School Launch · For parents
For parents
You are your children’s first teacher. These pages help you plan the year, check where your student is, and keep good records. Use as much or as little as you like. Every course works on its own.
Plan the year
Start here
Pick a grade and see the courses for that year, with core and elective marked.
Open →Where do we start?
Four short questions about each child. Get the courses to begin with and the placement check to take first. A short optional math check covers Kindergarten through Grade 3; Grade 4 and above opens the Math Skill Check.
Open →Year plan builder
A printable plan with MUST COVER topics, a 36-week checklist and a simple gradebook, saved on your device.
Open →Scope and sequence
Every course by subject and grade, K–12, with a pacing calendar for each one.
Open →Placement checks
Short checks in math and grammar to see if your student is ready for the next course.
Open →My progress
A learner for each child on a shared device, a summary of their games, Lesson Checks and plan, a list of problems to try again, and a backup file. Nothing leaves your device.
Open →Teaching at home
Optional
Family Conference
A quarterly sit-down for families who use School Launch as their whole program. Your student looks back, you look back, then you talk it through and set the next goals together. It is like a parent-teacher conference, except the teacher is you and the student has a seat at the table.
Off unless you turn it on. If you use only a course or a worksheet here and there, you can skip it. Nothing else on the site changes.
Social Skills for families
Questions to ask each other and things to do together, for every unit of the Social Skills course.
Open →Money and state rules
What your state asks of you and what money you may be able to use, with official links.
Open →Questions families ask
Plain answers about the courses, videos, faith, cost and getting started.
Open →Classic Family Films
83 well-made films for family movie night, sorted by age, with parent notes, questions to ask your kids and, where there is one, the book to read first.
Open →Know Your Child: Temperament Profiles
The classical four temperaments as a lens for encouraging each child: an observation guide, a kids’ self-check and virtue-based ideas for friendships.
Open →Family Study
One theme for the whole family: a shared read-aloud, Scripture and discussion, then lessons for each child’s level. First theme: Ancient Rome, six weeks.
Open →Tell Me a Story
A screen-free narration time. Your child invents a tale or retells a book out loud, and you write the words down. Starters by age, a die for person, place and trouble, and prompts for books already on the reading lists.
Open →More for parents soon
Room for future guides, such as keeping records and portfolios, and teaching several grades at once.
School Launch is a free helpful tool, not an accredited school or curriculum provider. It does not issue credits, transcripts, diplomas or grades of record.