Four mornings a week, your child learns live with Brian Carlson, a certified elementary teacher — not a video library and not a dashboard. Brian teaches the core lesson live, lays out the rest of the day's work in a clear plan, and checks the finished work. You facilitate at home; you are never teaching alone. For homeschool families with children in kindergarten through 5th grade.
$249/month per family — every child in the family included. Not per child, ever.
Live · Monday–Thursday
Fill out the short enroll form, or text CLASSES to 708-317-8828. One seat covers your whole family.
Before classes begin, you receive a sample week that shows exactly what a week looks like — the live lesson focus for each morning and the day plan that follows it — so there are no surprises.
Pick the time that fits your family, 9:00 or 10:00 AM Central. For 45 minutes, Brian teaches the core lesson live to your child's band — K–2 or 3–5 — with real interaction, questions, and checks along the way.
After the live lesson, the rest of the day is already laid out: what to practice, what to read, what to finish. You facilitate; the deciding is done.
Finished work is checked, and Brian adjusts what comes next for your child. You always know how your child is doing — from the teacher who taught the lesson.
9:00 AM — your child logs in and is greeted by name. The live lesson starts: one clear teaching goal, taught the way a good classroom teacher teaches it, with your child answering, trying, and asking questions along the way. By 9:45, the lesson is done and the day plan is in your hands: the practice, the reading, and the one or two things to finish before tomorrow. Your school day has a spine — and it did not take you the night before to build it.
Morning Classes are taught by Brian Carlson — certified elementary teacher in Illinois and Texas, M.S. in Education, ten years in K–5 classrooms. And the honest part: you remain your child's legal homeschool and school of record. Morning Classes are live teaching and support for your homeschool — Invently Academy is not an accredited school, and your child's records and requirements stay in your hands, with our help (see Compliance, Handled).
One more promise, in writing: each band needs at least five families to run well. If your band does not reach five, you choose — a full refund, or a merged band with the other age group. Your call, not ours.
Every session is taught by Brian Carlson, a certified teacher in Illinois and Texas — background-checked and fingerprinted for certification and classroom teaching. Parents are welcome to sit in on any session, any time. And if you'd like to learn to run parts of the day yourself, Brian teaches parents, too — just ask.
Whichever fits your family's rhythm — the teaching is the same. Many families pick 9:00 to start the day with the lesson done early; 10:00 suits families with slower mornings. You can tell us on the enroll form.
The core teaching your child needs next — reading, writing, and math, in a sensible order, at your child's band level. The live lesson carries the new teaching; the day plan carries the practice and the rest of the day's work, so learning keeps moving without you having to plan it.
During the live lesson, your child is with Brian and the band — you can be nearby with your coffee. After the lesson, a parent facilitates the day plan: handing over the work, keeping the day moving, and sending finished work in to be checked.
One family seat covers everyone. Your K–2 child joins the younger band and your 3–5 child joins the older band, each at their own level — still one price for the family.
Life happens. The day plan for the missed morning still lands with you, so your child can do the day's work, and Brian checks it the same as always. If a rough patch lasts more than a day or two, tell Brian — adjusting the plan is part of the job.
In those programs, your child works through a portal and you chase the assignments. Here, a real teacher teaches your child live, in a small band, knows your child by name, plans the rest of the day, and checks the work himself. You hold the checklist — there is no portal to fight.
Or text CLASSES to 708-317-8828.
The same teacher teaches in two places: Brian is also building iSchool504, a small school in Honduras. Meet iSchool504 →
