From the founder
I built MicroCore for the classrooms the traditional curriculum forgot.
I’m Stacy Murdock, an educator and curriculum designer. I have taught in the classroom, designed curriculum, and homeschooled my own children, so I know the reality these rooms live in.
Why I built MicroCore
For years I watched something the big publishers missed. Alternative learning spaces, microschools, multi-age rooms, and homeschool settings were growing fast, and the curriculum built for traditional brick-and-mortar schools simply did not fit them. It assumed a single grade, a full support staff, and a teacher with hours to spare. None of that matched the rooms I was seeing.
I watched microschool teachers and founders struggle to find anything that actually worked for them. I watched them pour late nights into personalizing every lesson for every student while trying to keep their school afloat. They were doing extraordinary work with tools that were never designed for their reality. What they needed was not one more thing to adapt. It was a curriculum that understood the room they actually teach in.
So I built it. MicroCore is the program I wished those teachers had: complete, sequenced, and differentiated from the first page, built for one teacher and a room full of different levels.
I have seen this from every side
My perspective is not from one seat. It is from all of them.
The Educator and Curriculum Designer.
I have taught students and designed the learning itself, not just worksheets, so I know what makes a lesson work in front of real children.
The Homeschool Parent
I have taught my own children at my own table, so I know what it is to be the whole system for a learner, planning, teaching, and adjusting all at once.
The Microschool Reality
I have watched these classrooms up close and built for what actually happens in them, not the ideal version on a publisher’s slide.
One Promise.
Every page of MicroCore is built so a real teacher, in a real, mixed-level room, can open it and teach with confidence. That is the whole reason it exists.
See what I built.
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