What’s new in Arbor

July 28, 2026 · newest

Tell Arbor how a child learns

Some kids have to see it, some have to be holding something, some need the same idea three times before it sticks. Set that once, in Settings under your child or just by telling the coach, and every lesson written for them afterwards is built that way.

• ·“Show me, don’t tell me” means a worked example you read out loud, then a second one for them to try with the answer already in your hand, and what to draw or hold up from the kitchen drawer.
• ·“Learns by doing” builds the whole lesson around the making and the moving, with their hands busy from the first minute.
• ·It changes lessons written from then on. The ones already in your week stay as they are, and the coach can redo this week if you ask.

July 28, 2026

Print just the worksheet, with or without the answers

Print on a lesson asks what you want: the teaching guide, the worksheet on its own, the worksheet with no answer key on the back, or everything. Pick one and it goes straight to the print dialog.

July 27, 2026

Arbor speaks up

When something in your plan would make a real difference and it’s still missing, Arbor starts the conversation itself rather than waiting to be asked: a subject with no curriculum picked, a kid it knows nothing about yet, a child whose own work says they’ve outgrown their level. One message at a time, with the reply already written, and “not now” means not now.

July 25, 2026

A morning email with the day's plan

Arbor emails you before school: what each kid has, what to gather, and roughly how long it should take. On by default, and switched off in Settings under Email & handing off.

July 25, 2026

Print a full week, and hand work back in

One button prints a whole week of lessons and worksheets together, ready for Monday morning. And for work that isn't a worksheet (an essay, a lab write-up, a photo of a finished page) you can attach the file on the lesson itself, where it stays with your records.

July 24, 2026

Self-guided subjects and the student desk

Mark a subject self-guided on the Plan page and that child gets their own page: today's work in that subject, written to them rather than to you. It's a private link, so there's no login and no account for a child, and it stops working the moment you take the subject back. Answer keys, marking and records stay on your side.

July 24, 2026

Per-subject level, visible and adjustable

The Plan page shows where each kid is working in each subject, separately from their grade, and you can move it up or down there. Arbor also flags a subject when a kid looks ready for the next level.

July 24, 2026

Log field trips, co-op and days off

Real life counts in the record book. Log a field trip, co-op day, park day or sick day in one tap and it lands as a school day with hours attached, right alongside the lessons.

July 24, 2026

Billing stops after three children

$24.99 a month per child applies to your first three. Your fourth child and every one after is free, so a family bill never goes above $74.97 a month however many kids you teach.

July 23, 2026

High school: courses, credits, transcript

Grades 9 to 12 are open. Years are planned as courses rather than grade levels, credits accumulate as work is completed, and you can print a transcript. Arbor writes the English, history, government, economics, logic, Latin, art and life-skills courses; for the algebra track and lab sciences it helps you choose a real program and schedules that instead.

July 23, 2026

Set the exact skill a kid is working on

Alongside grade and difficulty, you can now name the specific skill, like “two-digit by one-digit multiplication” or “blending CVC words”. Lessons in that subject continue from there rather than from the grade's usual starting point.

July 22, 2026

A second parent login for one family

Invite the other parent from Settings under Your family. They get their own email and password into the same account: same kids, same plan, same records. Each parent has their own coach conversation, and both see the other's changes.

July 22, 2026

Sign-in links in Arbor emails

Links in emails from Arbor sign you straight in, so one tap from your inbox takes you to the page it's about.

July 20, 2026

Referrals: a free month each way

Settings has a share link. A friend who signs up through it gets their first month free, and you get a free month once they subscribe.

July 20, 2026

Three tools that work without an account

Public pages anyone can use, including friends who haven't signed up:

• ·Printable worksheet sets, ready to print
• ·A grade-by-grade guide to what each subject covers
• ·Any Arbor lesson, shareable as a public page with your child's name removed

July 17, 2026

Real math notation in lessons and worksheets

Fractions, long division, exponents, mixed numbers and worked examples are set as real math notation, on screen and on the printed worksheet, so a page of maths looks like a page of maths.

July 17, 2026

Write in your own curriculum's weekly plan

For a subject marked “we use our own program”, you can type what you're covering each week. Arbor schedules around it and tracks it beside its own subjects, so a subject Arbor doesn't teach still appears in your records.

July 16, 2026

Combine a subject across siblings

Two kids close in level can share one subject: a single lesson, taught once, recorded separately for each child. Set it on the Plan page; Arbor keeps the pair in step as the year goes on.

July 16, 2026

Archive a year and start the next

Settings can close out a school year: each kid moves up a grade, a fresh plan is built, and the finished year is archived with its records, lessons and progress intact and still printable.

July 15, 2026

Progress: year map, on-track check, summaries

The Progress page shows a day-by-day map of the school year, a plain on-track answer per child against their grade, attendance and scores in the record book, and a short written summary of how each kid is doing.