Personalized homeschool planning for real families

A homeschool plan with room for the whole child—and the whole family.

You do not need another generic schedule or another reason to feel behind. I help you untangle the moving pieces and build a year shaped around your children, your capacity, and the life you are actually living.

Take a breath

You are not failing. The plan may simply be asking your family to live a life you do not have.

Homeschool gets heavy when curriculum, work schedules, learning differences, appointments, big feelings, and ordinary family life are treated like separate problems. I bring those pieces onto one table, look at how they affect each other, and help you decide what truly belongs in this season.

How it works

You bring the story. I help build the map.

1

Share

Complete a private intake in your own words.

2

Talk

We meet and sort through the questions together.

3

Build

I research, test the moving pieces, and create the plan.

4

Understand

We walk through the finished work so you know how to use it.

Choose the depth you need

Personalized support for the year you are actually living.

Every option begins with listening. The difference is how much of the year I build with you—and whether you want guidance, a finished roadmap, a complete planner, or continued support as the year unfolds.

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Tier B · $1,150 per learner

Complete Year Lifeline

For families who want thoughtful full-year planning, a beautiful finished planner, and three scheduled check-ins for help putting the plan into practice.

  • Complete customized school-year architecture
  • Beautiful family-ready year planner
  • Two hours of initial direct consultation with Sara
  • Three 30-minute implementation check-ins
  • Brief written recap and small pacing adjustments after each check-in
  • Schedule, curriculum, and state-snapshot review
Begin my private intake
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Tier C · $750 per learner

Calendar-Ready Roadmap

For families who want Sara to organize the year and create a workable weekly rhythm, then maintain the detailed lesson tracking in the calendar system they already use.

  • Customized year roadmap and pacing
  • Two hours of initial direct consultation with Sara
  • Two 30-minute implementation check-ins
  • Schedule, curriculum, and state-snapshot review
  • You track exact lessons, pages, and daily completion
Create my roadmap
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Tier D · $500 total

Homeschool Clarity Consulting

For families who want an experienced second set of eyes and practical help with a specific homeschool concern, without purchasing a full-year build.

  • Four total hours of personalized service
  • Up to two hours talking directly with Sara
  • Up to two hours of back-end review and support
  • Curriculum fit, schedules, routines, or workload
  • Mixed working levels, learning differences, or learner independence
  • Catch-up plans, midyear resets, high school planning, or recordkeeping
  • Using what you already own and reducing homeschool overwhelm
  • A clear written summary of practical next steps
Talk through what feels stuck

Plans change because families change. Tiers A and B may add one $250 partial redo during the service year; Tier C may add one $150 partial redo. It is available once per year and is usually most helpful after your family has had time to use the plan.

Planning for more than one learner? Tell me about the whole family in your intake. The first learner is full price, and each additional learner receives 20% off their selected Tier A, B, or C service.

A service built in stages

You do not have to pay for the whole plan at once.

For Tiers A–C, your approved family total is divided into three payments that follow the work as it happens.

30%
Share & Talk

Begins your intake review and reserves your consultation time.

40%
Build

Due after consultation, before I begin the full custom build.

30%
Understand & Deliver

Due before your completed plan and customized materials are released.

Sibling pricing stays simple.

The highest-priced learner is counted at full price. Each additional learner receives 20% off their own selected Tier A, B, or C service when planned for the same household and service period.

Homeschool ICU builds the year structure, pacing, subject rhythm, checkpoints, and repeatable daily framework. Families record exact lesson or page numbers, completion, grades, attendance, and ordinary day-to-day changes. Included check-ins are scheduled implementation reviews—not unlimited consulting or complete rebuilds—and must be used within the 12-month service period.

Meet Sara-Raye

Grounded guidance from someone who understands that real children rarely fit neat little boxes.

I am a homeschool mother, a systems-builder, and the person behind Homeschool ICU. I love vintage finds, creative details, and practical systems—and I have very little interest in pretending family life is tidy when it is not.

What I do take seriously is the trust involved when a parent says, “This is where we are struggling.” I built Homeschool ICU to combine human understanding with a planning system capable of holding all the details—without losing sight of the child inside them.

Read my story

From Sara's Desk

Honest notes, practical help, and the occasional beautifully organized rabbit hole.

This is where I will share what I am learning, what families keep asking, behind-the-scenes planning thoughts, blog posts, and video conversations that deserve more room than a social-media caption.

Visit the Blog & Vlog Journal
Written from the desk

Blog Notes

Homeschool planning, curriculum thoughts, family rhythms, learning differences, and grounded encouragement.

Talk it through with me

Video Journal

Warm, direct conversations for the questions that are easier to explain out loud than squeeze into a paragraph.

Thoughtful, private, human

Your family is never reduced to a set of numbers.

My planning review helps me see capacity, pacing, and pressure points. My role is to understand what those numbers mean for your actual child and help you make wise, compassionate decisions around them.

Begin where you are

You do not have to solve the whole year tonight.

You only need a safe place to begin telling the truth about what your family needs.

Start Your Private Intake