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Starter Kit for Teaching at Home

Starter Kit for Teaching at Home

Whether you’re brand new to homeschool, new to Brave Writer, or simply back at it again, I know you want to be the best home educator you can be for your kids.

You may spend hours researching which curriculum to buy, but how much time do you dedicate to becoming the kind of home educator your children deserve?

I did a series of four podcasts designed to give you the teacher-training you need. I shared with you strategies for how to make your home a place where learning is contagious and consistent!

So grab your Airpods or your Beats or whatever headphones you use and tune in.

Consider this series your Home Education Teacher In-Service Training!

Once you have listened to all four podcasts, you will feel a sigh of relief knowing you have tools to help you be the best educator you can be for your children.


Starter Kit for Teaching at Home

1. Out of the Classroom: Brave Schooling

Learning is not an activity that is confined to just school, and I want to teach you how to make learning a natural part of your life and your children’s! 

2. Joy-Centered Learning for the Reluctant Learner

Learn how to step back from insistence and coercion to rediscover the joy of learning—whether that comes through interests or directed school subjects. This episode is deeply practical with steps you can take to make even academic subjects meaningful to the most resistant learner.

3. Creativity in Teaching

In this episode, I walk you through five stages of creativity in teaching and offer you oodles of ideas for how to bring that creativity into your homeschool.

4. Growing Minds

Finally, what’s the point of all this education if your children’ don’t become more curious about the world, more able to assess and explore it themselves? We have a sacred trust: growing our children’s minds. 

Learn how to cultivate the critical thinker in your child!


Still worried?

If you are still concerned about public school standards, I hear you!

Tune in for my fifth podcast in the starter kit.

BONUS Episode

5. When You Worry about Public School Standards

Are you worried that you may “ruin” your kids? They may love learning but they will have serious academic gaffes if you keep your kids home. Or perhaps you worry they won’t be socialized or will miss out on school traditions like sports, marching band, prom, and Spanish club.

Homeschoolers have proven for decades that they can enter the school system at any point in time and be successful. While we all know that in theory, it’s easy to wonder if your child is the exception.

So let’s put that fear to rest once and for all.


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