Pilots begin January 2027
Focus that follows the assignment home.
FocusBridge plans your focus time and protects it, from school to home. It is a research-based approach to homework and focus that gives students calm, distraction-free time for the work their teachers assign, on the class Chromebook, at home and on campus. Teachers set it once in Google Classroom. Students press Start. Everything else can wait.
Choose your side
Three tools, one way of focusing. Start with yours.
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School Focus by FocusBridge
For teachers and schools
School Chromebooks · Google Classroom
Teachers attach focus time to a Google Classroom assignment. Students press Start, and only the work stays open. The next morning, a short report.
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Home Focus by FocusBridge
For families
iPhone now, Android on the way · two apps, one for parents and one for students
Parents see tonight's homework and start focus time with one tap. Students can start their own. Two apps, one calm routine.
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Campus Focus by FocusBridge
For college students
iPhone and laptop · Android on the way
Connect your course calendar, and Campus Focus plans this week's focus blocks around what's due.
How we're different
Most focus tools lock a classroom or block a phone. FocusBridge starts from the homework.
Classroom tools stop when the bell rings. Phone blockers don't know what tonight's assignment is. FocusBridge connects the teacher, the student and the family around the work itself.
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Focus that follows the assignment home
Most focus tools stop at the classroom door, or leave parents to police a phone on their own. With FocusBridge, the teacher sets focus time on the assignment itself, and it carries from the class Chromebook to the kitchen table.
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It starts from the homework, not a block list
Nobody has to build or maintain a list of banned sites. The assignment and what the teacher attached stay open, links inside those files work, and everything else waits until the work is done.
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Big work, broken into nights
Students can get bogged down by too much work on one night. For a test, paper or project, the teacher sets the total focus time and FocusBridge spreads it over the nights before it is due: "Session 1 of 4."
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Calm, never punitive
A site that is set aside simply says it can wait, like "YouTube can wait," with a way back to the work. Nobody is told they did something wrong, and a student who can't finish can say why.
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Help is one tap away
A student who is stuck taps "Stuck? Get help" for free Khan Academy lessons, or a college's own tutoring center, without ending focus time. "Need to talk?" shows 988 and the school counselor on every Focus Break, no lock ever closes 988, and opening help records nothing.
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Teachers see effort, not browsing
The morning report shows who finished, who paused and who never started, with turn-in status. It never shows browsing history, and reminders reach students and families only when the teacher clicks Send.
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Supports set once, honored everywhere
A student's case manager sets shorter focus blocks, longer Focus Breaks, extra time or tools that always stay open, once. They apply in every class, on the Chromebook and on the phone. FocusBridge never holds a diagnosis or an IEP.
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In your school's colors
Every student gets the full focus tools from day one. When a school or college signs on, every screen wears its name, colors and links, and its mascot if the school approves, so focus time feels like part of school, not one more app.
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Private by design
FocusBridge never records the websites you visit, what you type or what's on your screen, and never sells data. Every tool shows exactly what it keeps.
| Feature | Classroom lock tools | Phone screen-time apps | FocusBridge |
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| Focus time in class | Yes | No | Yes |
| Focus time for homework, set by the teacher | No | No | Yes |
| Opens only what's attached to the assignment | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| Spreads big work over several nights | No | No | Yes |
| Sets apps aside on the phone | No | Yes | Yes, on iPhone; Android on the way |
| Tells the teacher who started and finished homework | No | No | Yes, never browsing |
Informed by research. Every rule is set next to the published research on attention, breaks and homework, and we say where research doesn't settle a number. See the research.
Be one of the first.
The first FocusBridge pilots start in January 2027. Early schools, families and college students get set up personally and help decide what comes next.
Built by an educator
FocusBridge was founded by Marc VanSoest, an educator with 30 years of experience in K-12 and higher education systems and a parent of teenagers. It is being built with teachers, families and students, and every message to hello@focusbridge.app is read by a person.