Lesson Maker Pro vs Mosaic Instructional Planning

Lesson Maker Pro is a web app for teachers to plan lessons, organize a teaching week, and create classroom materials. Its weekly planner is a drag-and-drop board for placing lessons into a bell schedule and switching days. The Teaching Assistant can brainstorm ideas, draft lesson plans, suggest activities, and discuss teaching questions. Plans can align with Common Core, NGSS, and state standards drawn from a catalog of more than 455,000 standards. The app generates worksheets, handouts, assessments, student notes, teacher guides, graphic organizers, infographics, card sheets, and presentations. Materials can be downloaded as PDF, DOCX, or PPTX, or exported to Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Classroom. Free accounts include sub plans that can be printed or shared by private link. Student accounts, rosters, and student data are not needed; Digital Experiences also need no student accounts, installs, or app, and their links work for two weeks. The free plan allows five generated lessons and one unit plan monthly, ten standalone materials monthly, and 25 Teaching Assistant messages monthly. Pro costs $7.99 a month, billed annually.

Mosaic Instructional Planning is a web-based lesson-planning platform for K–12 educators. It includes organization, state, and national standards and shows each standard’s rigor. A coaching panel follows objectives through planning to align objectives, activities, and assessments. Supported approaches include the Hess Rigor Matrix, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, Multiple Entry Points, edTPA, and Universal Design for Learning. Mosaic prompts multiple entry points at three thinking levels, while Exploration recommends question and discussion stems based on standards and rigor. Plans can generate a student note-taking guide for printing and translation into 13 languages. Offerings target individual teachers, schools, and districts, with students and families presented as beneficiaries. Individual packages list virtual onboarding, 24/7 support, and one-to-one preservice teaching. School packages include curriculum, implementation, onboarding, and training. Pricing is available on request through a demo.