Homeroom: A Value-Aligned and Community-Centered Homeschooling Platform

We present Homeroom, a homeschooling platform that treats parents as reflective partners in collaboration with LLMs, integrates culturally responsive personalization for generating schooling materials, and supports the formation of small, trusted circles. Homeroom provides plan-then-generate story and curriculum creation, alignment, and comparison to local school standards, and resource sharing in invite-only groups. We conducted a summative usability study with 15 Muslim homeschooling parents in the Greater Toronto Area. Findings show that previewable, editable drafts preserve parental agency; values work best as revisable “soft constraints” integrated into the platform; and parents prefer private circles with clear lineage. Parents also requested lightweight infrastructure (e.g., rubric libraries, portfolio builders) to reduce paperwork. We discuss opportunities and challenges in positioning AI as a deliberative partner in family- and community-shaped pedagogy.