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Why SideKick?

With class sizes increasing every day, teachers need a tool that saves them time, eliminates the chaos, and improves efficiency in the classroom so they can spend more time with their students. SideKick is a web-based lesson planner that empowers teachers and administrators to take control of their lesson plans.

Teachers can create detailed lesson plans, align them to state standards, submit lesson plans to their administrator for review, and share their lesson plans with other teachers. Administrators can review lesson plans, give feedback, and generate standards-based reports. With SideKick, teachers and administrators can decrease the time it takes to create and review lesson plans, and focus more time on students.

Who uses SideKick?

SideKick is being utilized by thousands of K-12 school teachers and administrators.

Inspired by teachers and built for school districts, SideKick is finding its way across the nation’s public and private school systems. If you are an individual teacher or a school district looking to improve your lesson planning efficiency, give SideKick a try and let us know how we can help.

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Submit, Share & Print Lesson Plans. Access anytime or anywhere.

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Awards

Thanks to our school districts and users across the country, SideKick has been honored in District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 products for 2010 and 2011.

District Administration Top 100 Products of 2010

District Administration Top 100 Products of 2011

Detailed Lesson Plans
SideKick gives you the option to enter as much or as little lesson plan information as you would like. We give you the ability to enter a title, description, objectives, directions, special needs, assessments, Bloom’s, Gardner’s, and more for each lesson plan. Lesson plans can span multiple days, as well as multiple classes.

State Standards
Teachers no longer need to remember state standard codes when creating lesson plans. Aligning lesson plans to state standards is fast and easy with SideKick. State standards from all 50 states are available, including the Common Core. Teachers can assign standards to each class, making creating lesson plans that more efficient in SideKick.

Interactive Calendar
SideKick’s unique calendar view makes it easy to transition from traditional paper planners into SideKick. The calendar can be customized to meet your specific needs and includes two different views – a Primary Ed Calendar View for Elementary teachers and a Secondary Ed Calendar View for middle and high school teachers.

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Submit Lesson Plans
Go paperless and stay more organized when submitting your lesson plans to your administrator for review. SideKick allows you to easily submit and/or send your lesson plans in under two clicks.
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Share Lesson Plans
Collaborate with other teachers by sharing your lesson plans. SideKick allows you to share with other teachers in your school district (district package only) or share with teachers around the country who are also using SideKick.

Search Lesson Plans
Teachers can search their lesson plans, as well as other shared lesson plans. Easily copy a shared lesson plan in its entirety to your calendar to eliminate retyping information.
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Print Lesson Plans
SideKick offers two print formats to make printing a breeze. A calendar view, as well as a list view are available for printing.

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Access Anytime, Anywhere
SideKick is completely web-based, so there is nothing to install and you can access your lesson plans from anywhere with an Internet connection 24/7.

File Cabinet
Store, organize, and reuse lesson plans by using SideKick’s File Cabinet. Easily create folder structures to store your lesson plans in for easier implementation in the future.
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Assignments and Attachments
Quickly upload homework assignments and attachments to SideKick for each lesson plan you create. Homework assignments can be viewed by parents and students from the Parent URL.

Parent URL
Parents and students can access a teacher’s unique URL to see what is being taught per class and to view homework assignments.

Security and Privacy

All data in SideKick is safe, secure, and reliable. All SideKick accounts use SSL-encrypted connections by default. You never send or receive sensitive information in plain-text. Additionally, industry- standard physical and remote security is administered at our datacenter facility.

Inspired by Teachers. Built for school districts.

SideKick Testimonials

SideKick allows us to determine the best time to address skills with students, identify areas in which teachers might need professional development and foster positive collaboration among teachers.
- Kimberly Race, director of instructional technology and curriculum in the Western Heights (Okla.) School District.

I found SideKick through a simple web search for planning templates and tools. I tried one other before, but was not pleased with the format or how the lesson plans printed. When I found SideKick, I was thrilled to find the planner had all of the elements I was looking for (ease of use, custom settings, easy to read print formats), and then I discovered SideKick also had all of my state's standards! The standards tool made it easy to search the standards and include them in my lesson plans. SideKick suggested lesson planning elements align with best practice. It really made me think through writing my lesson plans in more detail, which also helped when planning for a guest teacher!
I think SideKick is a great resource for teachers. I would recommend this service to any teacher!
- Carey, teacher in Indiana

The whole set up, its functionality as a lesson planner, the ability to attach resources to lessons, search and share lesson plans are
extremely good.
- Andrew, teacher in U.K.

I have really liked the ease of use of SideKick. I’m looking forward to using this more and more.
- Ryan, teacher in Kentucky

SIF Agent
Our customized SIF Agent can connect SideKick to your district's student information system. No more hand entering students, teachers, and schedules. Setup the SIF agent and it takes care of the rest.

Reporting
Administrators can generate standards-based reports to see what state standards have been taught and not taught per teacher and per student. This valuable report can be used to assist teachers on where to focus their teaching on an individual student level after viewing standardized test scores.

Admin Dashboard
Each school site administrator can review teacher’s lesson plans, give feedback, set up lesson plan templates, create Scope & Sequence and Curriculum Mapping alignment, and generate standards-based reports all from their Administrator Dashboard.

Scope & Sequence
Warehouse your district's scope and sequence maps using SideKick. Simply select the school year and a grade or course and you're ready to start. Choose which standards will by taught during a specific time period.

Curriculum Mapping
Store district and teacher curriculum maps with ease. Curriculum map templates can be setup on a school basis and allow maps to be tied to state standards and lessons.

School Templates
Each school site administrator can setup specific fields they want to see on their teacher's lesson plans. These fields will automatically show up for teachers. Teachers are always free to add their own fields, but school templates give them a structure to work from.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the 14-day free trial work?
You can use SideKick absolutely free for 14 days, after which point your will be asked to select a plan or cancel your account.

Can I change my plan from an Individual Teacher account to a School District account?
Yes. If your school district purchases SideKick after you have purchased an Individual Teacher account, contact us and we will migrate your lesson plans into the district package. We will also discontinue charging your individual account.

Do I have to sign a long term contract on the Individual Teacher account?
There is no contract when you sign up for the Individual Teacher Account other than agreeing to our terms of service. You can cancel your Individual Teacher account at any time.

What types of payment do you accept?
We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express. Online payments only.