For microschools, private schools, homeschool co-ops, & other multi-age learning communities.
Integrated learning, built for multi-age classrooms
MicroCore is a complete Grades 3 to 5 curriculum designed specifically for multi-age learning communities. Every subject connects through shared questions, rich texts, and meaningful investigations, so you spend less time piecing lessons together and more time teaching. Students build knowledge, confidence, and curiosity: you get your prep time back.
You Shouldn't Have to Build a Different Lesson for Every Student.
Most curricula are written for a single grade. In a multi-age learning community, that often means gathering resources, adapting lessons, and creating separate materials just to meet every student's needs. MicroCore was built for the room you actually have. Shared learning stays at the center, with targeted instruction built in where it makes the biggest difference, so every learner receives the support and challenge they need without leaving the shared experience.
Connected Lessons
Every lesson builds on the one before it, and every subject deepens the same meaningful questions. Reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and project work all work together, so students build understanding that lasts.
Shared Learning
Students read, discuss, investigate, and create together. Whether a student needs additional support or greater challenge, everyone participates in the same rich learning experience with the support they need to succeed.
Targeted Instruction
When individualized instruction makes the biggest difference, like structured literacy and mathematics, students receive instruction matched to where they are. Then they come right back to the shared learning experience.
Built for One Teacher
Protected conferring time, responsive small groups, and flexible placement are built into the daily rhythm, giving one teacher the time and flexibility to respond to students instead of constantly managing separate lesson plans.
One cohesive learning experience. Shared where it counts. Targeted where it matters.
Students learn best when learning connects.
Students learn best when learning connects.
Learning That Builds Toward Something Meaningful
Every domain is anchored by one real question, like why some communities stay strong while others fall apart. Week after week, everything students read, write, investigate, and build moves them toward answering it, until the domain ends in a public exhibition where they present their own thinking to a real audience and answer real questions about it. The work is always going somewhere, so students know why it matters.
One Driving Question
Every domain begins with one meaningful question that connects reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and project work. Students build understanding around ideas that matter instead of moving through disconnected lessons.
One Shared Learning Experience
Students read, discuss, investigate, and create together throughout the domain. Shared learning stays at the center while every learner participates in the same meaningful conversation.
Built-In Support for Every Learner
Every lesson includes built-in support, extension, and clear "watch fors" to help you meet students where they are. The Teacher Guide helps you know what to notice, when to step in, and how to keep every learner growing
One Meaningful Exhibition
The domain ends with students creating and presenting work they've developed over time. They share their thinking, defend their ideas with evidence, and celebrate their learning with a real audience.
Because every subject is organized around one question for seven weeks, knowledge compounds instead of resetting with every unit. That is not just tidy design. It is how comprehension is actually built.
A rhythm your students learn once and run all year.
We Gather
Build community and prepare students for meaningful learning.
Students connect, settle into the day, and activate prior learning before the day's academic work begins.
We Read, Write, Share
Strengthen literacy while you teach responsively.
Students engage in reading, writing, fluency, and word study while you confer with individuals and lead targeted small groups.
We Build Knowledge
Develop shared understanding through rich texts and discussion.
The class reads and discusses the same meaningful text, building the knowledge everyone needs for the week's big ideas.
We Reason and Explore
Build mathematical understanding together.
Students begin with one shared mathematical idea before moving into practice designed for their readiness.
We Investigate
Turn learning into meaningful work.
Students explore questions, analyze evidence, collaborate, and create as they build toward the domain exhibition.
We Close
Reflect, connect, and prepare for tomorrow.
Students make sense of the day's learning, connect it back to the driving question, and look ahead to what's next.
Built for Your Room, Not Adapted to It.
Most curriculum was designed for a single grade in a traditional classroom. MicroCore was built for a different reality, and it shows up in what your week actually looks like.
Typical Multi-Age Classroom
MicroCore
Combine multiple programs
One connected curriculum
Rewrite lessons for mixed ages
Designed for multi-age learning
Differentiate every lesson yourself
Built-in support and challenge
Create projects from scratch
Built-in investigations and exhibitions
Spend evenings making it all fit
Open tomorrow's teacher guide and teach
Built on the research, not on a trend.
Every structural decision in MicroCore is grounded in established educational research, from the shape of the day to the way every learner is reached. It's rigor you can stand behind with any parent, board, or reviewer.
Knowledge is how reading comprehension is built
Anchoring every subject to one question across a domain isn't a design preference. It's a reading comprehension intervention, grounded in the knowledge-building work of E.D. Hirsch and Natalie Wexler.
Readers grow by reading
Protected reading and writing time with structured choice reflects Richard Allington's research on reading volume, the single strongest predictor of vocabulary and fluency growth.
Regulate, then teach
Every day opens with community and connection before academics, because the research is clear (Bruce Perry, Responsive Classroom): a regulated, connected student is the one who can actually take in instruction.
Math from concrete to abstract
Every math concept moves through concrete, then representational, then abstract, the sequence Jerome Bruner and Jo Boaler show builds durable understanding instead of fragile procedures.
You started something incredible.
Give it a curriculum to match.
One connected program across every subject, built for the range of learners in your room, and ready to teach tomorrow. Buy it today or walk through a day inside MicroCore for free.