Tag: Guest Post
How Educators Make Homeschooling Work
According to several homeschool studies, a growing number of educators are homeschooling. In a Hanover Research study, commissioned by Time4Learning, 36 percent of the 976 survey respondents said they were employed in K-12 education. Why is that? Teachers are increasingly challenged by shifting state requirements, staff shortages, and increased demands for virtual instruction, all while […]
Homeschooling Made Me Question How We Educate Children. You Should, Too.
Kids ages 5 and over are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and many parents are faced with the difficult decision of whether to send their kids back to in-person classes, continue homeschooling, or try a hybrid approach. And school districts are doing whatever they can to influence this decision. Reports of decreased enrollment in […]
Homeschool Predictions: 2022 and Beyond
By John Edelson, Founder and President of Time4Learning It has been remarkable to witness the growth of homeschooling during the past two years. This growth can be largely attributed to the global pandemic, as millions of families were faced with the challenges of remote learning in Zoom-type classroom settings. As children struggled, many families migrated […]
We’re Glad We Switched to Homeschooling Before the Pandemic
“Well, you picked a good time to homeschool!” I cannot count the number of times I heard that comment from friends and family over the past year and a half. In September of 2019, just prior to the pandemic, I decided to homeschool my daughter, who had been in traditional school from preschool through the […]
Reflections on Our First Graduation Celebration
By John Edelson, Founder and President of Time4Learning After almost two decades of providing online education to homeschoolers, Time4Learning recently stepped into a new space, and hosted our first online graduation celebration for high school seniors. Historically, we have not held such an event since we are a curriculum provider and not a school. Year-after-year, […]
Homeschool for a Second Year or Go Back to School?
I started homeschooling back when the word and idea were not widely known. Now that 10 percent of the U.S. population is homeschooling, I’m asked more and more by friends whether they should homeschool a second year or return to traditional schooling. A survey from the U.S. Census bureau tells a fascinating story about the […]
Homeschooling Over the Rainbow, A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Part Two of a Two-Part Series
As we celebrate Autism Awareness Month, we are pleased to share part two of this special series by Christina Stiles, a homeschooling mom and Time4Learning staff member. If you haven’t yet, read part one here. So began the first heartbreaking year for my daughter, Bella, when she was pushed into a classroom at a charter […]
Homeschooling Over the Rainbow, a Mother and Daughter’s Journey Part One of a Two-Part Series
As we celebrate Autism Awareness Month, we are pleased to share this special blog post by Christina Stiles, a homeschooling mom and Time4Learning staff member. I can remember it as clear as day: the moment a dear family friend, Marta, (who also happened to be a Speech Pathologist, and like a mother figure to me) […]
Flexibility is Homeschooling’s Greatest Benefit for This Family
This blog post was planned about a month ago, but as with everything, life happens. This brings me to the biggest benefit for homeschooling for our family — the flexibility of life. When asked why I homeschool, my answer is typically longer than necessary, but it comes down to finding balance. I’m Julie, mom of […]
Ways to Deal With a Bad Homeschooling Day
You wake up refreshed from the weekend following a great homeschooling week. You are excited about what you have planned for the new homeschooling day with your child. Then the day starts, and you quickly realize that this will not be your favorite homeschooling day. It will probably not be your child’s favorite homeschooling day […]
Homeschooling? Check Out These Best Practices, Tips & Tricks
Tips for Successful Homeschooling from a Second-Year Homeschooler New to homeschooling? Welcome to a new world with its own vocabulary! Whether you are just beginning or are a veteran, you will always feel that there are ways to do homeschooling more successfully. As a perfectionist, I needed to accept that first. I began homeschooling my […]
Help Improve Your Child’s Critical Thinking Skills
Lately I’ve been thinking about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our children. If we want our kids to thrive in the world, then we must ensure that comprehension and critical thinking is part of their education. But how do you even teach critical thinking skills to children? And when is a good […]
Quash Homeschool Burnout with Gameschooling
I’ve read about homeschool burnout. Most families describe a sort of smoldering unrest and dissatisfaction with the homeschool status quo. Our homeschool burnout, unfortunately, doesn’t resemble that at all. In the past few months we’ve experienced more of a full-on combustible inferno! Once I felt the temptation to throw my children into the nearest yellow […]
Homeschooling When You’re a Single Parent
Homeschooling is a choice, and one I am passionate about. I guess I didn’t realize how passionate, though, until my husband and I separated a few years ago and I had to decide whether to put my girls back in school or begin a whole new chapter: single mom homeschooling. Surprisingly–most of all to me–I […]
How I’m Getting My Homeschool Back on Track
About five minutes after I opened that box of books, workbooks, teacher’s guide, and “supplemental learning tools” last summer, I knew. Yes, they were shiny and new. Yes, they looked exactly like what I expected for our first year of homeschool curriculum. And yes, they ticked off all the boxes for what I thought I […]
