Pick your standard. Get a complete Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate plan in under two minutes. Export it. Close the tab. Everything is gone. Nothing stored. Nothing sold. Nothing to breach.
Free for individual teachers. No student data required. Ever. No card to start.
The part nobody tells you
Every major AI teaching tool stores your prompts and your plans on its servers. Compliant means they promise to guard the filing cabinet. It does not mean the cabinet is empty. Ours is empty. There is no cabinet.
Other tools ask your district to trust their security. We removed the thing that needed securing.
How it works
No 80-tool dashboard to learn. No prompt engineering. One job, done properly.
Choose your state, grade, and subject. Search the exact standard code your district pacing guide demands: Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, and state frameworks.
A complete Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate sequence with timing, questioning stems, materials, and a built-in formative check for each phase.
Send it to PDF or Google Docs. The moment you close the tab, the plan, the prompts, and the session are destroyed. Monday morning, it exists only where you put it.
Why 5E
Generic AI gives you a worksheet with an objective stapled to the top. PlanZero builds the inquiry arc your observation rubric is looking for, phase by phase.
A hook tied to the standard, designed to surface prior knowledge and misconceptions in the first five minutes.
Hands-on investigation before vocabulary. Students build the concept before you name it.
Student-led meaning making first, then your direct instruction with the formal terms and notation.
Application in a new context, with extension paths for early finishers and scaffolds for students who need them.
A formative check aligned to the standard’s exact verb and rigor level, plus an exit ticket you can grade in minutes.
An honest comparison
MagicSchool, Diffit, and Eduaide are good tools. Teachers we respect use them. Here is exactly where we are different, and where we deliberately do less.
| PlanZero | MagicSchool | Diffit | Eduaide | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full 5E lesson arc | Built in, every plan | On request | No | On request |
| Data retention | Zero. Session only | Stored on vendor servers | Stored on vendor servers | Stored on vendor servers |
| State standards search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Student data required | None, ever | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Number of tools to learn | One | 80+ | One | 75+ |
| Admin dashboards & rostering | Impossible by design | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Competitor features based on their published materials, 2026. We list what they do well because pretending otherwise would insult you.
Straight answer
We would rather lose the wrong customer than waste a Sunday night of the right one.
Questions teachers actually ask
Your account record is an email address and a hashed password. That is the whole database. Lesson plans, prompts, standards searches, and exports live only in your browser session and are destroyed when it ends.
The plan is gone. That is the product working as designed. Export to PDF or Google Docs first. Most teachers finish a plan in under two minutes, so treat the session like a whiteboard, not a filing cabinet.
There is nothing to train on. Training requires retained data and we retain none. Your Sunday night planning does not become someone else’s product improvement.
Zero-data retention is the strongest posture available under FERPA, COPPA, and state statutes like SOPIPA and NY Ed Law 2-d, because most of those laws regulate what vendors store and share. We store and share nothing. That said, final approval belongs to your district, so we publish a one-page architecture brief your technology office can review in five minutes.
Because a tool that does one thing properly beats a dashboard that does 80 things adequately. 5E is the most widely evaluated inquiry framework in US classrooms, and building every plan on it means the output matches what your observer expects to see. If you need a different framework on a given day, you can still adjust the exported document.
Free for individual teachers, with generous weekly planning limits. A paid tier lifts the limits. We will never charge you for “privacy features.” Privacy is the architecture, not an upsell.
Two minutes, start to exported plan
Free for individual teachers. No student data. No card. No archive. No trail.
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