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You teach. Here’s everything around it.
Every screenshot on this page is the real app, from one family’s account in the middle of their school year. Two kids, twelve subjects, week 23 of 41, a few hundred lessons already taught.
A week, in the order you actually live it.
EVERY MORNING
The day is already there
This is what you open with your coffee. Each kid's lessons for today, in the order to teach them, with how long each one takes.
Open a lesson and it tells you what to say and do, step by step, with a worksheet to print. Mark it done, add a score or a one-line note, and that is the record kept. The subjects you teach from your own curriculum sit in the same list, so nothing lives in two places.
YOU JUST TEACH
Open the lesson, read it, teach it
Each day's lessons are written and waiting: what to say, step by step, with the worksheet ready to print. When a short video genuinely helps, one from a hand-picked channel is already tucked into the lesson, and one switch in Settings turns those off if that's not your family.
Usually 15 to 30 minutes a lesson. Paper and a pencil are all a school day needs.
WHEN THE WORKSHEET IS DONE
Snap the paper, then confirm the grade
Photograph your child's finished worksheet as you mark the lesson done. Arbor checks it against the answer key, problem by problem, shows you exactly what it read, and suggests the grade. Nothing saves until you confirm it, and the paper stays in the records behind the grade it earned.
No camera handy? Tap the answers in from the sheet instead: the same problems in the same order, judged as you tap, with the same confirm before anything saves.
The camera works at the start of the year too. Photograph your own curriculum's contents pages and Arbor lays the book across your school year, at a pace you pick, and remembers it from then on.
AFTER A FEW GRADED PAGES
What's shaky gets practiced, quietly
Every grade you confirm lands on a skill map, in words you'd actually say: what's solid, what's still being worked on, what's been checked again and kept. Nothing on this map was typed in; it grew from marked work.
When a skill needs another pass, a problem or two on an upcoming worksheet quietly practices it, mixed in naturally, and the sheet never gets longer. When the evidence says your kid is ready to move up a level, Arbor says so and waits for your word.
Monday's Today page narrates what it already handled, so you find out without going looking.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
A short note on how the week went
What clicked, what got woven back in, what to celebrate, straight from the week's marked work, in a note from Shelby. If your family didn't teach that week, it stays quiet, and you can turn it off in Settings any time.
SUNDAY NIGHT, OR NEVER
The whole week, and you can move any of it
Week 23 of 41, laid out day by day for each child. Drag a lesson to another day, drop one you don't want, print the week for the fridge, or take the whole week off and let Arbor shift it.
When you finish a week, Arbor plans the next one around what actually happened, not around what it hoped would happen.
BUILT IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES
The whole year, subject by subject
Every subject a child is doing, what it covers, and which weeks each unit lands in. This is the part you would otherwise spend a summer building, and it exists before you teach anything.
Each subject carries its own level, so a kid can be a year ahead in reading and taking their time in maths without either being a problem. Subjects you run from your own curriculum sit in the same plan, marked as yours, and Arbor schedules around them instead of over them.
And which days each subject meets, including the ones you don't school. Arbor suggests a week to start from; the grid is yours to change, and it applies from this week forward.
ONCE, AT THE START
Why you're doing this, in your own words
Arbor calls this your Roots. It is one box, and you write in it like you would tell a friend: real books over worksheets, plenty of time outside, follow the questions wherever they go.
It is not decoration. Every lesson Arbor writes after that is planned around it, and you can change it any week of the year.
EVERYTHING ON THE RECORD
The paperwork writes itself while you teach
Attendance, hours, grades, and a portfolio of real work log themselves as you teach, so you always have everything you need to show the work your family did in Arbor. What you build from it is up to you: the report your state asks for, the transcript a college wants, a course book with your kid’s name on the cover. Arbor tracks the work. The documents are yours to make, and yours to sign.
That table is the printable one. Nothing was typed into it.
HOW YOU START
Tell Arbor about your family once
Your kids, what they love, how you want your weeks to feel. Arbor plans each kid’s whole year: every subject becomes a real course with units, weekly lessons at the level they’re actually at, and the things they love woven through the teaching. About two minutes of questions; the plan builds while you finish your coffee.
TWO THINGS WORTH SAYING PLAINLY
If you already homeschool
“We homeschool our own way.”
Good. Pick your approach or let us start you gently. Faith-based or secular, four-day weeks, mornings only, breaks whenever you want. Change anything right from your plan, anytime. And if your kid learns differently, short attention, fights the pencil, needs to move, note it once in Settings and every lesson changes shape to match.
“We're mid-year and our curriculum isn't working.”
You don't have to white-knuckle it until June or buy another box. Tell Arbor what each kid has covered so far and it picks up right where they are. And any subject that IS working? Mark it "we use our own program" and keep it, or photograph the book and Arbor lays it across your year.
DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
Go and look at the real thing
All of these are open, with no account and no card: whole lessons with their worksheets, and two complete sample courses you can print.
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