Hi, I'm Jenn.

I've spent over a decade teaching preschool.

I have a Master of Arts in Education from Pacific Oaks College, a school founded to train early childhood teachers, and before that, two undergraduate degrees in early childhood education and psychology. But the classroom is where I actually learned this job.

Here's what a preschool teacher's day actually looks like. Singing, serving food, helping in the bathroom, running circle time, guiding two children through conflict resolution, keeping up with assessments. You're tracking fine motor development in one child and a behavioral pattern in another. You're talking to a parent at pickup while you mentally reset the room for tomorrow. From the moment you get there to the moment you leave, your brain does not stop.

In a lot of programs, nap time is when teachers cover each other for lunch, and whatever break you get goes to eating and getting ready for the afternoon. So planning often happens at home at night. Materials get prepped after hours. A lot of preschool teachers build their own curriculum from scratch, week after week.

This is the job I loved. It's also why I built Planella.

Nothing replaces knowing your kids. AI can help get the plan on paper, but the generic tools weren't built for our field. Ask one to plan a preschool activity and you get "open-ended play" and no feel for how a real preschool morning moves. It's smart enough. It doesn't know preschool. So I built a tool that does.

Planella comes out of what I saw across all those years. What you need from a lesson plan depends on where you are in the work. A student teacher needs the why behind every step. An experienced teacher just wants the plan, without the over-explaining. A homeschool parent needs the activity in plain language, no classroom jargon. It has a mode for each one. Same activity, three different plans, all framework-fluent. Whatever stage you're in, it meets you there.