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Secular homeschool curriculum for Grades K-12.

Lessons start at your child’s level and connect to their interests, with the mentor beside every reading to answer questions.

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What a lesson built around their interests means

Your child learns the same skills a strong course teaches anywhere. We change the material those skills are taught through, so the work starts from something your child already wants to understand.

What changes
The setting. Examples, readings, and projects come from what your child already cares about, such as baking, soccer, or space.
What stays
The skill and the bar. Placement sets the level, and review checkpoints show what needs more practice. Your child still explains their reasoning in reading checks and graded projects.
An example
Two children learn unit rates. One compares the price per ounce of two bags of flour; the other compares two strikers’ goals per game.
Why it helps
A familiar setting makes a new idea easier to picture. In one study, algebra students given problems about their own interests solved them faster and more accurately, and kept that edge on ordinary problems afterward (Walkington, 2013).
Your own subject
A custom subject turns a bigger interest into its own course, with readings, projects, and assessments. See the core subjects and electives

A sample lesson

An ecosystem is a network of relationships; changing one population can change energy flow, shelter, and survival across the whole system.

Lesson
A Forest Is Not Just a List of Species
Goal
Model energy transfer in a food web and predict how a targeted intervention could create both benefits and tradeoffs.
Project
Build a habitat restoration plan
biology lesson "A Forest Is Not Just a List of Species": the lesson opening, its goal, and its project

Our Always-On Mentor, inside the lesson

Your child highlights anything confusing and asks about it, right where they are working. The mentor offers help when they seem stuck, sketches ideas on its board, and guides each project step without handing over the answer. Even during a reading check, it answers clarifying questions, though never with the answer itself. Choose a mentor inspired by thinkers, scientists, writers, and artists.

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Your parent dashboard

Today
Each subject's lesson, and whether it's done
Grades
Every submission graded instantly, with written feedback, so you never grade
Records
Attendance log and learning summary, ready to export
Documents
Transcripts and state-aware compliance drafts, written for you and ready to sign
Parent Dashboard: today's lessons by subject, then the grades, progress, and records that need you

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$49/month

  • One complete subject at a time
  • A mentor beside every reading and project
  • Graded as soon as it is submitted, so you never grade
  • Attendance, reports, and records for the subject
  • State-aware document drafts
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School in a Box

$149/month per child

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  • Up to 12 active subjects, standard or custom
  • Reading, Language, Math, and Explore (science and history) for K–2; subject paths for grades 3–12
  • Electives catalog included
  • Custom subjects outside the standard catalog
  • A mentor beside every reading and project
  • Graded as soon as it is submitted, so you never grade
  • Attendance, parent reports, and records
  • State-aware document drafts
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Institution

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  • One organization subscription
  • One seat per student
  • Invite families by email
  • Seat usage dashboard
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Family pricing for School in a Box is automatic: $125 per child for two children, $100 for three, $85 for four, and $75 for five or more. A child counts once their first paid month begins.

Questions parents ask before starting

Does the biology course teach evolution?
Yes. Natural selection is taught through evidence from fossils, genetics, and anatomy.
Can my child start at different levels in different subjects?
Yes. Placement checks every subject separately, including science, history, languages, and electives, so one grade label does not set the whole curriculum.
What does my child do in a lesson?
They read, answer questions, solve problems, and complete projects. If a passage is unclear, they highlight it and ask the mentor.
Can my child work away from the screen?
Yes. From Grade 3, lessons and reading checks can be printed. Your child can read and write on paper, then bring scans and questions to the mentor. Projects can be done on paper too: scan and upload the finished pages for the same detailed feedback as online work.

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See the science and history your child receives and how they explain the evidence in their own words. The trial gives you 14 days to see whether it fits.

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$149/month per child after the trial.