Become a vendor on FrostBoard Academy
Thousands of Alaska families hold a student allotment every year and have to spend it with vendors their program approves. Tell them you are one of them.
How it works
Verify your account
ID, email, and phone. The same verification that lets anyone message on FrostBoard, and families meet it on their side too.
Say how you take payment
Which correspondence programs you work with, and whether they pay you directly or the family pays and gets reimbursed. Families filter on exactly this.
Post it yourself
Your listing goes live right away. Nothing sits in a queue waiting on someone at FrostBoard.
FrostBoard does not approve vendors, does not run background checks, and does not decide what an allotment will cover. Your program does all three. What Academy gives a family is an ID-verified person on the other side of the conversation, vendors who answer for what they put on their listing, and a direct way to report a problem. Why FrostBoard verifies.
What direct pay means
Most Alaska homeschool families are enrolled in a state correspondence program, and every student gets an annual allotment for approved education costs. When a vendor is approved with your program, the program can pay them straight from that allotment and nothing comes out of your pocket. Other vendors take payment from you and your program pays you back. Both spend the same allotment. The difference is whether you float the money.
What your website needs before we can score your curriculum
FrostBoard does not sell curriculum. A listing sends a family to your own site to buy. If your curriculum is on Academy we rate it with the same rubric either way, whether you asked us to or not, and you can update your site and ask for a fresh read any time. The nine things we measure are public, and this is the same nine from your side of the table.
Unrated when we cannot see enough
If we cannot inspect enough real student, adult and assessment material, a curriculum is marked unrated rather than guessed at. Missing evidence never becomes a star score.
The no-qualified-adult cap
A mostly-online curriculum where no qualified adult reads the student's work cannot be rated above 2.5 stars as a primary program, whatever else it does well. The cap does not apply to supplemental use, and it lifts as soon as a real adult loop exists.
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Standards, accuracy and content scope
Your full scope and sequence. Real student pages and real assessments, not marketing spreads. Any accreditation, AP audit, NCAA approval, state adoption, or sustained independent expert review.
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Focus, coherence and cognitive rigor
The unit order, and how each unit rests on the one before it. Sample lessons where a student has to explain, apply or transfer, not only recall.
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Research-consistent instructional design
Your teaching model, stated plainly: worked examples, guided practice, the release to independent work. Cite or honestly bound any claim about results. Matching a child to a learning style is a claim the research does not support, and it costs you here.
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Assessment, feedback and demonstrable mastery
The checks that catch a misconception, written criteria for what good looks like, and a sample of what your progress record actually reports. A streak or a percentage bar is not mastery.
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Accountability and feedback loop
Who reads the student's work. A licensed teacher you employ counts. A parent whose teaching role is genuinely required, and who is given guidance to do it, counts. A dashboard nobody is obliged to open does not. This moves the score more than anything else on the list, and it is almost never on a pricing page.
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Adult usability and implementation support
Real prep and teaching minutes per day, published. The scheduling, answer keys, rubrics and adult-level explanations needed to actually run the material.
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Differentiation, access and learner fit
Scaffolds that support without removing the thinking. More than one way into a task. Genuine depth for a student who is ready. Support for developing readers and language learners.
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Practical feasibility and transparency
The whole cost, including renewals, consumables, and what has to be re-bought for the next child. Then the Alaska questions: bandwidth, what works offline, and what it costs to ship a box of books to a community off the road system.
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Academic demand and college readiness
Advanced pathways with prerequisites that are actually enforced, a real schedule, checkpoints that cannot be bypassed, and work a person has to evaluate.
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