An official enrollment letter from day one
A clear enrollment record to present when someone asks about school, kept current while your child is enrolled.
Pre-K to Grade 8 · homeschool and worldschool families
The school for a childhood lived beyond the classroom.
Teach with any curriculum.
Capture your homeschool days in seconds. Keep the memories and build an official education record, ready whenever you need it.
Paid enrollment includesEnrollment letter Living portfolio Transcript
The Standards, the Parent Handbook, and a Year Plan you can print. A free account opens the Welcome Library, with no card required. It is not Enrollment. You can see what enrollment includes. Enrollment is open.
- Ages 3 to 14 · Pre-K to Grade 8
- Ivy Waters International Standards
Maya’s learning journey
A week of wonder
Today
Counting the garden
Math · numbers 1–10
Thursday
Butterfly life cycle
Science · living things
Wednesday
Letter sounds with Bella the Bear
English · phonics
Tuesday
Colors around the world
Good Citizenship/Humanities · exploring cultures
Monday
Our storybook, retold
English · listening & retelling
Learning preserved5 moments
Over a year, parent-reviewed moments can support subject-level transcript records and portfolio evidence for an enrolled learner. You decide what belongs in the record.
Records that travel
What Ivy Waters is
Ivy Waters is a school serving homeschool and worldschool families anywhere in the world.
We prioritize real-life experience and creativity over memorization and recall. Teach with any curriculum you like. We help you record what your child actually learns.
An official enrollment letter and transcript
Proof of school and an academic record for each cycle, ready whenever someone asks.
A Showcase Portfolio of real work
Projects, photographs, and your child's own words, kept as evidence rather than a scrapbook.
Capstone projects
At Grade 5 and Grade 8, something real your child designs, builds, and pitches.
IvyTracks
Capture learning in seconds, so proving what your child is learning is never a reconstruction job.
Learning can look like
- Map a journey
- Design and build
- Bake and measure
- Observe the living world
You choose the life and the curriculum. Ivy Waters keeps the evidence, helps you see the learning, and carries confirmed work into a record that can travel with your child.
From a real afternoon to a lasting record
Ivy Waters International
The learning record
Official records remain distinct from this illustrative document glimpse.
A free account with a real first day
Open the door. Leave with a plan.
Verify an email and open your Welcome Library. There is no card, no trial clock, and no automatic path into paid Enrollment.
Create your free accountOne email, one small code, and a generous place to begin.
Free account
Your free account opens.
The account gives you a secure place for resources and plans. It creates no charge, school Enrollment, or marketing subscription.
Welcome Library
The free experience is useful before you pay for anything.
Read, decide, and make something for your own year. The library gives your family a complete place to begin, not a sample of paid capture.
- Year Plan
- Choose what fits this year, what can wait, and print a sheet the family can keep.
- International Standards
- Read the complete Pre-K to Grade 8 framework and keep the printable editions close.
- Parent Handbook
- Start with a calm guide to the school, the record, and the choices that remain yours.
- Records Folder
- Use the parent-maintained forms now, without presenting them as issued school records.
Paid Enrollment
Enrollment is a separate educational service.
Enrollment is open. Annual Enrollment is $279 USD per student, billed yearly. Each paid student becomes an Enrolled Learner. Their Parent/Guardian can capture learning, build the record, and use registrar services.
Enroll now
What enrollment includes
Everything has one job: make learning count.
Enrollment gives one learner one clear annual record. Everything below grows from the same parent-owned evidence, with the guardian deciding what belongs.
An official transcript for each academic cycle
Subjects, parent-entered grades, and attendance organized from your child’s real learning.
A Showcase Portfolio
Your child’s work, projects, photos, and own words in a record that shows who they are.
Capture in seconds with IvyTracks
Log a sentence or photo while the learning is still fresh, with optional dictation when typing is inconvenient.
Your complete record in Parent Portal
See moments, milestone coverage, attendance, parent-entered grades, and everything ready for the transcript together.
Ivy Waters International Standards
Our own Pre-K through Grade 8 framework makes everyday evidence understandable without prescribing a curriculum.
Capstone projects
Skills for what is next, not what is tested.
At the end of Grade 5, and again at the end of Grade 8, every learner can take on a Capstone: something real they design, build, and pitch. Not a test, and not a worksheet. A genuine problem they identified, and an honest plan to do something about it.
- 01
Grade 5
A first real idea
Often a small business or product: costs, pricing, and a profit margin worked out by hand. A child might run a bracelet stall and find out what it actually takes to make two dollars.
- 02
Grade 8
Something with scope
A systemic or social-enterprise problem with a real plan for how it would keep going. A neighborhood book swap at ten can become a reading program run with other families at fourteen.
- 03
Either year
Built and explained
The learner records a pitch and explains the choices behind the work. A business, a community project, or both at once. There is no single correct answer we are looking for.
The IvyTracks project trail is available today. A Completed with Capstone Distinction notation is not currently issued.
Every family decides whether a Capstone is right for their child that year. Choosing not to take part never affects a transcript, portfolio, or progress, and there is no extra cost either way: it is part of standard enrollment. For the families who do take part, it tends to become the thing their child remembers most.
How the Capstone worksCrossing borders?
Keep a clear enrollment record ready to present when someone asks about school.
Might return to school someday?
A coherent transcript gives placement conversations a documented starting point. The receiving school makes the final decision.
A child who learns differently?
Subjects can move at different paces without forcing the whole child into one grade-level timeline.
A calmer way to keep school
Start with life as it is.
The record grows through small, honest deposits. It follows the learner you have, without turning family life into a compliance performance.
Start with today.
Capture three moments, not three lessons. No quotas. No need to backfill. Start with today.
Let subjects move differently.
A child can race ahead here and build confidence there. The record keeps that honest shape instead of flattening it.
Keep it before you classify it.
A moment needs no standard attached to belong. Alignment is optional, and the original evidence remains the source.
Our published standards
A school with standards of its own.
Ivy Waters International Standards are ours: written, published, and citable. Ages 3–14 · 138 standards across 10 stages, anchored to ages rather than to any one country’s school system, so a family that moves keeps a record that still means something.
Permanent identifiers
Every standard has its own address that never changes, so a reviewer, a tutor, or a future school can look up the exact thing your child met.
Met in everyday life
Each one is written to you, not to a committee, and paired with what it looks like in a real afternoon: market arithmetic, a tide pool, a letter to a grandparent.
Open to read and cite
Downloadable Benchmark Guides for families, and a machine-readable release schools, registrars, and tools can map their own records against.
The Live-Log-Align Method
A keepsake that happens to be a transcript.
Real learning should not disappear because it happened away from a worksheet. Ivy Waters turns the moments your family already values into evidence you can revisit, understand, and use.
- 01
Live.
Learn your way: at the kitchen table, in a museum, at a market, or halfway around the world.
- 02
Log.
Capture the moment in about ten seconds with a line of text, a photo, or dictated text.
- 03
Align.
Ivy Waters suggests the milestone; you decide whether it belongs. Or keep the moment with no benchmark at all. The learning still counts.
Sample Moment · The seven-hour flight that crosses twelve clock hours
01 · A real moment
“Seven hours in the air. So how did twelve hours disappear from the clocks?”
They drew both local times, counted the flight, then found the five hours hiding between New York and London.
7:30 PM · NYC7:30 AM · London
02 · Evidence
One folded map, two local clocks, and a wonderfully curious child.
Travel day · Family-owned
03 · Standards coverage
Math + Geography
Elapsed time, time zones & estimation
Elapsed timeWorld mapsChecking assumptions
Suggested by Ivy Waters. Confirmed only by the parent.
04 · Record
Learning record
MathematicsTravel-time evidence
One confirmed piece in the year’s wider record.
Portfolio-readyTranscript support
Record settled
The parent chooses what counts. If the family confirms the alignment, this travel Moment can support the learner’s portfolio and Mathematics record over time.
See it kept
One true event, typeset into a record.
Tell us your child’s first name and one true thing they did today. We’ll typeset a keepsake record page with a date and seal in about ten seconds. No account needed to look.
The learning record of
Zara
Tuesday · 3 March 2026
A moment, kept
“Worked out the profit margin on our bake sale after covering ingredient costs”
Learning evidence · sample
ivywaters.comSAMPLE SEAL
The SAMPLE SEAL is part of the page. A sample can never be mistaken for an official record.
Records built to be checked
Warm enough to keep. Clear enough to check.
The day someone asks you to prove the year, you should not have to argue for it. The family story and the formal record share one source but never blur together: keepsakes are visibly samples, and issued documents follow a separate records-office path.
- Precise claims
- Nothing in your child’s file overstates what it is, so nothing gets waved away. The enrollment letter confirms enrollment. The transcript carries the academic history. A registrar reading either one knows exactly what they are holding.
- Traceable evidence
- Every attendance day, grade, and subject entry traces back to a moment you logged and approved. Asked where a number came from, you can show the afternoon it came from.
- Verification first
- A reviewer can confirm the record without phoning you. Issued documents carry stable references, and a verification address is printed only once the record it points to is live.
Issued records carry stable references only after the underlying record is frozen and live.
IvyTracks
Where learning enters.
Capture a sentence or photo in about ten seconds, with optional dictation into editable text. Alignment helps connect the moment to real milestones, while your original evidence always remains the source.
Parent Portal
Where your family keeps it.
Return to your child’s full learning story: moments, milestone coverage, attendance, parent-entered grades, reports, and portfolio-ready evidence, all built from the same moments.
“Learning was everywhere. The record wasn’t.”
Why one homeschooling family built Ivy Waters.
Read our storyThe part you’ll keep
Years from now, this is the part you’ll return to.
The transcript answers the formal questions. The record underneath it holds the real treasure: their voice explaining tide pools, the market-day arithmetic, and the year of questions. It is a family archive designed to support a clear school record without replacing the moments that made it.
From Ivy Waters
The whole argument, in a book we give away.
On Track, Off Script is about the question that follows every family learning outside a classroom: how do you keep proof without turning the kitchen table into a school? It argues you never had to choose, and shows what a light, honest record makes possible.
15 chapters · about 3 hours · chapter one is open to everyone, the rest is free with a free account
Frequently asked questions
Who is Ivy Waters International for?
Ivy Waters serves homeschool, expat, and worldschooling families with children ages 3 to 14, from Pre-K to Grade 8. Parents remain in control of how, when, and where learning happens.
What does enrollment include?
Annual Enrollment includes an official enrollment letter from day one, an official transcript each academic cycle, and a Showcase Portfolio of your child’s real work. The service also includes IvyTracks capture, the Parent Portal, and the Ivy Waters International Standards.
Is Ivy Waters a real school?
Yes. Ivy Waters International is a private school based in Texas, serving Pre-K through Grade 8 with its own independent academic standards. If you live outside Texas, your own state or country’s homeschool requirements still apply to your family. Our school records are built from parent-approved evidence, and parents remain responsible for assigning grades based on their child’s work and progress.
Who grades my child?
Parents remain responsible for observing and assessing their child’s learning. Ivy Waters helps organize parent-approved evidence, attendance, and parent-entered assessments into a coherent school record. We do not silently invent grades from app activity or AI suggestions.
Do I have to change curriculum?
No. Use the curriculum, tutors, resources, and real-life experiences that suit your child. Ivy Waters International Standards provide a consistent record reference around your approach without prescribing a route or pace.
Can I start for free?
Yes. The free Welcome Library is open now. A free account does not enroll a learner and never converts automatically. Annual Enrollment is 279 USD per student.
Does Ivy Waters replace local homeschool requirements?
No school can override the law where a family lives. Requirements vary by country and region, so families remain responsible for local registration, testing, evaluation, and acceptance rules that apply to them.
How is my child’s information used?
Ivy Waters uses family information to provide your records and learning experience. We do not sell personal information or use a child’s learning history for advertising profiles. Family-initiated sharing is deliberate and controlled by you.
How much does it cost, and is there a discount for more than one child?
Annual Enrollment is 279 USD per student each year. Core digital enrollment and record services are included. The same annual rate applies to each enrolled student. There is no sibling discount. Additional document services are not included.
What happens after Grade 8?
Ivy Waters serves students only through Grade 8 and currently does not issue high school diplomas. Families can export their record, including the evidence and portfolio material they have kept. Completed-cycle transcripts and other issued records follow the records-retention terms disclosed at enrollment. A receiving school or authority always makes its own placement and acceptance decisions.
Can I enroll now?
Yes. Annual Enrollment is available for one learner at a time through the secure Enrollment checkout. A free account remains separate and never converts automatically.
Can I leave, and what happens to my child’s records?
You can stop a renewal at any time, and enrollment runs to the end of the term you paid for. Annual enrollment is generally non-refundable after service begins, except where local law gives you a withdrawal right that cannot be waived. Before account closure, the Parent Portal offers a full family export of moments, photographs, notes, and portfolio material. Issued records are retained separately under the disclosed records-retention schedule so they can remain verifiable. Partial-cycle record handling will be confirmed in the enrollment and records policies.
How much time does this actually take?
There is no logging quota. Capturing a moment takes about ten seconds: a sentence, a photograph, or dictated text while the learning is still fresh. Families can record what is useful without turning everyday learning into a checklist.
Can I join partway through the school year?
The Enrollment model is designed to let families join partway through a cycle rather than wait for one universal school-year start. Records will begin from the Enrollment date within the family’s selected academic calendar. The Enrollment agreement will explain first-cycle and transcript handling.
Who else can see my child’s record?
There is no public directory, public child profile, or default visibility to other families. Guardians choose when to share records with someone such as a receiving school. Ivy Waters staff do not have routine access to a child’s learning record; any access needed for approved records work, a support request, or system protection is scoped to authorized staff and audited.
Ready when you are
Give the year a record that can travel.
Annual Enrollment brings together an official enrollment letter, a school-issued transcript, and the living portfolio that supports them.
Pre-K to Grade 8 One learner One year
Annual Enrollment
$279
USD
per learner · billed yearly
Enroll nowApple Pay and Google Pay appear at secure checkout on supported devices.
Explore the free Welcome LibraryThe annual rate covers every core digital enrollment and record service. Additional document services are not included. Prefer to explore first? The free Welcome Library stays available with no card required. The same annual rate applies to each enrolled student.
Questions before you enroll?
Ask Admissions about Enrollment, records, or whether Ivy Waters fits your family before you make a decision.
Email Admissions
Optional emails only. Unsubscribe anytime. See our Privacy Policy.