Layer 1
Journal
Plan the week, log the day, track hours, keep portfolios, and produce parent-built transcripts when you need them.
Ascendant Assistant
When a homeschool lesson is hard
See what to try next. That help comes from the picture of what they have already learned: their scores, your notes, and where they are on the Knowledge Tree.
Three layers, one connected system
Journal keeps the record. The Knowledge Tree shows what they know and what they are ready to learn. Teaching Help uses that picture when a lesson is hard.
Layer 2
Knowledge Tree
A picture of what each child knows and what’s next to learn, so planning can follow real progress, not only the curriculum’s page number.
Layer 3
Teaching Help
When a lesson is hard, Teaching Help shows you what may be in the way and what to try next, from their learning history.
How Assistant fits an ordinary week
See, Plan, Teach, Log, Progress, then back to See. When learning gets hard, adjust and re-plan.
See: starting check-in builds their map
Mark what they already know so the Knowledge Tree starts from your child, not a blank grade list. You can refine it as you go.
See: what’s next to learn
Open the Knowledge Tree and see skills your child is ready for. Progress from last week’s logs feeds this picture.
Plan and teach the week
Shape the week around what they have learned. Keep teaching from your curriculum. Schedule and notes stay with co-parents in one place.
When learning gets hard, adjust
Teaching Help uses their learning history and shows you what to try next. You choose what to add to the week.
When a child gets stuck
Record what happened, review the suggestion, and decide what to add to the week.
- Record the lesson and how it went.
- Teaching Help looks at related skills on their map, plus recent scores and notes.
- You see a possible supporting skill or another approach.
- Add it to the week if it helps, then return to the original skill when they are ready.
Example
Alex is having difficulty with area problems. Teaching Help notes that Alex can estimate answers and multiply fractions, but has little practice substituting values into formulas. It suggests a short formula-substitution practice before more area problems.
Suggestions from what you have already recorded
Teaching Help can draw on skills they have already learned, related skills they have practiced, recent scores, notes from instruction, and where they sit on the Knowledge Tree. It is not a generic AI chat about a grade-level lesson.
When a lesson is hard, see what to try next.
Open beta is free for households. Start with Assistant. You keep the curriculum you already use.