Guides, templates, spreadsheets, and playbooks for planning, launching, and running a homeschool hybrid, microschool, enrichment program, or co-op. Built from five years of doing it myself.
I'm the founder of Creative Connections Learning, a microschool in Satellite Beach, Florida. We serve over 75 students in a mixed-age K–9 model with a team of eight educators. I've been running this program for five years.
When I started, there was no playbook. I had a master's degree in education, twenty years of teaching experience, and absolutely no business background. I taught myself how to file an EIN, form an LLC, get liability insurance, build a budget, and hire employees. I designed every piece of curriculum we use. I wrote every policy. I built every system.
I had a full plan before I opened. I ran my numbers at the worst case scenario, made sure we could cover a year of lease and startup costs, and still lost money that first year. But because I planned for that, we made it through.
Five years later, the program is profitable and still growing entirely through word of mouth. Everything I learned along the way is now available to other founders so you don't have to start from zero the way I did.
Buying everything individually costs over $325. Save more than $125 with the complete toolkit.
This is every resource you need to plan, launch, and run a homeschool program, all in one purchase. Five comprehensive guides and workbooks covering the full founder journey, from financial planning through daily operations.
An 8-tab spreadsheet with 123 auto-calculating formulas: startup costs, monthly expenses, tuition pricing with flexible attendance tiers, break-even analysis, year-one projections, cash reserve planning, and owner pay. Includes an 11-page companion guide.
38 pages covering four scheduling models with comparison charts, sample daily schedules, attendance models, daily operations checklists, substitute coverage plans, and parent communication cadence.
24 pages with strategies and ready-to-use templates: where to find families, marketing on a small budget, inquiry response templates, tour checklists, follow-up emails, a 6-week enrollment push plan, and a lead tracker.
31 pages covering who makes a great teacher for a small program, where to find them, contractor vs. employee classification, pay structures, background checks, and retention. Includes sample job postings, interview scorecards, and onboarding checklists.
A 17-page customizable handbook covering every policy your program needs. Comes as both a branded PDF reference and an editable Word document you can make your own.
A Practical Guide to Homeschool Program Models. The Legal Landscape: What to Research Before You Start. Before You Launch: The Financial and Operational Realities.
Or browse all resources individually at the Creative Connections Learning store.
The Founder Plan Review is a detailed, personalized review of your program plan. You submit your concept, budget, schedule, or whatever stage you're at, and I review it based on what I've learned building and running my own program for five years. You get written feedback you can actually use.