LessonReady:

Hi! I’m an ESL/ELA teacher (yes, a real one), and I know why you’re here.

Like most of my colleagues, I kept running into the same frustrations with classroom technology. Time and again, we have been pitched AI tools that promise to save us time by writing lessons and assessments, but they're always so clunky, generic, and obviously don't have a clue how real classrooms function.

AI software fails because even though it generates content (sort of), it also creates a whole new list of tasks for teachers before it can be used. I mean, how much time does ChatGPT really save me if I have to write a custom prompt, check whether it gave me what I wanted, copy/paste it into Docs, reformat it so it's functional, proofread it, organize it, and print it.

Teachers are the experts. They put in the work. We don't need someone to write our standards, units, or lessons; we just need someone to give us something that would truly make us more effective teachers: time.

That's really why you're here. You need more time. And that's what you'll get.

So I built LessonReady.

This was originally a little pet project to help me build stations and formative assessments for grammar and vocabulary practice in my ESL classroom. As I built, I realized how much potential there was at every stage of the lesson. Now, I use it nearly every day of the school year.

LessonReady is specifically designed to create practical, classroom-ready materials fast with tools that we can actually use.

Will it make mistakes? Of course! I make mistakes all the time; we all do! But a good teacher proofreads their work regardless, and LessonReady is designed to streamline that process to get your lesson on paper and in front of the students faster than anything else out there.

There's nothing magic about school. Teaching is work. LessonReady isn't a teacher; it's the tool that gives you that precious time you need between classes.

One final note: I'm a teacher, just like you. We're in the trenches. It's a passion, but that doesn't change the reality that our profession is physically, emotionally, and financially demanding. We need to take care of ourselves. If we're burnt out, are we really helping our students?

That's why LessonReady will always be priced with a teacher's salary in mind. Economy, overhead, development costs, blah blah blah — this thing will always be cheap. That's also why the free-trial has no credit card requirement. I want you to buy LessonReady because it's good, not because you got tricked into a subscription.

Feel free to reach out with any concerns, ideas, comments, or just to say hi.

Cheers, and happy teaching!