Put on Your Administrator Hat
Your hosts Holly Williams Urbach and Melody Gillum discuss the joys and challenges of homeschooling your highschooler. In this episode, we discuss how to be a school administrator as well as a teacher.
7 tips to avoid isolation as a homeschool family
Ever heard the accusation that your kids aren’t “socialized”? If you’ve homeschooled for very long, probably so. Of course, we know that most homeschool students grow into happy, well-adjusted adults. But even by virtue of its name—homeschooling—our families do tend to spend a lot of time in the home. Most homeschooling families create [...]
Illuminate Education is shutting down its student info system next year—what that means for your private school
Here’s a question for all the private school administrators in our audience: What type of student information system (SIS) does your school use? If the answer is Illuminate Education, you’ll definitely want to read this blog post. Illuminate Education recently announced that it will be phasing out its SIS by the start of the [...]
Kicking off the New Year: 5 tips to prep for the spring semester
Happy New Year 2020! Once January 1 arrives, the relaxation of the holiday season ends and the pressure is on for families with college-bound juniors and seniors. What steps should you and your child take to prepare for the college application season? That’s the topic of our blog post. Read on for five tips [...]
Your 6 favorite blog posts from 2019
To help celebrate this holiday season, we’d like to share six of our most popular blog posts from 2019. We hope you find something useful or inspiring here! The 7 biggest challenges of homeschooling through high school 7 fast facts: Should homeschool students bother applying to an Ivy League school? It doesn’t matter where [...]
6 ways to handle personality clashes with your homeschool student
Homeschooling—we all have a picture in our minds of students eager to learn gathered happily around mom or dad. Many days are that way, but let’s be honest: some days are marked by clashes and conflicts. First of all, try not to take it personally. High school students are in a challenging part of [...]