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Customized Curriculum Map ($49)
Customized curriculum map for one child — $49 — built around your child's interests, grade, and pace by a real classroom teacher.
The first real product
Your customized map — $49.
A real teacher builds a sketched plan around one child: subjects, level, pace, what fits, what to skip, how the week works. That map is a real product with a real price.
What you get: one intake conversation (or solid written answers) and a written map you can actually run — or hand us to build a full 12-week term from. What you don't get yet: full materials for every week. Those are the paid builds below. Have a coupon code from a conversation with Scott? Enter it at checkout.
Start with a free call →If this sounds familiar
You already know the system wasn't built for your kid.
- The bright kid who gets called "lazy" or "distracted" — because the pace was never theirs.
- The worksheet that ends in tears. Again.
- A label that stuck before anyone asked what your child is actually good at.
- The slow fade — a kid who used to ask a hundred questions a day, who just… stopped.
- What they "learned" at 10am is gone by dinner — practiced once, never reinforced, so nothing sticks.
- Weeks of the year swallowed by standardized tests — and a kid turned into a "data point" instead of a learner.
None of that means something is wrong with your child.
Here's the truth
It's not your child. It's the box.
One-size curriculum is built for the middle of a room of thirty — average pace, average interests, the average kid. Your child isn't average. No child is. So the box pinches. And the longer you force it, the more it costs — not in grades, in the only thing that really matters: whether they still love to learn.
The other way
So we throw out the box and build the opposite
A curriculum that starts with your actual child — one real conversation becomes a real plan.
- 1We get to know your childA 30-minute call about who they are: what they love, what they're good at, what bores them, what they struggle with. Dinosaurs, culinary, athletics, mythology — whatever it is, that's the raw material.
- 2We map what you needSubjects, grade level, your child's specific needs, and your real time constraints — the schedule you actually have.
- 3We build the systemA robust, pedagogically-sound curriculum designed around your child — their interests woven through real subjects, paced to fit your week.
- 4You get it on your schedule, by nameOnce a week, a few days, daily, an hour at a time — whatever fits. Videos, music, and hands-on activities, all made for your child specifically.
Who builds it
A teacher who saw the system from the inside
I'm not a content mill or an algorithm. I taught in a real Title I middle-school classroom, earned my Master of Arts in Teaching, and built curriculum every single day — and I homeschool my own kids. I've watched, up close, what actually reaches a child the worksheet lost. No commission. No upsell. Just the right plan for your child.
“I watched us run our middle schoolers through up to fourteen standardized tests a year — testing blocks that ate five to eight days of class each — then drown in ‘data’ from a sample far too small to mean a thing, on kids too stressed and bored to show what they actually knew. Weeks of real learning, gone. I built this to be the opposite: individualized, not intrusive.”
— Scott Somers, founder & teacher
Why it works
Their interests aren't a distraction — they're the way in
When the material is built on what a child already loves, the learning stops being a fight.
Built on what they love
The dinosaur kid learns fractions through fossils. The cook learns chemistry at the counter. Their world becomes the lesson.
Learn more →Sound, not gimmicky
Real pedagogy under the fun — scaffolding, grade-appropriate rigor, visible progress. A teacher's standards, not a worksheet's.
Learn more →Made for your child, by name
Not a download everyone else gets. It's assembled for the one kid we talked about, and it knows their name.
Learn more →Fits your real week
However often works for you — daily, a few days, an hour at a time. The pace is part of what we build, so it survives past Tuesday.
Learn more →Made to stick
A few focused minutes to lock in what they practiced — not the no-homework void, not a mountain of busywork. Just enough that it doesn't evaporate by dinner.
Learn more →Every grade
Built for K through 12
From early readers to college-prep — the build grows with your child. Technology when it helps, real books and hands-on work at the center.
Before you book
The honest questions
Do you use AI to build this?
Honest answer: yes — I use AI to help produce the materials. That's how a genuinely custom plan for one child is even possible without costing a fortune. But nothing reaches your child unseen. I design the plan, then review and shape every piece myself, against one standard: I won't hand your kid anything I wouldn't use in my own classroom or give my own children. The tool does the heavy lifting; the teacher makes every call.
How is this different from a boxed curriculum?
A box is built for a million kids. This is built for one — yours. Their interests, their pace, their gaps, their name.
Isn't this a lot of screen time?
No. Technology shows up only where it genuinely helps. The heart of it is real books, hands-on activities, and real-world learning — built for families who left the screens behind on purpose.
What if I don't even know what my child needs?
That's exactly what the free call is for. You bring your child in mind; we do the asking. Walking in unsure is the normal way to start.
Is it worth the cost?
The customized map is $49 — a real teacher plan for one child, not a catalog PDF. If you want us to build the full 12-week materials from that map, that's the paid ladder (single subject or full grade). If Scott gave you a coupon in chat, enter it at checkout.
Every map and build is done by hand, one child at a time — so I take a limited number of new families each term. The map is where we start.
Choose your path
Start with the map. Build when you're ready.
The map is the real first product — $49. Full term materials are separate, only if you want them built.
Customized Map
$49
One child, one clear need. Intake conversation (or solid written answers) and a written map: subjects, level, pace, what fits, what to skip. You can run it yourself or hand it back for a full build. Coupon from a chat with Scott? Enter it at checkout.
Questions first? Book a free callSingle Subject
from $49 / 12-week term
One subject, fully built around your child from the map. Priced by grade — fix the one subject that isn't working, or start small.
Choose a grade & buy →Full Grade
from $149 / 12-week term
All four core subjects for the grade, built as one connected plan around your child and paced to your week.
Choose a grade & buy →Advanced & Fully Custom
Quoted on your call
Higher-grade or specialized builds — like a junior-level geography course taught through the history of food. We scope it together.
Start with a free callGet your customized map — $49
One intake. One written plan for one child. Build the full term only if you want it. Have a coupon from Scott? Enter it at checkout.
Start with a free call →Questions first? Send us a note — a real person will answer.
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