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Who is on your Homeschool Team?
Soon it will be March Madness and people will be choosing “their teams,” making predictions about who will win the coveted basketball title. Of course basketball isn’t the only place for teams. If you are a homeschool parent, you also have a team. Not just the...
New Newsletter Format
Information, information EVERYWHERE! That’s our online world today. It’s great to have so much information available but it also can be daunting, overwhelming, and time-consuming to track it all down to its various cyber locations. That’s the beauty of...
Famous People with One Thing In Common
Tim Tebow. Dr. Condoleeza Rice. Ansel Adams. Thomas Edison. Alan Alda. Whoopi Goldberg. Recognize those names? Of course you do! And you probably immediately associate their names with their various accomplishments. But do you know what they all have in...
The Right Prescription
“Mom, I don’t feel good.” As a mom, it’s tough to see your kids sick. Your heart breaks to see them feeling so miserable and sometimes it’s a tough to decide how to best help them. I am so thankful for the great doctors we have had over the years – those who have...
Education is Not One-Size-Fits All
I am a mom of 5, including 2 sets of twins. The photo here is the crew. I bet you can’t guess who the twins are!! That’s because they are so very different from one another. Not just different in looks (no, I’m not going to reveal who’s who quite yet – keep...
First Things First
As a society we are rather obsessed with “firsts.” We take note and admire someone who was the first to do something. The first president, the first person on the moon, the first woman supreme court justice, the first black president, the first to swim the English...
Sense of Direction in Education
My family and I recently moved from upstate New York to the front range of Colorado. To say many things are different between the two locales is an understatement to be sure! The weather, the accent – even some vocabulary. For example, in New York it’s “soda,” here...
Are You Ready for College?
This is the time of year that many seniors are receiving their acceptance letters from colleges and universities throughout the world. A huge congratulations to all of you. Those letters represent the apex of a significant process that starts early in high school,...
Top Ten Reasons Homeschoolers should choose the Global Courseware
A couple of days ago I blogged on the top ten reasons for using the Global Courseware. If you read that blog, you might have been wondering why those top ten reasons would be important to homeschoolers. If you did ask that question, you'd be right, at least on some...
Top Ten Reasons for Choosing the Global Courseware
Last July, Global Student Network significantly enhanced it's menu of online courses by investing in the best learning management and courseware system available to any users: the Global Courseware. There are many reasons why any home, private, or public school...
Most Online K-12 Courses Anywhere!
Global Student Network (GSN) now offers more online K-12 standards-based courses to schools then any other curriculum provider worldwide. Nearly a decade ago, GSN started with one online curriculum. Today, after listening to the "wants and needs" of it's students and...