Design your child’s education, one module at a time

Modulo is a community-powered marketplace for childhood education and homeschooling. Families come here to find the right mix of curriculum, tutors, live classes, clubs, and tools to build an education that actually fits their kids. 

But Modulo is more than a catalog of resources. It’s a growing movement of families, teachers, and creators designing “modular learning” – flexible, mastery-based, child-centered education that can evolve as quickly as kids and the world do. 

 

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Why Modulo exists

If you’ve ever looked at your child’s school experience and thought, “This can’t be the only way”…you’re our people.

Traditional school is built to serve large groups, not individual kids. Families who want something different often end up piecing things together alone: hunting through Facebook threads, Reddit comments, and 50 open browser tabs just to choose a math curriculum or find a great tutor. 

Over the last decade, our team has:

• Taught thousands of children in multiple countries across public, private, and alternative settings. 

• Created the first marketplace for microschools (CottageClass) and helped families launch pods and learning communities around the world. 

• Built Schoolclosures.org, a pandemic-era hotline and platform that supported over 100,000 families with free tutoring and resources during school shutdowns. 

• Spent 3+ years and 10,000+ hours reviewing thousands of curricula and learning tools, then testing our favorites with real kids. 

We kept seeing the same thing: when families are given the right tools and support, kids learn faster, are happier, and stay wildly curious. But families shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel for every subject, every year.

Modulo exists to make modular learning practical, affordable, and joyful for any family who wants it.

 

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What you’ll find on Modulo’s marketplace

On Modulo, everything is organized around the reality of a child’s life – not around a one-size-fits-all school schedule. Families use the marketplace to design combinations of:

• Curriculum: Mastery-based, secular, progressive resources in 30+ subjects – carefully vetted for accuracy, inclusivity, and fun. 

• Tutors & specialists: Expert online tutors with experience supporting gifted, 2e, ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and other neurodivergent learners – each with detailed teaching philosophies and backgrounds. 

• Live classes & clubs: Small-group classes, clubs, and microschool-style offerings that help kids make friends, build projects, and learn with peers. 

• Apps, tools, and hands-on programs: From coding and robotics to nature-based curricula and life-skills programs, curated for different learning styles, values, and budgets. 

You can browse the marketplace on your own, or use our AI learning concierge and human experts to get personalized recommendations for your unique child in minutes. 

 

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How modular learning works (and why we love it)

We describe modular learning as “fully curated homeschooling”: custom education, custom social life, and custom childcare, with custom accountability and support. 

Instead of trying to meet every need in one building from 8–3, families combine modules like:

• A mastery-based math app + a hands-on science curriculum

• Weekly Spanish with a tutor + a local nature co-op day

• Online clubs, sports, art classes, game nights, travel, and more

Behind the scenes, modular learning is designed to optimize four core needs for each child and family:

1. Cognitive & academic growth – Right-level challenge, mastery-based pacing, and the freedom to move quickly in areas of strength. 

2. Social-emotional development – Plenty of play, mixed-age friendships, and emotionally safe learning environments. 

3. Childcare that actually fits your life – Flexible options that can be woven around work, travel, and rest. 

4. Accountability & support – Tools, milestones, and specialists to make sure children are on track in ways that matter (not just test scores). 

Modulo’s marketplace is the infrastructure for those “webs of learning” that educator Ivan Illich imagined decades ago:

• A directory of resources

• A skills exchange

• Peer-matching for kids & families

• A network of independent experts and teachers 

We’re here to make those webs easier to build, maintain, and evolve.

 

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Our beliefs (the things we won’t compromise on)

Across all the content we publish and resources we recommend, a few principles keep showing up: 

• Every child is unique. There is no “average” learner. Curriculum, tutors, and social experiences should flex around the child, not the other way around.

• Families are the key stakeholders. Parents and caregivers know their kids best. Even if you didn’t have an ideal education yourself, you can learn alongside your child and guide their learning journey.

• Mastery-based learning works. 1–1 and small-group mastery learning consistently outperforms traditional group instruction – and modern tools finally make it accessible for families at home. 

• Secular, inclusive, evidence-based resources matter. Kids deserve materials that reflect diverse histories and identities, grounded in up‑to‑date science and free from hidden agendas. 

• Education should support the whole family. A great learning plan doesn’t just help a child thrive academically; it makes family life more sustainable, joyful, and spacious.

• Curiosity is a life skill. In an era of misinformation and tribal politics, the ability to question, research, and think critically is not optional – it’s the antidote. 

 

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Who we serve

Modulo is built for people who look at the current system and say, “We want something better – and we’re willing to build it.”

You’ll feel at home here if you’re:

• A homeschooling or unschooling family

• A modular learner mixing school, co‑ops, online classes, and parent-led learning

• A family raising gifted, 2e, autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, or otherwise neurodivergent kids who don’t fit in traditional classrooms

• A teacher, artist, or subject-matter expert who wants to offer your own classes, clubs, or curricula

• An education entrepreneur or microschool founder building new models of learning

Our beachhead community is homeschooling families in the U.S., but modular learning principles are spreading quickly – to hybrid schools, worldschoolers, afterschool programs, and families everywhere who want more agency in how their kids grow up. 

 

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Our story & team

Modulo was founded by educator and entrepreneur Manisha Snoyer to answer a question she kept hearing from families and teachers all over the world:

“If the current system doesn’t work for my kid, what do I do instead?”

Over 20+ years of teaching in three countries, Manisha has: 

• Taught more than 2,000 children across public schools, private schools, and alternative programs

• Built CottageClass, the first microschool marketplace, in 2015

• Co‑founded Schoolclosures.org with Eric Ries during the pandemic to support families navigating sudden remote schooling

• Interviewed and worked alongside hundreds of secular homeschooling families and innovators in modular learning

Modulo is the next step in that work: a platform and marketplace designed from the ground up for families who want to design their children’s education. 

Alongside Manisha is a small, global team of learning specialists, tutors, and community organizers – including world language specialist Laetitia and dozens of highly-vetted tutors and creators whose programs you’ll find throughout the marketplace. 

We’re educators, parents, technologists, and kids at heart. We test the resources we recommend with real children, in real families, living real lives.

 

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What makes Modulo different from other marketplaces

There are plenty of places to buy curriculum or book a tutor. Here’s what sets Modulo apart: 

• Deep curation, not paid placement. Our recommendations are built on years of research, testing, and feedback from secular homeschooling communities—not whoever bought the biggest ad.

• End-to-end thinking about family life. We don’t just ask, “What should your child learn?” We ask, “What does your whole family need to thrive this year?”

• Support for cognitive diversity. Our tools, tags, and guides are designed to help families raising kids with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, giftedness, and other learning profiles quickly find good fits.

• Mix of human and AI support. Our AI concierge can narrow options fast, while real humans and real kids are constantly pressure-testing what we recommend.

• A community-first mindset. Modulo grew out of real conversations with families, not a hypothetical product deck. We’re building this with you, not for you.

 

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How to plug into the Modulo ecosystem

Here’s how you can start using Modulo today:

For families

• Browse the marketplace to discover curriculum, tutors, classes, and clubs that match your child’s age, interests, and needs.

• Try the AI learning concierge for a custom short list of resources for your unique learner. 

• Subscribe to our guides and checklists if you want help getting started with homeschooling or modular learning step by step. 

For teachers, creators & microschool founders

• List your program, class, or curriculum on Modulo’s marketplace and reach families already looking for innovative, child-centered offerings. 

• Join the Modulo community to connect with other educators, share what you’re building, and co-create new models of learning. 

 

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The world is changing. Education should too.

Kids grow. Families change. Technology evolves. The economy shifts.

Instead of trying to freeze education in time, we believe in building an education system that can adapt—module by module, family by family, community by community. 

If you’re curious, humble, and excited about shaping the future of learning—even if you’re just starting out—there’s a place for you here.