Open Educator, Inc. develops and supports open-source knowledge-sharing communities that make it possible for every motivated K-12 teacher to be highly effective.

Educators, join Open Planner, Open Educator's free, easy-to-use, collaborative planning community!

Registered members can: author and maintain "open-source" planning projects for review and use by our community of educators peruse, use, and learn from the planning work of others start or join collaborative authoring teams.

Building community documents: The Open Curriculum.

Open Curriculum projects are made possible by Open Planner, our powerful, easy to use group-authoring tool. Take the opportunity to reach out to colleagues in our growing network and enhance your teaching potential by contributing to curriculum projects that can leverage the combined experience of many. See our informational video.

Here's how:

• Step 1:

  • Join Open Planner
  It's free and so are our resources. We're a non-profit built by teachers committed to open-source knowlege sharing.

• Step 2:

• Start your own curriculum-writing team, OR
• Join one of our existing teams...and...
• Start creating and peer reviewing curriculum documents! Learn more...
• Join curriculum-specific forum discussions and book groups.

• Step 3:

• Contact other Open Planner members whose professional interests you share. Bring the talents and experience of others into your work life!
• Invite colleagues to become Open Planner members. School and region-specific teams: Your team's membership and authoring privileges can be as open or restricted as you like!

Here's why:

• Work smarter.

  By harnessing collective wisdom, curricula authored on Open Planner have the potential to build their quality and support repositories in a way that no individual teacher could accomplish alone.

• Build your reputation as an educator.

  Open Planner is a network of professionals where your contributions have the potential to gain you widespread professional esteem. Your involvement in the Open Planner community can open doors, as members may choose to contact you for other career opportunities.

• Stay organized.

  All resources on Open Planner live on a server that can be accessed from any internet connected computer, which allows you to stop chasing down your own loose papers, lugging around disks, CDs, and other volatile storage media, and improve your focus on classroom planning.

• Showcase your team's collaborative accomplishments.

Schools increasingly look to document and preserve their professional development and common planning efforts. Open Planner provides a free space where a group's efforts can be made transparent to the larger professional community.