Every teacher in your district gets Pro
We are inviting a small founding cohort of districts to run Lesson Maker Pro for a full school year. Teachers get planning hours back every week and walk into class with standards-aligned lessons and materials. Your district gets a full year of evidence before it spends a dollar.
For your teachers
What changes for your teachers
Lesson Maker Pro is a planning workspace, not another portal.
Planning time comes back
A teacher describes what they are teaching and how they want to teach it, then gets a complete lesson plan, worksheets, a presentation, and assessments built to that direction. The hours that went into building materials from scratch go back to students, feedback, and rest.
Every lesson starts standards-aligned
Plans are built against your state's framework from the first draft, with the standards named on the plan. Alignment is the starting point, not a cleanup step before an observation.
The whole week in one place
Lessons, materials, and notes for every period sit on one planner board, so teachers can see the week at a glance instead of holding it across documents and tabs.
Less of the work that burns teachers out
Lesson Maker Pro takes over the production work: formatting worksheets, building slide decks, writing answer keys. Teachers keep the judgment calls, shaping the lesson up front and editing any plan, worksheet, or slide until it fits their classroom.
For your district
What your district gets out of the year
A higher floor for lesson quality
Every classroom can start from a complete, standards-aligned plan, whether the teacher is in year one or year twenty. New teachers get the most leverage, and veterans keep their own voice.
Workload support teachers can feel this year
Planning and materials are among the biggest weekly time costs teachers carry. Cutting that time is concrete, visible support for your staff, without adding a new initiative for them to absorb.
Evidence before budget season
Your dashboard shows who joined and what got made across the district. By spring you will know from your own adoption data whether this earned a place in next year's budget.
The deal
What the pilot includes, and what we ask
What the pilot includes
Pro for every teacher
Unlimited lesson plans, unit plans, presentations, worksheets and printables, resource adaptations, and the AI Teaching Assistant, for your whole staff.
A real admin view
Your district dashboard shows seats, who has joined, each teacher's activity, and pending invites. You always know whether the pilot is actually being used.
A direct line to Matt
Founding pilots are set up and supported personally by Matt Gottilla, the mentor teacher who builds Lesson Maker Pro. Questions and requests go straight to him.
Onboarding and PD, led personally
On request, Matt runs a live session for your teachers on getting the most out of Lesson Maker Pro: how to plan a week, what to try first, and open questions. Use it at kickoff or as part of a PD day, whatever fits your calendar.
No procurement, no contract
The pilot is free through June 2027. There is no PO, no invoice, and nothing that auto-converts into a charge when the pilot ends.
What we ask in return
The pilot is free because a full school year of honest classroom feedback is worth more to us than pilot revenue. The deal is simple:
- A named contact we can reach during the school year
- One short check-in during the year to hear what's working well and what could be improved
- Honest feedback from your teachers when they have it
- Permission to reference anonymized usage when we tell the pilot's story
That is the whole exchange. No commitment to buy anything, ever.
Who you're working with
A teacher on both ends of the pilot
Matt Gottilla
Founder of Lesson Maker Pro · Mentor teacher, San Diego
Matt spent nearly a decade in the classroom and now mentors new teachers at High Tech Middle Mesa, the project-based public charter school he helped open. Lesson Maker Pro grew out of that mentoring: he wanted a tool that would streamline planning for his mentees, nothing out there quite delivered, and so he built it. He designs, builds, and supports it personally. Reach him directly at matt@lessonmakerpro.com or read more about Matt.
How it starts
Rollout fits in an afternoon
We set up your district
Tell us your district name and your school email domains. We create your district, make you the admin, and hand you one join link. This takes a day, usually less.
You share one link
Paste the join link in a staff newsletter or email. Any teacher who signs up with a school email lands in your district with Pro already active. No codes, no license keys, no spreadsheets.
Teachers just teach
Everyone gets all of Lesson Maker Pro: the Teaching Assistant, lesson and unit plans, presentations, printables, adaptations, and the weekly planner. You get a dashboard showing who has joined and how it is going.
Trust & privacy
Built to be easy to say yes to
- No student accounts, no rosters, no student logins. Lesson Maker Pro is built for teachers, and we tell teachers not to upload student data.
- Teachers own the content they create, during and after the pilot.
- Your dashboard shows adoption: who has joined, which seats are active, and district-wide totals for lessons, materials, and planning. Each teacher's workspace stays their own, which is a big part of why teachers actually adopt it. To judge the quality first-hand, use your own seat or browse the annotated example lesson.
- If the pilot ends and you decide not to continue, nothing is deleted or locked in. Teachers keep everything they made and can keep working on the free plan, and every lesson, material, and presentation exports to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or Google Docs.
- The full data and security picture lives on our Trust & Security page, written for district administrators. A DPA is available on request.
After the pilot
What happens in June 2027?
We sit down together, look at what your teachers actually did with it, and decide what makes sense for the next school year. If the answer is a paid district plan, pricing is public and per-seat. If the answer is no, the pilot simply ends: no charge, no lost work, and teachers who love it can continue individually. You will hear from us well before the end date, never a surprise.
Think your district should be in the founding cohort?
Tell us a little about your district and who we should talk to. We keep the cohort small enough to support personally, so if this page is live, there is still room.
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