Jan 31, 2019 | Homeschoolers
According to data collected during the 2010 U.S. Census, the number of school age children (age 5 to 17) in the U.S. during 2016-17 was 58,212,462. 37% of those children live in California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois. In an effort to offer more...
Jan 28, 2019 | Homeschoolers
The Great Planner Debate: Teaching Homeschoolers the Art of Independent Planning I remember the first planner I used. I was in the sixth grade and my school issued everyone the same planner, complete with dates important to our school already printed in the correct...
Jan 15, 2019 | Homeschoolers
Regardless of what your career or occupation is, you are sure to have to developed a few tricks of the trade to make your job easier. These days the term “lifehack” is used loosely to describe those uniquely personal ideas that increase efficiency in daily life. Let’s...
Dec 10, 2018 | Homeschoolers
If you’re a homeschooling or online learning parent looking for interesting, compelling and exciting course content for your middle school or high school age children, Apex Learning could be the solution you need. Apex delivers digital curriculum...
Dec 5, 2018 | Homeschoolers
We were recently at a birthday party and my son happily shared with the guests sitting across the table that he was in kindergarten. Later in the conversation it came up we were homeschooling. The eyebrows were raised and the questions started. “Here we go,” I...
Nov 19, 2018 | Homeschoolers
WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING? Since 1999, the use of digital and online instructional approaches known generically as ‘blended learning” and “hybrid learning” have become increasingly popular as a way to convert the brick-and-mortar classroom to a...
