in English and Spanish at no added cost. In Alaska, about 14% of residents age 5 and older speak another language at home, most often an Alaska Native language, followed by Spanish and Tagalog. The ELGs encourage honoring each child’s home language and culture, and teachers can weave local words, stories and traditions into any LBP activity while sharing Spanish materials with families who use them.
Start a 30-day free trial. Every classroom and age band in your Alaska program gets full access, so an infant teacher and a pre-K teacher can test it in the same week. Check the Alaska crosswalk for the ages you serve and see how ELBY supports a new hire. If it fits, start a yearly subscription.
Yes. Home and group home providers in Alaska often care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers together. LBP’s five age bands let one educator plan for a mixed-age group from a single login, with each age linked to its ELG stage, and Spanish and English family materials are included. See our family child care page for how it works day to day.
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 follow the Alaska Early Learning Guidelines from infancy to pre-K, so every day of teaching adds to the curriculum and observation record that licensing and Learn & Grow conversations draw on.
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