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Every room in your Iowa program opens right away, so you can try infant plans and preschool plans side by side.
Watch an Iowa teacher go from login to the first activity of the day, with materials, ELBY's tip and the standards indicator on one screen.
Preview a full year of weekly plans for five age bands, from the infant room to the 4-year-olds, each tied to Iowa Early Learning Standards indicators.
Talk with our team about your Iowa center, preschool or Child Development Home, the ages you serve and your Iowa Quality for Kids goals.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. An Iowa subscription covers 52 weeks of plans across five age bands, more than 4,000 activities, family resources in English and Spanish, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of LBP University courses, with every band crosswalked to the Iowa Early Learning Standards.
LBP publishes four Iowa crosswalks: 0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years. The three infant-toddler documents use the IELS birth-to-3 indicators and the preschool document uses the 3-to-5 indicators of the Iowa Early Learning Standards, 3rd edition, across areas such as social and emotional development, physical well-being, approaches to learning, communication and literacy, math and science.
In an Iowa classroom, ELBY sits beside each activity with short coaching notes: a simpler version for a child who needs it, a stretch for a child who is ready, and what to watch for so the observation gets written down.
LBP University adds 49.5 hours of on-demand courses to your subscription. They help Iowa teachers learn the curriculum and sharpen their practice, while the HHS-approved training behind their annual contact hours is still logged separately in i-PoWeR.
Iowa center rules call for a written curriculum based on developmentally appropriate practice and a posted program of activities. LBP gives each age group a dated weekly plan and a record of what was taught, which you can open during the annual HHS monitoring visit instead of pulling binders.
After their first year, Iowa center staff need six contact hours of approved professional development a year, and directors eight. Those hours come from HHS-approved trainers. ELBY's prompts and LBP's guided plans help teachers practice in the classroom on the days in between.
About one in 10 Iowans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and about half of them speak Spanish. LBP includes English and Spanish versions of every activity and family resource at no extra cost.
One subscription covers every Iowa classroom, from the infant room through pre-K, with no per-teacher or per-room charges and one renewal date.
Every room in your Iowa program opens right away, so you can try infant plans and preschool plans side by side.
An Iowa teacher opens the platform on a tablet or phone, picks the age group and sees the activity, the materials list and ELBY's coaching note, whether the group is at the sensory table or outside.
LBP’s Iowa crosswalks map all four age bands (0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years) to the Iowa Early Learning Standards, 3rd edition. The infant and toddler documents follow the IELS birth-to-3 indicators, and the preschool document follows the 3-to-5 indicators. Every band is also aligned to the Head Start ELOF. Open the documents on our curriculum alignments page.
Yes, for licensed centers. Iowa’s center rules say the program must have a written curriculum that uses developmentally appropriate practices, plus a written program of activities matched to the children’s developmental level and a posted schedule. LBP supplies that written curriculum for each age band and keeps a record of the activities taught. Meeting every licensing rule is still your program’s job, and Iowa HHS consultants make the call during their annual visit.
IQ4K is Iowa’s voluntary QRIS, open to HHS-licensed centers and preschools, registered Child Development Homes and some school-run programs. It has five levels and is built around continuous quality improvement, with coaching from Child Care Resource & Referral. LBP can feed an improvement plan with standards-linked lessons, observation notes and family materials. It does not award points or a level, and we make no promise about your rating.
The Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program is run by school districts, often with community partners, and serves children who are 4 by September 15 at no cost to families. Each SWVPP classroom must meet IQPPS, Head Start or NAEYC program standards and teach toward the Iowa Early Learning Standards. Curriculum choices for those classrooms sit with the district, so ask your district contact first. LBP’s 3-to-5 band follows the IELS 3rd edition and the Head Start ELOF.
Child Care Assistance is run by Iowa HHS, and providers serve CCA families under a provider agreement with HHS, so eligibility, authorizations and payment rates stay between you, the family and HHS. What LBP adds for a program serving CCA families is the same written curriculum, observation tools and English and Spanish family materials in every room, with one yearly subscription, so families on assistance get the same planned day as everyone else.
We do not claim they do. After the first year, Iowa center staff need six contact hours of professional development a year and directors and on-site supervisors need eight, and those hours must come from organizations approved by Iowa HHS and are tracked in i-PoWeR, the state workforce registry. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning are included with your subscription to help teachers use the curriculum well.
One yearly subscription gives school-wide access. That covers every room in your Iowa program, infants through pre-K, and every teacher, with ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, family engagement tools and Spanish content included. There are no per-classroom or per-teacher fees. Hands-on materials kits are available through Lakeshore Learning, and our team offers grant-writing support to customers.
Yes. Every activity and family resource comes in English and Spanish at no added cost. In 2024 about 295,000 Iowans age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home, and Spanish was the most common, at about half of that group. Teachers can send families the week’s activities in the language they read at home while the classroom plan stays the same.
You get 30 days of full access. Every classroom in your Iowa program can use it at once, so try it with a new teacher in the toddler room and with your 4-year-olds in the same week. Open the Iowa crosswalks during the trial to check the bands you serve. Prefer a guided look? Book a demo and we will walk through it with you.
Yes. Iowa HHS registers Child Development Homes, and registered homes can also take part in IQ4K. A home provider often has babies, toddlers and preschoolers in the same room, and LBP’s five age bands let one provider plan for all of them from a single login, with English and Spanish family materials. See 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 band carries LBP's crosswalk to the IELS 3rd edition, and daily teaching builds the written-curriculum and observation record an Iowa licensing visit or IQ4K coach may ask to see.
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