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You will not be asked for a card. Every classroom in your Kansas program, infants through pre-K, can use the entire curriculum from the first day.
Watch a Kansas teacher bring up today's activity on a phone, lay out the materials and follow ELBY's tip as children join in.
Scroll through a year of weekly plans for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, with the KELS indicator each activity supports.
Tell us about your Kansas center or home, the ages you serve and where you are with Links to Quality, and we will show you LBP in that setting.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. Kansas programs get a full year of plans across five age bands, over 4,000 activities, English and Spanish materials, family engagement tools, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning through LBP University, with crosswalks to the Kansas Early Learning Standards.
LBP's four Kansas documents follow the 2013 edition of KELS. The 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 month bands use the young infant, mobile infant and toddler benchmarks, and the 3 to 5 band starts with the by-48-months indicators, each linked to the LBP progress monitoring skills a teacher observes.
ELBY is built into every Kansas lesson. It suggests a gentler version for a child who needs support, a bigger challenge for a child who is ready, and what to watch for so observation notes are easy to write.
LBP University gives Kansas teachers 49.5 hours of self-paced courses inside the platform. Staff can learn the curriculum in short blocks during nap time or after close.
Links to Quality asks licensed providers to build a portfolio of documents, photos and descriptions to earn badges, starting with Program Administration and then Family Partnerships, Health & Safety, and Learning & Development. LBP's KELS-linked plans, observation notes and family materials give you ready examples for the learning badge.
Kansas staff counted in ratios complete 16 clock-hours of approved training each licensure year, with 4 of them infant-specific for infant teachers. ELBY and LBP University add support on the days between those courses.
About 353,400 Kansans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and two in three of them speak Spanish. LBP includes Spanish versions of every activity and family page at no extra cost.
One yearly subscription covers every Kansas classroom at your location, infant room to pre-K, with no added fee for more teachers or rooms.
You will not be asked for a card. Every classroom in your Kansas program, infants through pre-K, can use the entire curriculum from the first day.
A Kansas teacher picks up a phone or tablet, selects the age group and finds the day's activity with its materials, steps and ELBY's coaching tip on one screen.
The Kansas Early Learning Standards, 2013 edition. LBP publishes four Kansas crosswalks covering 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 months and ages 3 to 5, using the KELS young infant, mobile infant, toddler and preschool benchmarks. You can open each document on our curriculum alignments page. Every age band is also aligned to the Head Start ELOF.
KOEC opened on July 1, 2026 and now handles child care licensing, which used to sit with KDHE, plus the child care subsidy lead agency role and child care quality programs from DCF. The state said day-to-day operations, current licenses and approvals stay in place through the transition. Your curriculum does not need to change either: LBP keeps KELS-linked plans and records in one place whichever agency you are talking to.
Yes. Links to Quality is Kansas’s free quality recognition and improvement system for licensed providers. You build a portfolio, start with the Program Administration badge, then choose Family Partnerships, Health & Safety or Learning & Development, with an L2Q consultant coaching you. LBP’s KELS-linked weekly plans, observations and family resources give you examples for that portfolio. Badges are earned through your L2Q review, not by using any one product.
We do not claim they do. Kansas regulations ask directors and staff counted in ratios to complete 16 clock-hours of approved professional development each licensure year, with infant-specific hours for infant teachers and administration hours for directors. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning deepen curriculum skills; check the state’s approval before counting a course.
Yes. In Kansas the Office of Early Childhood is now the child care subsidy lead agency, while DCF still handles family enrollment and payments. LBP sits alongside that process without changing it, so subsidized and private-pay children in the same classroom share one planned curriculum, the same observation tools and family materials in English or Spanish.
Kansas funds pre-K through KSDE’s Preschool-Aged At-Risk Program and the Kansas Preschool Pilot, with funding available in all 286 school districts and 24,805 children enrolled in 2024-25. For the threes and fours in your own center, LBP’s 3 to 5 lessons follow the KELS preschool benchmarks, and the observational assessment tool gives families a clear view of progress before kindergarten.
Yes, and they cost nothing extra. About 353,400 Kansans age 5 and older, roughly one in 8, spoke a language other than English at home in 2024, and 66.5% of them spoke Spanish. Every LBP activity and family engagement resource comes in English and Spanish, so families can follow classroom learning in the language they use at home.
One yearly subscription for site-wide access. That includes every Kansas classroom and teacher from infants to pre-K, ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, family engagement tools and Spanish content. No per-teacher or per-classroom fees apply. Materials kits from Lakeshore Learning are optional, and our team helps customers with grant writing.
Yes. Licensed home providers often have an infant, a couple of toddlers and a preschooler in the same group. LBP’s five age bands share one login, so one provider can pull up the right KELS-linked plan for each child, keep observations in one place and share updates with families in English or Spanish. Our family child care page explains mixed-age planning.
Begin with the 30-day free trial, with every classroom open. Try the infant and preschool plans side by side, look at the KELS links for the ages you enroll and see how ELBY helps your newest teacher. Want a guided walkthrough first? Book a demo and we will take you through it.
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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Each lesson carries its Kansas Early Learning Standards indicator, so plans and observation notes build up for Links to Quality, licensing visits and family conversations.
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