Digital Curriculum Aligned to Nebraska’s Early Learning Guidelines

Yes. Step Up to Quality’s curriculum list includes Learning Beyond Paper, marked yes for aligning with all of the Nebraska Early Learning Guidelines and yes for incorporating nutrition and physical activity. Programs that use an aligned curriculum can earn points in Quality Standard 5, which is why LBP describes itself as Step Up to Quality approved. Your coach can help you plan the other quality indicators, from learning environments to family engagement, alongside it.

Our Nebraska alignment is laid out the way the state’s Curriculum Alignment Form asks: all seven domains of the Nebraska Early Learning Guidelines, from social and emotional development to creative arts, with LBP activities matched to indicators for infants, 12 to 24 months, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. The ELGs cover birth through age five and come from NDE’s Office of Early Childhood. Open the document on our curriculum alignments page.

DHHS Children’s Services Licensing licenses Nebraska child care centers, preschools, school-age-only centers and Family Child Care Homes I and II. LBP gives each age group a written weekly plan tied to the Early Learning Guidelines and keeps a record of what was taught, which is useful when licensing staff ask how you plan learning. Because the record lives online, it stays complete when staff change.

Yes. Nebraska school districts and ESUs operate early childhood programs under Rule 11, and NDE’s Early Childhood Education Grant Program can fund up to half of a project’s operating budget. A community center or Head Start partner can bring LBP’s ELG-aligned lessons and observation tool into those classrooms. Check your partnership agreement and your district’s or ESU’s expectations before you change curriculum mid-year.

Yes. DHHS runs Nebraska’s Child Care Subsidy Program, and families check their eligibility through iServe. Choosing LBP has no effect on subsidy approvals, billing or payment rates, and we make no reimbursement promises. What it does give a subsidy-enrolled program is the same curriculum, observation tool and Spanish and English family materials in every room, whether a child’s care is private pay or subsidized.

We do not claim they do. DHHS requires licensed child care providers to maintain 12 clock hours of training each year, and its pre-licensing list includes Early Learning Guidelines training. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning come with your subscription and help staff teach the curriculum well. Ask DHHS or the Early Childhood Training Center whether a course qualifies before you count it toward your annual hours.

Yes, at no added cost. Every activity and family engagement resource comes in English and Spanish. About 263,500 Nebraskans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and 66.4% of them speak Spanish, according to Census survey data compiled by USAFacts. NDE also publishes the Early Learning Guidelines and the parent companion, Early Learning Foundations, in Spanish, so families can follow along.

One yearly subscription, school-wide. That covers every classroom and every teacher, from the infant room to pre-K, plus ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, Spanish and English content and the Nebraska ELG alignment. There are no per-classroom or per-teacher charges, and our team offers grant-writing support to customers.

Yes. A Nebraska program can use LBP free for 30 days. Every age band and every classroom is unlocked from the first day, so your teachers can try real lessons with real children before you decide. If it works for your program, continue with a yearly subscription.

Yes. DHHS licenses Family Child Care Home I and II programs, and Step Up to Quality’s Step 2 training has an option built for family child care homes. Home providers often have infants, toddlers and preschoolers together, so LBP’s five age bands let one educator plan for a mixed group from a single login. Read more on our family child care page.