Category: Education
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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Review: Getting gifted homeschoolers (almost) right
As a teacher of gifted learners, I am always interested in how they are portrayed in kids’ books. Generations of smart kids had to see themselves portrayed as clueless, clumsy, antisocial idiot savants. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl avoids almost all the tired all tropes.
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Trust the Transfer
“This was not my idea. I don’t want to be here.” In my goal-setting course and in my book Homeschool with Confidence, I walk teens through the process of setting and achieving goals. And each semester, I ask the students to tell me whose idea it was for them to be there. Since 2016, only…
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Looking for a good online class? Here are some tips.
What makes a high-quality online course? I discuss a variety of features that parents should look for when they are shopping for a course.
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CA legislators want to restrict Independent Study. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
UPDATE: The changes to the law were enacted. Our local homeschool programs have responded in a variety of ways, from struggling to comply by canceling or postponing services, to hoping that what they’re doing will be seen as compliance. And it turns out that it’s not only homeschoolers are who inconvenienced. (Who woulda thought?) Neighborhood…