About Faith Schooling

Faith Schooling is an independent Christian publisher. We write and publish the books, lessons, and assessments; the teaching is done by you. Families who homeschool use them, and so do co-ops, microschools, Christian schools, churches, and other educators. There is no campus, no enrollment, and no class to register for — you buy or subscribe to the curriculum and teach it yourself.

Many Christian curricula include Scripture alongside academic instruction. Faith Schooling takes that integration further by thoughtfully weaving biblical truth, Scripture memory, prayer, and Christian character throughout the learning experience.

In our teaching approach, faith is the vine from which every academic branch grows. Biblical narrative provides the content. Scripture memory provides the rhythm. Virtue formation provides the motivation. Prayer provides the bookend of every learning cycle.

Faith Schooling draws from established approaches including structured literacy, explicit instruction, mastery learning, classical education, concrete-to-abstract mathematics, spaced review, and cognitive science. These methods are brought together through a consistent lesson structure that helps children predict, practice, correct, connect, and retain what they learn. Each approach has its own full page — what it means, what the evidence shows, and its limits — in How Faith Schooling Teaches.

Six Foundational Principles

These established methods are unified by Predictive Rhythm Learning (PRL) — our instructional approach that determines when each method is used, in what sequence, and toward what purpose.

PRL is Faith Schooling’s own framework; its parts draw on established research, set out with their sources on the methods pages: explicit instruction, spaced review, mastery learning and concrete-to-abstract teaching. Its own habit is to have the child predict first and then check: commit to an answer before being taught, then see whether it was right. Every lesson is structured around that loop.

The PACE Cycle

Every instructional block follows the same four-phase cycle. This consistency allows the child’s brain to allocate cognitive resources to the content rather than figuring out what is happening next.

Five Encoding Channels

Every concept passes through five channels in a deliberate order — hands-on and sensory first, symbolic and abstract last:

1. Body — Trace in the air, clap, march, feel the phoneme in the mouth
2. Predict — Commit to an answer before being shown
3. Build — Construct with manipulatives, tiles, or physical objects
4. Map — Locate on charts, word walls, number lines
5. Name — Write, label, and verbally identify

Faith Schooling was founded by Tyler, a Christian father, homeschool parent, farmer, U.S. Air Force veteran, and former healthcare and emergency medical services professional in Wisconsin. Today he is a full-time father, homeschool educator, farmer, and the founder of Faith Schooling. His background also includes Christian ministry and pastoral work.

Faith Schooling began because he could not find the kind of Christian education he wanted for his own daughter. There were Christian programs available, but many still depended heavily on screens, videos, cartoons, and entertainment, or felt like conventional curriculum with Christianity added around it.

He wanted something different: books on the table, pencils in children’s hands, parents actively teaching, Scripture treated as truth rather than decoration, and strong academics without making a screen or an animated character the child’s primary teacher. He also wanted a curriculum that responded to what a child actually understood instead of advancing because another week had passed. So he began building it.

Faith Schooling was first developed around the actual education of his own daughter and continues to be used as a primary part of her daily homeschooling. Lessons, worksheets, teaching methods, and assessments are therefore held to a practical standard: they must work when a real parent sits beside a real child and teaches.

His previous work in healthcare and emergency medical services required clear communication, careful observation, documentation, and decisions based on what was actually happening rather than what was assumed. Farming and full-time fatherhood brought a different kind of practical education into everyday life: responsibility, problem solving, measurement, planning, reading, mathematics, science, and learning through real work. His Christian ministry and pastoral experience informs the commitment to treating Scripture as foundational rather than decorative.

These experiences do not replace educational evidence or sound instructional practice, and they are not offered as academic credentials. They explain the perspective Faith Schooling was built from: a parent personally responsible for educating his child and unwilling to outsource that responsibility to a screen.

That perspective still shapes the work. A lesson cannot merely sound impressive in a curriculum description — it has to be teachable. Instructions need to make sense to the parent. Practice needs a purpose. Assessment needs to tell the parent what the child understands and what should happen next. Children should be allowed to master a skill rather than be pushed forward because the calendar says it is time.

Built at Home, for Families Teaching at Home

Faith Schooling was developed where much of it is meant to be used: at the kitchen table, during ordinary family life, with a parent responsible for teaching the child sitting in front of them. The goal remains straightforward — academically serious Christian education that parents can actually teach, children can genuinely learn from, and families can use without surrendering their child’s education to a screen.

More about Tyler and his role in the curriculum · How we write and check what we publish