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Each room in your Maine program, infants through pre-K, can use the full curriculum from the day you sign up.
See a Maine teacher open the week's plan, gather the materials, read ELBY's tip and move straight into the activity with the group.
Look through a year of plans for each age group, from the infant room to pre-K, and check how activities line up with Maine's alignment documents.
Talk with our team about your Maine program: the ages you serve, where you stand in Rising Stars for ME and whether you partner with a public preschool.
Learning Beyond Paper is an all-in-one, cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach built in. A Maine subscription covers 52 weeks of plans across five age bands, English and Spanish materials, family engagement tools, an observational assessment tool and 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning through LBP University.
LBP lists Maine alignment documents for 0 to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years. The infant and toddler crosswalks map each lesson to Supporting Maine's Infants & Toddlers: Guidelines for Learning & Development, organized by the same young infant, older infant and toddler stages. Every band is also mapped to the Head Start ELOF.
ELBY sits beside every activity with practical prompts: a simpler version for a child who needs more support, a stretch for a child who is ready, and what to look for and jot down while the group plays.
Every Maine subscription includes LBP University, 49.5 hours of self-paced professional learning inside the platform. Teachers learn how the curriculum works while they use it, alongside the annual training Maine licensing rules already ask of them.
Rising Stars for ME asks programs to collect and summarize evidence of children's development and use it in planning. LBP's observational assessment tool and lesson history keep that evidence in one place, ready for your e-portfolio.
Staff in larger Maine centers complete up to 30 hours of training a year. LBP adds the daily part: guided lessons and ELBY's prompts help newer teachers use what they learned while they teach.
About one in 16 Mainers speaks a language other than English at home, most often French, then Spanish. LBP includes Spanish and English versions of every activity and family resource, so Spanish-speaking families can follow along.
One yearly subscription covers the whole program, infant room through pre-K, with no charge per teacher or per classroom.
Each room in your Maine program, infants through pre-K, can use the full curriculum from the day you sign up.
A teacher picks their age group on a tablet or phone, sees this week's activities with setup steps and an ELBY tip, and teaches indoors or outside.
LBP lists Maine documents for four bands: 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 months, plus 3 to 5 years. The infant and toddler crosswalks map lessons to Supporting Maine’s Infants & Toddlers: Guidelines for Learning & Development, following its young infant, older infant and toddler stages, so teachers can see which guideline an activity supports. Lessons from infancy through pre-K are also mapped to the Head Start ELOF. Open each document on our curriculum alignments page.
It can support the work, but it does not award a Star. At Star 4, Maine asks for an articulated approach to learning and development, which a program can meet with an evidence-based curriculum, a program philosophy, the Head Start framework or its own method of curriculum development. A written LBP plan for each room, plus observation notes summarized once a year, gives you material to show. Your MRTQ PDN technical assistance contact can help you map it to the standards.
The Children’s Licensing and Investigation Unit in DHHS’s Office of Child and Family Services licenses Maine’s child care providers. LBP gives each classroom a written plan for its age group and a record of the activities it completed, which helps when licensing staff ask how you plan your day. Meeting the licensing rules stays your program’s job; LBP supports the curriculum side.
Public preschool in Maine is run by school administrative units under Chapter 124. Maine DOE says the rule does not name a curriculum, but it must be evidence-based and aligned with Maine’s early learning standards, and the SAU’s choice is written into its program. If you host a partnership classroom, talk with your SAU about how it fits with their plan. LBP can still cover your infant, toddler and other preschool rooms under the same subscription.
Yes. Maine’s Child Care Affordability Program (CCAP) is run through DHHS’s Office of Child and Family Services, and choosing LBP does not change how CCAP eligibility or billing works. What LBP adds is the same curriculum, family materials and observation tools in every room, whether a family pays privately or receives CCAP help, so no child gets a thinner version of the day.
We do not claim they do. Under Maine’s facility licensing rule, staff register with Maine’s Professional Development Network, and annual hours depend on program size and weekly hours: 30 hours for staff working over 20 hours a week in programs with more than 13 children, 18 for part-time staff, 12 in smaller programs. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning help teachers use the curriculum; check with MRTQ PDN before counting any of it.
One yearly subscription gives your whole Maine program access. That covers every classroom from infants to pre-K and every teacher, plus 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.
English and Spanish, for every activity and family resource, at no extra cost. About one in 16 Mainers age 5 and older speaks a language other than English at home; French is the most common, followed by Spanish. For families who speak French, Arabic or Portuguese, Maine DOE publishes early learning family resources in those languages, which teachers can share alongside LBP’s weekly updates.
Start a 30-day free trial. Every room in your Maine program gets full access, so you can test it with infants and with pre-K at the same time and see how ELBY helps a newer teacher. If it fits, start a yearly subscription. Prefer a guided look first? Book a demo and we will walk through it with you.
Yes. Rising Stars for ME has its own standards for family child care, and home providers 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 Spanish and English family materials. 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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LBP lists Maine alignment documents for all four bands and maps every lesson to the Head Start ELOF, so your planning record grows as teachers teach.
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