About Arcade Schoolhouse

Arcade Schoolhouse is a growing collection of interactive games, classroom activities, and teaching tools created especially for Latin teachers. Our goal is to make it easier to bring more variety, participation, and fun into the classroom without requiring hours of preparation!

Arcade Schoolhouse is primarily designed for Latin teachers and their students. Whether you teach in a traditional classroom, a homeschool co-op, a tutoring session, an online program, or any another educational setting, our tools are made to make your life easier.

Arcade Schoolhouse was created to solve a simple problem: as teachers we often want to do fun games and activities for their students, but simply do not have enough time to prep everything ourselves! We wanted to create tools that are easy to set up, enjoyable for students, and genuinely useful for teachers. Instead of spending an evening designing a review game from scratch, a teacher can open Arcade Schoolhouse and play right away.

Arcade Schoolhouse is built specifically with Latin classes in mind! Our games and activities are not generic classroom tools with a few Latin words added afterward. They are designed around the kinds of vocabulary, grammar, forms, and review activities that Latin teachers would actually use. I test everything out extensively in my own Latin classrooms, before pushing live! We also try to keep everything practical. The goal is not to add more complicated technology to your classroom, but instead to make your existing lessons easier to teach.

Teachers can use Arcade Schoolhouse to create and play a variety of classroom games, review vocabulary and grammar, build activities, display interactive charts, and much more. Some tools are designed for full-class participation, while others can be used for individual practice, small groups, or lesson preparation.

No. Arcade Schoolhouse is designed to work with a variety of Latin courses and teaching styles! Some tools include built-in support for commonly used textbooks, while others allow teachers to enter their own vocabulary, questions, categories, or content. We want teachers to be able to use the materials they already have rather than change their curriculum to fit our website.

Games are an important part of Arcade Schoolhouse, but we have more to offer! The website also includes practical teaching tools, activity builders, reference materials, interactive charts, and resources that can help with lesson planning and classroom instruction.

We believe students learn best when they are actively involved. Teacher-led games, friendly competition, visual tools, repetition, and variety help students practice important skills without every lesson feeling the same.

Arcade Schoolhouse is an independently created and operated project (a mom-and-pop software startup, if you will). That means it is being developed thoughtfully, feature by feature, rather than by a large education company somewhere miles from a classroom.

Absolutely. Arcade Schoolhouse is an ongoing project, and I am adding new games, tools, textbook support, and improvements over time. Our dream is to build a useful collection of resources that Latin teachers can return to throughout the school year.

Yes, absolutely, please! Arcade Schoolhouse is better when you tell us what works, what could be improved, and what would make the website more useful in your classrooms! Drop us a line any time on social media or via email.

Picking the name was really challenging actually! We tried over a hundred different options and it took us months to settle on a name while we were working on the project. During development, we just called it "The Latin App". While listening to The Little House on the Prairie series on audiobook with the kids, we started experimenting with a bunch of variations of "Schoolhouse". Eventually we tried adding "Arcade" to it and that seemed like a good fit. "Schoolhouse" evoked learning in a small group setting and "Arcade" evoked fun, challenge, and competition. The name "Arcade Schoolhouse" was born!