PLANNING GUIDE

How to Use an Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner

How to Use an Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner

Whether you’re in the classroom, teaching online, or balancing both, there’s a teacher planner that meets your needs where you are. The Erin Condren teacher planner is designed with feedback from real teachers like you to create the most functional and inspirational lesson planner on the market. It has more new designs, more teacher planner options, more accessories, more ways to plan!

Fun fact: Teacher Lesson Planner customers surveyed in 2023 reported it helps them stay organized (99%), bring them joy (97%), reduce stress (93%), and be a better teacher/educational professional (91%).

Spiral Teacher Lesson Planner: Most Creative, Customizable, Personalizable

How to Use the Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner - Layouts

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.

How to Use the Erin Condren Teacher Lesson Planner - Vertical Layout

Pictured Above: Vertical Layout in the Erin Condren 2024-2025 Teacher Lesson Planner. Explore all the latest teacher planners and customize your layout.

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

Softbound Teacher Lesson Planners

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.

Vegan Leather Focused Teacher Lesson Planners

Focused Teacher Lesson Planners

2023-2024 Focused Teacher Lesson Planners pictured above. Shop new arrivals in our Teacher Lesson Planner Collection.

Our Focused Teacher Lesson Planners have everything you love about our classic Teacher Lesson Planner but with a streamlined, minimal design. Whether you prefer spiral binding or sophisticated lay-flat binding, our Focused Planners are perfect for male teachers and stylish minimalists.

No matter which lesson planner binding you prefer, there's a planner for every teacher who wants to get organized and continue to educate, motivate, and inspire the next generation.

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

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.

Communication Log

Communication Log

Interior pages from past Teacher Lesson Planner pictured above. Shop new arrivals in our Teacher Lesson Planner Collection.

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.

Productivity Pages

Productivity Pages

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The two-page yearly spread in all our teacher planners allows you to set goals, note important deadlines, or even log student's birthdays. However you like to benchmark the year, this section comes in handy. A fun idea is to set a classroom goal and fill out these months with your class!

Note Pages

Note Pages

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There are plenty of note pages throughout the Teacher Lesson Planner. You can use those pages to plan, journal, write to-do lists, set goals, track productivity, anything at all!

Graph Pages

Graph Pages

Interior pages from past Teacher Lesson Planner pictured above. Shop new arrivals in our Teacher Lesson Planner Collection.

Each lesson planner also has graph pages so you can chart it up and plan it out! Fun and functional ways to use the graph pages include visual to-do maps, seating charts, performance trackers, and even personal habit or mood trackers, budgeting charts, and more.

Checklists

Checklists

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Don't forget to track the productivity of your students with the student checklist pages. These pages allow you to note test scores, work progress, or you can just use them as notes pages.

Dated, Two-Page Calendar

Dated, Two-Page Calendar

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. Have fun color-coding with colorful gel pens, markers, highlighters, and other writing tools Don’t forget to add pops of classroom color with stickers!

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans

Set your intentions, see your month, and then plan out those four weeks of lessons. Designed to help you be your most productive self, this layout is essential to all our teacher planners and is a simple, streamlined, and effective way of viewing lesson planning. This is also a great place to save time with Customizable Subject Stickers.

Stickers with Classic Spiral Teacher Lesson Planners!

Four pages of stunning planning stickers come with the classic spiral eacher 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 productivity to your planner with additional sheet protectors and checklist pages or extracurriculars and committee pages!

Interchangeable Covers for the Classic Spiral Teacher Lesson Planner

Add a new Interchangeable Cover as often as you like. 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!

Interchangeable Covers for the Classic Coiled Teacher Lesson Planner

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Teacher Stationery and Planning Accessories

Teacher Stationery and Planning Accessories

Add on the new Note From the Teacher Notepad to make sending notes home a seamless and stylish task with this pre-printed and personalized notepad. Or the Substitute Teacher Notepad to ensure success with every substitute.

Bound Teacher Record Book

Teacher Record Book

2024 Bound Teacher Record Book pictured above. Shop new arrivals in our Teacher Favorites Collection.

Log and track attendance, performance, test scores, more with our new, slim, and portable bound Teacher Record Book. The perfect companion to the Teacher Lesson Planner!

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