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Free Writing Conference for Teachers, Parents, and Students

IEW presents From Imitation to Innovation. Teaching writing can be easier than you think!

Teachers, parents, and students, join, us for a day of workshops, including live classes!

June 27, 2020 from 10am to 6pm CST.

Topics include:

  • From Copywork to Composition
  • IEW’s Structure and Style: What is it all about?
  • Level A Student Workshop (Grades 3-5)
  • Level B Grammar Lesson (Grades 6-8)
  • Putting It All Together: Questions and Answers with Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker

Sessions will be held on the Adobe Connect Meeting platform except for the two student workshops, which will be streamed live on YouTube Live.

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Journey Homeschool Academy Offering Free Summer Courses

Trisha and Luke Gilkerson from Journey Homeschool Academy have put together not just one, but TWO FREE summer courses for families. Your family is sure to enjoy one of them — check out Backyard Bugs or Summer Stargazing. All you need is a backyard and the videos they’ll send right to your inbox!

Experience Biology: Backyard Bugs fun, free, summer course for the whole family

My kids have been studying astronomy this year in their homeschool co-op so I’m looking forward to adding some more enrichment through the Summer Stargazing course.

Summer Stargazing for Families: a fun, free 8-week course from Experience Astronomy

Instead of a summer full of good intentions (but with little more than a sunburn to show for it), do summer RIGHT this year. Sign up here for the FREE Summer Stargazing course or Backyard Bugs and jump in with us.

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Homeschool Co-op 2020 Has Offered 120 Classes Since Going Online in March

The Homeschool Co-op Brings Children Together Through Free Virtual Learning

In January, when history professor Karen Miller first arrived in Manila, the Philippines, she expected to spend several months studying internal migration patterns in the Southeast Asian country. As a Fulbright Scholar on sabbatical from her job at LaGuardia Community College, she quickly enrolled her eleven-year-old son in an elementary school program and began to settle in.

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Erase All Kittens Offers Free Coding Program for Parents and Students

Coding, Kittens, and Unicorn Mermaids!

Running out of STEM resources for your students? Erase All Kittens is a multi-award-winning online adventure game that introduces professional coding skills to children aged 8-13, and inspires girls to code. So why Erase All Kittens? When Tim Berners-Lee was asked for an example of a popular use of the internet that he would never have predicted, he answered ‘Kittens’.

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Cuban Homeschool Mother Released but Father Still in Jail

Legal Victory for Christian Homeschooling Parents in Cuba – Vision Christian Radio

Religious freedom advocates are celebrating after Cuban authorities decided to release a Christian mother from jail. Expósito Leyva was imprisoned along with her husband, Pastor Ramon, after refusing to send their children to a government-run school. The couple had opted to home-school their children in order to avoid them being indoctrinated with socialist and atheistic ideologies.