Category: Education
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Goal-setting full circle
Writing this book on goal-setting is sending me full circle back to what I think is most important about goal-setting: being self-reflective, focusing our attention on what matters, and realizing that “success” is all about feeling like we’ve done our best, and not at all about being declared “successful” by someone else.
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From the HEM archives: The Feminist Homeschooler
I was sad to see that after the demise of the long-running Home Education Magazine, the publisher chose to take down the entire site, and with it the archive of years of articles that they published. I wrote for HEM for only the last two years, but I loved being able to contribute to an important voice in…
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Are we doing better? A mom, a daughter, and a small press.
I went to a reading the other night at Bookshop Santa Cruz. It was the most fabulously successful reading I’ve seen there, literally standing room only. But it wasn’t Jonathan Franzen or Suzanne Collins that pulled them in. It was a mom, a daughter, and a little independent press.
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8 Essential Homeschooling Ingredients
Here in no particular order are the ingredients that made our homeschooling recipe sweet, spicy, comforting, complex, and zesty!
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Approaching formal writing
Not every student is going to be an inspired, enthusiastic writer. But every student who can learn to communicate effectively can learn to do it in textual form. Our biggest job as homeschooling parents is not to make them hate it before they even start to learn.