Now that we are in the digital age, the materials our kids use to learn are transitioning from print to online. The rate for which our schools are connecting to the internet is astounding while the student to computer ratio is shrinking. The advent of the No Child Left Behind Act now holds our educators accountable for identifying the right materials to achieve quantified levels of performance. As our teachers are taking advantage of the immense library of online support materials, they are having a hard time sifting through the masses of digital curriculum content while trying to validate what content is good and what content is bad; not to mention trying to align it to their own particular state standards. This process is a very time consuming that can be easily alleviated through collaborative practice within the profession.

Teachers are using email to disseminate information to their parents and students, yet no tracking system is in place to monitor the success rate of consumption. The silos that this communication represents are major obstacles that our education system can overcome by opening up the masses of email transmissions, making teachers and classroom inboxes public, and by tagging the resources that make up their queues. By doing so, we can have our teachers take advantage of longtail strategy and bring forth exposure to relevant resources related to the subjects, grades and topics that they teach through out the year. We can quantify the most popular topics and learning materials used for any particular niche of subject, grade, and topic interest combination and show this on a daily basis. Teachers should be working together more and we should allow them to borrow great resources previously discovered by their colleagues.

Picking apples from the trees of other teacher's classrooms is a process that would save teachers an immense amount of time and improve the quality of education delivered to their students. This simple concept allows teachers to easily assemble their own digital planner online and provides a simple mechanism for the contents of those planners to be fed to their subscribing parents and students to consume at the venue of their choice: email, myspace, facebook, etc....

The problem is that there is no information system on the market today that combines the identity of content with the identity of an email transmission. Schools and districts already invest a significant amount of money in an inferior email product that doesn't allow teachers to share. For the same amount of money spent, teachers could have access to a library of relevant resource, validated by popularity on a daily basis. Great transmittals should be saved and indexed for similar teachers across the nation to use. Administrators should track the consumption rate of parents and students, then reward teachers accordingly for accomplishing what they are originally expected to do: ensure that the student is paying attention to the curriculum and doing his/her homework.