Resources
Everything you need to evaluate — and run — Homeroom.
No gated whitepapers, no fake testimonials. This is the honest map of what we’ve published: the privacy story, the teach-as-you-build curriculum, the product and pricing guides, and how to get started. Where something isn’t written yet, we say so — and we’d rather earn the first case study than invent one.
Start here
The four pages that explain what Homeroom is, how the money works, and who it’s built for. Every link below is live.
Product overview
The whole platform in one place — the desktop-class book builder, the newsroom, public online editions, the ad-sales engine, and the no-egress picture-day pipeline. Shipped
Privacy & consent explainer
How every child’s face stays inside the school’s walls: roster-lookup “find my child” instead of a biometric face-match, no AI cloud, no image egress, consent-gated sales, and a single-school FERPA wall enforced at the database. Shipped
Pricing model
The honest, code-grounded money model: cost-per-page book tiers, picture-day packages, recognition ads, and fundraising — no contract, no minimum, no overprint, with a cost floor enforced so nothing sells below print cost.
For advisers & schools
The daily-driver book builder, a real newsroom workflow, the ad and fundraising lanes, and the FERPA wall — the second buyer’s view. Studios get their own page.
A genuine differentiator
Standards & curriculum — the teach-as-you-build engine
Most yearbook vendors hand an adviser a static workbook or a short module set. Herff Jones, for example, ships a printed curriculum binder; TreeRing offers a handful of lesson modules. Useful — but they live beside the work, not inside it. Homeroom’s curriculum is built into the software: design, reporting, interviewing, captions, photojournalism, law, and ethics taught on the real page a student is building, with a rubric and gradebook layer behind it.
Crucially, it is standards-honest. Scholastic journalism has no single national standard with the force of Common Core, so legitimacy is assembled by crosswalk — and Homeroom does the crosswalk for you. A lesson or a project is tagged to a set of frameworks at once, and an adviser who picks their state gets an administrator-ready alignment report that reads “this satisfies JEA X + Common Core Y + your-state Z.”
- JEA — the de-facto national spine: the 11 curriculum content areas (newsgathering, writing, editing, design, photojournalism, multimedia, web, law & ethics, leadership, marketing, news literacy) and the Standards for Journalism Educators.
- Common Core CCR anchors — Writing, Speaking & Listening, Reading-Informational, and Language standards journalism maps onto cleanly, plus the C3 inquiry arc, ISTE, and the CTE Arts/A-V/Communications pathway.
- A state crosswalk for all 51 jurisdictions — from the gold-standard coded strands (Indiana, Texas TEKS, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Arkansas, Florida) down to the ELA-mapped-only states, plus the live media-literacy mandates schools now answer to.
- Law & ethics taught on the page — Tinker, Bethel, Hazelwood, Morse; copyright and fair use; prior review and editorial independence; the New Voices landscape — not as a chapter to skip, but where the staff actually makes the call.
Curriculum & standards engine shipped
Honesty note: Homeroom authors its own lessons and tags them to a multi-org standards registry. We do not reproduce JEA’s copyrighted member-only lesson text — we mirror the structure the field already trusts and do the alignment work an adviser would otherwise do by hand.
Getting started
When you come aboard, you don’t start from a blank page. Bring your roster by SSO (SAML, Google / Microsoft OIDC, LTI) or a PSPA / SIS import, and the in-app help walks each role through its console. These operator guides exist today; a guided demo is the fastest way to see the path that fits you.
For advisers & schools
Set up a publication, import the roster, run the staff, and hit deadlines — the adviser’s daily path. The in-app onboarding and a tailored demo cover it end to end. What advisers get →
For photography studios
Onboard accounts, manage your rep team, set commission plans and territories, white-label your brand, and read your studio’s P&L. There’s a full studio-operator guide behind the studio console. How the studio program works →
For districts & procurement
The single-school FERPA wall, the consent gate, and the no-egress picture-day pipeline — the compliance story you can hand to counsel. Start with the privacy explainer, then book a walkthrough.
Already a customer? Sign in — the in-app help center has the step-by-step guides for your role.
Case studies & the blog
We’re not going to invent a testimonial. Homeroom is early, and the case studies and the blog are coming soon — we’d rather publish a real pilot’s real numbers than a stock quote with a made-up school name.
If you run a yearbook, a newspaper, or a studio and want to be one of the first stories we tell — with your own words and your own results — that’s exactly who we’re looking for. The early pilots get a direct line to the people building the product.
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