AI Lesson Planning · Teacher-Controlled

One plan in.
Everything out.

Tell CARL what you’re teaching, once. The lesson, the worksheets, the supports and the curriculum coverage all come out of that one plan.

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Seven things about CARL

What “everything” means.

Everything below comes from the plan you started with, as drafts you can change.

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    One starting point for everything you make.

    Skip the menu of separate tools. Tell CARL what you’re making (a lesson, a worksheet, a modification) and everything else starts from that one setup.

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    A full lesson draft in minutes.

    Topic, grade, curriculum. CARL drafts the whole lesson, hooks to exit ticket. You shape it.

    See the Lesson Builder
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    Edit anything.

    Rearrange, rewrite, add or remove any block. Nothing is locked. Ask in plain words and Edit with CARL suggests the change.

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    Your curriculum, from the start.

    Provinces and territories across Canada, the UK, Common Core, Universal, or your own documents. CARL lists the outcomes each lesson covers.

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    Supports, built in.

    Equity, SEL and trauma-informed support on every unit. Ask for UDL, ELL scaffolds and more, and keep what fits.

    See the supports
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    Worksheets from the lesson.

    Print-ready, grade-authentic, with a facilitator guide and answer key. Or start one from a topic with the worksheet generator.

    See worksheets and activities
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    See your coverage in Compass.

    Plan in CARL, book it into Compass, and watch what’s taught, planned and still to do.

    See how CARL and Compass connect
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A real example

Forces in Motion, Grade 6 Science

One unit and what came out of it: the lesson plan, the worksheet and the learning supports. Switch tabs to read the actual files.

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

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Representation by design

Everyone gets to be the hero

Ask for a fantasy party and CARL aims for a real cast: a range of ages, skin tones, body types, abilities and cultural dress, without tokenism and without overriding your characters or setting. You make the final call on every image.
One prompt: “a fantasy adventuring party.”

The same care in CARL’s Print Ready pages

A princess knight with curly hair, a rider in a supportive saddle, a child exploring with a guide dragon. In the Activity Library’s Print Ready tab, and free on our site.

Colouring page: a princess knight with curly hair standing with her horseA princess knight Colouring page: a young knight riding towards a castle in a supportive saddleA ride to the castle Colouring page: a child with a cane exploring with a guide dragonMy guide dragon
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A Growing Ecosystem

Lesson planning, together.

Today you’ll mostly build from scratch. But every lesson a teacher shares becomes someone else’s starting point, and the more the library grows, the fewer people plan from a blank page.

Remix, don’t rebuild

Adapt a shared lesson for your class. The original stays untouched.

Add your own components

Swap in your own worksheet or activity, and it travels with the lesson.

Remix lineage that shows the history

See who made each lesson and how it’s changed, so credit stays visible.

See how remixing works
CARL watering a garden of growing lessons on a starry night
Privacy and trust

The questions your principal will ask

No personal student data

No student names or records needed.

Made in BC, hosted in Canada

Your CARL account, lessons and uploads are stored in Toronto.

Not used to train AI

Not by us, and our AI providers’ terms rule it out too.

Every output is a draft

Change it, keep it or toss it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from educators about using CARL
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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, plans in your curriculum mode (built-in modes plus custom curriculum upload), fills worksheets and components from your actual lesson, includes lesson languages like French and Spanish, 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 to plan from. You can also generate lessons in English, French, or Spanish: full immersion, student sheets only, or English with vocabulary woven in. You choose per lesson.
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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Save your class context once, build a lesson and everything that goes with it, and join a growing community of teachers planning together.

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