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What if you could help your kids learn science from your current read aloud? Or from picture books, or novels, or nonfiction—any children’s book. Yes, it’s possible!

The April Master Class in Brave Learner Home will teach you how (replay will be available)!

Our webinar speakers, Valerie Bang-Jensen, Ph.D. and Mark Lubkowitz, Ph.D. co-authored a book, Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children’s Literature, which helps us parents “see” the science in children’s literature. With this insight, along with time and practice, we can begin to think like a scientist—and our kids can, too!

Valerie and Mark will show us how to explore seven foundational science concepts with children’s literature. 

Both professors at Saint Michael’s College, our speakers bring with them over twenty years of experience in exploring the natural partnership between science and children’s literature. Their webinar will teach us how to help our learners think, talk, and read like scientists. 

Join us and watch the Master Class webinar: Sharing Books, Talking Science.

Just imagine: sharing your favorite books and covering science at the same time!

As brave learners, we know this is another opportunity to help our children learn everything through anything!

Are your kids just jumping through hoops and checking off requirements, or is their learning deep and meaningful? 

What if you helped them:

• become fascinated rather than convinced?
• learn to interpret original text without preconceptions?
• do research with curiosity about varying perspectives?
• imagine and understand other views, even if they don’t agree?

That’s how critical thinking develops! 

Explore how you can encourage the development of your child’s rhetorical imagination—one of the key factors in critical thinking—as Julie explains in her new book, Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age!

Julie’s new book offers practical tools and activities, so you can help your children grow in their ability to explore the world around them, examine how loyalties and biases affect their beliefs, and generate fresh insight.

Brave Learner Home is your reliable online community and coaching space to provide you the support you crave for a thriving homeschool.

Our members are ecstatic! We’ve got a huge library of resources for you to turn to any time you have questions whether about math or parenting or reading or extracurriculars!

Can’t wait to see you inside!

And I can’t WAIT to talk about my new book with you!

Join Brave Learner Home

Curriculum too predictable?
Kids want something different?
In search of hands-on learning for an active, artistic, or engineering kid?
Need something tangible to show progress?

Here’s the secret sauce: Project Time! 

Project Time helps parents find productive space between their own agenda for homeschooling and following a child’s interests. 

Dedicated project time (and space!) creates opportunities for our children to build their self-awareness as kids explore:

• What excites or interests me? 
• What does meaningful work feel like to me? 
• What are my standards for what I am creating or doing?
• How do I manage all the parts of this project? 

Leslie Martino, homeschool coach and mother of four, joins us to share specific tips gleaned from her experience helping her kids and other families learn with projects.