Most homeschool tech was built for someone else.
We mostly get tools made for classrooms, borrowed from private schools, or shared by a generous mom years ago. I want to build current tools made for us.
We've been running on hand-me-downs.
Here's what I noticed after 15 years in tech and time at my own school table.
- Built for classrooms
- Software made for a teacher with a room full of students. At home, it sort of fits.
- Borrowed from private schools
- A private school resource, stitched together to work at a kitchen table.
- Shared by a generous mom
- Something a mom made and gave away out of kindness. It helped a lot of us, and it hasn't been updated since.
None of that is anyone's fault.
It does mean a growing community is running on tools that were never made for it.
When a tool wasn't made for you, the fitting falls to you. You skip what doesn't apply. You fill the gaps by hand. Then you do it again next week.
I'd like to change that.
- Skip the settings meant for a school office
- Make a class roster work for your own kids
- Type the same plan into a new week
- Ask a Facebook group for the newer version
So I build by three rules.
I build every tool here myself, and I use it in my own homeschool before I share it.
It gives you time back
If a tool doesn't save you time, it doesn't make the cut.
It's in plain English
No jargon, nothing assumed, and no hype about what AI can do.
You stay the teacher
The tools handle the busywork. The AI tools are for you, never for your kids.
Eight free tools so far. Help me pick the next one.
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The Weekly Planning Assistant
A free setup kit for ChatGPT, Claude or Grok. It plans your homeschool week from where each child stopped.
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The Finish Date Calculator
Shows when each subject will finish at the pace you're going. No account and no AI.
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The Attendance Tracker
One tap a day keeps your attendance, and it prints a clean record when you need one.
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The Curriculum Finder
Seven questions, then a short list of complete curriculums to look at first. No account needed.
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The Reading Log
Add each book as it's finished, then print a clean reading list for the year or a quarter.
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Make It to the Break
Count the school days left, decide what to keep, lighten or pause, and print a plan to get to the break.
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Lesson Rescue
When a lesson isn't clicking, get other ways to teach it from ChatGPT or Claude, matched to your curriculum.
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The Practice Maker
Printable practice from ChatGPT or Claude that matches your curriculum, with an answer key on its own page.
Tap the job you'd most like to hand off. Your answer shapes the next tool.
no email needed, I read every one
What would you hand off first?
The goal is in the name: margin.
Room in your week that isn't already spoken for.
This isn't a big app or a company with a sales team. It's one homeschool mom building for other homeschool moms, and every family is welcome here, whatever you teach and however you teach it.