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Episode 85: 5 Steps to Create Fun Electives for High School from Your Teen’s Interests

Overview: You CAN create fun electives for high school for your homeschooled teen. Listen (or read) to learn how! Guest podcaster Sara Jordan shares how she creates fun electives for high school for her delight-directed teens. It’s really “not that hard!” 5 simple steps will give you the flexibility you want and the credits your …

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How to Create the Perfect High School Homeschool Schedule

Overview: Guest contributor Sara Dennis from Classically Homeschooling walks us through creating the perfect high school homeschool schedule, so you and your teen can work together smoothly and get ‘er done! I love homeschooling teenagers. They work independently, have fascinating discussions, and are involved in many activities. It’s exciting watching my kids turn into young adults. However, …

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How Your Teen Can Catch up in Homeschool FAST

Overview: Almost every teen needs help to catch up in homeschool fast at one time or another. Here’s how to make it happen! I will bet you 20 cents that your high school student is behind their homeschool schedule right now. I don’t mean behind grade level, like what may happen if your child has …

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3 Super Easy Steps to Teach Teens to Learn Independently

Overview: Guest contributor Sara Dennis of Classically Homeschooling shares some great tips to help anyone teach teens to learn independently. I advocate independent learning in high school, to prepare our kids for college where that is what they will need to do to succeed! I think everyone has heard the rumor that homeschooled teenagers can …

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4 Keys to Unschooling High School Successfully

Note: Guest writer Julie Polanco of JulieNaturally.com is a veteran homeschool mom, and in this article she shares from her experience unschooling high school — which I have never done, so I’m thrilled to have her contribution here! As homeschooling increases in popularity, more and more people are considering unschooling as an option, even unschooling …

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7 Vital Tips for Homeschooling High School

Note: This article from guest contributer Sara Dennis of Classically Homeschooling is chock full of super-helpful tips for homeschooling high school. Some of these I didn’t know — and wish I had! Seriously, you might come away with a whole new way of doing things! Are you in middle school with high school looming over …

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Learning Activities for High School: 9 Ideas Your Teen Will Love

Are you frustrated trying to add fun learning activities for high school students? Elementary kids have so many fun activities you can do from going to the store for math, a nature hike for science, or reading a historical fiction book for history. High school uses a lot of dull textbooks, but with a bit …

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Homeschool Dual Enrollment – A Quick Start Guide

NOTE: Today we have a guest post from Destiny Mawson who writes at Some Call It Destiny with information helpful for homeschooling all levels from preschool through high school. I love that she can fill in on a topic I know very little about — how to do homeschool dual enrollment. This article will answer …

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How to Create Your Own Homeschool High School Curriculum

NOTE: Today we have a guest writer — because I have no clue how to create your own homeschool high school curriculum, LOL. But Amy Sloan from Humility and Doxology does — she is a second generation homeschooler with experience doing homeschool this way both as a student and as a parent. I’m so excited …

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It’s Not That Hard to Homeschool High School

Overview: It’s honestly not that hard to homeschool high school. Find the encouragement and resources you need to feel confident that YOU can do this! NOTE: This post was originally published in 2015. Back then this blog had a different name, but over time, the title of this post seemed the perfect fit for my …

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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting to Homeschool High School

Overview: Starting to homeschool high school can seem scary, but with advice like this from a veteran homeschool mom, you’ll do great! (NOTE: This article is the first of hopefully many from a new monthly contributor! Sara Dennis is a veteran homeschool mom, and she has lots of great wisdom about homeschooling teens. I know …

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Clearing Confusion about Homeschool High School Credits

Overview: All about homeschool high school credits — how to calculate them, what counts and what doesn’t, and more. Ease your mind! I love alliteration; can you tell? LOL But seriously, I do think using alliteration makes a topic seem less intimidating, more friendly. Hopefully it worked that way for you with this title, but if …

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Episode 66: Ann’s Timeline for Homeschooling High School

Overview: Hear Ann explain all the details of her timeline for homeschooling high school which guides you through the high school years. It helps to have a plan, doesn’t it? To know ALL the things you need to do, so you don’t miss anything. My timeline for homeschooling high school alerts you to everything that …

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Does the thought of preparing for college with your homeschooled teen intimidate you? I've compiled lotsa links from all over the web to reassure you today!

The Ultimate Guide to Preparing for College for Homeschoolers

Overview: Get the plan for preparing for college so you don’t miss anything and can be confident your homeschooled teen will succeed there. Preparing for college is a big task — but guess what? It doesn’t have to happen all at once. If you have decided that college is a good fit for your homeschooled …

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Homeschool Transcript Essentials: what you need and DON’T need!

Overview: Find out how to make an impressive homeschool high school transcript with a few pieces of vital information. Answers all your questions! You wake up out of a sound sleep—heart pounding, adrenaline rushing, hot flash, well, flashing. Your anxiety-laden subconscious has been stewing about that dreaded homeschool transcript again. Once started, you churn ’til …

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How to Make Homeschooling High School FUN! – with Wendy Hilton

Overview: Use these simple ideas to make homeschool fun during the high school years. Your teen will be more motivated to learn! Includes a video. Note: Video sponsored by Teaching Toys, but all opinions are my own. My own kids often felt like high school was drudgery. Each day was a repetitive cycle of picking …

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A high school homeschool transcript IS not really that complicated. In this podcast episode we discuss everything you need to focus on.

Episode 50: What a Homeschool Transcript IS

Making a transcript for your teen IS not really that complicated. But just in case you’re worried, in this episode we discuss everything you need to focus on to make an impressive homeschool transcript. If you listen to this episode as well as the previous episode, #49, you’ll have a full picture of what a …

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Episode 48: Time Management Tips for Homeschool Moms

It’s January, when we all look at our lives and try to improve them. To become better people. Or at least to figure out how to keep from running out of toothpaste. I’m in that mode myself. I needed to rethink some things and develop some better habits about my own time management, so I …

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Episode 40: How to Start Homeschooling High School Part 4 – Curriculum Options

When you’re a newbie and you start looking at curriculum and there is SO. MUCH. OUT THERE. And you wonder how you will ever get started homeschooling high school with all of that to wade through first. Well, I have some advice to make it easier, and when you listen to this episode and then …

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Episode 39: How to Start Homeschooling High School Part 3 – Credits, Core Courses, & Electives

After you’ve researched your state homeschool law and college requirements, then it’s time to get to the nitty gritty of which courses to put into the plan and which order to schedule them in. In this episode I give you the nuts and bolts about core courses and how they are ordered, the key thing …

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