The Planning Room
Access 200+ resources blending literature, film studies, and analytical writing. The Planning Room gives secondary ELA teachers beautifully scaffolded units, visual literacy lessons, film guides, and members-only materials added monthly.
High-engagement ELA + film lessons, without the burnout.
A membership for secondary ELA and Humanities teachers who want rigorous, creative, beautifully scaffolded lessons — without spending every weekend planning.
Join The Planning Room
Get instant access to 200+ resources, the Vault, and everything I add next.
Your students deserve rich, meaningful learning — and you deserve your nights and weekends back.
You care about your students.
You care about rigor (the real kind, not the "hard for the sake of hard because grit kind).
You care about creating learning experiences that actually mean something.
But you’re also a human being — a teacher-parent, a teacher with a life outside school, a teacher who deserves a weekend and a breath and a chance to drink your coffee while it’s still warm.
You shouldn’t have to choose between:
doing the job well and having a life outside of it.
That’s where The Planning Room comes in.
A soft place to land.
A vault of thoughtful, high-engagement ELA and film-based lessons.
A library built by a teacher who scaffolds everything and believes rigor should feel empowering, not punitive.
If you teach 7th–12th grade English, Humanities, or Film/Media Studies, The Planning Room is for you.
The Planning Room is your on-demand library of 200+ secondary ELA and film lessons designed to reduce your planning time while increasing student engagement, critical thinking, and confidence.
My resources are built with:
✨ Differentiation first
✨ Clear targets & scaffolded skill-building
✨ High-interest and/or commonly taught texts, films & topics
✨ Activities that work for real classrooms
✨ Compassion + academic rigor
✨ Visual literacy and film analysis (ELA-friendly)
✨ Creative writing that sparks imagination
Whether you need a full unit, a one-day lesson, a writing scaffold, a film viewing questions, a passage explication, or a high-engagement discussion activity — it’s here.
Instant Access to Everything Inside
As a member, you get full access to the entire Planning Room Library:
Coraline • Frankenweenie • Into the Spider-Verse • The Babadook • Get Out (opening) • The Farewell • Reservation Dogs • Mean Girls • Neo Yokio • and more
Coraline (novel) • The House on Mango Street • One More Thing • Pride & Prejudice • The Marrow Thieves • Wandering Stars • and more
CER/PEA • analytical paragraphs • thesis & claims • passage analysis • paragraph organizers • essay organizers • film analysis writing mentor texts • creative writing workbooks • Poe Gothic story writing • personal/college essay scaffold
Film form vocabulary • film frame analysis • cinematography grids • close reading for film
Preview what's to come in the H&L Film Studies membership. Shot-by-shot lessons • sequence analysis • Parasite • Ex Machina • It Follows • Do The Right Thing writing models
Full units, scaffolded activities, pacing guides & assessments for:
The Catcher in the Rye • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • When the Emperor Was Divine
…and more added monthly.
✔ 200+ resources
✔ New materials added every month
✔ Everything accessible from one clean library
Why teachers love The Planning Room
🌱 Rigor doesn’t have to be gatekeeping.
Lessons that make students feel capable, not overwhelmed.
🎬 Film belongs in ELA classrooms.
Teach visual literacy as deeply as you teach literature.
📝 Unmatched scaffolds.
Clear prompts, structured practice, exemplars, mentor texts, and differentiation options baked in.
🌈 Build identity, connection & meaning.
Essential questions, activators, and discussions that help students actually care.
🕯 Compassion for teacher life.
Resources built through lived experience: teacher exhaustion, mom-life overstimulation, compassion fatigue, and the desire to still do right by kids.
Who is The Planning Room for?
This membership is for teachers who want:
- Engaging lessons that don’t take hours to prep
- Units built with accessibility & differentiation in mind
- Materials that meet students where they are and push them further
- Lessons that value identity, culture, and global perspectives
- Film-based ELA units that build visual literacy
- Actual rigor (not busywork dressed up as rigor)
- Support from someone who deeply understands what it means to teach right now
If you’re the teacher who prints 4–8 different scaffold levels because “my kids need this”…
If you’re the teacher who wants more culturally responsive ways into literature…
If you’re the teacher who wishes you could make more film-based lessons…
If you want depth AND ease…
→ This is for you.
⭐️ What you get each month
Every month, members receive:
✔ A new lesson or mini-unit
Film-based • Literature-based • Writing scaffolds • Visual literacy • Seasonal lessons
✔ Updates to existing units
When I improve a resource, you get the latest version automatically.
✔ Priority input
Members can request units/topics via a simple form (coming soon). Your requests help guide what gets released next.
✔ Unlimited access to the full library
Everything in the library. No gatekeeping.
✔ Members-only Vault access
Units I don’t sell publicly — only for you.
💵 Membership Pricing
🎉 Founding Member Rate (Limited)
$9/month
Lock this in for as long as you stay a member.
Will increase to $15-18/mo later as more units and ELA-friendly film lessons are added.
No contract. Cancel anytime.
🚪 The Planning Room is your way out of Sunday Scaries.
Rigor doesn’t have to mean overwork.
Engagement doesn’t have to mean reinventing your lessons every week.
Doing right by your students shouldn’t mean sacrificing your entire life.
Let me help with the heavy lifting — so you can teach with clarity, confidence, and creativity.
Join The Planning Room
Get instant access to 200+ resources, the Vault, and everything I add next.
Your students deserve rich, meaningful learning — and you deserve your nights and weekends again.