Who We Are

Founded by educators for educators, Lesson Planet is passionate about creating and delivering innovative digital tools and quality educational resources to help personalize student learning and inspire great teaching. For over 20 years, Lesson Planet’s team of experienced teachers have been curating and reviewing online, free and open educational resources (OER), as well as building tools that help educators save time discovering, planning, and implementing their curriculum.

Our Story

The idea for Lesson Planet was born in 1999 when founder, Jim Hurley, was teaching educational technology courses to K-12 teachers at UC Santa Barbara. Although teachers were excited about using the Internet, Jim noticed all the wasted time they spent scouring the Web for online learning resources. Lesson Planet was started to help educators spend less time searching so that they could spend more time teaching. Since those early days, Lesson Planet has helped millions of teachers find new and engaging lesson ideas that continue to inspire student learning.

Our Team

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Shared By Our Members

"Lesson Planet has helped me to organize my lessons to fit my department's curriculum."

I have subscriptions to many lesson plans sites and such, but this right here is Amazing! The subject matter & lessons I was searching for were there in abundance! In addition, the resource links are incredible as well! I teach several different subjects and Lesson Planet is a One Stop Shop for me! I tend to think big when it comes to educating my scholars, but it takes up much of my time, and Lesson Planet makes it simple and easily accessible. Immense Gratitude!

Lesson Planet helps me find great ideas. I appreciate discovering the hard work fellow educators have done.

"I have had wonderful success finding alternate resources within the same subject/topic for my class of students with differing abilities. This has saved me so much time!!!"

"Lesson Planet makes planning easier and helps me so much to organize my thoughts."

"Using Lesson Planet gives me a lot of ideas. It is really helpful for finding new and creatives activities. My students are more engaged in my classes."

"The prepared lessons I am finding are well written and easy to implement as well as differentiated for higher or lower students."

"As a mental health therapist, I find the lesson plans to be invaluable tools that assist in helping clients to understand both basic and advanced social and time management skills."

"Lesson Planet has saved me so much time and gives me so many ideas. It’s a blessing."

"This is a great site for resources. It is well worth the little amount that it costs."

"I love what I've found for the students I tutor outside of school. This website makes it very quick & easy to narrow in on the lessons needed for different levels and subjects."