K–5 Christian curriculum for co-ops, microschools and schools

What changes when a curriculum has to serve a group

Group settings break curriculum in predictable ways. A program written for one parent and one child assumes the adult can adapt on the spot; a co-op tutor with mixed levels and ninety minutes cannot. Before choosing anything for a microschool, hybrid school, co-op or Christian school classroom, four practical questions decide most of it.

Can the lesson be handed to a different adult each week and still be taught the same way? Does the material arrive in units small enough to distribute — a week at a time, rather than a bound year? Can two children at different levels work on the same skill without the teacher writing new material? And can a retest use different questions, so a child repeating an assessment is not simply memorising the first version?

Licensing is the fifth question, and the one most often discovered too late. A household licence does not cover a classroom, however small the classroom is.

Licensing and printing, stated honestly

Faith Schooling's self-serve membership is one household. All Access at $39 a month, or $299 for your founding first year and then $349 a year, covers the parents or guardians and children in a single household, every grade K–5, with no per-child limits. The membership page states directly that it does not cover co-ops, classrooms, churches, tutoring businesses, file sharing or redistribution.

The Terms grant a limited, non-transferable licence to print and use the materials with the children in your immediate family or your own classroom, and to make as many printed copies as you need for that use. They prohibit sharing, selling or redistributing the digital files outside your household or classroom, and uploading them to any file-sharing service.

Co-op and school licensing is available by request, and there is no published price for it. That is deliberate rather than evasive: the right arrangement depends on the size and setting of the group and how the material is distributed. Describe your group through the contact page and access is set up to fit it. Do not assume a household membership covers a group, and do not build a budget on a rate quoted somewhere else.

Contact about co-op and school licensing Membership terms Terms of Service

What is free for any group, with no licence at all

A useful amount of material is open to everyone, groups included, and can be used to test the fit before any licensing conversation.

• HARVEST reading placement — about 15 minutes per child for the core reading scope, adaptive, running in the browser with nothing uploaded, and it prints a report per child.
• The complete teaching guide for every reading grade, and the Kindergarten through Grade 2 math teaching guides, readable in full in the browser.
• The complete first workbook and full teaching guide of all six Foundations to Fluency levels.
• The first three sheets in every practice set across the worksheet library, plus eight hand-picked interior pages from every textbook grade.
• The entire Apostolic Academy — The Hidden Word Scripture memory and quizzing curriculum, the Upper Room study guides, The Way, the By Many Witnesses history, six printable collections and the Tabernacle Prayer Guide — free for home, classroom and church use.
• The open paths in the learning games, and the parent and teacher tools.

HARVEST placement Apostolic Academy Parent and teacher tools

What actually scales in these programs

The weekly lesson format is the piece built for distribution. Faith Readers Weekly Lessons carry the same K–5 reading sequence as the textbook, packaged as 210 weekly sets — 1,050 daily lessons, 210 preceptor guides, 5,250 student pages in all — with each week holding five short daily lessons in a fixed rhythm of Introduce, Reader, Handwriting, Apply and Check, and about 25 student pages. A co-op or classroom can hand out a week at a time.

The teaching is scripted for whichever adult is in the room. Every week has a preceptor guide telling the adult what to say and do, and complete teaching guides can be read in full before a term starts, which matters when volunteers rotate.

Assessment suits a group setting. Weekly mastery checks use parallel forms so a retest is not the same questions, daily exit tickets show who needs more work before the next lesson, drill sheets track personal bests rather than ranking children against each other, and a skill ledger keeps the record in one place. A skill counts as mastered at 90% or better across five or more sessions on different days.

For small groups, Faith Schooling describes a station rotation for four to six children, with prediction cards that let children reveal answers simultaneously so no child's answer influences another, and differentiated content at each station so mixed-level groups can work together.

Faith Readers Weekly Lessons Walk through a complete lesson About the instructional approach

Differentiating a mixed-level room

Mixed levels are the normal condition in a microschool, and the practical answer is a large, skill-indexed practice bank plus a phonics ladder that is not labelled by grade.

The Practice Library holds more than 30,000 printable practice pages organised by subject, grade and skill across six subjects: math, phonics and spelling patterns, vocabulary and word study, reading comprehension and fluency, grammar and writing, and early learning. A teacher can pull an easier or harder sheet on the same skill for two children in the same room, and members can gather chosen pages into one printable packet with a cover, bookmarks and page numbers.

Foundations to Fluency runs the same way for phonics: 96 short workbooks in six levels arranged by pattern rather than grade, so an older student closing a gap is not handed material that looks aimed at younger children. Decodable Readers give every level connected text built only from patterns already taught — 300 readers, 50 per grade.

The Practice Library Foundations to Fluency Decodable Readers

Where Faith Schooling does not fit a school

Be clear about the gaps before committing a term to it. Faith Schooling does not publish science or history, so a school or microschool needs its own choices for those subjects, and it covers Kindergarten through Grade 5 only.

It is a publisher, not a school. There is no enrolment, no accreditation, no transcripts and no grading service; accreditation is granted to schools that enrol students and keep records, not to curriculum publishers. If your families need an accredited umbrella, that is a separate arrangement.

There is no learning management system or gradebook. The Member Workspace is a tool for searching the library, saving binders and building merged printable packets; it is not a class roster, an assignment system or a parent portal. Attendance, reporting and records stay with the school.

And it is print-first by design. Student work happens on paper, so a group budget has to include printing. The browser carries the placement assessment, the teaching guides, the games and the workspace, not the child's daily work. If those are dealbreakers, the comparison page names the publishers whose full-grade packages, video instruction or accredited academies fit a school better.

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A sensible way to evaluate it for a group

Take a term to test it rather than committing on a description. Every step below can be done at no cost.

1. Read the complete teaching guide for one grade you would actually teach, page by page, in the browser.
2. Run HARVEST with three or four children across your range and see whether the reports match what you already know about them.
3. Print the open sheets from a few practice sets and one free Foundations workbook, and teach a week from them.
4. Print the free Homeschool Curriculum Comparison Worksheet and fill one out per subject, on Faith Schooling and on every other publisher you are weighing.
5. Then contact Faith Schooling with your group size and setting to arrange co-op or school licensing before you distribute anything.

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