Who We Are
We are Eric and Alisha, and Eduscena was born from our own story. We believe education is more than academics. It is an opportunity to love your children well by slowing down, turning off the noise, and turning toward them wholeheartedly.
From the very beginning of our marriage, we knew we wanted to homeschool. Having grown up in the public school system ourselves, we had experienced its limitations and wanted something different for our children. That resolve only deepened when Alisha began teaching at public and private schools. Witnessing what each path offered families gave us clarity. We weighed the options carefully, took the best of what each had to offer, and came back to what we always believed: that home was the right place for our two boys. Deuteronomy 6 paints a picture of this that has always moved us: parents impressing the truth on their children when they sit at home and when they walk along the road, when they lie down and when they get up. Learning woven through the fabric of daily life. That's what we were after. We didn't want to simply get through school. We wanted to raise creative, critical thinkers who know how to ask good questions, explore ideas deeply, understand the world around them, and engage with it as active problem solvers. Homeschooling gives us the freedom to pursue that vision wholeheartedly, following our boys wherever their curiosity leads.
Why Eduscena?
Alisha had spent years teaching in public and private school classrooms, using professional planning tools designed for traditional education. When she began homeschooling her own boys, she went looking for something that would help her organize and keep track of their learning journey and stay on top of state requirements. Nothing existed that truly fit how homeschool families work. So, Eric built it.
Every homeschool family knows that behind the learning comes a fair amount of planning, organization, and record keeping — the behind the scenes work that makes it all possible. Alisha was mixing curricula, manually adjusting lesson plans every time life interrupted the schedule, tracking attendance by hand, and trying to figure out how to reuse lessons that worked well for her oldest with her younger son. The questions they kept hearing from other families were the same ones they had wrestled with themselves: How do I know I am doing enough? Am I meeting my state's requirements? How do I keep track of my children's progress over time? How do I stay organized when I am juggling multiple children, multiple subjects, and multiple curricula? Eric built Eduscena to answer all of it.
Automatic attendance tracking that adjusts your end date when life happens. Scheduling that updates itself when you need to skip or extend a lesson. State requirements built right in, so you always know where you stand. A reusable lesson library so the work you put in for one child carries forward to the next. And a living record of everything your children are learning and achieving along the way. Because no two children are identical, Eduscena was built to be as flexible as possible, honoring each child's unique way of learning and their own pace. Whether you follow a classical curriculum, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, traditional textbooks, or your own eclectic blend, Eduscena was built to work the way you do.
Eduscena handles the logistics so you can focus on what actually matters. The real work is the father on the floor figuring out fractions with his son. The mother who follows her daughter's wonder about the stars into a three-week deep dive. The parent who is present, engaged, and intentional. Malachi 4:6 speaks of hearts turning, fathers to their children and children to their fathers. That verse was Eric's inspiration for building Eduscena, and his deepest hope is that it would be a blessing to families who want to be intentional about the time they have with their children.
What Our Homeschool Looks Like
We are eclectic homeschoolers, and we would not have it any other way. Because our boys are uniquely wired, no single curriculum has ever been the full answer, so we mix and match whatever works best for each of them. Science and math are rooted in textbooks, but science rarely stays on the page — labs are a regular part of our learning, and some of our favorite ones have started with our boys simply asking why. History comes alive through textbooks, biographies, documentaries, and interactive maps. Writing and grammar are grounded in structure but balanced with creative writing projects that give our boys room to find their voice. Literature, explored through anthologies and novel studies, is the other side of that same coin. A child who reads deeply and writes well is a child equipped for almost anything. Eric teaches the boys art himself, and they go deeper on their own through Sketchbox and YouTube tutorials. Coding started the same way — Eric laid the foundation, and from there our boys built their own mini games and Minecraft add-ons from scratch. Physical education is a mix of PE and private lessons outside the home.
It is a beautiful mix, and it works because we built it around who our boys are, not around what a curriculum told us to do. Which is exactly why we built Eduscena the same way: around who your family is, not around what a curriculum tells you to do.
