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Brave Learning: Your Interests, Policing AI, BHAGS, and more!
Recently on Brave Learning…
“I don’t have time for interests”
How can you homeschool your kids and still have interests of your own? [More]
They speak in prose and paragraphs [Public]
Let’s continue our exploration of your child’s writing voice. [More]
Policing AI doesn’t work [Public]
I propose valuing learning rather than grades [More]
Big Hairy Audacious Goals [Public]
A powerful idea to energize your homeschool! [More]
Subscribe to Brave Learning on Substack where we chat, discuss, problem-solve, and create together. Here’s what you can expect: weekly themed content, freewriting prompts, and a podcast for kiddos called Monday Morning Meeting (first 5 are free)!
Brave Writer 101: Guided Writing Process
Let’s get real. The market is flooded with well-intentioned writing programs that don’t meet the complex needs of young writers. Perhaps you’ve tried—even tossed— a few?
The truth is that writing is too big, too vulnerable, and too personal to thrive with a program that doesn’t address the whole child.
That’s where we come in!
No one approaches writing like we do, and when you take Brave Writer 101, we’ll let you in on the secret.
Here’s a quick peek at how class unfolds, with our writing coach, YOU, and your child working together to de-mystify writing.
Brave Writer 101
Week One: Communication
Share your challenges and get individualized help from your coach. Then, play a game to learn about how writers communicate.
“[My son] loved this. He said it really helped him see how important details are.” —Parent Laura
Week Two: Observation
Wish your kids would generate deeper insights? More vivid descriptions? We’ve got you!
“I am seeing happiness around observing and selecting words, which is great!” —Parent Fabienne
Week Three: Freewriting
We introduce a magical process that liberates so many kids.
“We’d agreed that he’d write for five minutes — but I didn’t see him again for over twenty.” —Parent Sonja
Week Four: Feedback for Revision
Watch our writing coach approach your child’s writing with constructive advice and gentle encouragement.
“By the end of Week Four… it became the first thing she wanted to do every day…” —Parent Jennifer
Week Five: Revision
Learn how to revise by doing it—with our help.
“Our instructor was a terrific model of how to lavish my writer with feedback and how to ask questions to draw my writer out.” —Parent Allison
Week Six: Editing
Finish by making that priceless jewel shine!
“I didn’t get resistance on this exercise at all… [He] seemed to enjoy this type of editing.” —Parent Amanda
Experience this unique writing approach with your kids!
Sign up for Brave Writer 101!
[Podcast #280] Why We’re FIRED UP About Shannon Watts
This week on the podcast, we’re re-airing our fantastic conversation with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, where we discuss her inspiring new book Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age. Tune in for a powerful discussion on activism, passion, and the power of stepping into your purpose!
Chris Langford Photography
Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, a six-million-member organization she describes as “maybe the world’s largest real-life field experiment for what happens when you show women how their abilities and their burning desires and their values align, and how they come alive and can achieve things they never imagined possible.” We are thrilled to have her on the show today to talk about her upcoming book, Fired Up.
Our conversation with Shannon about the intersection of motherhood, feminism, and activism is one that will keep us fueled for a long time. We hope you enjoy it.
Go here for the complete Show Notes.
Resources
- Pre-order a copy of Fired Up and sign up for Shannon’s free Firestarter University course
- Check out Shannon’s book and other books we’ve recommended on the podcast in the Brave Writer Bookshop.
- Get involved at MomsDemandAction.org.
- Sign up for Shannon’s Substack
- Follow Shannon’s on Instagram: @shannonrwatts
- Check out Julie’s new author website: juliebogartwriter.com!
- Subscribe to Julie’s Substack newsletters: Brave Learning with Julie Bogart and Julie Off Topic
- Try out our Brave Writer Practice Pages
- Learn more about the Brave Writer Literature & Mechanics programs
- Read all Brave Writer class descriptions
- Start a free trial of CTCmath.com to try the math program that’s sure to grab and keep your child’s attention
- Sign up for our Text Message Pod Ring to get podcast updates and more!
- Send us podcast topic ideas by texting us: +1 (833) 947-3684
Connect with Julie
- Instagram: @juliebravewriter
- Threads: @juliebravewriter
- Bluesky: @bravewriter.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/bravewriter
Connect with Melissa
- Website: melissawiley.com
- Substack: melissawiley.substack.com
- Instagram: @melissawileybooks
- Bluesky: @melissawiley.bsky.social
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Roll with It
Sometimes our expectations are unreasonable.
We imagine that there’s an actual set of practices and plans we can execute and our kids will never:
- fight,
- cry,
- resist
- or be bored.
At that point, we might felt insulted—“Can’t you see how much energy I am putting into homeschool for you?!”
I’m here to tell you…
That’s utterly NORMAL. Don’t judge your homeschool by each day’s experience. Kids are sometimes as moody and tired of the routine as you are. It’s not you. It’s not even them. It’s just life.
Roll with it. New energy will return. It’s okay to be disappointed. Shake it off.
Rooting for you!
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Brave Learning: Your Child’s Voice, Secret Trick of Homeschooling, and more!
Recently on Brave Learning…
Value your child’s voice [Public]
Children turn off their “real voice” around you if they develop the habit of shutting down their genuine ideas, thoughts, preferences, wishes, and dreams. [More]
The Secret Trick of Homeschooling
We begin for our kids, we keep going for ourselves. (This is the second in my series of journal entries from back when I was homeschooling.) [More]
Friday Freewrite: Stuck in the Mud [Public]
Tell the story of how a lone boot became stuck in the mud. [More]
Subscribe to Brave Learning on Substack where we chat, discuss, problem-solve, and create together. Here’s what you can expect: weekly themed content, freewriting prompts, and a podcast for kiddos called Monday Morning Meeting (first 5 are free)!
