For advisers & schools
The tool you actually want to teach on — and run your whole program in.
You’re the adviser: you lay out the book, run the staff, sell the ads, hit the deadlines, and keep the data safe — usually on top of teaching a full load. Homeroom is built for that reality. A desktop-class book builder, a real newsroom, the money lanes, and a single-school FERPA wall enforced at the database, so the one thing you never have to worry about is a student’s record leaking.
No contract. No minimum order. No overprint — the late book just prints later.
Everything the program needs, in one login
No more stitching a bundler to a newspaper tool to a website host to a picture-day vendor. One roster, one staff list, one invoice. All of this is live today.
The daily-driver book builder
Undo/redo, version history, layers, masking, auto-layout, brand-locking, full keyboard parity, custom fonts and palettes, and fail-closed print preflight that guarantees font embedding. Shipped
A real newsroom
Run the newspaper and lit-mag on a pitch-to-EIC-approval workflow, with public online editions for stories that can’t wait for the printer. One platform for every publication. Shipped
Ads, fundraising, and the family money
An ad-sales engine for senior tributes and business ads, and a fundraising lane where 100% of the gift goes to the school. The margin most tools leave on the table. Shipped
Picture day, the school’s way
Roster-bound, consent-gated portraits flow straight into the directory and ID cards. Run your own picture day on the no-egress pipeline and the school keeps the studio’s leg too. Pipeline shipped Parent storefront in early access
A curriculum that lives in the work
The yearbook and newspaper class is the journalism class. Homeroom puts a standards-honest, teach-as-you-build curriculum inside the software — design, reporting, interviewing, captions, ethics, and law — so you teach on the real page a student is building, not from a binder on the side. It maps to the journalism-education standards advisers already answer to, and it’s honest about where a skill is a craft judgment versus a hard rule.
Curriculum shipped
A single-school wall the database enforces
This is the part your district’s counsel cares about, and it isn’t a policy promise — it’s a restrictive database rule. An adviser, a staff student, or a studio rep at one of your schools cannot see another school’s students. It is enforced at the data layer, not the UI, and proven against real Postgres across the full student-data census: a cross-school view returns zero student rows even with both schools in scope.
Picture day adds the second wall: every child’s face stays inside the school’s VPC, “find my child” is a roster lookup rather than a face match, no biometric template is ever created, and a portrait is sellable only when consent says so. The compliance shield you can hand to procurement.
No contract to escape, no lock to spring
Bring your roster by SSO (SAML, Google / Microsoft OIDC, LTI) or a PSPA / SIS import. There’s no multi-year exclusive “Term,” no overprint, and no minimum-order commitment — you stay because the tool and the economics are good, never because a contract traps you. Try it on one publication; bring the rest when you’re ready.
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The book builder, the newsroom, public online editions, the ad-sales engine, the 100%-to-school fundraising lane, the no-egress picture-day pipeline, the consent gate, the FERPA wall, and the curriculum are live today. The parent-portrait storefront, the four-way split, and buy-now-pay-later are in early access — building now on rails you can already run. We’ll tell you exactly where a given piece is.
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