Breadth is the point.
Most educational philosophies push depth over breadth. Homeschool Da Vinci was built on the opposite conviction — that a wide range of experience is what sharpens a mind, deepens curiosity, and builds the kind of character that lasts.
Modular enrichment curriculum — built to run alongside whatever you already teach.
Homeschool Da Vinci is not a core academic replacement. It doesn't compete with your math, your reading, or your history. What it offers is the layer most curricula skip entirely — the subjects and conversations that form character, train judgment, and deepen a child's capacity across every discipline they study.
Logic gives your child the tools to think precisely — which makes their writing cleaner and their math reasoning stronger. Game theory trains decision-making that shows up everywhere from friendships to negotiations. The arts develop the observation that makes science and literature come alive. These aren't isolated electives. They're the enrichment layer that lifts everything else.
Each module is standalone: 8–10 weeks, one subject, one parent and one child. No lectures, no grades, no required sequences. These are structured conversations — guided enough that you don't need to be an expert, open enough to make them your own. Drop a module into your week. Work through it. Set it down when you finish.
Standalone modules
8–10 weeks per course. Every module is complete on its own — no prerequisites, no multi-year commitment.
Supplements core academics
Runs alongside your existing curriculum. We cover the subjects traditional coursework leaves on the table.
Structured conversations
Not lectures, not textbook chapters. Each session is a guided discussion, activity, or challenge between you and your child.
Founder, Homeschool Da Vinci
- ●M.Ed. — Curriculum & Instruction
- ●Former high school teacher
- ●Former kids pastor
- ●Homeschool dad of five
Texas · Just Ish LLC DBA Homeschool Da Vinci
I've been a teacher, a pastor, and a parent — and I've noticed something across all three: the people who grow the most aren't the ones who went deep into one lane early. They're the ones who collected experiences, made unexpected connections, and stayed curious long enough to let it all synthesize.
Having a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction, a few years at the front of a high school classroom, and a season leading kids in a church context gave me a breadth that I couldn't have planned. Each one changed how I see learning. All of them shaped Homeschool Da Vinci.
Homeschool Da Vinci is the product of that experience — a curriculum that takes breadth seriously, builds real-world thinking, and gives dads a structured way to show up for their kids.
Nurturing disciples of Jesus who embody courage, curiosity, and compassion.
We believe a homeschool education should produce whole people — not just high test scores. Every lesson, every Saturday assignment, and every conversation is aimed at forming character.
Not your typical curriculum.
Enrichment, not replacement
We don't replace your core academics — we deepen them. Logic sharpens the thinking that makes math better. The arts train the observation that makes writing better. Game theory, entrepreneurship, spiritual formation: the subjects that build judgment and character.
Built for the busy dad
Thirty-minute sessions, structured and sequential. No prep required. No education degree needed. Just a dad who wants to show up — and a kid who needs him to.
Faith from the ground up
This isn't faith sprinkled on top. Every track is built on a Christian worldview — courage, curiosity, and compassion as virtues, not afterthoughts.
How it works.
Why games? Why activities outside? Isn't this supposed to be school?+
Place-based education is the recognition that learning sticks when it's anchored in real environments, real decisions, and real consequences. Game theory is taught through board games because the feedback is immediate — your choices produce outcomes you feel. Art is learned through sketchbooks and film because the work is in your hands, not in a textbook description of someone else's. We call these structured conversations, not lessons, because that's what they are: a parent and a child doing something together and talking about what it means. That isn't a workaround for school. It's a better version of it.
What is orality, and why does it matter for young children?+
Orality is learning through spoken word, storytelling, and verbal repetition — before and alongside reading and writing. Young children are wired for it. Before they can decode a page, they can hold a story in their head, retell it with detail, and build meaning from narrative. The Spiritual Formation track is built on this: children learn to retell Bible stories in their own words, not to memorize for a quiz, but because inhabiting a story is how meaning forms. The method isn't new — it's how the church passed on Scripture for centuries. We've simply taken it seriously.
This seems aimed at dads. What if I'm a mom — or if mom is leading our homeschool?+
Moms are absolutely welcome here, and many families use this curriculum regardless of which parent is running the session. But if we're honest: it was built with fathers in mind. Not because moms aren't capable, but because we believe fathers occupy a unique and often underused role in their children's education and spiritual formation. Our hope — our genuine prayer — is that dads will pick this up and find in it a structured, meaningful way to be present with their kids. Not as a teacher. As a father who shows up.
How long does a session take?+
Most sessions run 30–45 minutes. The goal was always short enough to fit inside a real week — not a homeschool family's ideal week, but the actual one. One session per week is the designed rhythm. The Saturday assignment usually takes another 30–60 minutes, but it's activity-based: something you do together, not homework your child completes alone.
How is the curriculum developed?+
In real time, with our own family. Brendan's background is in Curriculum & Instruction — the discipline of how learning is designed, sequenced, and assessed — which means the courses are built to scaffold properly: each week builds on the last, difficulty increases incrementally, and the material is matched to current pedagogical standards for the age ranges given. Every module is tested in our own home before it's published. The real standard isn't academic — it's whether it holds on a Tuesday night with tired kids and a dad who had a long day.
What's the philosophy? Is there a gimmick I'm not seeing?+
No gimmick. No secret methodology that only works if you buy the next thing. The approach is grounded in research that's been around long enough to prove itself: place-based learning, orality, Socratic discussion, project-based assessment. What we've done is translate it for a parent with 30 minutes and a kid with energy to burn. The lessons are short, to the point, and supported by documentation you can read and verify. Just structured learning — built to develop the whole child intellectually, spiritually, and practically.
Ready to show up?
Browse the curriculum tracks and find one to start with your kid this week.