Brian Carlson is a certified elementary teacher in Illinois and Texas, with a master's degree in education and ten years in K–5 classrooms. He is a practicing educator — he teaches every week — and he founded Invently Academy to give homeschool families what they kept asking him for: a real teacher in their corner.
Give families a real, certified teacher in their corner — live morning classes and compliance handled for homeschoolers, one-on-one tutoring for any child who needs it, and coaching for kids and parents — so every family can help their child learn with confidence instead of overwhelm. That is the mission, and it is why Invently is built the way it is: one teacher, per-family prices, everything in the open, step by step. The hope behind it is simple: that a family can start with us in its first year of homeschool paperwork and grow with us for years — and that a school family can walk in during one struggling term and walk out with a confident learner.
Step by step. Small pieces, in the right order, checked as we go. Brian believes most school struggles are not intelligence problems — they are order problems, confidence problems, or systems problems — and those are fixable. Parents hear the same plain language in every class, session, and email: what we are doing, why, and what comes next.
I'm a certified teacher in Illinois and Texas. Getting — and keeping — those certificates and teaching in K–5 classrooms required background checks and fingerprinting. Your child is learning with a teacher schools have already vetted.
Sit in, watch, listen — any class, any tutoring session, any time. For younger children, having a parent nearby is built into how the day works.
If what you need is help learning to run the homeschool day yourself — the plans, the tools, the routines — I can teach you directly, one-on-one or in a Saturday workshop. You don't have to hand your child to anyone to get help.
You stay in charge of your child's education. Invently Academy provides live classes, guidance, and coaching; you remain your child's legal homeschool and school of record. Invently is not an accredited school and never claims to be. Compliance help is guidance from a certified teacher, never legal advice. Coaching is education support, never therapy or medical care. We would rather tell you a plain truth than sell you a shiny claim — and if something is not the right fit for your family, Brian will say that too.
Brian is also the founder of iSchool504, a small school being built in Santa Ana, Honduras — the other half of the same heart for education.
Meet iSchool504 →Or text CLASSES to 708-317-8828.
