Assessments + Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) for Homeschool Families

Homeschooling offers the freedom to truly honor your child’s unique path while creating an education shaped around who they are. Along the way,
it’s natural for important questions to arise:

What should we prioritize?
How do I know I’m giving my child a high quality education?
How do we build a rhythm that actually works? 

Robin’s Assessments + Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) process is designed to help families better understand how their child learns and experiences the world.
Drawing on decades of experience in education and child development, Robin looks beyond grades and test scores to understand a student’s learning style, emotional and social development, strengths, challenges, interests, motivation, creativity, and the kinds of environments and teaching approaches that help them feel confident, engaged, and successful.

Robin’s framework is designed as a two-part process:

Part 1: Holistic Developmental Assessment

Part 2: Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

Part 1: Holistic Developmental Assessment

Robin’s assessments move beyond traditional academic or deficit-based evaluations to create
a fuller picture of the whole child. Rather than focusing only on diagnostic labels, the process explores how a child learns, relates, regulates, imagines, and engages with the world. The goal is not to diagnose or define a child, but to better understand their unique strengths, needs, and way of learning.

Robin’s framework recognizes:

  • Learning is developmental

  • Cognition is embodied

  • Emotional life influences academic performance

  • Executive functioning develops gradually

  • Imagination and wonder are foundational capacities

  • Different cognitive styles are not deficiencies, but variations in human intelligence

Intended Outcomes of the Assessment

  • Understand your child’s developmental profile

  • Identify strengths, emerging capacities, and areas needing support

  • Create individualized educational pathways

  • Improve communication and clarity for parents

  • Develop meaningful and actionable ILPs

  • Support long-term flourishing (not just short-term performance)

  • Honor multiple forms of intelligence and learning

  • Reduce unnecessary pathologizing of developmental differences

Assessment Structure (What to Expect)

The process includes five components:

  1. Parent intake & developmental history (milestones, learning history, rhythms, health, interests, family concerns, relationship to nature/environment)

  2. Direct student assessment (academic + developmental + movement + conversational tasks)

  3. Observational rubric (narrative observation remains primary)

  4. Student conversation (interests, challenges, learning preferences, emotional experience of learning)

  5. Narrative synthesis report (comprehensive portrait + strengths + supports + recommendations)

Core Assessment Domains

    • Reading: decoding, fluency, comprehension, symbolic understanding, narrative recall, inferential thinking, reading stamina

    • Writing: organization of thought, sequencing, mechanics, expressive voice, imagination, written stamina, fine motor integration

    • Mathematics: number sense, procedural fluency, pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, conceptual understanding, mathematical flexibility, perseverance

    • Emotional regulation, empathy, frustration tolerance, resilience, collaboration, conflict navigation, self-awareness, flexibility, relationship to peers and adults

    • articulation, listening, narrative coherence, expressive language, conversational reciprocity, confidence, emotional nuance

    • Posture and gait, balance and coordination, crossing the midline, spatial orientation, bilateral integration, rhythmic regulation, physical confidence, vitality and presence

    • Task initiation, organization, sustained attention, working memory, planning, flexibility, self-monitoring, follow-through

    • Visual-spatial thinking, auditory-sequential thinking, kinesthetic learning, associative thinking, narrative learning, symbolic thinking, experiential learning preference, processing speed

    • Curiosity about the natural world, ecological awareness, practical engagement, relationship to beauty, sensory regulation within environments, participation in community, openness to experience

    • Curiosity, imaginative openness, reflective depth, symbolic perception, delight in discovery, philosophical questioning, creativity

Part 2: Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

After Robin completes the holistic assessment, the Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) translates your child’s developmental portrait into a clear, supportive homeschool roadmap—one that supports both academic growth and emotional wellbeing.

Most families are encouraged to include the ILP because it’s where insight becomes practical: it helps you identify what to focus on next, choose methods that match your child, and build rhythms that make progress sustainable (rather than relying on trial-and-error).

ILPs Include:

    • Academic

    • Embodiment

    • Executive function

    • Social-emotional

    • Relationship to the world

    • Reading goals

    • Writing goals

    • Mathematics goals

    • Instructional approaches

    • Environmental supports

    • Weekly rhythm recommendations

    • Assessment accommodations

    • Parent partnership recommendations

“Words can not express the value Robin Theiss has brought to our child’s educational journey. The confidence to homeschool our son would not be possible without Robin’s guidance and talents. As parents, we wanted to customize our son’s education with a curriculum that is more inline with our own family’s beliefs. Our son is happy and excited about his learning, homework included. He has improved his State Testing results in EVERY category to exceeding and FAR above grade level- almost 6 months ahead of the next grade! This learning efficiency has given us the luxury of more free time to pursue my son’s ever growing interest in sports. Most recently, he has been chosen to be an All Star player on our local Little League Baseball Team. He has learned to surf this year. He also finally had time to play flag football this Spring, the list goes on and on. This year has been a gigantic confidence booster for my son, and if you ask him, his best year ever! What more could a parent want for their child?”

None of this would be possible without having someone I trust with my son’s education. That someone is
Robin Theiss.” —Claudia

Pricing

Option 1 — Assessment + 1-Hour Follow-Up Call (No ILP) 

This option is for families who want a holistic developmental assessment and a clear conversation about findings and next steps, but do not need an individualized learning plan.

Includes:

✔Holistic developmental assessment process

✔1-hour follow-up conversation to review results and answer questions

Does not include:

✘A complete Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

Investment: $650

Option 2 — Assessment + ILP + 10 Check-In Sessions (Monthly, School Year) 

Best for families who want a holistic developmental assessment and a practical plan, with support implementing it across the year.

Includes:

✔Holistic developmental assessment process

✔1-hour follow-up conversation to review results and answer questions

✔A complete Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

✔10 check-in sessions (meeting once monthly during the school year)

Investment: $3,550 (can be broken into 10 monthly payments of $355)

Option 3 — Assessment + ILP + 35 Check-In Sessions (Weekly, School Year)

Best for families who want steady, weekly guidance throughout the year. This is the most hands-on option—Robin supports you in real time as challenges arise, helps you stay responsive to what your child needs, and makes ongoing adjustments as your child grows and the year unfolds. It also includes deeper mentorship and partnership for both parents and your child’s education team.

Includes:

✔Holistic developmental assessment process

✔1-hour follow-up conversation to review results and answer questions

✔A complete Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

✔35 sessions (meeting weekly) for consistent implementation support, refinement, and accountability

Investment: $9,500 (can be broken into 10 monthly payments of $950)

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Book a free 15-minute consultation to see if Robin’s Holistic Assessment + ILP process is the right fit for your homeschool journey.

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