Think of Netflix. You pay a fee to access Schitt’s Creek and Bakeoff on the regular. You can cancel when you want to. 

That’s how The Lighthouse works too. 

Once you join, you have full access to alllll the curriculum, sub plans, bonuses, and community.

Along the way, you’re free to load up your Google drive with every project, one-pager, poetry workshop, poster, and writing prompt that you love. You can watch every workshop, view every tech tutorial, print your Ed deck, and give your classroom displays a makeover.   

When you choose to cancel, you cancel, and you no longer have access. There’s a short guide inside The Lighthouse that shows you how to make changes to your account. It’s easy. 

Plus, I’m always an email away to help out.

To be honest, I’m just so excited for you to step inside and start getting the help I want you to have for the mountain of teaching challenges you’ve been facing. 

I don’t want fear to hold you back, and that’s where the 30 day refund policy comes in. 

You don’t have to prove anything to me if it turns out The Lighthouse isn’t for you. Just shoot me an email in the first 30 days and I’ll send you a refund. 

Almost no one has ever taken me up on the offer, but if you do, you won’t hurt my feelings! You’ll just get your money back.

Inside the membership you'll find tips and strategies delivered through text, videos, and links to podcasts and blog posts. The curriculum is generally offered in the Google Slides version, which you can always download as a Powerpoint or PDF. You can then move and convert things as you wish to work with your own LMS. 

Of course! That's what our community on Facebook is for. I'll be hanging out in there on the regular to answer questions, celebrate wins, and help ignite creative brainstorming. Sometimes I'll answer your questions, sometimes other community members will. We can all learn so much from each other. 

Hey, I’ve got nothing against TPT. Just last month I bought my children the coolest drawing pages there for our trip to Budapest. And it kept them happy and busy coloring panda bears for forty-five minutes. 

But when it comes down to it, TPT is like a first aid kit. You can grab an ace bandage here, a glow-in-the-dark Batman bandaid there. It can save you for a moment, when you just really need something for tomorrow.

But what about the next tomorrow? And the next?

Cobbling together resources with different approaches and styles can get old fast, and it always leaves you looking. 

With The Lighthouse, you know what you have and where to find it. You’ve got a community to talk the materials over with, and a guide (hi, that’s me!) to support you as you integrate the new materials you love with the courses you’ve lovingly designed.

This is such an important question. Because you have to choose to let me help. And that does mean setting aside at least a half an hour or so each month to go in and see what I’ve created for you. Together with the creative members inside, I’ve come up with a system that works well. 

Each month, I share all the new topic content from day one. So all the curriculum, video tutorials, posters, explanations, and links are waiting for anyone who wants to dive in, binge through it all, and immediately put it to use in class. 

But for those who like to go bit by bit, I send an email every Monday guiding you to peruse and make use of a small chunk of what’s there. Then in our Facebook group, I invite conversation, show examples, and offer challenges to help you dive deeper into our theme.

In the end, you could make full use of the materials by devoting just one planning period a month to scan and schedule them all. Or you could share the journey with the other members, taking it slower and talking it through with your community. 

Here’s the bottom line. I’ve spent thousands of hours creating the materials inside The Lighthouse for you, and that is all time you can save. Not a bad trade for the time it takes you to click download.

The curriculum inside The Lighthouse is adaptable, editable, and flexible for middle and high school ELA teachers teaching at different levels across the country and the world. 

Each theme has so many different resources, which lets you use YOUR creativity to integrate what you love and skip what’s not right for your students. With hundreds of resources to choose from, you’ll use your intuition and experience to tell you what will be the best fit for your kiddos.  

One teacher might start the year by using the poetry terms bellringers to help their 9th graders review before diving into the performance poetry kit, the digital writing makerspace to help their eleventh graders with narrative, and the First Chapter Friday bulletin board to launch their choice reading program with a bang. 

Another might lead off seventh grade English with identity hexagons, the icebreaker set, and the full PBL podcasting unit.

A third might open with six word memoirs and short story stations, then move into genius hour while reading their first class novel.  

The Lighthouse is not a scripted curriculum (ew). It’s more like having a curriculum designer on your team. YOUR team. The Lighthouse doesn’t replace your creativity and vision for your classroom, it helps bring it to life. 

When you’re ready to plan a new unit, you stroll down the digital aisles (hang a left at the Shakespeare posters and swing past modern mentor texts if you’re looking for that Poe escape room!). You find what you want, edit it if you wish, and roll it out when you’re ready.

Every single new member will have full and immediate access to everything in The Lighthouse. 

You’ll see colorful, creative, varied curriculum you can adapt and use immediately under 30 different topics (one-pagers, podcasting, choice reading, creative annotation, literature circles, poetry, short stories, vocabulary, escape rooms, and so much more). Clear pathways will help you tackle big topics like improving engagement, building writing skills, and summer planning.

You’ll see an extensive library of sub plans waiting to take the pressure off you when you need a day cuddled up in bed to reread Anne of Green Gables and eat chicken noodle soup.

You’ll see anytime tools like digital planner pages and editable syllabus templates to help you get organized, back-to-school stations and icebreakers, posters and displays for your walls, and even video workshops from the likes of Penny Kittle and Sylvia Duckworth.

You’ll be welcomed into our approachable and private Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your wins, and get help when tricky situations arise at your school.