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As soon as you sign up, every Tennessee classroom has the whole curriculum, from the youngest infants to four-year-olds.
A short visit to a Tennessee classroom: the teacher finds this week's plan, checks the materials list, reads ELBY's tip and gets the activity going.
Look through a full year of plans for infants, young and older toddlers, preschool and pre-K, with the TN-ELDS skill each activity builds.
Get a demo built around your Tennessee setting, whether that is a multi-room center, a group home or a program working on its QRIS score.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. A Tennessee subscription includes 52 weeks of plans across five age bands, more than 4,000 activities, Spanish and English materials, an observational assessment tool, family engagement tools and 49.5 hours of on-demand training through LBP University, with lessons crosswalked to TN-ELDS.
LBP publishes four Tennessee crosswalks. The 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 month documents map to the TN-ELDS for birth to 48 months, and the 3 to 5 document covers the 37 to 48 month expectations plus the four-year-old standards. Each learning expectation is paired with the LBP progress monitoring skills that support it.
When a Tennessee teacher opens an activity, ELBY is right there with prompts: an easier version for a child still building the skill, a stretch for a child ready for more, and cues for what to observe and write down.
Every subscription includes LBP University, 49.5 hours of self-paced courses teachers can fit between classes. New hires learn the curriculum on their own schedule, and veteran teachers pick up fresh ideas for the age group they teach.
Tennessee's licensure rules require centers to provide written lesson plans for each group of children. LBP supplies a dated, age-specific plan for every room each week, so a licensing consultant can see at a glance what each group is learning.
New Tennessee center educators complete 3 hours on the developmental learning standards in their first year. LBP turns that training into habit: each plan names the TN-ELDS expectation it supports, so teachers see the standards every day.
About 636,700 Tennesseans age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and about 62% of them speak Spanish. LBP's activities and family pages come in both languages, so a parent can follow along at home.
Your subscription covers the whole Tennessee site: infant, toddler, preschool and pre-K classrooms, every teacher and every login, with no fee per room.
As soon as you sign up, every Tennessee classroom has the whole curriculum, from the youngest infants to four-year-olds.
Teachers choose their age group, see the week's activities with materials and steps, and read ELBY's coaching note before they begin, whether inside or out on the playground.
The Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards. LBP’s four Tennessee crosswalks cover 0 to 12, 13 to 24 and 25 to 36 months against the birth to 48 month TN-ELDS, adopted by the State Board of Education in January 2014, and ages 3 to 5 against the 37 to 48 month expectations and the four-year-old standards (updated January 2018). Read the TN-ELDS page and open each document on our curriculum alignments page.
Yes. The 2026 TDHS licensure rules say child care centers shall provide written lesson plans for each group of children, and they ask the director or primary educator to observe and document the use of the developmental learning standards. LBP gives every group a written weekly plan linked to TN-ELDS, plus an observational assessment tool, so both pieces of that record live in one place.
TDHS scores every licensed center and group home through its Quality Rating Improvement System once the agency has been open a year. Observers visit four times, once a quarter, scoring Health and Safety and Teacher-Child Interactions out of 100 each visit, and the average is posted at your program. LBP supports the interactions side with planned activities and ELBY coaching, but it does not set or promise a score.
Through the four-year-old standards. LBP’s 3 to 5 crosswalk includes the TN-ELDS for 4-year-olds, which the Tennessee Department of Education says align directly with the content areas in the state’s English language arts and math standards and its kindergarten standards. Pre-K teachers see the expectation behind each activity, and the observational assessment tool lets them share progress with families before the move to kindergarten.
Yes. TDHS runs the Child Care Certificate Program, also called child care payment assistance, which includes Smart Steps for income-eligible families who work or attend post-secondary school, with children from six weeks old until kindergarten. LBP sits alongside your certificate billing without changing it, and gives every child in the room, funded or private pay, the same planned curriculum and bilingual family materials.
We do not claim they do. Tennessee center educators need 12 training hours a year, with at least 6 on health and safety and 3 on pre-literacy and literacy, and single-site center directors need 24. TNPAL, the Tennessee Professional Archive of Learning, is the system of record for those hours. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of professional learning build curriculum skills; confirm with TDHS before logging any of them.
One yearly subscription for the whole program. Every classroom, from infants to pre-K, and every teacher is included, together with ELBY, LBP University, family engagement tools, the observational assessment tool and Spanish materials. There are no per-teacher or per-room charges. Hands-on materials kits are available through Lakeshore Learning, and customers can get grant-writing support from our team.
Yes, at no extra cost. In 2024 roughly one in 11 Tennesseans age 5 and older, about 636,700 people, spoke a language other than English at home, and Spanish was the most common of those languages at 61.9%. Every LBP activity and family resource comes in English and Spanish, so teachers can send home the same learning in the language a family uses.
Yes. TDHS licenses family child care homes for five to seven unrelated children and group homes for eight to twelve, often with infants and preschoolers together. LBP’s five age bands let one primary educator plan for a mixed group under one login, and since home educators train on the developmental learning standards in their first year, TN-ELDS-linked plans fit right in. See our family child care page.
Sign up for 30 days of full access. Open LBP in your infant room and your pre-K room in the same week to compare, check the TN-ELDS links for the ages you serve, and let a new teacher try ELBY. If you would rather see it first, book a live demo and we will tour it with you.
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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Infant, toddler and preschool lessons each carry their TN-ELDS learning expectation, so the written plans and records Tennessee rules ask for build up as teachers teach.
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