Send your teaching team a weekly prep email with lesson details, activities, and a personal note — all from your dashboard, in a couple of clicks.
The teacher email is designed for lesson-based outreach — keeping your team informed about what they're teaching this week. Send it a day or two before your service so teachers have time to prepare. It automatically includes content from this week's scheduled lesson, so there's no copy-pasting required.
For general announcements (not lesson-specific), consider using a regular email client. For messaging parents, see Email Parents.
The email automatically pulls content from this week's scheduled lesson. You choose which sections to include by checking the boxes:
All three are checked by default. Uncheck any section you'd rather leave out.
[Screenshot: Lesson content checkboxes — Lesson Prep, Lesson, Reinforcement Activity Options]
All the teachers in your ministry are listed as checkboxes. If your ministry uses multiple services, teachers in your current service are listed first, followed by everyone else.
Use Select All / Select None to quickly check or clear everyone. You can also check the Send a copy to yourself option at the bottom of the list.
[Screenshot: Teacher recipient checkboxes, grouped by service]
If your church uses Planning Center Services, you can import the team scheduled for a specific plan directly into the recipient list. Click the Import from Planning Center button, select your service type and plan, choose the team members, and click Import.
Imported people are added as checked recipients. If their email already exists in your TUTB teacher list, the existing checkbox is checked instead of creating a duplicate.
See the Planning Center Integration article to set up the connection first.
The What would you like to say? box at the bottom lets you add a personal note that appears at the top of the email — a quick encouragement, a reminder, or context for this week's lesson. This is optional.
Click Preview to see exactly what your teachers will receive before it goes out — the preview opens in a new tab. When you're happy with it, click Send Email.
Each recipient receives their own individual email (not a group message), so replies go only to you.