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Eight Habits for Highly Successful Homeschooling — Part Two

By Guest Author Marcia Washburn

[Editor’s note: In “Eight Habits for Highly Successful Homeschooling, Part 1,” Marcia discussed the first three habits. You may read Part 1 here.]

HABIT #4: Become a student of your child

Study your child. What is his temperament?¹ What is her learning style?² What is his love language?³

Is my child ready to learn this particular skill I’m trying to teach? One of our sons taught himself to read at age four; another was still not reading at age ten. We set aside the phonics materials, continuing with his other subjects; when we returned to reading instruction six months later, he could read! It was simply a readiness issue.

Another son rapidly progressed to third grade math while in kindergarten but got stuck on division. He stayed at the same math level for two years until his readiness level finally caught up and he moved on again.

Eight Habits for Highly Successful Homeschooling — Part One

By Guest Author Marcia Washburn

What is a successful homeschool? What does it look like? Is it defined by children who score highly on standardized tests? Is it one in which everyone can’t wait to start school each day?

As we begin a new year, let’s enlarge our vision a bit. Let’s examine the habits that lead to highly successful homeschools.

Legislative Update September 1st, 2021

By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)

Is Leap for Us?

What if a new law in Colorado specifically identified homeschool students as being eligible to serve as a nonvoting board member over a newly created government agency, would you be concerned?

An initiative creating the LEAP (Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress) Program which will be on the ballot this November does just that. It creates the Colorado Learning Authority within the Colorado Department of Education. The impetus for this new program is the failure of the public school system to meet the needs of its students. The latest results from state testing reveals that the third-grade language arts overall scores continue to be dismal — only 39.1% met or exceeded expectations. (Before the pandemic, the results weren’t much better — only 41.3%.) Yet, this decline in scores will be the reason for increasing the growth of government by creating an unaccountable, nontransparent agency.