syllabus started with a simple observation: the families doing the most intentional, creative, child-centered education were also the ones drowning in the most paperwork.
Homeschooling in America is having a quiet renaissance. Families are choosing it not as a fallback, but as a deliberate act — a rejection of one-size-fits-all schooling in favor of something more human, more curious, more alive to how children actually develop.
But the infrastructure hasn't kept up. The most thoughtful homeschool families we know are managing four or five curricula per child, tracking goals across multiple subjects, navigating state compliance requirements, and trying to assemble it all into something coherent at year-end. They do this in a patchwork of Google Docs, paper planners, and sticky notes — or they pay for rigid, institutional tools that feel nothing like the way they actually teach.
syllabus is different. It starts from the curriculum you already use — pre-loaded, structured, ready to plan around. It tracks at the subject level, so blended curricula don't become a management problem. And it builds your records quietly in the background, so the year-end report isn't a project — it's a button.
We talk to homeschool families every week. We built this because we believe the families doing the hardest, most important work in education deserve tools that treat them like the intelligent, dedicated educators they are.
Most tools track by curriculum — one row per book. But families don't think in books, they think in subjects. syllabus organizes everything under the subject, then lets you layer as many curricula underneath as you use. History is one subject whether you're using one book or five.
The semester bar shows two things at once: how far you've gotten through the material, and where you are in the school year. If your bar leads the week marker, you're ahead. If it trails, you know early — not in a panic at year-end.
syllabus doesn't do grades. It tracks mastery on a simple three-step scale: Emerging, Developing, and Confident. You update it by tapping — no rubrics, no percentages. Your judgment as the teacher is the record.
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