A. We provide on demand courses and workshops, along with great ideas and learning tools to make your job of homeschooling your children easier and you more effective.
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We help you by focusing on two things: 1) making you a more expert and confident instructor and 2) Showing you how to make your child an expert learner who will be college ready.
Recent advances in the cognitive brain sciences and neuroscience will help you find breakthroughs so your kids can learn faster and better. We will make your job of homeschooling easier, because once you know how to help your children become more effective learners, you can reduce unnecessary classroom review, which will save you time to spend on other activities.
We have and are developing a series of courses that bring expert learning and teaching strategies to you, so you can develop college-readiness in your kids and young adults. We help homeschooling parents understand and apply evidence-based learning methods at home.
Cultivating young expert learners will make homeschooling easier and save you time.
A. We provide innovative solutions through convenient online courses that include lots of learning and teaching tools. We help you get the most out of the curriculum you already have.
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We help homeschooling parents become expert and confident instructors and learning coaches that help your kids study smarter. That’s what we love to do. We make it easy to learn and grow your skills though engaging online courses that you take at your own pace.
Each course has video lessons that show you how to do it, along with the tools and techniques to effectively coach your kids. We have lots of ideas to improve the conversations you have with your kids about learning.
We break down the science of learning into easy-to-understand strategies and tools so you can learn how to get the most out of the curriculum you already have. You can help your children learn faster and better which leads them on the path to lifelong learning and college readiness.
A. Because the skills your kids have today, won’t necessarily serve them at college level academics. Or beyond that in life.
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It makes sense to give your child all the advantages of expert learning. There is a whole world of great evidence-based learning strategies they should have to make them college-ready. We’ll show you how to share these with your kids and how to encourage their use until they become comfortable habits.
A child who is truly “college ready” must know more than academics. College-ready means having the skills, tools, and confidence to learn hard things – and do so efficiently. Kids and young adults with high learning maturity know how to teach themselves.
Traditional learning methods can be slow and tedious, and many are not very effective. Help you child “up their learning game!”
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A. No – not when we do the work for you of gathering the best practices of expert teachers and distilling these down for you.
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We build on the fact that you already have a great relationship with your kids and know how they learn. Our expertise is capturing and curating the best ideas on learning and teaching and translating them into methods you can readily use at home.
We’ll stay away from too much jargon and academic theory. We show you how to apply great ideas through clear steps and video examples you can easily follow. Incorporate the best practices into your personal teaching style. In each lesson you will learn one powerful skill at a time, so you have time to practice it in your home lessons and learning experiences.
We’ll help you build your teaching expertise and make you a much more confidence instructor one step at a time. Learn the secrets of master teachers at home.
For examples of some of these ideas, take a look at our teaching tips in our parent resources section.
Check out some of our teaching resources in the parent resources section
A. This “new science of learning” comes from the fields of education, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, the behavioral sciences, and many other disciplines.
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These disciplines provide many highly effective strategies and approaches to learning that are not widely used or known.
We help you identify the most effective learning strategies and discard the ones that are inefficient, ineffective, or a waste time.
Evidence-based learning strategies are real, proven, and easy to learn. Many are new, but others are forgotten traditional practices that have recently been proven to be effective. Most people are unfamiliar with them, in part because learning has been long neglected as a discipline of its own, and we intend to help you change this.
There are many benefits of effective evidence-based learning strategies to both your children as students, and for you the instructor. The costs of retaining outdated and faulty learning methods and techniques are high but hidden.
Learn how better approaches can reinvent your approach to homeschooling, and help your children benefit from the power of expert learning.
A. One of the primary reasons most parents homeschool is to stay actively involved in their child’s education. We want to help you do this better.
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It’s hard for kids to change their study habits by themselves. In fact, it’s hard for most of us to get really better at something on our own.
We know that when one has a good supportive coach, it changes everything. It becomes so much easier to get better – we can show you how to be that great coach for your kids! Add the systematic approach that we provide for you and it’s a slam dunk. Smarter study comes through a combined effort, with your support and encouragement. We give you the knowledge, ideas, learning toolboxes and even conversation guides so you become that great learning coach. Everything is downloadable so you can create your own resource library of great ideas.
We’ll help turn you and your kids into inquisitive “self-scientists” that see learning improvement as a fun challenge.
With your knowledge and supportive coaching, you will emphasize your commitment to lifelong learning as a family value.
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A. The term is frequently used – and often misunderstood. It’s much more than being a good student – it means a high capability to learn through better methods and strategies.
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Lifelong learners are skilled and committed to learning. They know how to use many evidence-based strategies. They are at the top of the learning maturity continuum.
The sad reality is most children don’t become lifelong learners, even when they were once good students when younger. It’s a shocking fact, but 42% of college graduates never read another book after college.
Most children acquire an early love of reading, only to lose this by high school. Why? Because their desire to learn was not ingrained in their identity as a person. Lifelong learners are not born that way; they are created through training and discipline.
We’ll show you how to provide that knowledge and create confidence in their own powerful learning capabilities.
The early exposure to expert learning strategies, with the accompanying success at learning, opens the door to becoming a lifelong learner.
A. Begin with our free online study strategies assessment. Spend 10 minutes filling out the LSA – Learning Strategies Assessment and receive a custom report on your child’s learning strategies.
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Your child’s learning maturity can be difficult to assess without a good tool. Not knowing where you are now makes it hard to select the right path to getting better. Most parents tend to overestimate their child’s learning maturity, and thereby miss the opportunity to get much better.
Learning maturity is easy to change through the use of better methods and learning strategies. A child is not born with it – it grows with knowledge and practice.
Try our easy-to-use online resource which will help you determine your child’s learning maturity now. It provides guidance on where and how you can improve your child’s learning capabilities. We’ve developed this helpful report to open your mind to the large world of learning possibilities for your child.
In any endeavor, it’s important to start with a solid assessment of where you are now. The LSA is your starting point to learning improvement – and it only takes 10 minutes to get your custom report. And it’s free with no obligation.
Go to the green ‘Getting Started’ button on the main page and get it today. It’s a really great tool to help you get started.
A. They include habits and skills, but they are much more comprehensive.
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Yes, when you greatly improve learning skills you are moving toward expert learning. The skills involve the use of evidence-based learning strategies. And more effective habits come from the use of expert strategies and better methods.
To fully understand what expert learning strategies are, you need to look at the whole learning package. As you grow your child into becoming an expert learner, sometimes you will be tweaking things your kid already does, and other times you will be introducing entirely new ways of studying, including many that are counter-intuitive.
These include:
- More Positive Mindsets – like Growth and Grit mindset
- Better Metacognition
- Learning Strategies
- Better study methods and habits
- Routines for addressing common learning problems
- Deployment of learning tools
- Techniques for storing and retrieving information
- Knowledge of how your brain learns
This are the things that transform the child into the college-ready expert learner.
Expert learning strategies work because they consider how memory and retrieval work. Expert learners know how to adjust or adopt the best strategies for the learning goal or subject matter. Within expert learning strategies, there are also planning and focusing techniques that we will show you how to master.
A. Coaching promotes high levels of performance – in students, athletes, musicians, managers, and for everyone who aspires to excellence.
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There are many types of coaching. We may first think about it in terms of the stereotypical college football coach with the baseball cap. Or the Little League coach with the frayed sweatshirt yelling “there’s no crying in baseball!” That’s not the type of coaching we’re talking about!
Good coaching resides everywhere – from the arts to business executives to personal improvement. They support chess players, ballerinas, and presidential candidates before debates. All good coaches share a singular purpose – to bring out high levels of performance. Without coaches, we observe most people can improve to a moderate level with practice, and then they plateau and don’t get better regardless of how much they practice.
This is true in most disciplines – sports, medicine, the arts, and learning how to learn.
Coaching by definition is the helping profession – a good coach functions to help people reach their potential and fulfill their dreams. This is the definition of the parent coach we want you to become.
Parent coaching is the role you assume when you are helping and supporting your child to greatly improve her ability to learn. It is a collaborative effort where you encourage and guide the acquisition and practice of better learning strategies and habits.
As a coach, you help your child identify and discard those study practices that are less effective. You help keep your child motivated as he tries new learning strategies that are unfamiliar. You are there to celebrate successes.
Effective parent coaching is essential to finding breakthroughs in performance. You support your child’s growth by helping the practice and consistent use of scientifically based strategies for independent study. And you do this collaboratively – staying involved, while your child experiments with trying new practices and techniques. You don’t “tell” – you listen, observe, encourage, and provide suggestions.
Parent coaching is your primary pathway to helping your child become a lifelong learner. Coaching supports your parenting and teaching, but because it is different in both purpose and technique, you will need some new skills to do it.
We’ll show you how. We want to bring out the great coach that is already within you!
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A. No. Every parent has already done a lot of coaching, so this is already familiar to you. We just want to make you much more effective at it.
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You may not realize it when you do it, but as a parent, you use many coaching skills as you help your child to grow and fulfill their dreams. In our courses, we help you do it better – how to be a more deliberate, consistent, and skillful coach. We even provide you with discussion tools for your coaching conversations to grow your kid’s skills.
We know how to help you get really good at coaching.
The Center for Homeschooling makes it easy for you to be a great coach by providing you all the tools – the skills, knowledge of expert learning, discussion points, and checklists. We provide models of how to do it in the video lessons.
There are spontaneous coaching moments, and planful coaching discussions that are interactive sessions with your child that have specific goals in mind. We show you how to be effective at both.
Your coaching is future oriented toward the goal of college-readiness. Get started today so you can get some “early wins” and successes on the path to expert learning.
See the Parent Coaching Model in our parent resources section
A. Our courses are designed for you, the busy homeschooling parent – they are online and on demand, you take them at your own pace.
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We are building our courses for the busy homeschooling parent. We began by listening to homeschooling parents talk about their aspirations, challenges and needs, and we are here to help you take your homeschooling to the next level. We design our courses to be long on practical ideas and easy to apply ideas at home, and short on confusing jargon and unnecessary academic theory.
We believe that a course is only great when it helps you activate as a more effective and efficient homeschooling parent. It has to transform ideas into useful actions.
Courses that improve your teaching skills always have video lessons with clear examples so you can hear and see how the idea works in real situations.
New ideas are introduced and clearly explained and include useful examples to help you understand why and how to make them work. We want learning for you to be focused, to-the-point, self-paced, and of course fun.
Every course always follows an easy step-by-step approach. Short 10 to 15-minute video lessons establish the idea and show you how to do it, which is supported by downloadable materials like workbooks, bonus readings, checklists, bonus audios, and resources you can share with your kids. For example, in a single lesson you might first watch the video lesson, then you might have a reading available in your downloadable workbook that explains the information in greater detail. Following this, you might want to complete a practice exercise that allows you to “test drive” your new knowledge. After this, this you will discover suggested discussions questions to help you have a productive conversation with your child about learning.
You can space out these lesson steps over the day, or several days, to fit into your schedule. This is learning designed to fit the busy parent.
We give you step-by-step method that is easy to follow. We emphasize practical and powerful skills you can apply at home. Take a look at some of our existing and upcoming courses in the Courses section of this website.
And you can buy with confidence – every one of our courses has a 30-day money back guarantee.
A. The Learning Strategies online survey provides a narrative report of your child’s use of evidence-based learning strategies.
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It is emailed to you right away – you download it and use it to accomplish three important things:
- It breaks down your child’s study habits into clear understandable explanations of study strategies. This makes it easy to know your child’s learning maturity now and identify what you want to do to greatly improve it.
- It organizes expert learning strategies into eight easy-to-discuss pillars of learning maturity. This will help you have insightful conversations with your child on how and where to become a better learner who is college-ready.
- It also provides coaching suggestions to you so you can support learning improvement. It will serve as a useful quantified baseline for comparing future improvement.
The report is a positive non-threatening tool designed to serve you as a supportive parent coach. It can stand alone, or you can use the information in our Pa 10 course.
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A. When your child starts using better learning strategies – you yield a positive return on your time. The reasons are explained here.
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- The payoffs from smarter study skills begin quickly, in a matter of weeks.
- Your child’s improved capability to learn faster will yield you more free time by reducing the amount of redundant review and re-teaching you do.
- As your kids grow in learning maturity, they will develop a better capability to teach themselves more things through independent study.
How does this work? Through your new coaching skills, your child will develop greater capabilities in learning and remembering. You will be able to shift chunks of your teaching time, now spent on review and repetition, to more individual study time, thereby leaving you with more time for other things.
It’s a time gain, not a loss.
When you help your child to become a better learner it means they advance upward on the continuum of learning maturity, which will transform how you homeschool. Better and more confident learners allow you to shift activities, do more independent work, gives you choices on how your family spends time with homeschooling.
Your child will benefit from a spiral of improved effectiveness, where one gain builds another on top of it, and so on.
