Lesson plans (for centers)
For center admins: creating weekly classroom plans, the approval route for staff who cannot publish, and why publishing and parent sharing are separate steps.
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Weekly classroom planning lives in Learning > This week, separately from developmental assessments. For skills, observations, reporting periods and child reports, see Assessments (for centers).
This area requires the staff member's corresponding permission. A missing menu item can be a role or classroom-scope issue rather than missing data.
Creating a plan
Go to Learning > This week > New plan to create a draft for the classroom and week. Follow the fields and lifecycle actions offered for that plan.
Creating a plan does not publish it or share it with parents. A new plan is a draft until someone acts on it.
Bloomily Teach is an administrator pilot; this guide does not promise a general AI activity editor.
Approval
Who can publish depends on permissions:
Staff who cannot publish directly submit a draft for approval.
Authorized reviewers can approve a plan, or send it back with feedback.
Publishing and parent visibility are separate
Publishing a plan is not the same as showing it to families.
A published plan becomes visible in the parent portal only after Share with parents is turned on.
Sharing changes portal visibility; it does not itself send a parent email.
Check both the plan's status and its sharing state before telling a family they can see this week's plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do lesson plans sync with daily reports? They are separate records. Lesson plans show what is planned for the week; daily reports record what happened. Do not use one record as proof that the other was completed or shared.
Q: A teacher says they can't create a plan. Check their permission and classroom scope before assuming a fault. Staff without publishing rights can still create and submit drafts.
Related
Assessments (for centers) — skills, observations, reporting periods and child reports