Pearspark for hybrid schools
One plan for campus days and home days
If your school teaches on campus some days and sends learning home the rest, the hard part isn't the teaching — it's the handoff.
The 3-minute tour: one plan for campus days and home days — real screens, no slides.
Sound familiar?
What hybrid schools live with today — and the part of Pearspark that answers each one.
Two systems taped together
A school system for campus days, email and PDFs for home days. Every week, someone re-explains the handoff.
With Pearspark: One planner holds the whole week, every lesson tagged Campus or Home Day, and that tag decides what families see.
The Sunday-night email
Five attachments, a bulleted list, and a prayer that every family reads to the bottom. By Tuesday, three haven't.
With Pearspark: Publish the week in one click: one email per family, worksheets attached to the lesson, and a checklist with minutes and materials per day.
You find out Friday
Whether the home days worked is invisible until the work comes back — or doesn't. The regrouping that didn't click stayed stuck all week.
With Pearspark: Families check items off as the day happens and flag what didn't land; Monday's reteach list is waiting on the Home Days dashboard.
In short
Pearspark is built for hybrid schools: every lesson is tagged Campus or Home Day in one planner, home days carry family checklists with minutes, materials, and who signs off, teachers publish the week in one click, families check work off and flag what didn't land, and the teacher's Home Days dashboard turns those flags into Monday's reteach list. Schools control exactly what families see, down to home-day-plans-only.
The week is one plan
Monday, Wednesday, Friday on campus; Tuesday and Thursday at home — same planner, same week, one plan. Every lesson carries a 'Where it happens' tag, Campus or Home Day, and that one tag drives everything families will and won't see.
More on lesson plannerA checklist written for the kitchen table
Home-day lessons carry a family checklist written for the mother or father running the day: every item has the minutes it should take and the materials to pull out. Math workbook, pages 31–32, twenty minutes. A parent knows exactly what 'done' looks like before the day starts — and each item says who signs it off: parent checks, or teacher grades.
Attachments there, photos back
Worksheets and readings attach straight to the lesson — no more Sunday-night email with five PDFs. Photo moments flow the other way: little windows into the classroom that families see in the portal.
You control what leaves the building
Every class has a 'Families see' setting with four levels — nothing, titles only, full plans, or the one built for hybrid schools: home-day plans only. Families get everything they need for the days they teach; campus planning stays private. Drafts and staff-only notes never appear, at any level.
Publish the week in one click
When the week is ready, Publish to families sends each family a single email and puts the week in their portal. A send icon on every lesson keeps you honest: green is published, amber means you've edited since.
The parent's Monday morning
Families see This Week — every child, every day, one page, with a 'Have ready' line listing the materials to gather before the day starts. As they work, they check tasks off; when something doesn't land, they flag it with a note instead of a 9 p.m. text.
More on parent & student portalThe teacher's Monday morning
The Home Days dashboard puts every family flag at the top — that's the reteach list — and below it, every student against every task: checked, flagged, or untouched. You walk into class knowing exactly how the home days went. Call them Home Days, Satellite Days, or Co-op Days — the label is yours, and a Sunday digest emails every family their week ahead automatically.
Watch it work — 60 seconds a task
All how-to videosReal screen recordings of a real school — the tasks hybrid schools run every day.
Weighing it against something else?
All comparisonsIf one of these is on your list too, the comparison is an honest one: every claim is sourced, pricing was last checked in July 2026, and each page says plainly when the other system is the better choice. Or start from the ranked view: the best systems for hybrid schools.
Pearspark vs Google Classroom
Google's free assignment and classwork platform — an LMS, not a school information system.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs NavEd
A self-serve school platform sold in three per-student tiers, aimed squarely at microschools and co-ops.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs spreadsheets
Google Sheets + Forms + a shared drive + group texts — how most micro schools actually start.
Read the comparisonCommon questions
Can families see home-day plans without seeing our campus planning?
Yes — that exact case has its own visibility level. Set 'Families see' to home-day plans only and families get full plans, checklists, and attachments for home days while campus lessons stay completely private.
How do parents tell us something didn't work?
Each checklist task has a flag: the mother or father running the day adds a short note ('struggled with regrouping') and it lands on the teacher's Home Days dashboard, at the top, before Monday's class. No email chain required.
We call them 'Satellite Days.' Is the wording fixed?
No — the at-home day label is a school setting. Home Days, Satellite Days, Co-op Days: your vocabulary shows up everywhere, including the family portal and the weekly digest email.
See it with your own eyes
Every task is on video — one minute each, no sales call. Then start yours at $50/month including 20 students.