K-12 solutions

Solve the problems that matter to you.

Lamppost helps Canadian K-12 schools, boards and districts lighten educator workload, improve teacher retention, run meetings that get things done and bring the strategic plan into every classroom.

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Problems we solve

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Teacher workload and burnout Strategic plan never reaches the classroom Meetings that don't solve anything Data arrives too late Staff turnover and retention Too many disconnected tools Reporting burden to the board or ministry

Teacher workload and burnout

Reduce teacher workload and burnout

Teachers spend evenings and weekends on admin. Plans, assessments and notes sit in separate tools, so effort gets duplicated and catching up happens at home.

How Lamppost solves it

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My Planner and My Learning Plans follow your provincial curriculum, so a week of lessons comes together in one pass.
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Lantern drafts lesson plans, worksheets and slides for you to edit. You stay in charge of every change.
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Assessments, to-dos and meeting notes live next to the lessons they belong to.

Lamppost My Learning Plans library with a lesson plan drafted by Lantern

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Strategic plan never reaches the classroom

Bring your school plan into every classroom

The school plan lives in a binder, approved in June and opened again the next June. In between, staff can't name the priorities or the daily work that moves them.

How Lamppost solves it

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Vision holds your multi-year and 1-year goals in one place everyone can see.
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Each goal breaks into 90-day Rocks with a single owner and a due date.
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Lessons and scorecard measures connect to the Rocks they support, so progress shows up as the work gets done.

Lamppost Vision view showing a multi-year goal, 1-year goals and the rock, scorecard measure and lesson connected to it

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Meetings that don't solve anything

Run school meetings that end in action

Meetings end without decisions. The hour goes to round-the-table updates. The same issues come back month after month, and action items get lost in between.

How Lamppost solves it

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Every meeting follows the same agenda: scorecard, Rocks, headlines, then issues.
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Issues are ranked and solved in order of priority, not in order of who speaks first.
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Each decision ends as a to-do with an owner and a date, and it's reviewed at the next meeting.

A Lamppost leadership meeting agenda on the to-do list step, with last week's to-dos and a new to-do

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Data arrives too late

Track school data every week, not just in June

Attendance, reading and behaviour data gets reviewed at report card time. By then the students who needed help in October have already fallen behind.

How Lamppost solves it

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Scorecards track the numbers that matter each week, for one person, a team or the whole school.
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Every measure has a goal, so off-track numbers stand out the week they slip.
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Raise an issue straight from a number and bring it to the next meeting.

Lamppost scorecard trends from September with one measure trending below goal

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Staff turnover and retention

Improve teacher retention

Good teachers leave. Heavy workloads, unclear expectations and working alone wear people down, and each fall new staff start from scratch.

How Lamppost solves it

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Less admin gives teachers back time in their week, which is where retention starts.
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A shared library of lesson plans lets new teachers duplicate and adapt proven work instead of starting from zero.
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The Org Chart shows who owns what, so expectations are clear from day one.

The Lamppost school lesson library, with a colleague's plan added to a teacher's own plans

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Too many disconnected tools

Bring everything into one School Operating System

Ten logins, and none of them talk to each other. Planners, spreadsheets, shared docs and chat apps mean the same information gets copied over and over.

How Lamppost solves it

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Planning, assessments, meetings, scorecards and goals share one platform and one login.
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Your dashboard pulls today's lessons, to-dos and priorities into a single view.
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Lamppost connects with Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365, including your calendar, email and documents.

The Lamppost dashboard showing today's lessons, to-dos, rocks and scorecard in one view

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Reporting burden to the board or ministry

Simplify reporting to your school board

Reports take weeks to put together. Principals chase updates by email and build spreadsheets by hand, and the report is out of date by the time it's sent.

How Lamppost solves it

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Progress is recorded as work happens, so the information a report needs is already in one place.
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Rock status, scorecard trends and goal progress are ready to share at any time.
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District leaders see every school's progress in one view, without asking for it.

Lamppost district overview showing rocks, scorecards and goal progress across eight schools, with a board report ready to share

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Find your role

See what Lamppost does for your job.

For teachers

Plan faster and get your evenings back.

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For principals

Run your school on data, not guesswork.

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For superintendents

Connect district strategy to every classroom.

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FAQ

Common questions

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What is a School Operating System?

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A School Operating System connects the work of teaching, running a school and leading a district in one platform. In Lamppost, lesson plans, assessments, meetings, scorecards and long-term goals all live in the same place and link to each other.

Can one teacher use Lamppost without their whole school?

Yes. Any teacher can start on the Base plan, which is free and never expires, and upgrade to Pro at any time for more features. Schools, boards and districts can bring every educator onto one shared plan.

Is Lamppost aligned to my provincial curriculum?

Yes. Lesson planning follows your provincial curriculum, so the outcomes you need to cover are built into the planner.

Does Lamppost work with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365?

Yes. Connect your Google Workspace for Education account, including Classroom, Calendar, Gmail and Docs, or your Microsoft 365 account. More integrations are coming soon.