Sunday · 9:41 p.m. The week isn't planned yet.
So you hand it to a companion, in one line:
Thursday · 8:15 a.m. You walk in ready.
Pencil carried the drafting. The decisions stayed yours.
Pencil
The teaching workspace that drafts your week.
Tell Pencil what you're teaching in one line. It drafts the lesson, slides, handout, and quick check for your review.
Watch a week draft itself · Free to start · no student accounts
How it works
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Say what you're teaching
Type one line, or drop the syllabus you already have. Pencil reads it into a course: units, outcomes, weeks.
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Approve the spine
The course appears for your review before anything is drafted from it. Change anything; it stays yours.
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Prep the week in one pass
The Week Sheet drafts the week's materials together, from one shared context. Each draft reports its own outcome, and a retry redoes only what failed.
Nothing publishes without you.
Every draft waits for your review. Publishing to students is a per-artifact switch, and it starts off.
Pencil holds your course, not your students.
No rosters, no submissions, no student accounts. Grades and student records stay in your school's systems.
Every week, drafted for review
- Lesson planThe session plan for the week: blocks, timings, checks for understanding.
- SlidesVisual support for the explanatory parts.
- HandoutWhat students work from and take away, with the name line where it belongs.
- Quick checkA short formative check on the week's objectives.
- Discussion promptsStructured prompts, when the week wants discussion.
Kindergarten to college, one door. A Grade 4 week and a college seminar run on the same sheet; the teaching shape decides what gets drafted. Have a syllabus instead? Drop the file, and it becomes the course.
What are you teaching next?
Free to start · piloting in Ontario classrooms since August 2026 · nothing publishes without you
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