What keeps getting better
We tell every family the same thing: this teacher is never finished. We are always looking for anything that could confuse, discourage, or shortchange a child, and fixing it. That is easy to say on a homepage and hard to prove, so this page is the proof: a running ledger of every verified improvement, published straight from the same record our own team works from.
334 verified improvements to the teacher
first logged Friday, August 21, 2026 · most recent Wednesday, November 4, 2026
How a line earns its way onto this page. Most nights, while your family sleeps, a staff of AI specialists goes looking for anything in the teacher that could confuse, discourage, or shortchange a child. Every weakness found gets triaged, a fix gets drafted and reviewed, and then the fix is verified before it ships. Only changes that pass all of that deploy, and only deployed changes appear here, with their real timestamps.
Improvements that fail verification never ship. There is no marketing department between this page and the ledger; nobody writes these entries, the system records them.
Wednesday, November 4, 202611 verified improvements
- Statute stamps: Maryland
- Maryland guide currency: the two 2026 bills that would have opened public school sports to homeschoolers (HB 1043, HB 1528) did not pass, Maryland has not joined the federal scholarship tax credit (26 U.S.C. 25F), and the Illinois comparison now matches 105 ILCS 5/10-20.24
- Statute stamps: Illinois, Colorado, plus the changes log for KY and OK
- Oklahoma guide currency: Treasury published proposed rules for the federal scholarship tax credit on October 2, 2026 (REG-117199-25), which send the question of whether a homeschool is a school back to Oklahoma law (26 U.S.C. 530(b)(3)(B)) and are not final
- Colorado guide currency: Treasury is no longer still writing the federal scholarship tax credit rules; it published proposed rules on October 2, 2026 (REG-117199-25), which tie expenses to a school as determined under state law and do not name homeschools
- Illinois guide currency: Illinois has not joined the federal scholarship tax credit (26 U.S.C. 25F) and the governor has not decided, so Illinois students cannot receive those scholarships yet; the September 1 homeschool form bill (HB 2827) is still dead in 2026
- Kentucky guide currency: Treasury published proposed rules for the federal scholarship tax credit on October 2, 2026 (REG-117199-25), which apply the state law definition of a school (26 U.S.C. 530(b)(3)(B)) but do not name homeschools and are not final
- Statute stamps: Oklahoma
- Oklahoma guide currency: the private school tax credit cap rises to 275 million dollars from fiscal year 2027 (HB 3705, 70 O.S. 28-101), the homeschool cap stays at five million, and Oklahoma joined the federal scholarship tax credit (HB 3704, 26 U.S.C. 25F), which may not reach homeschoolers
- Statute stamps: Kentucky
- Kentucky guide currency: Kentucky joined the federal scholarship tax credit in 2026 (HB 1, 2026 Ky. Acts ch. 4, 26 U.S.C. 25F), so the page no longer says there is no scholarship tax credit, and whether it reaches a homeschool is an open question; the fall dual credit deadline has passed
Tuesday, November 3, 20268 verified improvements
- Statute stamps: South Carolina
- South Carolina guide currency: the statute does not require SCAIHS families to keep a plan book or portfolio (S.C. Code 59-65-45), foster children need DSS approval (59-65-46), ESTF testing rules corrected, and the 2026 budget did not close the home-based scholarship route
- Statute stamps: Colorado
- Colorado guide currency: ASCENT was repealed by SB25-315 (no new students from 2026-27), homeschool duties end at sixteen (C.R.S. 22-33-104.5(3)(e)), records requests need probable cause, the evaluation route has its own progress standard, and the filing district is your sports district of attendance
- Statute stamps: Alabama; blog card no longer says the Alabama clock stops at sixteen
- Alabama guide currency: no statute lets a church school student leave at sixteen (Ala. Code 16-28-3 only exempts children under 16), and CHOOSE Act applications for 2027-28 open in January 2027, not December
- Statute stamps: Washington
- Washington guide currency: skipping the declaration or assessment counts as unexcused absence (RCW 28A.200.010(2)), no state tests, a public school taking a transfer may test and place, and districts must allow part-time enrollment (28A.150.350)
Monday, November 2, 20265 verified improvements
- Statute stamps on all 51 state guides, plus a public /guides/changes log
- Arizona guide currency: the wait-until-eight affidavit (15-802(B)(3)), the real penalties in 15-802(E), and 1-701's credit limit
- Missouri guide currency: SB 63 (2025) repealed the optional recorder-of-deeds declaration and freed FPE schools from background checks; St. Louis attendance-age exception added
- Tennessee guide currency: Public Chapter 912 (2026) repealed the test-score penalty ladder, and the PSAT/AP access right is now quoted from the statute
- Michigan guide currency: MCL 380.1279g(11) lets homeschoolers sit the MME (SAT included) at the resident district, plus driver ed and work permits with no approval needed
Sunday, November 1, 20265 verified improvements
- Remove-student link: opening it shows a confirm page; only its button deletes
- Indiana guide currency: HEA 1348 (2025) makes a homeschool diploma legally sufficient and lets the parent-administrator sign for it
- North Carolina guide currency: 115C-565.1 opens district PSAT/PreACT and AP exams to home school students, and every instructor needs the diploma
- Georgia guide currency: SB 63 opens district PSAT/SAT/ACT/AP testing to home study students, and the test needs a trained person
- Florida guide currency: districts may not ask for more than the letter, the PEP cap's 2027 repeal, and the adjacent-district sports fallback
Saturday, October 31, 20269 verified improvements
- The Schoolhouse: hang the new sign on the visible surfaces
- Grace facts: honest subject-only (tutoring-style) answer
- Search snippets that fit: 66 meta descriptions rewritten to 138-160 chars
- California guide currency: the affidavit's background-check line, and 'unlawful' to imply state approval
- California guide: Woolard v. Thurmond is at the Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit history was wrong
- Ohio guide currency: SB 19 opens career-tech to homeschoolers, and the tax credit's real paperwork
- Pennsylvania guide currency: PDE says home education students may join dual credit agreements
- New York guide currency: the quarterly report has a fourth item, and who may give the test
- /gift: a neutral example name on the card form
Friday, October 30, 20265 verified improvements
- TEFA guide: a planned $2,000 year that starts with the teacher
- Board XSS: sanitize student-saved boards + close the attribute-separator bypass
- Virginia guide currency: option three was wrong, and Palmer v. VHSL is at the Supreme Court of Virginia
- Texas guide currency: the UIL opt-out list is 729 now, and Pasadena opted out
- D.C. guide: the 51st and last, and the portfolio OSSE can ask to see is the finding
Thursday, October 29, 20263 verified improvements
- /math-tutor: say 'just one subject' out loud, plus a homepage line, FAQ answer and footer link
- Alaska state guide: the 50th, and the allotment coming with a public school plan is the finding
- Wyoming state guide: the 49th, and the ESA being its own legal track is the finding
Wednesday, October 28, 20264 verified improvements
- Say my name right: per-child said_as respelling, spoken not shown
- Share previews for the blog and state guides; noindex two checklist thank-you pages
- North Dakota state guide: the 48th, and the scholarship's four years of statements is the finding
- South Dakota state guide: the 47th, and the mid-season switch is the finding
Tuesday, October 27, 20268 verified improvements
- Stale-tab self-heal in the app shell: reload once when the API commit moves
- Stale-tab self-heal: reload once when the API's commit moves (iPhone tabs outlive deploys)
- /efa: point waitlisted and non-awarded Texas families to the state's 2027-28 interest list
- Vermont state guide: the 46th, and December 1 is the finding
- Nebraska state guide: the 45th, and the reason box is the finding
- Blog index: Nevada card said "a scholarship worth up to 0,000"
- NH EFA currency: the ~$4,800 average is confirmed for 2026-27 (NHPR, Aug 2026)
- Spanish-First: Spanish forms land on Spanish thank-you pages (noindex); EFA waitlist thank-you gets noindex
Monday, October 26, 20264 verified improvements
- Gift: heads-up email a week before the 3 months end
- TEFA currency fix: /efa no longer tells homeschool families their award comes in installments
- Truth fix (desk 30): stop promising nightly lesson runs the staff no longer does
- Spanish-First step 1: /es/ generator + Spanish ESA hub and Texas EFA pages (noindex)
Sunday, October 25, 202612 verified improvements
- Read-aloud: one shared audio element so phones hear every sentence
- Speech: one shared audio element so phones hear every sentence
- Store avatar_id on children create/edit; ?avatar-demo=fray alias
- Teacher faces: Cap shows as Fray; Grandma Rose gets true silver hair
- Teacher faces: GEN1 K-4 heads as static assets for the picker
- Create-a-teacher: pick a face, then name her; edit Back goes home
- Avatar step 1: K-4 face beside the chalkboard, local demo, hard-off flag
- Gift page: give a grandchild three months of school ($87, never renews)
- Gift: prepaid 3-month KTS gift for one child (grandparent door)
- Homepage: 'no card' trust stamp on how-it-works step 1 (makeover move 11)
- Ledger links: stop promising 'last night' while the ledger is frozen
- Teacher picker: real faces for the deck (makeover surface 2, move 6)
Saturday, October 24, 20261 verified improvement
- auth: fail closed when the link-signing key is missing
Friday, October 23, 20263 verified improvements
- Block repo-internal files from serving; fix stale vault path in CLAUDE.md
- State guides: replace relative dates that went stale (NC, NH, OK)
- Homepage: drop a "this week" that has been stale since August
Thursday, October 22, 20261 verified improvement
- State guides: drop deadlines that had already passed (WV Hope staircase, Delaware enrollment)
Tuesday, October 20, 20262 verified improvements
- ESA front door: true up the TEFA guide, link /states to /esa, /esa/texas -> /efa
- ESA front door: the /esa hub (where your state's account can pay)
Monday, October 19, 20262 verified improvements
- /efa: point New Hampshire families to their payable EFA page + other-state capture
- ESA front door: New Hampshire EFA page (/esa/new-hampshire)
Sunday, October 18, 20261 verified improvement
- Makeover move 11: price-lock trust stamp on /founding
Thursday, October 15, 20262 verified improvements
- Makeover surface 4 (homepage) move 4: button physics
- Makeover surface 4 (homepage) move 11: guarantee trust stamp
Tuesday, October 13, 20262 verified improvements
- B7 (Joey field-test): kid-true per-grade "what this year looks like" line for K-8
- Makeover surface 3 (placement results, the conversion moment): warm level stamp + gentle warm-up-payoff celebration
Sunday, October 11, 20265 verified improvements
- Makeover slice 1b (finish celebration): confetti on teacher-created + step stamp (spec move 3)
- Makeover slice 1b (progress path): wizard steps become a chalk-node path (spec move 7)
- Makeover slice 1a: grade + boy/girl become warm tappable chips (spec move 1, Josh's circled screenshot)
- Create-teacher: first-name-only privacy line moves up under the name field (Josh's screenshot direction 10-11)
- Terms of Service live: /terms page + footer link + signup-note agreement line (Josh's go 10-11)
Saturday, October 10, 20262 verified improvements
- No em-dashes in customer-facing copy: fix the two templated strings site-wide (plan move 7)
- Transcript archive: stop destroying lesson turns (90-day plan move 9)
Friday, October 9, 20262 verified improvements
- A1: activate read-aloud answer-suppression (prompt step 3) + live probe
- Consistency pass (plan move 7): five-subjects honesty on NH + Idaho pages, retire commitment-step emoji, truthful founding-spots default
Thursday, October 8, 20265 verified improvements
- A1: stage read-aloud answer-suppression plumbing (fail-safe, $0, unactivated)
- /efa: ungated email waitlist + honest date language (Elena's loop)
- Hero restructure: benefit line top, real-teacher second, AI candor third
- Read-In: submit the course-map email on Enter
- Improvements page: truthful + appealing reframe (founder directive 2026-10-08)
Wednesday, October 7, 20266 verified improvements
- Teacher picker: swipeable personality-card deck (Joey field-test B6)
- Placement plan: demand a concrete, plain-language next step
- Placement results: enrollment-aware next-steps card
- Meet-the-teacher wrap-up: acknowledge the last message before closing
- Fix mojibake (double-encoded UTF-8) in teacher source: 209 glyphs
- Signup/signin: submit on Enter in the password field
Sunday, October 4, 20261 verified improvement
- Mrs. M: single-concept visual-quality habit on the board (founder-approved, Visuals-team spec)
Friday, October 2, 20265 verified improvements
- Ready-to-enroll fast lane: hub chooser (teacher-first or enroll-first) + intent=enroll entry links
- Fix voice previews in create-your-teacher: one tap was playing the voice twice, overlapped
- Hub enrollment card: tell gift-code families where the code goes
- Checkout: allow promotion codes + skip card form when a code makes it free
- TX homeschool guide: EFA funding callout -> /efa
Wednesday, September 30, 20269 verified improvements
- Surface /states on the homepage: footer link + FAQ inline link
- Long lessons now save their full record
- Interactive Roleplay & Place-Based Learning on Tablet
- Observation & Reasoning Without Visual Sequence
- Engagement & re-attempt friction
- Letter formation & visual anchoring
- Automaticity & fluency without drill fatigue
- Seven Fires #7: Field Trip Fridays spec
- Seven Fires #3: the 13-Year Teacher durability audit
Monday, September 28, 20261 verified improvement
- A finished lesson is never lost: if the summary step hiccups, the school day is still saved to your child’s record
Tuesday, September 22, 20264 verified improvements
- Cognitive Load & Sequencing (Social Studies & Family Structure)
- Mastery Gating & Phonics Retrieval
- Pacing & Attention Persistence
- Voice Transcription & Non-Speech Confirmation
Friday, September 18, 20263 verified improvements
- Mastery Gating & Phonics Retrieval
- Pacing & Attention Persistence
- Voice Transcription & Non-Speech Confirmation
Wednesday, September 16, 20269 verified improvements
- Phoneme Production & Auditory Precision
- Vocabulary & Concept Grounding (Abstract → Embodied)
- Mastery Gating & Pattern-Matching Conflation
- Science Observation & Seasonal Concepts
- Mastery Verification & Error Recovery
- number sense / counting foundations
- Visual persistence and trait anchoring
- Embedded verification without real-world outcome loop
- Real-world grounding for abstract concepts
Monday, September 14, 20266 verified improvements
- Question Complexity & Procedural Scaffolding
- Science Observation & Reasoning Clarity
- Narrative & Prediction Coherence
- Mastery Gating & Observation Clarity
- Reluctance, Emotional Continuity, and Fatigue Management
- Mastery Checks and Concept Anchoring Without Concrete Referent
Saturday, September 12, 202614 verified improvements
- Attention & Cognitive Load Management
- Writing feedback without live human input
- Experiential grounding for abstract concepts
- Concrete Anchor & Vocabulary Grounding (social studies + science)
- Phonics Generalization & Sound Correspondence
- Concrete Visual Anchoring for Identity & Relationship Questions
- visuals / board rendering
- Tap-Target & Interactive Clarity
- Visual Feedback & Board Rendering Stability
- Mrs. M's clarity in isolating which specific skill is breaking down
- Diagnostic fallbacks for low-confidence signals
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Feedback
- Readiness & Mastery Gating Before Moving Forward
- Diagnostic Precision in Auditory & Phonological Tasks
Thursday, September 10, 20268 verified improvements
- Spatial Reasoning & Abstract Representation
- Conversation Pacing & Response Clarity
- Letter Formation Feedback Without Physical Constraint
- Instruction Clarity & Phonetic Acceptance
- Voice Input Reliability & Verification
- Social Studies
- Robust Voice Capture & Fallback
- Distinguish Authentic Understanding from Compliance Echo
Tuesday, September 8, 20264 verified improvements
- number sense / counting
- Concrete reference frames for abstract concepts
- Letter-Sound Automaticity & Symbol Correspondence
- Conceptual Grounding & Role Clarity in Live Teaching
Sunday, September 6, 20268 verified improvements
- Pacing & Cognitive Load Management
- Instruction Clarity & Role Tracking
- Comprehension Verification & Error Distinction
- Open-Ended Reasoning Support (Science & Vocabulary-Heavy Math)
- Voice Transcription Robustness for Numerical Answers
- Mastery Clarity & Pacing Without Explicit Gating
- Science: Observation & Causality Without Live Demonstration
- Comprehension & Vocabulary Anchoring Across Domains
Friday, September 4, 202612 verified improvements
- Voice transcription & comprehension resilience
- Board visuals & sensory grounding
- Mastery gating & role transfer grounding
- Science Observation & Cause-and-Effect Reasoning
- Pacing, Attention Anchoring & Visual Scaffolding
- Concept Mastery vs. Recall Confusion
- Vocabulary anchoring & household specificity
- Pacing & prerequisite sensing
- Mastery gate & scaffolding clarity
- Mrs. M's mastery judgment in live conversation
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Confidence
- Voice Transcription Trust & Modeling
Wednesday, September 2, 20264 verified improvements
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Confidence
- Voice Transcription Trust & Modeling
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Confidence
- Voice Transcription Trust & Modeling
Tuesday, September 1, 202613 verified improvements
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Confidence
- Voice Transcription Trust & Modeling
- visual clarity and real-time representation on the board
- pacing, attention, and cognitive load in live instruction
- Motor pattern error feedback
- Concept anchoring without visual/sensory reference
- Grounding Abstract Reasoning in Live Interaction
- Visual Continuity in Multi-Step Reasoning
- Emotional & Engagement Resilience
- Comprehension & Strategy Before Calculation
- Social Studies Visual Scaffolding
- Voice Mode Resilience & Diagnostic Anchoring
- Voice Transcription Robustness
Monday, August 31, 20268 verified improvements
- Active Child Role in Sense-Making
- Number Sense & Counting Checks
- Instruction Clarity & Differentiation in Live Teaching
- Voice Transcription Reliability
- Pacing & attention calibration
- Baseline mastery checks + error distinction
- Corrective Feedback Loop for Motor & Symbol Learning
- Lived-Experience Anchoring Across All Subjects
Sunday, August 30, 202612 verified improvements
- Input Capture & Display Reliability
- Social Studies Anchoring via Sensory & Personal Recall
- Emotion Recognition → Coping Strategy Pipeline
- Verbal Clarity for Non-Readers Using Multi-Modal Anchors
- Concrete Bridge to Abstract
- Attention & Pacing Baseline
- Spatial Reasoning
- Community Roles & Helpers
- Science reasoning & cause-effect clarity
- Cognitive load & student fatigue management
- Phoneme work & decoding precision
- Voice composition & transcription robustness
Saturday, August 29, 202618 verified improvements
- Comprehension & Vocabulary in Context
- Number Sense Without Manipulatives
- Emotional Resilience & Error Recovery
- Concrete-to-Abstract Scaffolding for Quantity & Value
- Diagnosis Before Remediation
- Diagnostic Reasoning for Early Arithmetic
- Voice and Counting Fluency Detection
- Lesson pacing & cold start
- Acceptance & feedback on letter formation & phoneme production
- Mastery vs. mimicry in live teaching
- Early number sense & error diagnosis
- Input recognition robustness
- Attention and transition framing
- Mastery gating and modality resilience
- Visual clarity & board feedback
- Concrete-to-symbolic bridging
- Silence & attention recovery
- Voice Transcription & Careless-Error Diagnosis
Thursday, August 27, 202618 verified improvements
- The Teacher Remembers: a Learner Profile That Survives the Year
- The Records Vault: Your State-Ready Paper Trail, Built Automatically
- 46 Skills Where 7 Topics Were: Per-Expectation Progress Tracking
- Review Days as Games: Checkpoints Without Tests
- Readiness & Mastery Gating Before Moving Forward
- Diagnostic Precision in Auditory & Phonological Tasks
- Discrimination & Confusable Pairs in Early Phonics
- Attention & Motor Load in Directional & Positional Tasks
- Readiness & Mastery Gating Without a Separate Observer
- Voice Clarity & Confirmation in Live Conversation
- Phoneme Sequencing & Blending Under Load
- Counting Mastery & Cardinality
- Operation reasoning & word problem sense-making
- Sound isolation & phoneme discrimination
- Mastery gating & success criteria clarity
- Visuals & Board Rendering for Concept Formation
- Whiteboard Clarity & Shape Recognition
- Readiness & Emotional Anchor Before Any Content
Tuesday, August 25, 202618 verified improvements
- Multi-Step Instruction Parsing & Error Triage
- Phoneme Mastery & Readiness Validation
- Word Problems & Child Agency
- Pacing & Engagement Recovery
- Comparison Language & Conceptual Clarity
- Voice & Whiteboard Robustness
- Pacing & Transition Clarity
- Mrs. M's Error & Persistence Judgment
- Pacing & Focus-Window Respect
- Voice Input & Transcription Safety
- Problem Comprehension & Instruction Clarity
- Phonics Automaticity vs. Decoding Intent
- Mastery Gating & Error-Response Loop
- Cross-Domain Diagnosis & Skill Sequencing
- Timeout & Stall Recovery
- Voice Capture & Response Validation
- Time & intentional mark-making diagnosis
- Comprehension & Word Meaning Verification in Live Conversation
Monday, August 24, 202610 verified improvements
- Phonics & phonemic awareness fluency checks
- Capture and clarify voice input ambiguity
- Distinguish sensory/motor state from skill gaps
- Motor vs. Recognition Diagnostics
- mastery gating & skill discrimination
- whiteboard & letter-intent clarity
- voice transcription reliability for skill detection
- Handwriting & image capture confidence
- Mrs. M's error detection & live coaching loop
- Oral Fluency & Auto-Grading Reliability
Sunday, August 23, 202623 verified improvements
- Voice transcription & vocabulary clarity
- Place value & multiplicative reasoning
- Sequence & temporal reasoning
- Phoneme delivery & timing
- Number sense diagnostics & counting fluency
- Mastery gating & comprehension readiness
- Letter Formation & Real-Time Feedback
- Phoneme Isolation & Recognition
- Mastery & Advancement Gating
- Visual & Verbal Grounding for Procedural Clarity
- Operation Identification & Problem Parsing
- Letter Formation & Handwriting Recognition
- Cardinality & One-to-One Correspondence Without Manipulatives
- Voice Transcription Reliability & Verification
- Math Counting & Place-Value Clarity
- Phonics Mastery Checkpoints
- Mastery & Pacing Decision-Making
- Pacing, Attention, & Emotional Safety
- Phonics Mastery Gate & Phoneme Clarity
- Coin & Money Recognition Anchoring
- Success Criteria & Fluency Gating
- Part-Whole & Decomposition Bidirectionality
- Voice Transcription & Mixed Representation Anchoring
Saturday, August 22, 202617 verified improvements
- Grace: Grace has no facts about devices and equipment
- Single-Digit Arithmetic Error Recovery & Careless Slip Detection
- Phonics & Decoding Automaticity
- Mrs. M's Real-Time Diagnostic Listening
- Session Closure & Mastery Readiness
- Voice Input Robustness & Fallback
- Numeral & Symbol Recognition Verification
- Array & Grouping Representation
- Hour & Minute Hand Role Discrimination
- Counting & One-to-One Correspondence Verification
- Word Problem Parsing & Comprehension
- Concrete Representations & Progressive Abstraction
- Success Criteria & Error Handling
- Fraction & Division Foundations
- Phonics & Sound Sequencing
- Visual & Interactive Anchors for Core Concepts
- Instruction Clarity & Pacing
Friday, August 21, 20261 verified improvement
- Single-Digit Addition Fluency Checkpoints
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