Kemp Advisory Group · Kempbell Academy
Clickable prototype. Real TEKS standards (K–5, 2,259). The plan text is built from rules and templates here; the live version will add language-model suggestions that teachers review. Nothing you type is sent anywhere (you can save a copy in your own browser), and it should never hold student names or plan contents.
Plan a lesson
Kempbell Teacher Studio is a prototype. Plans, groups and suggestions are drafts for the teacher to review and change. The teacher and district remain responsible for instruction and for IEP, 504, behavior and ELPS plans, which this tool does not create or certify. It is not legal advice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency. STAAR, TEKS, T-TESS and Texas Reading Academies are names used to describe what the tool relates to.
Credits and sources
Kempbell Teacher Studio draws on published ideas. Credit goes to their authors. Using an idea here does not mean its author or publisher reviewed, approved or endorses this tool.
- Talk, read, talk, write: routine described by Nancy Motley in Talk Read Talk Write (Canter Press, 2016, Seidlitz Education).
- Inquiry cycle: built on the learning-cycle tradition that includes the BSCS 5E Instructional Model (Bybee and colleagues, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) and the earlier Atkin and Karplus learning cycle. 5E is a BSCS name; this tool uses its own plain step names.
- Bloom: Bloom and colleagues (1956), revised by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001).
- Levels of thinking: Arthur Costa's Levels of Questioning.
- Nine events of instruction: Robert Gagné, Conditions of Learning.
- Backwards design: Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design.
- Gradual release of responsibility: Pearson and Gallagher (1983).
- Think-pair-share: Frank Lyman. Other partner and team routines use plain descriptive names and are not Kagan structures.
- Learning habits (note-taking, questioning, organizing, reading and collaboration themes): general study-skill practices. Not an AVID program and not affiliated with AVID Center.
- Standards and tests: TEKS, STAAR, T-TESS, ELPS and Texas Reading Academies belong to the Texas Education Agency and the State of Texas.