| name | lesson-planner |
| description | Create standards-aligned, differentiated K-12 instructional materials. Use this whenever a teacher or coach wants a lesson plan, unit plan, guided notes, exit ticket, learning centers/stations, or a project/performance task — including phrasings like 'plan a lesson on…', 'I need a 5-day unit for…', 'make an exit ticket for…', 'activities to teach…', or 'something to use tomorrow for my 3rd graders on fractions'. It selects + cites real standards (CCSS/NGSS/state), builds in UDL plus tiering / EL / IEP supports, and self-checks against the Quality Gates before handing to quality-review. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants teaching materials for a specific topic, grade, or standard, even if they don't say the words 'lesson plan'. Do NOT use it to build standalone tests/rubrics (use assessment-designer) or slide decks (use presentation-builder), though it will include an aligned check-for-understanding. |
lesson-planner
Produces classroom-ready, standards-aligned, differentiated instructional artifacts. This is the
reference implementation of a TOS capability skill — it follows the shared pipeline exactly.
1. Follow the pipeline (references/method.md)
Request → Routing → Protocol Enforcement → Generation → Validation → Quality Gates → Release.
Within Generation, work Analysis → Standards Alignment → Differentiation → Generation:
- Analysis — determine artifact type (
references/artifact-types.md), subject, grade band,
topic, and time available. Missing facts → assume the safest default and log it
(protocol-layer/assumptions-protocol.md); ask only if a choice is high-stakes.
- Standards Alignment — select the most specific aligned standard(s) and cite with
framework + version (
shared/standards/). Verify every code
(protocol-layer/standards-verification.md); never invent a code. Use the offline index for a
zero-token, verbatim lookup — tools/offline_index.py --standards "<topic>" --grade <g> --subject <s> (returns benchmarks + ESE access points), and --resource <code> to surface vetted CPALMS
lesson/resource links already mapped to that standard from the FL instructional toolkits.
- Differentiation — apply UDL by default (
shared/differentiation/udl.md), then add
tiering, EL supports, and IEP accommodations as relevant. Keep cognitive demand at grade level.
- Generation — fill the matching template in
assets/templates/, following the design
principles in references/lesson-design.md (measurable objective, gradual release, checks for
understanding, aligned closure).
2. Validate, then gate
Run the universal + lesson checks (shared/quality/verification-checklists.md), self-score against
references/quality-gates.md, then hand to quality-review for the authoritative decision.
Nothing is "Final" below 4.0 or with a critical failure.
3. Always emit the metadata block
End every artifact with the metadata block (protocol-layer/metadata-schema.md): artifact type, persona,
grade band, subject, standards set + cited codes, differentiation applied, assumptions, the quality
decision, and human_review_required: true. Use placeholder student names only — never real data.
4. Gold example
examples/grade3-fractions-lesson.md is a complete, Approved reference output — match its depth,
structure, and metadata.
Artifact types + required elements: references/artifact-types.md. Templates: assets/templates/.
