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Interest-based learning · Auto-documented records

Learning that starts with your child, not the curriculum.

Wildgrove builds interest-based plans around who your child actually is, and quietly turns every session, every outdoor day, even every rabbit hole into a learning journey they connect with, while building the state-ready documents and records you'll need.

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  • ESA/Scholarship eligible · On the approved-vendor path
  • Founded by an M.Ed. educator with 20+ years in classrooms
  • COPPA compliant by architecture: we don't monetize your child

You shouldn't have to choose.

Tradition puts kids in an age-and-grade box, with one curriculum that doesn't fit every child. Ready-made homeschool curriculums feel less overwhelming, but they simply recreate school at home, leaving you with the same problem.

Many families feel forced to pick: build your own curriculum and scramble to document it later, or buy into a pre-made option and slide right back toward the box you just left.

Start with your child. The records will follow.

With Wildgrove, you get the best of both worlds. We start with your child: what they love, what they're ready for, and learning grows outward from there. Every session, online or off, quietly becomes the records your state recognizes.

The child-led part and the documented part stop being a trade-off. Here, they're the same thing.

Four steps. Endless paths.

Every other option comes in a box. Wildgrove sets you free from it.

1Profile

Start with who your child actually is.

Tell us about your child: their interests, hobbies, and the values and worldview that matter to your family. Five minutes, and Wildgrove starts learning the rest as your child explores.

2Map

We learn how your child learns.

Most parents know their child's interests, but not their learning style, love language, or true skill level, and that's okay. Wildgrove picks up on these as your child works, and builds a plan shaped around them. Subjects follow curiosity, not the other way around, delivered the way your child learns best: reading, listening, watching, or doing.

3Explore

Read, listen, watch, do. Or go outside.

Online or offline, every day is full of learning experiences that create more paths to explore. The park day counts. The museum trip counts. The cooking project counts. Create resources for offline moments, or bring what you discovered back to the platform to dive in deeper.

4Document

Records that write themselves.

Every session generates a learning artifact: subjects covered, hours logged, standards tagged, samples saved. Tell Wildgrove your state, and we generate the portfolio or documents in the format your state expects.

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Other apps pre-build the academic focus. Wildgrove starts with what your child loves.

Many learning apps on the market say 'personalized.' However, the only things personalized are the pacing and ability levels. The topics were chosen before anyone met your child. Wildgrove personalizes everything. We start with your child: what they know, what they love, what they're obsessing over right now, and create a learning journey outward from there. And when they ask the off-topic question, the one most apps quietly shut down to 'stay on track' (or stay in the curriculum box), that's not a detour here. That's where the week's reading, writing, and science come from. The content and the learning journeys follow the curiosity. Not the other way around.

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Where are you starting?

Tell us where you are and we'll take you to the part that fits.

I'm brand new to homeschoolingI already follow my child's interestsI'm worried about our current homeschool situationI have more than one kid, all differentI have a child who learns differentlyI run a school, co-op, or microschool

'Personalized' and 'child-led or interest-based' are not the same thing.

When an app says 'personalized' they almost all mean the same fixed material, sped up or slowed down. Child-led and interest-based means your child is the starting point.

Most apps

  • The same material, just a faster or slower pace
  • The off-topic question gets steered back 'on track'
  • The records are confusing, bare, or not available

Wildgrove

  • Your child's interest is the starting point
  • The off-topic question isn't thrown out, it's built upon
  • The records are easy and customizable
Why interest-based beats personalized →

What if they go back to school? Your records are already ready.

This is a common fear and frustration that we've already got a solution for. With Wildgrove, every session automatically builds a record the school can understand and accept: subjects and standards covered, hours logged, learning samples formatted for your state. NY quarterly reports. PA portfolios. FL evaluations. You don't have to stress about your documentation because Wildgrove does it for you.

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The park day counts. The museum trip counts. The cooking project counts.

Online learning feels easier to document and prove, but some of the best learning happens away from the screens. Wildgrove helps you prepare for everyday adventures and capture what actually happens: the field experiences, the offline deep-dives, the living education. It creates new paths of learning while translating it all into documentation that compliance systems understand.

How real life counts →
Shasta Mott, founder of Wildgrove

Built by an educator, not a tech team.

Wildgrove is the passion project of Shasta Mott, M.Ed., 20+ years as a teacher in the classroom and online, as well as a homeschool parent. She was the kid the system failed. She became the teacher who wanted to be for her students what no one had been for her. Now she's building the school she needed.

A real, named educator you can look up, not a brand that appeared overnight. Someone who knows what real kids actually need and what real records look like.

Shasta's story →

From families who stopped waiting for permission.

My daughter is 8 and has never been more excited about learning. Last Tuesday she spent three hours on volcanoes because she wanted to. Three hours. I didn't plan that. Wildgrove just let her keep going.

Rachel M.

Chandler, AZ

1 child · Homeschooling year 2

The compliance piece alone is worth it. I used to spend hours every quarter trying to figure out what New York actually needed from me. Now I open the app, click Export, and it's done. I honestly didn't believe it at first.

David K.

Westchester, NY

2 children · Former skeptic

We left the school system after a really bad experience. I was terrified our records wouldn't be accepted if we ever went back. Wildgrove gave me proof I never had before, real proof, in the format the school actually asks for.

Tamara J.

Austin, TX

3 children · Re-entry from traditional school

Simple, honest pricing

Pricing created to meet homeschool needs

Individual $37/mo, founding rate, locked for life. Family $67/mo, up to 4 kids, each additional child $10/mo. And in ESA/Scholarship states, it may cost you nothing out of pocket.

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Plenty of apps do one of these. Wildgrove does all four.

Student-led, interest-based learning and the paperwork your state needs used to be a trade-off. Here, it's all connected, and that combination doesn't exist anywhere else.

Interest-based

Starts from your child's curiosity, not a boxed-in grade level or curriculum.

An AI that actually teaches

Instead of being shut down or redirected by a pre-made curriculum, Wildgrove follows the questions your child asks and creates new paths of learning.

Records that write themselves

State-ready portfolios and reports, building from the very first session.

Your state may already pay

ESA/Scholarship eligible for many families, meaning nothing out of pocket for you.

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