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A practitioner-run community · est. 2009

The professional learning network where teachers actually find each other.

EduPLN is the working teacher's home on the open web — a vetted community of 48,300+ educators who swap lesson plans, book PD with trusted peers, and get unstuck in five minutes flat. Founded in a high-school history classroom in Edmonton, run by classroom teachers ever since.

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A high-school history classroom in warm afternoon light
Grade 10 · U.S. History

Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Primary Sources

  • CCSS.RH.9-10
  • ELL supports
  • Modified version
  • 90 min
MR Saved by 1,284 educators · Reviewed by 14 peers
#TeachChat · Tuesday 11 min ago

@ms_rivera_5th · Anyone have a 20-minute number-talk that actually works for kids who hate math talk? Friday PD, dying here.

@coach_adeyemi Tried this one with my K-2 cohort Monday — number strings with ten frames. Game changer for reluctant talkers. [link]

@mr_holcomb_ela Mine: "Would you rather?" comparisons. Kids argue themselves into fluency.

+ 9 replies in 11 minutes

Fifteen years of teacher-to-teacher trust

The numbers a skeptical teacher scans first.

  • 48,300+ verified educator members across all 50 U.S. states and 92 countries
  • 11min average response time in the #TeachChat forum — the fastest of any educator community surveyed in 2023
  • 215,000+ peer-reviewed lesson plans and classroom resources in the public library
  • 2009 founded by a classroom teacher — the oldest independent educator PLN still run by practitioners, not publishers

The Library

Searchable. Saveable. Peer-reviewed. Never pay-to-feature.

Every plan in our 215,000+ library is tagged by standard, grade band, and ELL or modified-diploma supports, then reviewed by at least two classroom educators before it surfaces in search. One featured plan below — three more from across the grade bands.

An open middle-school science notebook showing a plant-cell lab Featured · Most saved this month
Grade 7 · Life Science

Microscope Lab: Building a Plant Cell From Household Materials

A three-day lab where students construct a scale plant-cell model from gelatin, fruit, and clear plastic — then defend their design choices in a peer review. Includes a one-page modified version for students with IEP accommodations and a bilingual English-Spanish vocabulary card.

  • NGSS MS-LS1-2
  • ELL supports
  • Modified IEP version
  • Bilingual vocab card
  • 3 × 45 min
  • Rubric included
By Maya Okafor · 8th-grade science, Brooklyn Saved 2,418 times · Reviewed by 22 peers
Open lesson →
An elementary reading corner with a story-map easel
Grade 2 · ELA

Story-Map Centers: Reading for Plot With 5 Picture Books

Five rotating stations built around Frog and Toad, Owl Moon, and three other classroom staples. Each station includes a printable, a sentence frame, and a self-check rubric for partner review.

  • CCSS.RL.2.3
  • Centers
  • Sentence frames
High-school students building a cardboard bridge in a makerspace
Grade 11 · Engineering Design

Cardboard Bridge Challenge: 200g for $3 of Materials

A 90-minute design challenge with a materials-budget twist. Includes a cost-tracking sheet, a failure-analysis protocol, and a peer scoring guide that doubles as the engineering notebook rubric.

  • NGSS HS-ETS1-2
  • Maker
  • Rubric
A kindergarten art table with collaborative finger-painting
Kindergarten · Visual Art

Color-Mixing Stations With Cold-Warm Paint Swatches

Three stations that turn primary-color mixing into a tactile guessing game. Includes printable swatch cards, a take-home family color-hunt, and a sensory-friendly adaptation for students who dislike wet paint.

  • NAEA Std.1
  • Sensory-friendly
  • Take-home
Join free to save & adapt Members can save unlimited plans, build week-at-a-glance folders, and export CC-BY attributed copies for their own LMS.

Inside a real teaching week

Three moments when the network shows up.

Not another platform to babysit — three concrete moments in your week when EduPLN saves you the time a colleague would have spent, if your colleague were free.

  1. 01 Monday, 6:42 a.m.

    The lesson swap

    Your week 3 plan for Reconstruction just fell apart over the weekend. Search the library by standard and grade, filter for ELL and modified supports, and pull a peer-reviewed plan tagged "tried-it-Friday." Save it to your week folder in two clicks — adapt the one-pager for your roster and you're teaching by 7:10.

    • Tagged by standard, grade, ELL, modified
    • Save to personal week folders
    • Export to your LMS as CC-BY
  2. 02 Thursday, 3:15 p.m.

    The PD chat

    #TeachChat opens a live, moderated conversation every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon — peer facilitators, archived and searchable on-site within an hour. Bring the question you didn't get to ask at the all-staff meeting; leave with two book recommendations, three classroom-ready strategies, and a coach who'll check back next week.

    • 6,400+ peer-led chats archived since 2010
    • Live + searchable within an hour
    • No platform-generated noise
  3. 03 Friday, 3:42 p.m.

    The hallway, online

    The forum is where the colleagues you'd normally bump into in the copy room actually live — coaches, special-ed teachers, department chairs, first-year rookies. Post the question you wouldn't put in an email. Expect a thoughtful reply in eleven minutes, often from someone who's been exactly where you are.

    • 11-minute average response time
    • Sub-communities by role & subject
    • No ads, no algorithm, no selling
It is the only professional space online where I can post a confused Tuesday-morning question and have a thoughtful reply from a real teacher — usually before my planning period ends. EduPLN has made me a better teacher than any conference I have attended.
94% of surveyed members say EduPLN has improved their teaching practice. EduPLN Annual Member Survey · n = 4,210 · 2023

Not a classroom teacher?

You're welcome here too.

EduPLN started with teachers and teachers stay first — but the network also serves the people who serve teachers. If you arrived from a district office, an edtech team, or an association program, the door is open and a dedicated page is waiting.

For Districts

Site-wide seats for 340+ districts, curriculum-share workspaces, PD cohort facilitation, and an admin dashboard for your instructional leads. Educator-owned data — never sold to advertisers.

District pathways →

For Edtech

Run a teacher-research panel, recruit a vetted pilot cohort from 48,300+ practitioners, or co-host a community PD series. Engagement is human-led; we don't sell sponsored lesson placements.

Partner with the network →

For Associations & Conferences

EduPLN hosts PD cohorts for ASCD, NAIS, and 14 state education associations, and powered ISTE's official community migration. Bring your members; we'll bring the platform and 15 years of community practice.

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Want the whole story behind the network — the founding classroom in Edmonton, the 2016 open-source rebuild, the 1 millionth forum post? Read the about page, or just sign up and meet your colleagues.

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Questions from a district office, a newsroom, or a curious teacher — all welcome.

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