Digital Curriculum Aligned to Delaware’s Early Learning Foundations

Yes. LBP’s Delaware alignment documents cover four bands. Lessons for 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 months map to the Delaware Early Learning Foundations: Infant/Toddler (2010 edition), and lessons for 3- to 5-year-olds map to the Delaware Early Learning Foundations: Preschool. DELACARE names both documents as examples for lesson planning. View every crosswalk on our curriculum alignments page.

Delaware’s QIS asks programs to work on Key Practices with a DIEEC Quality Improvement Specialist, set SMART goals in a Quality Improvement Plan and then apply for Quality Improvement Awards. One Key Practice is a research-based, comprehensive curriculum individualized through curriculum-based assessment. LBP supplies the curriculum and the observation records for that goal. Award decisions rest with the Department, which scores each application against its rubric.

The Office of Child Care Licensing, part of the Delaware Department of Education, enforces the DELACARE center rules. They call for lesson plans based on accepted research and in line with the Early Learning Foundations, and for children 24 months and older, weekly documented time for food exploration, science and nature, music and multi-sensory play. LBP’s weekly plans include that kind of variety and keep each room’s plan on file.

Delaware’s State Funded Early Care and Education Programs combine ECAP and Redding Consortium funding, and seats go to private and public providers through a request for proposals. Funded programs follow a statewide policies and procedures manual, and SFECEP has also funded infant and toddler seats. A center holding funded seats can run LBP across its other rooms, so one curriculum and one set of family materials serves the whole building.

Yes. Delaware’s 2026 budget expanded Purchase of Care eligibility to an estimated 1,400 more children each month and raised reimbursement rates by 10% for providers serving children from birth to age 5. LBP has no effect on Purchase of Care billing. It simply gives every child in your center, whether their care is subsidized or private-pay, the same lessons, observation tools and family materials.

We do not claim it does. DELACARE requires 18 clock hours of training a year for direct-care staff working 25 or more hours a week, including two hours of health or safety, and nine hours for those working fewer. Acceptable topics include curriculum planning and observation. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning strengthen those skills; confirm with OCCL or DIEEC before logging any of it.

One yearly subscription covers the whole school. It covers every classroom from infants to pre-K, every teacher, ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, family engagement tools and English and Spanish content. There are no per-teacher or per-room fees, and LBP offers grant-writing support to customers who are looking at funding options.

Yes. About 162,000 Delawareans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and Spanish is the most common, with roughly 80,100 speakers. Every LBP activity and family resource is available in Spanish and English at no extra charge, and Delaware’s own CDA supports include Spanish-language options for educators, so bilingual teams are well covered.

Sign up for the 30-day free trial. Every room in your Delaware program, infants through pre-K, gets full access at once, so you can compare an infant room and a preschool room in the same week and see the Foundations reference on each activity. Continue with a yearly subscription if it fits, or book a demo first for a guided tour.

Yes, the two fit together well. The Delaware Department of Education offers licensed programs free access to Teaching Strategies GOLD® as a formative assessment tool, and every LBP activity lists the GOLD® objectives it supports. Teachers can plan with LBP, observe during the activity and record what they see against the same objectives. Learn more about our approach on the curriculum page.