Is there a way that units (and lessons) can be banked without being tied to a school year? It would be nice to be able to access lesson plans from the previous year via the lesson bank without having to toggle between school years.

Is there somewhere we can learn more about this new lesson bank that is now marked as complete?

This is not a new idea but it is buried in the comments of another post. I still would like the ability to print emergency sub plans (not tied to any date) but still in the actual schedule of my classes. Currently I have to fill in a week in late June or July that has no lessons in it and then it prints with dates that are not relevant (I then put marker over the dates).

I love this idea. As an elementary teacher, we do alot of STEAM activities and depending on the day I may end up using ELA time to do a lesson instead of science. I would like to have the unit fluctuate more to allow for this style of teaching.

Great idea - and so useful

This would be awesome to have! Our district is changing things around so it would be nice to have them in a "holding" area under each unit they are assigned with. That way when I'm ready to assign dates it would be easy to place them accordingly.

Yes! I want to put a lesson into my unit plan but not ready to assign it to a date just yet or even use it this year.

YES PLEASE!!

It would be very useful to create a template without locking it to a particular day or date. Instead, it could go into a template bank or folder, and could then be applied to a specific date as needed.
For example, when my reading/writing classes start a new unit, the lesson is often very similar in terms of its standards, objectives, and instruction / learning activities. If I could create a "new unit" template with those standards, objectives, and activities, I could then apply it to a date whenever I am starting a new unit. This would save time in writing lessons plans.

I suggest you be able to hide single lessons. It would be nice if you could "remove" a lesson, but still maintain it for the next year/class.

If this happened, I would become a lifetime planbook user. This is really the one thing holding me back and keeping me still on paper some. I want to have my lessons all stored in here that I can pick and choose from and add to.

Plan a sequence of lessons for one class, then planbook inserts these into the timetabled occurances of this class. Lessons can then still be bumped etc - that would just create a vacancy in the sequence. Lessons should be draggable.swappable within the sequence for that class.

For writers' workshop, I use Units to bank lessons by genre or rubric topic.

This would be great! I have often wondered where the lessons go if they are locked to a date and that date is not a school day the following year. The lessons have to be tweaked every year, and this way could be done as a unit, rather than each day, then extend, copy, paste. Its very time consuming

I teach music, so I see every single kid in the school and this lesson plan bank would save me LOADS of time from year to year. I'd also love a unit bank that could link multiple lessons to be applied to a current year.

SO excited that this is finally in the "started" section. For now, I'm going to attempt to add several "pretend" classes at the end of the day that I can use for a lesson bank. If I do that, I don't want them to show each day in my lesson plans.

I know that (at least on my iPad), I can uncheck some classes to hide them. But I think they always default to back in view after pages refresh. Is there a way to "lock" them Ina hidden position?

YES!!! It is hard to go back to prior years and sift through lessons, copy it, change years, and then enter into current plans. Thank you for suggesting this!

clarification: the scrollable column would show the banked lessons

Thrilled Planbook is taking a look at this idea! Wondering what people would think about a scroll-able column that could be turned on and appear to the left of the current weekly plans? I'm envisioning something like that where the individual lessons would be sortable in a number of ways - alphabetically, by category, by class, etc. It would be helpful if the lessons could also be dragged and dropped within the "bank" so teachers could play with lesson sequencing. I'd like this sortable left-column so that teachers could quickly find and then drag and drop banked lessons into their current plans. It would also be nice if there was an option to either permanently drag the lesson out of the bank or to copy and paste it into the current plans.

I'm in desperate need of this! At this point, I'm looking at adding some additional classes and adding some "lesson bank" items. I would then copy paste from those "bank" classes to my actual classes.

Sometimes I want to save a plan that I made to use later in the year. I wish we could "archive" a lesson so we could have access to it later in the school year without deleting it.