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Online Learning Solutions for Summer School
Online Solutions: Ideal for Last-Minute Summer School Plans As the spring semester draws quickly to an end, summer school looms large on the horizon. Is your school looking for last-minute options for summer school? Schools find solutions to their summer learning...
The Future of K-12 Digital Education
Public, charter and private schools around the United States are in the transformative process of attempting to eliminate the digital divide between current common practice and increasing trends towards blended learning and full-out digital education protocols. ...
How Summer Learning Programs Can Mitigate Summer Learning Loss
It's summertime. School is out. No more homework. No more books. Ten weeks of fun and joy for the kids. But is a summertime break really good for your children, or would a summer learning program be more beneficial in the long run? History of Summer Break A...
Bible-based and Special Needs – A Family’s Journey with Ignitia from Global Student Network
GSN Homeschool Spotlight What is your homeschool story? What brought you to homeschooling? When my now 13-year-old daughter started kindergarten is when our homeschool journey started. She was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder at 3 and had severe anxiety...
Benefits of Online Summer Learning
It's almost summertime again! Time for parents of school-age kids to start thinking about creating an array of fun, safe, healthy and educational "to do" lists to keep those kids happy and engaged. Parents of school-age children consistently report that the summer...
4 Reasons Why Online Learning is Great for Summer
Summer is just around the corner. Once again our schedules will change. If you’re like my family, you’re probably putting the finishing touches on plans. In the works might be trips to the beach or treks to see family. Maybe you’re counting down the days until you can...
It’s GSN’s Homeschool Academic Advisor to the Rescue!
I couldn’t even tell you the difference between Marvel and DC before I became a mom. But now, thanks to my four sons, I have the low-down on all the superheroes and their alternate identities and their back stories and which villains go with which heroes. Heroes are...
How Online Curriculum Supports Mastery Based Learning in Schools
Mastery-based learning (MBL) is a teaching and learning method and instructional strategy first identified in 1968 by education researcher Benjamin Bloom and is defined as an alternate method for teaching students who do not respond well to traditional public school...
Homeschool Academic Advisor
Perhaps the vision of your children happily learning comfortably at home – in their PJs, no less! – drew you to homeschool. Or perhaps the hope of providing a more academically challenging course of study caused you to consider writing that letter of intent. Or maybe...
What is Accelerate Learning?
Accelerate Learning is an online curriculum for students in grades K-12. Accelerate Learning student-paced and mastery-based, allowing students to progress as they learn each concept. They can take the time they need or excel as they are ready. The lessons engage the...
DIY Homeschool Portfolio Kit – FREE to GSN Homeschool Families!
Let’s face it, the logistics of homeschooling can be daunting. There are documents to be gathered and filed, and records to be kept. GSN has what you need to help you organize your way out of the chaos! GSN's DIY Homeschool Portfolio Kit Includes - Materials list to...
How Schools Partner with GSN
With the educational landscape ever changing, public and private schools are constantly on the lookout for ways to keep their institutions offering excellent learning options by cost-effective means. Many times these two goals can be mutually exclusive. However,...
GSN is All About Choice!
National School Choice Week (NSCW) is January 21-28, 2018. According to NSCW’s site,͞ NSCW is now the world’s largest annual celebration of opportunity in education. During this week, there are events to raise awareness and celebrate the many options available to...
What is Odysseyware?
Odysseyware is an online curriculum for students in grades 3-12 used in schools and by homeschool families. Odysseyware is student-paced, mastery-based, teacher-interactive online. Let’s break this down and see exactly what that means. Student-paced Students work at...
GSN’s Homeschool Spotlight – Welcome to our Island School!
Global Student Network (GSN) has provided excellent online curriculum options for homeschool families since 2004. Here is how one family uses GSN in their homeschool. What brought you to homeschooling? We were alerted that our son Trevor was a highly gifted...
INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL LEARNING ACADEMY STUDENT STARS IN ”A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE!” ON FOX
INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL LEARNING ACADEMY STUDENT STARS IN FOX NETWORK's 12/17 LIVE BROADCAST OF ”A CHRISTMAS STORY" HENDERSON, NEVADA, December 12, 2017 – Christmas came early this year for eleven-year-old Andy Walken, a distance learning student at the International...
Global Student Network Offers Career and Technical Education
U.S. education news has recently focused on the need for college and career readiness for high school graduates. Schools, both public and private, have taken up the banner in an effort to answer the need for graduating seniors to possess a broad range of skills needed...
Welcome to the Laboratory!
What Happens When Science Mixes with Online Learning? When I first started teaching with online curriculum, I was a bit skeptical when it came to science. After all, science is best-learned hands-on and online learning seems the exact opposite. I wasn’t so sure a...
A Parent Gives Thanks for Homeschooling with Global Student Network
November is the season for remembering all we have for which to be thankful. Over the years, many families have shared their gratitude for homeschooling. The following was sent to Global Student Network in November 2015. I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to...
Master Chef Junior – Open Casting Call – New York City Area
How to Teach Writing to Homeschool Students
Most homeschool parents are concerned about their children's writing skills and spend countless hours looking for writing programs and online courses that might assist them in teaching their kids how to write with clarity and purpose. And there's plenty of...


















