Announcement for 2019-2020

Hello Home School Families, Now that spring is here, I wanted to make you aware of the various testing opportunities, both in-person and remote, available to you this year.  First, the in-person group achievement test dates and locations are shown below. We’re pleased to offer quite a few new locations this year.  To sign up,…

Years ago an investigative reporter presented a story in which some public school teachers had been caught “adjusting” the answers on some of their students’ achievement tests.  In this particular school, bonuses were linked to high classroom scores on end-of-the-year achievement tests.   The temptation to tweak the weaker students’ answer sheets to increase the overall class average…

I’m sure you’ve heard the following before. Maybe even said one of them to someone, even to yourself. I have. Just stay positive Everything happens for a reason Things will work out Look on the bright side If I was in a car accident and walked away with minor injuries, one of the above statements…

When you think of the word, “authority,” what comes to mind? Whether you click on this word in a Word document to see the synonyms or look up the definition on-line, at the top of the list is “power.” At the bottom of the list is “influence.”  When you think about “power,” the idea of…

Do some easy things first!   When I was home schooling, I found that doing some short, easy things first at the beginning of the day provided a warm-up of sorts. If the subject was math, we had a “question or story problem of the day.” We often followed this with “mental math” drills.  If we began with English, we…

Does looking at a crucifix make you uncomfortable?  It does me. Most of us would say we prefer to look at an empty cross. One person I spoke to at a church I was visiting  pointed to the empty cross behind the pulpit. She enthusiastically exclaimed, “No crucifixes at this church, just empty crosses.  We…