AI Lesson Planning · Teacher-Controlled

One plan in.
Everything out.

Save your class context once, generate your lesson, then build every worksheet, student handout, and teaching resource right from it. All connected, all in one place, and always yours to edit.

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Curriculum-aligned Remixable Library

Hosted in Canada

Built-in curriculum modes plus custom curriculum upload

Forces in Motion · Grade 6 ScienceOne unit, everything generated from it, yours to edit

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Three connected toolsets, one planning flow

Each one works on its own and builds from the same plan, so your lesson, its materials, and its supports all start from the same place.

Lesson Builder & Remixing However you start, everything lands in one editor that keeps the plan fully yours: rearrange, rewrite, or regenerate any block. Explore the builder Worksheets & Activities Print-ready worksheets and activities that match the lesson you just built, each with a facilitator guide. Explore worksheets Built-in Supports UDL, ELL, equity, SEL, and more, woven into planning when you need them and always in your control. Explore supports

A Growing Ecosystem

Lesson planning, together.

Right now, CARL helps you build from scratch. But every lesson a teacher chooses to share becomes a starting point for someone else. The more the library grows, the less anyone plans alone, or from a blank page.

Remix, don’t rebuild

Start from a shared lesson, adapt it for your class, and republish your version. The original stays untouched.

Add your own components

Keep the lesson, swap in a different worksheet or activity; your additions travel with it.

A remix tree that shows the lineage

Every shared lesson tracks who created it and how it’s changed over time, so credit stays visible and good ideas keep moving.

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A growing ecosystem of teacher-built lessons, where the best ideas get shared, adapted, and built on, together.

CARL tending a garden of growing lessons under a starry sky

The materials, and the teaching

Worksheets you’ll actually print

Most AI is good at the lesson and rough on the materials. CARL builds worksheets that are ready to hand out, and pairs each one with a facilitator guide, support you can lean on, not a script to follow.

Sample worksheetGrade-authentic, and ready to print

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Print-ready and grade-authentic

Proper headers, clear directions, clean layout, with content that matches the grade you’re teaching because it generates from your lesson.

A facilitator guide alongside every sheet

Suggested prompts, common misconceptions to watch for, and ideas for supporting or extending students. Starting points you adapt to your class, not instructions to follow.

Built-in equity, SEL, and language supports

Every guide offers inclusive prompts and sentence frames you can use when they fit, the same supports woven through the rest of CARL.

Inclusive image generation

Everyone gets to be the hero

Ask for a fantasy party and CARL aims for a real cast, in whatever style your lesson needs: guardrails guide every image toward a range of age, skin tone, body type, gender expression, disability, and cultural dress, and away from tokenism or caricature. The diversity sits inside the world you asked for; it doesn’t override your characters, setting, or context.

Photoreal fantasy party with a varied, diverse cast of characters

Illustrated fantasy party with a varied, diverse cast of characters

Animated fantasy party with a varied, diverse cast of characters

As always with CARL, you make the final decision for which images reach students.

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Values-based guardrails, not empty promises

Teacher review on every output, inclusion guardrails on lessons and images, and clear boundaries built into the design. You make the final call on everything that reaches students.

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Student-data minimized by design No student accounts or roster sync Supports privacy review: PIPEDA · BC PIPA · FOIPPA Hosted in Canada Teacher-controlled & editable Curriculum-aligned

How CARL and Compass fit together

Plan in CARL. Track in Compass.

CARL helps you create the lesson. Compass helps you see what is planned, what has been taught, and what still needs attention.

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Create classroom-ready lessons and materials

Build curriculum-aligned lessons, components, teaching resources, and inclusive supports from one connected planning workflow.

Lessons, units, and componentsCreate from scratch, upload, remix, or chat

Inclusive planning supportsUDL, ELL, SEL, equity, and Indigenous Resource Pathways

Remixable libraryAdapt public lessons without changing the original

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Compass

Track coverage and plan next steps

Use Compass to review curriculum matches, track planned and taught items, and generate coverage summaries when you need them.

Planned, taught, and to-do visibilitySee where your class is across the curriculum

Plan IdeasGet starting points for curriculum items that need attention

Coverage reportsCreate summaries for reflection, planning, or admin conversations

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And they connect: copy any Compass plan into CARL and build the full lesson from it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from educators about using CARL

CARL is an AI-assisted lesson planning tool for K-12 teachers. You set your curriculum, grade, subject, and preferences, and CARL helps you build full lessons, the worksheets and activities that go with them, and built-in supports, all in one connected workflow you stay in control of.

ChatGPT can be helpful for quick brainstorming, but CARL is built as a classroom planning workflow. It uses your teacher-set planning preferences, aligns to your curriculum (built-in modes plus custom curriculum upload), fills worksheets and components from your actual lesson, includes language options like French Immersion, and connects planning to remixing and curriculum coverage through Compass.

CARL is where you plan and create lessons. Compass is where you track curriculum coverage: upload your CARL plans to see what’s covered, what’s still to teach, and get next-step Plan Ideas. They work together, and you can use either one on its own. Explore Compass.

CARL supports a wide and growing range of curricula, with built-in modes plus the ability to upload your own district, school, or teacher-created curriculum documents for custom alignment. You can also generate in English, French, French Immersion, or Spanish.

No. CARL plans from teacher-set preferences: curriculum mode, grade, subject, language options, timing, and class-level needs. No student names or personal student data required.

Yes. CARL accounts are free, and every teacher can browse the shared library. You control who sees your plans, and you can build on other teachers’ work with CARL’s remixing feature: adapt a lesson, add your own components, and republish your version, with the original always credited. Planning shouldn’t always happen alone.

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