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schoolteacher.network · For classroom teachers, K–12 · The daily driver & the teacher network

The whole classroom day in one login — and a teacher network, opening soon.

You teach the class, take the attendance, grade the work, print the report cards, and answer the families — usually before lunch. schoolteacher.network is the one login where the classroom day actually runs: your roster, your per-meeting attendance, and a gradebook that rolls up to GPA with printable report cards and transcripts.

It is also a network — a place to find the teachers who teach what you teach. That part is launching, not live: there is no feed and no posting here yet. What you can do today is sign in and run your day, lean on the free lesson and script libraries, and add your name to the waitlist so you are in the room when the network opens.

Sign in self-routes teachers to their workspace, classroom, and gradebook. No contract, no lock-in.

One login for the dayroster, attendance, gradebook, GPA, and report cards run in the same place — not four tools stitched together
The records tier settles no moneythe classroom daily driver is free to run — no checkout, no subscription; money is honest-off
The network is launchinga teacher peer network is being built — not live yet, no posting today; add your name to the waitlist
Minors stay off the public weba student without recorded consent is never public, indexed, or searchable — suppressed at the data source

What runs today

Sign in and run the classroom day — not a demo, the real thing

This is the part that is built and working. Every card below is a capability you can use after you sign in, labelled honestly — Built means the engine exists and is production-ready, and where a piece is still coming the label says so.

Your class list and attendance

Your roster is the class you actually teach: names, seats, and the groups you sort them into. Take attendance per class meeting in a couple of taps, and the present and absent counts total honestly — a null rate on an empty class, never a fabricated 0/0. It is the first thing that loads in the morning and the last thing you close.

Built

A gradebook that rolls up to GPA

Enter grades where you already think about them — by assignment, by category — and let the gradebook roll them up to a GPA and out to printable report cards and transcripts. The math is the boring-reliable kind: you can see how one mark moved a grade, and the report card is generated from the real record instead of retyped at the end of the term.

Built

Grades that post back from the in-app lessons

When a student finishes a lesson that runs inside the platform — the journalism curriculum is the built example — the completion and the grade post back into this gradebook automatically, walled by the student-privacy rules and summed for you. You assign the work once and read the result in the place you already grade, not in a second system you have to reconcile.

Built

IDEA deadlines and service minutes

For the students on a plan, the special-education engine tracks the compliance deadlines and logs the service minutes delivered against what the plan requires, and flags a due date or a minutes obligation before it slips. It tracks and flags — it does not author the plan, decide a service, or offer legal advice. Plan data is minor PII: consent-gated, school-owned, and never made public.

Built

Accessible and multilingual, never billed extra

The reader and the tools are screen-reader-friendly and fully keyboard-operable, and contrast and alt text are checked automatically. Here is the promise: we will never charge you extra to be accessible or to reach a family who speaks another language at home. Each school sets its language — English or French today. A private translation engine that runs on our own computers, so no student or family information is sent to an outside cloud, is coming — we will not call it shipped until it is.

Built · translation coming

Bring your roster the standard way

Sign in with the single sign-on your district already uses, or bring the class list by a standard import from your student-information system. There is no contract to escape and no lock to spring. This complements your system of record rather than claiming to replace it — it is an honest daily driver, not a certified academic system-of-record, and we say so.

Built

The classroom daily driver settles no money — records are the free tier. Money is honest-off across the platform today.

The teacher network · Launching

The teachers who teach what you teach — soon, in one place. Launching · not live yet

Teaching is the profession where the person one door down has already solved the exact problem in front of you — and you may never get the ten minutes to ask. The teacher network is the part of schoolteacher.network built for that: a place to find the teachers who share your subject and your grade, ask a real question, and share what actually worked this week.

Here is the honest part. The network is not live yet. There is no feed, no posting, no messaging, and no member directory on schoolteacher.network today — nothing you could write here would be published, because there is nowhere to publish it. We would rather say that plainly than fake a room full of people. The one thing that works today is the waitlist.

Find your people by subject and grade

When it opens, you will be able to find the teachers who teach what you teach — not a firehose, just the handful whose Tuesday looks like yours.

Ask a real question, get a real answer

A place to ask the specific thing — the lab that never works, the unit that always runs long — and hear back from someone who has taught it, not from a search result.

Share what worked — without exposing a student

Show the assignment and the win with the same consent gate the rest of the platform uses, so a student never ends up public just because you wanted to celebrate them.

Add your name and the subject and grade you teach, and you are in the room when the network opens. It is a note to a person, not a signup funnel — no drip campaign, and this site keeps no browser storage on you.

Free resources, shared

The free libraries every teacher can reach — no login, no fee

schoolteacher.network is a front door to the free content the platform gives away. Below is what is live today, what is opening soon, and where the resource home lives — each link honest about its state.

The free lesson-plan library

Classroom-ready lessons across reading & writing, math, science, and social studies — each one written original and aligned to a real, checkable public standard code. Free to read, print, and teach. A sample is on this page.

Live · free

Free School Plays

A growing library of original scripts — comedies, fairy tales, one-acts, and classroom skits — free to read, print, rehearse, and perform. No royalty and no per-performance fee; keep the author and the library on your program.

Live · free to perform

Free School Music

The sibling library for school music programs — scores for choirs, small ensembles, and classroom music, under the same free model. The catalog is in curation; it is opening soon, not available yet.

Opening soon

The journalism curriculum

For yearbook and journalism teachers: 34 lessons that teach on the exact screen a student is working, an administrator-ready standards alignment report across 51 states and areas, and grades that post back to your gradebook. Honest that aligning to a standard is not the same as certifying it.

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educator.center — the resource home

For the other half of the job: classroom-management techniques, formative-assessment checks, complete guides on differentiation and family communication, and career tools. That is educator.center; here you run the day and (soon) meet your peers.

Resource home

A live sample · the free lesson-plan library

Real, classroom-ready lessons — each aligned to a checkable public standard

These are drawn straight from the free library, one per subject. Each is original, and each carries a real public standard code you can check in a curriculum review. Aligned across Common Core English Language Arts, Common Core Mathematics, Next Generation Science Standards, the C3 Framework for Social Studies.

Reading & writing · Grades 3-5

Finding the main idea in a short nonfiction passage

Students read a short nonfiction passage, name its main idea in one sentence, and point to two details that back it up.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2 · Determine the main idea of a text and explain how key details support it.

Free lesson · live

Math · Grades 3-5

Adding fractions with the same denominator

Students fold paper strips into equal parts, then add fractions that share a denominator and check the sum against the model.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3 · Add and subtract fractions with like denominators by joining and separating parts of the same whole.

Free lesson · live

Science · Grades K-2

What plants need to grow

Students plant seeds in two cups, give one light and water and keep the other in the dark, and record what changes over a week.

K-LS1-1 · Use observations to describe patterns of what plants need to survive.

Free lesson · live

Social studies · Grades 6-8

Reading a primary source: an old local document

Students read a short public-domain document from the 1800s, identify who wrote it and when, and separate facts from the writer's opinion.

D2.His.10.6-8 · Detect possible limits and point of view in the primary sources used to study the past.

Free lesson · live

Each is a print-and-teach lesson plan — objectives, an activity, and the standard it meets. The library authors its own lessons and tags them to a multi-organization standards registry — it does not reproduce any framework’s copyrighted text.

Student privacy is the teacher’s too

A minor without consent is never public — and it is enforced at the data source

Consent-gated by construction, not by a checkbox

Everything a teacher touches that involves a student — the gradebook, the roster, a class showcase — runs behind a single rule: a student whose family has not given consent is suppressed at the source. Not hidden by a setting you might forget, not filtered on the screen — removed before the data is ever assembled, so a minor can never be made public, indexed, or searchable. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, and the school owns the data throughout.

Picture day adds the second wall the same way: photos are never sold, facial recognition is off by default, and finding a child is a permission-checked class-list lookup rather than a face match. Face matching is not wired in the shipping product and cannot be switched on from it: it holds no face-recognition model weights, and no face template is computed from a photo. Photo finding uses a permission-checked roster lookup instead.

See it work — an illustrative class showcase

The examples below are illustrative, not real students — a fictional first name and last initial, no personal information.

Ari M.

Grade 4 · consent on file

a watercolor map of the class garden

Noor K.

Grade 4 · consent on file

a paragraph on why bridges hold

Sam R.

Grade 5 · consent on file

a recorded reading of an original poem

Remy T.

Grade 4 · consent on file

a diagram of the water cycle

1 student not shown. One illustrative student is deliberately absent because consent is not on file. Their name, grade, and work are not in this page at all — the gate removed them at the source, which is exactly what happens with a real minor whose family has not opted in.

What is built and what is honest-off — plainly

The classroom daily driver is built. The teacher network is launching. Money is off.

Built and working today: the class roster and per-meeting attendance; a gradebook that rolls up to GPA with printable report cards and transcripts; grade passback from the in-app journalism curriculum; IDEA special-education deadline and service-minute tracking; accessibility and keyboard operation; and the consent gate plus the single-school privacy wall. The free lesson-plan library and Free School Plays are live and free.

Honest-off — present in plan but not enabled for live use: the TEACHER NETWORK (launching, not live — no feed, no posting, no messaging, no member directory; the waitlist is the only live action); family communications (in development); the private translation engine (coming, never called shipped); and all money (no live billing, no subscription, no checkout — the records daily driver settles no money). Free School Music is opening soon, not available yet. We show what works today and name what we do not do yet — and nothing here is legal advice.

FAQ

Common questions

Is the teacher network live?

No — and we will not pretend it is. The network is launching, not live. There is no feed, no posting, no messaging, and no member directory on schoolteacher.network today. What works right now is the classroom daily driver (your roster, attendance, gradebook, and report cards) and the free libraries — plus a waitlist for the network. When the network opens, everyone on the waitlist hears first.

So what can I actually do today?

Sign in and run your class. Your roster, per-meeting attendance, a gradebook that rolls up to GPA, and printable report cards and transcripts are built and working. You can lean on the free lesson, play, and script libraries, and the in-app journalism curriculum posts its grades straight back to your gradebook. The network is the one part that is still being built.

How is this different from educator.center?

educator.center is the resource home — classroom-management techniques, formative-assessment checks, guides, and career tools you read and use. schoolteacher.network is where you do the day’s work: sign in and run your classroom and gradebook, and (soon) connect with other teachers. Two different jobs, cross-linked, not the same page twice.

What does it cost?

The classroom daily driver settles no money — the records tier (roster, attendance, gradebook, report cards, transcripts) is free to run. There is no live billing, no subscription, and no checkout here; money is honest-off across the platform today. The free lesson, play, and (soon) music libraries are free as well.

How is my students’ data handled?

Student data is owned by the school and is never sold to or shared with outside companies. Data about a minor is consent-gated — a family opts in before any disclosure, and consent can be withdrawn at any time — and a minor without recorded consent is never made public, never indexed, and never searchable. That suppression happens at the data source, not as a checkbox on a screen. Minor data runs on our own private systems.

Can I share student work publicly?

Only for a student whose family has said yes. The platform’s rule is the same everywhere: a minor without recorded consent is suppressed at the source, so they can never appear in a public showcase, a shared class moment, or anything a search engine could reach. The example on this page shows it — one illustrative student is deliberately absent because consent is not on file, and their information is not in this page at all.

Do you sell student photos or use facial recognition?

No. Photos are never sold — a photo is sellable only when permission allows — and facial recognition is off by default. Finding a child is a permission-checked class-list lookup, not a face match. Face matching runs only for a family that has explicitly opted in, and withdrawing that opt-in stops the matching. Face matching is not wired in the shipping product and cannot be switched on from it: it holds no face-recognition model weights, and no face template is computed from a photo. Photo finding uses a permission-checked roster lookup instead. What is proven end to end is the publication side — a student marked do-not-publish drops out of the digital edition, the reader, and the print run.

Is there a gradebook — and does it do report cards, transcripts, and attendance?

Yes, all built. Grades roll up to a GPA, report cards and transcripts print from the real record, and attendance is taken per class meeting with honest totals. Grades from the in-app journalism curriculum post back into it automatically.

I teach yearbook or journalism — is there something for me?

Yes. The journalism curriculum teaches on the exact page a student is building — 34 lessons, an administrator-ready standards alignment across 51 states and areas, and grade passback to your gradebook — and it is honest that aligning to a standard is not the same as certifying it. It is cross-linked in the resources above.

How do I get started?

Open your workspace — sign in with the single sign-on your district already uses, or bring your class list by a standard import from your student-information system, and you land in your workspace, classroom, and gradebook. If you would rather see it first, book a walkthrough. To join the network waitlist, email [email protected] with the subject and grade you teach.

Who is behind schoolteacher.network?

It is a for-profit school-software platform — the same one that runs homeroom.software — not a teacher membership group and not a competitor to the places teachers already gather online. It is a tool for running the classroom day, and it is honest about what is built versus what is still coming.

Workflow tips · for the daily driver you already run

Real workflow habits for the roster, the gradebook, and the IDEA tracker — not generic advice.

This is not a lesson-tips page — that is educator.center’s job, and we cross-link it rather than restate it. These are specific habits for running the parts of schoolteacher.network you already sign in to: when to log an absence, how to set gradebook weights before the first score lands, how grade passback fits into your week, and how an adviser handles an IDEA deadline or a sub day. Sixteen tips across four lanes, each grounded in a capability already marked Built above.

Roster & Attendance

The two things that have to be right before period 1 — who is in the room, and who sorts where.

Sort your groups in week one, not week six

The roster holds names, seats, and the groups you sort students into — set those groups while you are still learning names, so the sort reflects an early read rather than a habit you never revisited. Re-sorting in week six means redoing the groups from scratch; sorting in week one means they just work.

Take attendance in the same minute every period, not at the end of the day

A couple of taps at the bell beats a reconstruction from memory during your planning period. The present and absent totals stay honest — a null rate on an empty class, never a fabricated 0/0 — but only if you log it while the room is actually in front of you.

Bring the roster in the day before, not the morning of

Sign in with your district’s single sign-on, or bring the class list by the standard student-information-system import, a day ahead of the first meeting. A sync hiccup then surfaces while you still have time to fix it, not while students are standing at the door.

Log the excuse reason the same day you mark the absence

An absence marked and annotated today is a fact; one you try to annotate from memory next week is a guess. Add the excused-or-unexcused note the moment the office tells you, and the attendance record stays something you would defend to a parent without checking your own memory first.

Gradebook, GPA & Report Cards

Habits that keep the rollup honest all term, so report-card week is a print job, not a scramble.

Set assignment categories and weights before you enter the first grade

The gradebook rolls categories up to a GPA — decide the weighting for homework, tests, and projects before a single score is in, not after a parent asks why one quiz moved a letter grade more than expected. Changing weights midstream is what makes a report card hard to explain.

Print a report-card draft at the midpoint, not just at the end

Report cards and transcripts generate straight from the real record, so a midterm draft costs you nothing and catches a mis-weighted category or a missing grade while there is still time to fix it — instead of on the night before cards go home.

Trace the one mark before you take the parent call

When a grade surprises a family, look at how the single assignment moved the category average before you answer — the gradebook shows the math, not just the final number. Walking a parent through the one entry that shifted the grade turns a defensive call into a five-minute one.

Pull a transcript the week it is asked for, never the day it is due

Because the transcript generates from the running record rather than a retype at term’s end, there is no reason to let a counselor’s request become urgent. Treat a transcript ask as a same-week task and the record is always ready before the deadline is close.

Lesson Assignment & Grade Passback

How to hand a lesson to the in-app engine and read the result back in the same gradebook — without a second spreadsheet.

Assign the in-app lesson once and let the grade post back on its own

When a student finishes a lesson that runs inside the platform — the journalism curriculum is the built example — the completion and the grade post back to this gradebook automatically. Assign it here rather than tracking a parallel spreadsheet, and you read the result in the place you already grade.

Spot-check a passback grade before you treat it as final

Passback sums the completion and the grade for you; it does not replace your judgment about the work. Reading a handful of the actual submissions behind a passback score, especially early in a unit, catches a rubric mismatch before it repeats across thirty students.

Use the free lesson library for the reading, the in-app assignment for the grade

Pull the reading or activity from the free lesson-plan library, then have students complete the matching piece inside the platform so only the passback assignment feeds the gradebook. One system enters the grade instead of two systems you have to reconcile at report-card time.

Chase a non-submitter before the category rolls up, not after

The passback completion status shows who has not finished while there is still time to follow up. Waiting until the gradebook rolls the category into the GPA turns a five-minute reminder into a grade-change conversation with a family.

IDEA Tracking & Adviser Habits

The adviser-side workflow — service-minute logging, deadline buffers, sub-day handoffs, and the consent check before a showcase.

Log service minutes the day you deliver them

The IDEA tracker sums minutes against what a plan requires, and the running total is only as good as the day you enter it. Logging the same day keeps the balance accurate; batching a week of minutes from memory is where an entry quietly goes missing.

Treat a flagged deadline as a buffer day, not the actual due date

The tracker flags a due date or a minutes shortfall before it slips — it tracks and flags, it does not author the plan or offer legal advice. Build in a day between the flag and the real deadline so a flagged Friday does not become a missed Friday.

Brief a substitute or co-adviser with the roster and today’s attendance, not an index card

Before a planned absence, walk a substitute or covering adviser through the actual roster and the day’s attendance view rather than a hand-written note. It takes the same few minutes and leaves them with the real class in front of them instead of your memory of it.

These are workflow habits for capabilities already marked Built above — not new features, and not general classroom advice. For lesson tips, guides, and career tools, see educator.center; this hub cross-links it rather than restate it.

Open your workspace · Join the waitlist

Run the day now. Be first in the room when the network opens.

Sign in with the single sign-on your district already uses, or bring your class list by a standard import, and you land in your workspace, classroom, and gradebook — the records tier is free to run. To join the network waitlist or see it first, email us with the subject and grade you teach; a person reads it. No signup funnel, no drip campaign, and this site keeps no browser storage on you.

Email [email protected].