TAPCIN Launches New App and Teachable Moments Campaign to Promote Quality Teacher-Student Time

BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Developmental Teaching, LLC today announces the launch of Tapcin (www.TAPCIN.com), a new web-based software application that makes creating lesson plans and tracking progress easy, efficient and convenient, allowing teachers to spend more quality time with students.

Tapcin turns the traditional lesson planning process from tedious to simple, fun, and powerful with an easy-to-use template that can incorporate Common Core State Standards if desired. The autofill feature automatically creates objectives for lesson plans—a significant time saver—and this streamlining technology gives teachers access to more flexibility, improved record keeping, and most importantly, a community of support.

Tapcin features its own educator's social network designed specifically for teachers to collaborate, create their own colleague groups, and share with others. Teachers can "Tapcin now" with others via the online community to create collaborative lessons, exchange lessons, plan books, and even integrate media such as YouTube, TeacherTube, or related websites. Teachers can easily share or email their plan books to each other and administrators.

"Tapcin leverages all of the latest technologies, enabling us to offer the very best support tools for teachers," says founder, Jan Plourde.

Plourde saw enormous potential in leveraging the accessibility and immediacy of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) technology to empower and support teachers and help them be the best they can be. "In addition to administrative and time management pressures, feeling isolated is not uncommon among teachers," says Plourde. "Tapcin not only makes lesson planning easier, it provides the opportunity to connect with other teachers around the globe to support one another, collaborate, and share ideas and experiences."

Its secure, cloud-based solutions help teachers plan great lesson plans, connect with their colleagues, and collaborate around shared goals for engaging our children and achieving educational excellence. Within the framework of Tapcin's evolution is the policy of honoring teachers' intellectual property, so each lesson plan created will ultimately belong to the teacher. SSL security ensures each teacher's lesson plans and information remains secure in the cloud. Webinars and online forums provide ongoing support and the opportunity to collaborate.

Educator Jocelyn Almy-Testa calls Tapcin a game changer. 

"Tapcin is the most time saving planning tool I have come across for teachers. Its user-friendly design makes lesson planning a breeze," Almy-Testa says. "From incorporating Core Standards to the direct smart board integration, the developers have thoughtfully brought an aspect of innovation into lesson planning that changes the game." 

To promote use of this time-saving application, the company is offering its subscription-based program to teachers, free-of-charge, for the 2014/2015 school year. Teachers can access the application at www.tapcin.com. 

In order to support this effort TAPCIN is launching the #TAPCINTEACHABLEMOMENTS campaign to highlight the effort educators put into building lesson plans. When lesson plans meet spontaneity and excitement, teachable moments are bound to occur. By taking care of the essentials, Tapcin helps foster these crucial and impressionable moments in a child's education. 

Teachers are asked to share those "teachable moments"—when kids are engaged and excited about learning—via social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter(#TapcinTeachableMoments).

And communities are asked to support the opportunity for teachers to have more time with their students by donating to the campaign: https://www.fundraise.com/tapcin/tapcinteachablemoments. Access to time-saving, lesson-enhancing technology is essential to empowering both teachers and students to achieve better education.

TAPCIN hopes to raise $200,000 by October 31 to continue to keep Tapcin FREE for teachers and to release its next version within the next 6 months that is destined to be even more of a game changer for teaching.

About Tapcin(R) – Teach Align Plan Community International Network
Tapcin's automated, real-time planning and communication tools allow teachers to focus on teaching, spend more time with their students, and create "teachable moments" that have lasting impact and value. 

Tapcin, a registered trademark, is an extension of Developmental Teaching, LLC, a company that provides print plan books and professional development for teachers. Developmental Teaching's offerings include the Big Yellow Plan Books  and the Plan Book for School Specialists.  

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