For microschools, homeschool groups & education businesses
Your school doesn’t have to teach everything alone.
Porchlight matches microschools and homeschool communities with the teachers, programs, and businesses that fill their gaps. Then our team makes the introductions for you: we write the outreach, send it from your address, and book the meetings straight onto your calendar.
Built with and for the homeschool community. No contracts, no software to learn.
Who it’s for
If you run a school, co-op, or pod
You’re brilliant at what you love teaching, and stretched thin everywhere else. Science labs, foreign languages, music. Hiring a specialist for every subject is impossible at your size. Partnering isn’t. Your students get the full education you wish you could give them yourself, taught by people who love those subjects as much as you love yours.
If you teach or sell a subject
You built something genuinely good. The hard part is being found. The schools that need you exist, they’re just busy running schools, and neither of you has time for cold calls. We make the introduction, and we make it warm.
How it works
- 1
Talk to us for fifteen minutes
Tell us what you teach, what you’re missing, and who you’d love to work with. That’s the whole onboarding.
- 2
We find your matches and reach out as you
Our team writes your templates, sharpens your value prop, and sends real, personal outreach from your own email address. A person reviews every message before it goes out.
- 3
Meetings appear on your calendar
Check your inbox and calendar in the morning, then show up to conversations that were already warmed up for you.
Done for you
More than introductions
A good partnership starts before the first email. We build the pieces most small schools and education businesses never have time for: outreach templates that sound like you, a sharper value proposition, a public-facing one-pager, and scheduling that just works. It’s the kind of help a consultant would charge thousands for, priced for a school that meets in a living room.
- Outreach templates
- Value proposition & positioning
- A public face you’re proud of
- Scheduling handled end to end
Why partnerships matter
Homeschooling and microschooling have grown fast, and the model that’s winning is the network: small schools that stay small but plug into specialists for the subjects they don’t cover. No single microschool can staff chemistry, Mandarin, violin, and robotics. Together, a neighborhood of them can.
More than three million US students are homeschooled, and the number is climbing again.
Between one and two million students now attend microschools full time, in every state.
The median microschool has one paid staff member besides its founder. Partners are how it offers more.
Common questions
What is Porchlight?
A partnership network for the homeschool world, plus a small team that does the outreach work for you. We connect microschools, co-ops, and education businesses that fill each other’s gaps.
Who is it for?
Microschools, homeschool co-ops and pods, tutors, curriculum makers, and any small business that serves homeschool students and wants steady partners rather than one-off customers.
What does the outreach service actually do?
We research the right partners for you, write outreach that sounds like you, send it from your own email address, and schedule the meetings that come back. A person reviews every message before it goes out.
Is this just cold email spam?
No. We send a small number of personal, researched messages to organizations that genuinely fit, and we stop the moment someone isn’t interested. Every message is one you’d happily sign your name to, because your name is on it.
What does it cost?
Less than hiring, and far less than an agency. We’ll walk you through plans on the call, and if we’re not a fit we’ll say so.
Do I need to be technical?
If you can check email, you can use Porchlight. There’s no software to learn. We set everything up.
The light is on.
Fifteen minutes with our team. We’ll tell you honestly whether partnerships can work for your school or business, and if we’re not the right help, we’ll point you to whoever is.
Book a free 15-minute callPrefer email? Write to hello@porchlight.team and we’ll reply the same day.