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jody cooper
Apr 12, 20213 min read
An Unschooling Curriculum?
When Sara’s phone rang, she was surprised to find it was Ryan. He was at the local community college taking his first math test that...
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jody cooper
Mar 29, 20213 min read
Kimberly: I Love Creating my Own Curriculum
Selecting or building a curriculum is not everyone's favorite chore. Kimberly, however, has a tremendous love of curricular content. She...
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jody cooper
Mar 19, 20213 min read
Amy’s Curriculum – Living on a Goat Farm
Amy’s family lives on a goat farm. She has a pragmatic approach to schooling and is very adept at taking from school and from...
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jody cooper
Jan 13, 20211 min read
I Wish I Had Written the Following
Ravenous Butterflies “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:...
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jody cooper
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How?
This article, Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How?, by Peter Gray, PhD, was published in Psychology Today and referenced on...
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jody cooper
Aug 26, 20202 min read
Parents having sleepless nights trying to figure out how to do schooling come September?
This is the way I see it. The biggest problems we face, other than COVID 19, is that schools had become food sources for poor families...
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jody cooper
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Everyone Can Do It, You Find a Way
For moms worried about whether they can homeschool, I’d love them to hear Molly’s story, in Molly's words. "We just had a book sale and a...
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jody cooper
Aug 19, 20204 min read
What can a Successful Curriculum Look Like?
As I finish up my first round of analyzing the data from five years of research I am profoundly struck by how different each...
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jody cooper
Aug 17, 20203 min read
How Mollie uses a Bought Curriculum
Mollie began homeschooling her oldest child using online Cyber school and then a Calvert Curriculum that was quite comprehensive. But...
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jody cooper
Aug 15, 20203 min read
Megan's Curriculum
Traditional school learning is very driven by curriculum. I taught 4th grade for eleven years and curriculum played a critical role in...
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jody cooper
Aug 12, 20203 min read
Child-led versus Parent-led Learning
Elsa and Renee are two parents who use no curriculum at all and both of them have always homeschooled their girls. Their backgrounds and...
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jody cooper
Aug 9, 20203 min read
Creative Curriculum
Once, when homeschooling, I decided that for a whole week we were only going to study pirates! And that’s what we did. It was amazing. We...
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jody cooper
Aug 3, 20206 min read
Janna's Curriculum
Curriculum plays a varied and interesting role in Janna’s homeschooling story. When Janna began homeschooling her girls, she immediately...
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