So this weekend my wife and I celebrated our 1st anniversary. We celebrated in upstate New York with our parents and it was an altogether awesome weekend. A weekend where we got to reflect on our year as a married couple.

Sunday morning found my father on the porch reading “The Zeus Trip”, by Jennifer Conlin in the NY Times. At the conclusion of the article, he looked up and remarked that lesson plans were everywhere and as such, how could PlansForUs catalogue and organize these ideas from outside the teaching ecosystem.
An interesting question indeed. He’s absolutely right, there are a ton of interesting teaching experiences happening outside of the school system, but how could you incentivize those people to post their ideas, in lesson plan form, at PlansForUs. I am not sure.

However, the other place this article took me seems to be more feasible. Teaching is happening everywhere; what if our teachers began to share life experiences as lesson plans on PlansForUs. What if, rather than a writer for the NY Times, Jennifer was a teacher. How cool would it be for her to construct a lesson plan around her trip through Greece. And how cool would it be for Jennifer to connect to other teachers who had travelled in Greece and collaboratively build an even more detailed and granular lesson plan.

This can happen at PlansForUs. We will be launching user profiles soon. These profiles will be used to connect you with others who share experiences. Perhaps you graduated from the same Masters program, maybe you grew up in the same city, or you connect through a travel experience. Building connections through shared experience and then utilizing those connections to collaboratively build engaging lessons is what the PlansForUs platform is all about.

Please suggest any fields that you would like to see in the user profile. You can leave suggestions in the comments section, we will carefully consider all of your suggestions.

by Tyler, CEO