Did you know that the home school community has an advocate inside the legal system? If your district is pressuring you for information beyond what the law demands, or if your right to home educated your children is being threatened, the Home School Legal Defense Association is on your side.
Find out more about HSLDA at hsdla.org. Here is a brief overview taken from their "About Us" page.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
HSLDA advocates on the legal front on behalf of our members in matters which include conflicts with state or local officials over homeschooling. Each year, thousands of member families receive legal consultation by letter and phone, hundreds more are represented through negotiations with local officials, and dozens are represented in court proceedings. HSLDA also takes the offensive, filing actions to protect members against government intrusion and to establish legal precedent. On occasion, HSLDA will handle precedent-setting cases for nonmembers, as well.
HSLDA advocates on Capitol Hill by tracking federal legislation that affects homeschooling and parental rights. HSLDA works to defeat or amend harmful bills, but also works proactively, introducing legislation to protect and preserve family freedoms.
HSLDA advocates in state legislatures, at the invitation of state homeschool organizations, by assisting individual states in drafting language to improve their homeschool legal environment and to fight harmful legislation.
HSLDA advocates in the media by presenting articulate and knowledgeable spokesmen to the press on the subject of homeschooling. HSLDA staff members are regularly called upon for radio, television, and print interviews, and their writings are frequently published in newspapers and magazines across the country. HSLDA’s own bimonthly magazine, The Home School Court Report, provides news and commentary on a host of current issues affecting homeschoolers. And its two-minute daily radio broadcast, Home School Heartbeat, can be heard on nearly 500 radio stations.
HSLDA advocates for the movement by commissioning and presenting quality research on the progress of homeschooling. Whether it’s in print, from the podium, or on the air, HSLDA provides insightful vision and leadership for the cause of homeschooling.
Home School Legal Defense Association . . . tens of thousands of American families working through more than 50 dedicated staff members to preserve each other’s right to homeschool . . . together, “Advocates for Family & Freedom.”
Monday, October 19, 2009
Education Bug
Articles, tips, and advice for those interested in homeschool ideas, curriculum, resources and more! Includes subcategories for homeschooling laws, products, and methods for homeschool parents. We also have tips on starting a homeschool support group in your area to network with other parents and give your kids an opportunity to socialize with other students.
Check out this great new site at http://www.educationbug.org/c/homeschool.html
Check out this great new site at http://www.educationbug.org/c/homeschool.html
Cultural Fair Fun
How do you bring an international flavor into your home education program? Why not host a cultural fair within your homeschool network? It's a perfect event for homeschool co-ops, support groups, or even neighboring homeschool families. Each family represents a country, spending time in advance doing research and preparing a display board and/or booth that depicts that nation. On the day of the cultural fair, each family sets up their display for the group to view. It's a great way to share information. Children and parents alike learn about a variety of cultures in a fun family atmosphere.
Want to add an extra flair? Hand out miniature passports for the children to carry to each booth where they can recieve a sticker of that country's flag. You can also set up a buffet table and ask families to bring dishes of food that represent their country of study. A world map hung up in the display area can mark all of the countries on display at the cultural fair.
Get as elaborate as you like, and have fun with this event. It will be a high point in your school calendar planning for years to come!
Want to add an extra flair? Hand out miniature passports for the children to carry to each booth where they can recieve a sticker of that country's flag. You can also set up a buffet table and ask families to bring dishes of food that represent their country of study. A world map hung up in the display area can mark all of the countries on display at the cultural fair.
Get as elaborate as you like, and have fun with this event. It will be a high point in your school calendar planning for years to come!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Introducing Live, Affordable, Classes
Dear CurrClick Customers,
We are so excited to announce the launch of CurrClick Live, our offering of online, live classes with a real teacher. In fact, we're so excited, that we're letting you know early, before all of our classes are available, just to give you a heads up. In the very near future, we will be offering dozens of classes in the areas of science, Spanish, history, art, photography, drama, speech and much more. Not only that, but our publishers will be offering free seminars in the evenings and early mornings. Isn't technology amazing?
Unlike online schools and curriculum packages, CurrClick Live gives you the freedom to pick a class or two, avoiding any big tuition payments or lengthy committments. So, if math or music is something you struggle with as a homeschool parent, you can affordably supplement with our CurrClick Live offerings.
Classes will be taught by way of our easy-to-use virtual classrooms and are compatible with Mac and PC operating systems. Students will be able to gather together in a classroom like setting, answer questions, and interact with their teacher. In addition, CurrClick Live will be offering one-on-one tutoring, seminars, independent studies, plus small and large classes.
All of our teachers have been carefully selected and have submitted to a background check. In addition, our online classrooms are secure and safe, so you can feel good about the online environment in which you are placing your children.
As classes are added and new teachers brought in, we'll be keeping you updated, but we encourage you to check the site often to see what new classes are being offered. You can search from our homepage under "Subjects" and the "CurrClick Live Classes" or just look at our homepage, where we'll be featuring new classes as soon as we get them.
CurrClick is committed to making homeschooing affordable and accessible to families everywhere. Online schools can be costly, with huge upfront payments. We feel strongly that offering students the ability to pick and choose from individual classes is another extension of our commitment to affordability and accessibility.
We hope you do to!
Best Wishes,
Staley and Leah
http://www.currclick.com/
We are so excited to announce the launch of CurrClick Live, our offering of online, live classes with a real teacher. In fact, we're so excited, that we're letting you know early, before all of our classes are available, just to give you a heads up. In the very near future, we will be offering dozens of classes in the areas of science, Spanish, history, art, photography, drama, speech and much more. Not only that, but our publishers will be offering free seminars in the evenings and early mornings. Isn't technology amazing?
Unlike online schools and curriculum packages, CurrClick Live gives you the freedom to pick a class or two, avoiding any big tuition payments or lengthy committments. So, if math or music is something you struggle with as a homeschool parent, you can affordably supplement with our CurrClick Live offerings.
Classes will be taught by way of our easy-to-use virtual classrooms and are compatible with Mac and PC operating systems. Students will be able to gather together in a classroom like setting, answer questions, and interact with their teacher. In addition, CurrClick Live will be offering one-on-one tutoring, seminars, independent studies, plus small and large classes.
All of our teachers have been carefully selected and have submitted to a background check. In addition, our online classrooms are secure and safe, so you can feel good about the online environment in which you are placing your children.
As classes are added and new teachers brought in, we'll be keeping you updated, but we encourage you to check the site often to see what new classes are being offered. You can search from our homepage under "Subjects" and the "CurrClick Live Classes" or just look at our homepage, where we'll be featuring new classes as soon as we get them.
CurrClick is committed to making homeschooing affordable and accessible to families everywhere. Online schools can be costly, with huge upfront payments. We feel strongly that offering students the ability to pick and choose from individual classes is another extension of our commitment to affordability and accessibility.
We hope you do to!
Best Wishes,
Staley and Leah
http://www.currclick.com/
Lemons For Literacy
As the old saying goes, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"
Over 40 million Americans struggle with literacy problems. People who struggle with reading can be seen as having been given lemons in life. With the support of effective reading instruction, these people can turn their lemons into lemonade.
We want to celebrate and support the resiliency of people who overcome their struggles with reading. Thousands of inspiring people have turned their struggles with reading into strengths.
Lemons for Literacy has two goals:
To Help cure illiteracy by providing free literacy materials to people in need.
To provide free education for everyone.
Lemons for Literacy is a vocabulary building game that visitors to the Reading Horizons Web site will be able to play. Players must identify a series of vocabulary words. The words begin at a low grade level and get progressively more difficult as the game is played. For each correct answer, a hand will squeeze lemon juice into a glass. Five lemons squeezed make one glass of lemonade, and five glasses amount to a pitcher full of lemonade. For every pitcher of lemonade that is filled, Reading Horizons will donate money to purchase literacy materials for a needy site.
For more information, go to http://www.readinghorizonsathome.com/lemonsforliteracy/
Over 40 million Americans struggle with literacy problems. People who struggle with reading can be seen as having been given lemons in life. With the support of effective reading instruction, these people can turn their lemons into lemonade.
We want to celebrate and support the resiliency of people who overcome their struggles with reading. Thousands of inspiring people have turned their struggles with reading into strengths.
Lemons for Literacy has two goals:
To Help cure illiteracy by providing free literacy materials to people in need.
To provide free education for everyone.
Lemons for Literacy is a vocabulary building game that visitors to the Reading Horizons Web site will be able to play. Players must identify a series of vocabulary words. The words begin at a low grade level and get progressively more difficult as the game is played. For each correct answer, a hand will squeeze lemon juice into a glass. Five lemons squeezed make one glass of lemonade, and five glasses amount to a pitcher full of lemonade. For every pitcher of lemonade that is filled, Reading Horizons will donate money to purchase literacy materials for a needy site.
For more information, go to http://www.readinghorizonsathome.com/lemonsforliteracy/
G. A. Henty Books
My name is Zachary Miller, and I was homeschooled almost all my life. One of my favorite things to do in my free time was to read all the books by G. A. Henty. The only thing is, I never actually read ALL the books, because my family could not afford to buy them all.
Henty books are one of the most popular book series with homeschoolers, and are one of the best ways to learn history, but should families really have to pay over $1200 just to read them all? Well, I don’t think so, and that’s why I started the company G. A. Henty Online. What we do is provide a way for families to be able to enjoy some of the greatest historical fiction novels of all time, without breaking the bank. In fact, we are the only company in the world that can provide you with some of the rarest stories Henty ever wrote.
You can find out more about what we offer at: www.gahentyonline.com, but that’s not really why I’m writing you. What I wanted to do was tell you about our affiliate program, which is a way for you to offer this site to the members of your homeschool group, while raising some funds for your group at the same time.
You can find out more at: www.gahentyonline.com/affiliate. Basically, the way it works is that when you sign up as an affiliate, you get a special link that you can send the members of your group, which takes them to our site. If they choose to become a member, you or your group will make 50% of that sale, which works out to about $23.50.
This is a great way to raise some funds for your group, while at the same time, offering the members of your group a way to enjoy the Henty books at an amazing price.
Please, check out our site, and read the details about our affiliate program. If you have any questions, send me an email or give me a call at 815-568-6799.
Henty books are one of the most popular book series with homeschoolers, and are one of the best ways to learn history, but should families really have to pay over $1200 just to read them all? Well, I don’t think so, and that’s why I started the company G. A. Henty Online. What we do is provide a way for families to be able to enjoy some of the greatest historical fiction novels of all time, without breaking the bank. In fact, we are the only company in the world that can provide you with some of the rarest stories Henty ever wrote.
You can find out more about what we offer at: www.gahentyonline.com, but that’s not really why I’m writing you. What I wanted to do was tell you about our affiliate program, which is a way for you to offer this site to the members of your homeschool group, while raising some funds for your group at the same time.
You can find out more at: www.gahentyonline.com/affiliate. Basically, the way it works is that when you sign up as an affiliate, you get a special link that you can send the members of your group, which takes them to our site. If they choose to become a member, you or your group will make 50% of that sale, which works out to about $23.50.
This is a great way to raise some funds for your group, while at the same time, offering the members of your group a way to enjoy the Henty books at an amazing price.
Please, check out our site, and read the details about our affiliate program. If you have any questions, send me an email or give me a call at 815-568-6799.
Help Secure our Right to Homeschool
Parental rights are under attack. If you’ve been reading our emails for very long, you’ve seen it too: parents face an ongoing challenge to their ability to direct the upbringing of their children.
HSLDA has done much to secure educational freedoms for homeschoolers. But our work is not done. Therefore, we are asking you to recommend HSLDA to your homeschooling friends.
Right now we are making it easy for them to experience the benefits of HSLDA membership—for free! If they join between now and April 30, approved applicants will be granted a free membership good through July 31, 2009.
They do not need to send payment and there’s no commitment. But this is an opportunity for them to see how committed we area to securing their right to homeschool and to do so successfully.
This offer for a free membership is short. The opportunity to sign up extends only through April 30! So please don’t delay in forwarding this offer to them. Of course, we will give them an opportunity to renew for continued benefits after this trial membership period is over.
We remain willing and able to protect the legal right to homeschool. We also know that homeschooling can be challenging. That’s why we’re able to help with both legal and practical homeschooling needs.
Home School Legal Defense Association • P.O. Box 3000 • Purcellville, Virginia 20134-9000
Phone: (540) 338-5600 • Fax: (540) 338-2733 • Email: info@hslda.org
Web: http://www.hslda.org
HSLDA has done much to secure educational freedoms for homeschoolers. But our work is not done. Therefore, we are asking you to recommend HSLDA to your homeschooling friends.
Right now we are making it easy for them to experience the benefits of HSLDA membership—for free! If they join between now and April 30, approved applicants will be granted a free membership good through July 31, 2009.
They do not need to send payment and there’s no commitment. But this is an opportunity for them to see how committed we area to securing their right to homeschool and to do so successfully.
This offer for a free membership is short. The opportunity to sign up extends only through April 30! So please don’t delay in forwarding this offer to them. Of course, we will give them an opportunity to renew for continued benefits after this trial membership period is over.
We remain willing and able to protect the legal right to homeschool. We also know that homeschooling can be challenging. That’s why we’re able to help with both legal and practical homeschooling needs.
Home School Legal Defense Association • P.O. Box 3000 • Purcellville, Virginia 20134-9000
Phone: (540) 338-5600 • Fax: (540) 338-2733 • Email: info@hslda.org
Web: http://www.hslda.org
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