The method, end to end
A school that gets to know your child, then teaches them.
The first week is observation. After that, every lesson is built specifically for your child — pitched at their edge, paced for their attention, woven into the things they already love.
Step 1 — Enrollment
One verification, one consent moment, one short setup.
You apply through a single short form — your child’s first name, age, current grade or homeschool status, and what you’re hoping the academy can do for your family.
You verify yourself once. We use Persona for government-ID verification, or you can complete a signed device challenge if you prefer not to upload an ID. This is the only paperwork.
You’ll see a consent surface that lists every category of data we collect, why we collect it, and exactly what you can change. You sign once, with full visibility — and you can revisit the consent surface in your dashboard any day to audit, update, export, or delete.
- A 5-minute application form. No transcripts required.
- One ID verification or device challenge. We use Persona; we don't store the ID.
- A consent surface that lists every data category in plain English.
- An onboarding call with a real person — usually the founder.
The first week
Before the academy teaches anything, it listens.
Seven days of observation. No grade, no quiz. The tutor learns how your child thinks before it ever explains anything.
Step 2 — The intake
A warm, low-stakes week the tutor uses to learn how your child thinks.
Before the academy teaches anything, it listens. The intake feels like play — a few games, a few short readings, an open-ended conversation. There are no wrong answers. There is no grade.
- A
How your child reads
Short passages calibrated to find the level where your child is challenged but not frustrated. We measure across narrative, expository, and dialogic prose — not a single decoding score.
- B
How your child thinks in math
Open-ended problems that surface reasoning, not just answers. We learn whether your child counts up, visualizes, or feels confident with multi-step problems.
- C
What your child cares about
A handful of conversational prompts the tutor uses to anchor every future lesson. If your child loves horses, the geometry problems will involve corrals. If your child loves space, the reading passages will visit Mars.
The intake takes about three to five sessions, spread across the first week. At the end, you receive a one-page profile— your child’s current frontier in each subject, the topics that lit them up, and the accommodations we noticed they needed. You sign off before any of it shapes future lessons.
Step 3 — The daily lesson loop
What an actual day looks like.
A focused 60–150 minute block (depending on grade), built fresh every morning from your child's current frontier. Same shape every day so they know what to expect — different content every day so they never stop learning.
0:00 – 0:05
Welcome
The tutor greets your child by name, recalls where they left off yesterday, and previews what's ahead today. No login friction — your child opens the iPad and the academy is already there.
0:05 – 0:25
Reader
A passage your child can read with about 90% comfort, on a topic in their interest cloud, with comprehension checks they can talk through with the tutor — not a multiple-choice form.
0:25 – 0:50
Practice
Subject-specific exercises, pitched at your child's edge in the subject we're working on today. The tutor stays available throughout — your child can ask a question at any point, and the tutor will not give the answer until they've tried.
0:50 – 1:05
Video
A short visual lesson, with a transcript your child can read and re-read. Never autoplay. Never up-next. The video ends and the academy returns to a calm dashboard.
1:05 – 1:20
Conversation
The tutor asks your child about today — what felt easy, what felt hard, what's still on their mind. Some days this is two minutes; some days it's twenty. The tutor decides based on engagement.
1:20 – done
Close
A one-screen recap of what your child did today. The tutor names exactly what they should be proud of and what they'll work on tomorrow. The session ends — no streaks to maintain, no badges to earn, no notification to come back.
Step 4 — The weekly mastery review
A short read for you. A small adjustment for your child.
On Friday afternoon, the academy generates a one-page mastery review and posts it to your dashboard. It tells you, in plain English:
- What your child mastered — concepts that have moved out of practice rotation.
- Their current frontier — what your child is working on right now, with a sentence on how it’s going.
- What surprised us— anything we didn’t expect, in either direction.
- What we’re changing — the curriculum tweaks the tutor is making for next week, and why.
You can approve, ask a question, or veto any change before Monday morning. If you do nothing, the change ships automatically — but you’ll always see it the following Friday.
Sample weekly review · Eli · Grade 3
Friday, Week 6
- Mastered this week
- Multi-digit subtraction with regrouping. Eli asked for the harder version on Wednesday.
- Frontier
- Multiplication as repeated addition. Comfortable with the language; still slow with single-digit fluency. Plan: a short fluency game added to Monday.
- Surprised us
- Eli spent twenty minutes telling the tutor about a sibling’s soccer game. We made next week’s reading passages soccer-themed.
- Change for next week
- Add a five-minute multiplication-fluency warm-up to Monday and Wednesday. Approve by Sunday or it ships.
Step 5 — Your role
You stay in the loop without being on the bench.
Today
Open the dashboard. See what your child did. The whole point is that you don't have to ask 'how was school' and get a shrug.
Friday
Read the weekly review. Approve, ask, or veto any planned change. Total time commitment: five minutes if you trust the system, longer if you don't.
Monthly
A 15-minute call with the founder if you want one. We will not ask if you don't.
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