• You Spend More Time Planning than actually teaching
• You Can't Find Lessons & Activities that Align with what you need to teach 
• You hate spending all this money on activities that You Never have the Time to Teach

• You absolutely Dread Doing lesson Plans
• You Don't Even Know Where to Start when it comes to lesson planning
• Your Children Just Don't Connect to the Content when you teach

I get it.

You're a Teacher or Homeschooling Parent who is dreaming of a simple way to create lesson activities in little to no time that are engaging and standard-based. 

You've taken the leap, started searching online and even bought a TON of resources on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

But it's taking you TOO long and you're not seeing the engagement you had hoped for.

And now...

The lessons you found don’t even align with what you need to teach.

I mean, let's be real for a minute...

Writing Lesson Plans Suck.

Especially if you don't know how to write a lesson, right?!
And if you’re like most of the teachers and parents I work with, you got into  education because you want to help children or even just your child...

...not to spend all day writing lesson plans!

Well, the reality is this:

Whether you currently teach full time (or want to teach full time!), teach online, teach  homeschool, or even a full-time working parent who wants to help their child...

When I reflect back on the young me almost ten years ago, I literally slept at my school. 

I used to look up to veteran teachers who left work right after the kids. 

I could never understand how they were able to leave work while I was always stuck at school.

There I was...

The overworked teacher!

I finally got fed up and asked another teacher, "How are you able to leave early with everything done. I mean between whole group lessons, small group lessons, materials, & making sure the classroom is ready for the next day, I'm lucky if I leave here by 8pm."

Then that's when I heard what would change my life drastically.

She said...

"Baby I make sure the classroom is ready and I do all my planning over the weekend and my grading at nights."

WHAT!

You have to be kidding me?!?!

As a millennial, I believed that my weekends were dedicated to my social life. You will NOT find me doing lesson plans all weekend.

I knew that I had to create a system that would remove this OVERWHELMING feeling that so many of us were feeling.

After becoming a mom, I prioritized leaving work on time so that I could be there for my child. I found a way to have that work life balance that so many of us dream about. 

THE #1 MISTAKE teachers & Homeschooling moms keep making:

When children aren’t understanding a concept, they overcompensate.

 
They stuff their children with more worksheets, more assignments, and more homework. And if you're
doing this, you risk leaving a child completely confused and overwhelmed.

And you already know that an overwhelmed mind does NOT understand.

All this extra "work" you have provided, simply just wastes even more time.

Or worse! Mistake #2...

Creating these LONG lesson plans as if a longer lesson makes you a better educator.  

 
That’s like trying to fill a leaky bucket with more water!

Writing these thesis type lesson plans don’t work! Other struggling educators recognize that their lesson plans (or lack thereof) is not the cause of their children's low mastery of skills. 

But the reality is, it's what is in the lesson plan that matters!

Can a lesson have all the key components and not be ten pages?!?!

“I was able to earn higher scores on my evaluations and my student's reading scores and levels increased over 50%!”

"For the first time in 20 years, I received a low score on my teacher evaluation. I was ashamed, hurt and disappointed. I then started working with Mrs. McNair. She was innovative, caring and very knowledgeable of the curriculum. She took out the time to model how to teach.  After being trained, I earned higher scores on my evaluations and my students reading scores and levels increased over 50%. I know that Aja McNair is a great teacher, encourager, and does all these things with fidelity and a positive attitude."

“We created a weekly schedule for at home learning!"

"What I liked most was was the weekly schedule, this helps me a lot because I have an idea of what we will work on and it will keep me consistently on schedule... This includes story time; I definitely noticed a change in my daughter right away after implementing the interactive read alouds. We incorporated many hands-on activities; she loves the letter scavenger hunt!”

Every great recipe is made up of a list of ingredients... take a cake for example! Forget even one ingredient (like the sugar) and the cake is ruined! That’s how the lesson process works!

Inside Teaching By Design, you won’t just get a list of the 12 key ingredients required to cook up a high-engaging lesson/activity. You’ll get step-by-step training walking you through exactly how to NAIL creating engaging lessons without having to take 10 hours on one lesson!

In addition, we start off the program by removing any barriers that would prevent you from being successful by developing an obtainable weekly schedule & routines.

Imagine how much easier and fun it will be to find & assemble lessons when you can simply follow the fill-in-the-blank templates and formulas for creating standard aligned lessons in 10 minutes!

The 12 “Ingredients” of High-Engaging Lessons:

Below is a Sneak-Peak at ALL 12 Required Sections That You’ll Create inside Teaching By Design:

1. Identifying the Standard
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4. Activating Background Knowledge The Right Way
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11. Aligning Objectives to the Learning Target
12. Extension Beyond the Learning Target

Get inside my brain! When you’ve been writing lesson plans for 10 years for numerous grade levels, how much will it help to get inside my brain and see exactly how I approach writing engaging lessons and why it’s so different than most?! In this section...

I’ll Reveal the Invisible Elements Beneath the Surface That Create Irresistible Learning Environments  for Children!

"It’s Not Just Enough to Just Find an Already Made Lesson Online... it’s Gotta Be Evaluated and Adjusted for Alignment and Engagement too, Right?!"

Think about it! What's your first impression of someone who has amazing lessons, high engagement, and able to leave work with the bell. 

Prepared? Leader? Detailed?

Is that how you want people to think about you? Of course!

So how do you create engaging, standard-based lessons without breaking your neck with hours of planning?!

The last thing you need is the “World’s Greatest Lesson Plan” sitting on your desktop collecting dust. Until it gets taught and seen by children, it won’t ever do anything to help you create systematic engagement!

That’s Why I’ve Included an Entire Step-by-Step Lesson Plan PROCESS For Editing And Creating Lessons Without the Ample Amount of Hours of Planning!

If you can follow directions, you can effectively create backward designed lessons for children to see!

BURNOUT is one of the number one causes that leads to people giving up on education. Whether you're in the classroom or at home teaching, nobody wants to be on a hamster wheel. In Teaching by Design, you will learn how to make teaching run on "autopilot" as you learn effective shortcuts to keep lessons FRESH while doing LESS! 

Take Your Personal Time Back by Making Teaching SIMPLE!

CHEERS! 

GET SYSTEMATIC! When you’ve been writing engaging lesson plans for years, you start to develop effective shortcuts. One of the joys of my position as a Kindergarten - Fifth grade curriculum specialist has always been showing others how simple it is to amp up rigor and engagement while keeping children motivated. 

I’ll Show You How YOU CAN DO THIS Too!

“This is Great Aja!
...But What IF I Don’t Have the TIME in my schedule to do these elaborate  LESSONS?!”

This is about the time where you might be saying, “Yeah Aja, but I don’t even have time. My blocks of time are only 20-30 minutes. Shouldn’t I just stick to what I'm doing?" NO.

Why Trying to Plan Lessons First BEFORE Creating a Schedule  is BACKWARDS!

If I were to hand you the "perfect" lesson (there is no such thing as a perfect lesson), nine times out of ten, you wouldn't have the time to actually teach the lesson. Most teachers and parents teaching at home waste so much time and money trying to create the “perfect” lesson first. THEN... they teach the lesson and never get to all the activities. Sound familiar?

...but how do you even know how to squeeze in activities in the little time that you have?!

(that’s the beauty of Teaching by Design?)

When you create an effective schedule first, you block off how to maximize the instructional time that you can teach a skill.

...and then you create an engaging lesson that matches that time frame!

This is why in Teaching by Design, I start with maximizing your instructional time first. I show you how to make the most of your current schedule before you even start lesson planning.

"Wait, Aja! are you saying this training doesn't just help create better lessons...
...it helps create more effective daily schedules, too?!"

Yes. That's EXACTLY what I'm saying. 😎

Did you know...

Not Enrolling in Teaching By Design will cost you...

I was doing research and was absolutely STUNNED when I found out how much money teachers actually spend on finding activities on Teachers Pay Teachers. The number absolutely amazed me! On average, teachers spend a minimum of $500 per year on Teachers Pay Teachers. That's $15,000 over the course of your career. All this money WASTED simply because everyone is in a rat race trying to find ways to actively engage children in the shortest way possible. And here’s the best part, you don’t have to pay $15,000 to get these results!

When You Enroll in Teaching By Design, You’re Getting The Culmination of 10+ Years of Lesson Development Experience With Different Grade Levels in Multiple Subject Areas Generating a minimum of 65% student growth rate!

So, not only does Teaching by Design help save you money, but it also helps children grow and develop as they will be more likely to engage in the content with SIMPLE high-engaging lessons filled with rigor. 

And we haven't even talked about the best part of Teaching by Design....

Not only does it help you save money, but it also helps you save TIME.

According to a researched-based report on Educationworld.com...

And look, the mistake most people make when it comes to designing lesson plans is they think if they just find an already made lesson plan from the internet their lesson is guaranteed to magically teach for them. But let me ask you…

If you don’t know what to do or look for when it comes to creating and writing your own lessons- how will you know if what someone created online is actually going to work?

Sure, you can test it out. But after you spend the $15,000 for lessons, wouldn’t it be safer and smarter to simply learn how to do it yourself- at a fraction of the cost?

So that leads me to how much the investment is to get your hands on this system…

For the past six years now, I have worded with teachers and parents by as an administrator and in my own educational consulting business. If you wanted to hire an educational consultant at my excallabor with specialist degrees,  reading endorsements, and experience both in and outside the classroom, you are looking at a minimum of $5,000 for them to help you with lesson planning. 

And you’re about to learn what I’ve taught them about high-engaging lessons... without the big price tag or wasted time!

Teaching By Design is a $997 investment. At that price, it’s a no-brainer. Why? Because if you implemented just a FEW of my tweaks and changes, you can easily transform your teaching experience! 

Plus, you can rest easy knowing I’ve taken out ALL the risk from investing (and we all know peace of mind is priceless)!

OK, LET'S RECAP!

When you join Teaching By Design, you'll receive access to everything you need to ASSEMBLE the best darn Lesson You've Ever Made! Including...

• Six Weeks of Group Coaching Trainings on Zoom where we will go step-by-step of how to systematically create & edit existing lesson plans, add rigor and differentiation, and so much more! You will have the opportunity to do weekly Q&A!
• Weekly Q&A on our LIVE zoom calls where you can get all your questions answered.
• Templates, Exercises & Examples for each part of the Systematic Lesson Planning Process including Lesson plan rubrics, Lesson Plan Templates, Call n' Responses & MORE!
• Close Reading & Read Aloud Training where you will be equipped with the tools needed to make your reading lessons run with ease!
• 20+ Customizable Activities for any type of lesson or content!                    
• Plug and Play Comprehension and Assessing questions created for any reading or math lesson.
• Examples of Engaging Tasks such as choice boards and projects.         
• 60+ Digital Learning Games guaranteed to get children engaged in basic recall facts.
• Active Facebook Community of peers to assist and support you between sessions.
• 6 Hour Professional Development Certificate on Teaching Best Practices: Backwards Designed Teaching.

At the end of the program, you will: 

• Have a daily schedule in which your teaching time is maximized for instruction
• Know how to take already existing lessons and make them engaging to fit your needs. 
• Know how to create quick lessons from scratch using an activity banking system
• Know how to plan daily activities that run on autopilot with no planning
• Know how to break down standards, plan for differentiation and assess for understanding

And much, much more!

This makes everything you get well over $1,000 in value! ($1,221 to be exact!) And you can get it all for just $197 today!

why work with me? Success leaves clues...

“reading predictable text and modeling reading behavior!"

"My favorite result is STORYTIME - we do it every night and she sits for it. Before working with Aja, we specifically struggled with Storytime/reading aloud to our daughter. She is very active and did not want to sit for long periods of time. Storytime has turned into multiple books per night as well as her reading predictable text and modeling reading behavior.”

You have two choices!

It’s right about this point during a lesson where you assess what you've been teaching. Sure, you hope the "ticket out the door" is effective and each child chooses the correct answer.  

Maybe this is what you’ve done in the past? You don’t want to come off as pushy or too hard. So, you back off from the lesson and miss the mark of wrapping up the concept. Thus, missing the nailing the mark.

And as a result, children completely forget what you just spent hours teaching them.

So, hopefully, you choose smarter than a child would. 

Well, what are our two choices you might ask...

Lessons About One Thing:

Help Children learn a New Concept.

Think about it! Every great change or transformation you’ve experienced ALWAYS began with a DECISION. Have you ever considered that one of the biggest reasons a child is struggling with learning a new skill is because they are sitting there waiting on you to take this transformation. 

Don't MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!?!?!

You'll regret not enrolling. 

It's time for you to CHOOSE.

But CHOOSE Quickly!

For this launch of Teaching By Design, I'm offering LIVE group coaching with Q&A. So , this is the ONLY time you will have access to me LIVE to help walk you through the process. 

FYI if Teaching by Design is launched again it will not be this same low price nor will it include LIVE trainings.

Which means there has never been a better time than Right Now to get started!

But if you put this off, what will change? Don’t wait! You can get started today!

Join Now & Create The Most Simple Engaging Lessons You've Ever Made!

Questions?
Email me at [email protected] and I'll help you decide if this program is right for you!

✰ Our LIVE Zoom calls start on Tuesday, January 4 @ 6 pm EST. (All calls will be recorded so you don't have to worry about missing anything)

✰We will meet LIVE every Tuesday until February 8

✰ You will receive INSTANT access to our portal using your login information that will be sent to you via email.

✰ Log into the portal for a warm welcome onboarding you into the program.

Before you go...

If there's one thing I want you to remember, it's this: 

Trust your gut!

If you've read this far, I have a feeling this program could be exactly what you need. So don't second guess yourself.

If you're worried you're not ready yet, or aren't 100% convinced Teaching by Design is the perfect fit - reach out to [email protected].

I'll be totally honest about whether I think this program will help you with your next phase of your teaching journey.

You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

So what are you waiting for?