How to Use an Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner

Spiral Teacher Lesson Planner: Most Creative, Customizable, Personalizable

Our spiral Teacher Lesson Planners offer two two weekly layout options, each tailored to different teaching styles. The horizontal teacher planner layout offers more room to focus on weekday lesson planning in a classic, linear fashion. The vertical teacher planner layout covers seven days for those who want to seamlessly integrate lesson plans, weekends, and extracurriculars chronologically. Both layouts are designed to work seamlessly with educators’ digital school planning tools while giving them more ways to personalize their organization system, reduce stress, and stay inspired all school year.

These teacher-preferred lesson + life organizers also feature multiple interior design theme options so you can customize your school planner according to your unique aesthetic. Designed and made in the USA, they're built to last and come with thick 80 lb. text weight paper, personalizable covers, coiled-in stickers, and more.

Designed for maximum creativity and customization, you can choose the start month for your dated 12-month academic calendar so you can start planning when it works best for your schedule. Love to enhance your teacher planner with extra sheet protectors and checklist pages or pages for committees and extracurriculars? Then, the classic spiral Teacher Lesson Planner has everything you need to design an organize that truly makes your life easier (and more joyful).

Softbound Teacher Lesson Planners: Lay-Flat, Lefty-Friendly, Slim, and Portable

With stylish vegan leather cover options and colorful or neutral interior design options, our Softbound Planners for teachers are the perfect lay-flat option for color-lovers and stylish minimalists. The key features of our softbound lesson planners include thick 80 lb. text weight paper (resists ink bleeding), beautiful vegan leather cover, reinforced spine, page ribbon marker, and they’re ideal for both right-handed and left-handed educators.

How to Use the Customization Options and Extras of Spiral Teacher Lesson Planners

From the additional design choices of the spiral teacher planner to new inspiring teacher quotes, and a vast array of customization options, there’s a teacher planner for every schedule and style. Here are the top teacher-preferred features of the Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner:

Communication Log

A two-page communication log is included in all our teacher planners. While it’s designed to help teachers log any conflict and resolutions in the classroom, you can adapt the log to fit your needs. Some homeschool teachers and students even use it as a reading log.

Monthly Productivity and Note Pages

Every month in the Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner includes a monthly productivity spread, featuring a productivity page to the left and lined notes section to the right. These pages are perfect for outlining your monthly priorities, tackling high-level to-dos, tracking goals and important dates, adding motivational quotes and reminders, note-taking, journaling, and more!

Bell Schedules

Each lesson planner also has dedicated pages for your bell schedule each semester. These functional pages allow you to easily reference your schedule and streamline your time management throughout the school year.

Spending Summaries

The Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner also features pages for teacher spending summaries. This added functionality allows you to track key budgeting priorities for school supplies, events, donations, and all your classroom needs.

Checklists

Use the handy checklist pages in your teacher planner to track student productivity, progress, attendance, anything you like! These pages are also ideal for logging test scores, your personal and/or professional productivity, or you can use them as note pages or as a custom log book integrated into your planner.

Weekly Lesson Planning Pages

Set your intentions and plan out your weekly lessons. Designed to help you be your most productive self, our horizontal and vertical layouts are each designed with feedback from teachers and feature essential functionality to fit educators of all styles.

The horizontal weekly lesson planning layout is ideal for planning up to seven subjects Monday-Friday in a linear fashion. The vertical weekly lesson planning layout allows you to plan up to six subjects and weekends vertically or chronologically. No matter which layout you choose, each one supports our fun and functional teacher stickers, saving you time while adding more color and inspiration to your agenda.

Dated, Two-Page, Academic Year Calendars

Each of the 12 calendar spreads in all our teacher planners gives you your monthly overview with plenty of room to mark faculty meetings, parent-teacher conferences, school events, school breaks, and more. There’s also a side column for more notes or lists and a mini-month to plan ahead.

Planner Stickers

Four pages of stunning planning stickers come with the classic spiral teacher planner. They’re the perfect mix of fun and functional and are great for crafting a sticker strategy that works for your schedule.

Fun and Functional Teacher Planner Add-Ons

Each spiral Teacher Lesson Planner comes with essentials like note pages, checklist pages, and a sheet protector, but you can add on more to fit your needs! Add extra functionality to your planner with additional sheet protectors, checklist pages, productivity pages, or extracurriculars and committee pages!

Interchangeable Covers

Our classic spiral Teacher Lesson Planner comes with a secure and stylish interchangeable cover so you can refresh your planner look, every season, for school events, to match your mood, or just because! Add a new Interchangeable Cover as often as you like.

Enhance Your Classroom Organization System with Teacher Stationery and Accessories!

Add on a new notepad or desk pad for sending notes home, communicating with substitutes, added organization and writing space, and more!

Expand your planning and color-coding potential with colorful gel pens, markers, highlighters, and other writing tools. Don’t forget to add pops of classroom color with additional planner stickers!