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Credits, Grades and Transcripts, Oh My!
If you asked a typical homeschool parent what was most scary to them about homeschooling high school, I bet you’d find that somewhere near the top of their list is a concern about determining credits...
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How Do You Know It’s High School Level?
Homeschool students have the wonderful freedom to study a huge variety of different topics, going way beyond the usual high school subjects. My oldest son studied Russian History, and I know other...
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Non-Traditional Ways to Determine High School Credit
One of the great things about homeschooling is that there are lots of different ways you can determine high school (and sometimes college) credit for your homeschool student. The usual test-and-quiz...
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Taking the Magic and Mystery Out of Grading
Many of the homeschool parents I talk with seem to get really stressed out about assigning grades to their students’ work. A lot of people think there is some magic, mysterious, official formula to...
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3 Transcript Pitfalls to Avoid
It’s December already, and as the year draws to an end, homeschool parents seem to get busier than ever. Maybe this is because the holidays are on us, or maybe it’s the growing realization that the...
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How to Find God’s Grading Scale
When our children were still in middle school, many years ago, I didn’t know anything about homeschooling high school, which made me really, really anxious. Consequently, I did what I always do when...
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Could You Survive a Course Description Emergency?
I know we homeschool parents sometimes pride ourselves on our organizational skills. We work hard to get Susie to choir and Johnny to track and Kelly to gymnastics and Jim to baseball…and sometimes we...
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Homeschool Transcripts for Our Unique Children
I had a boring life in high school, and I can prove it. Have you ever gone back and looked at your old high school transcript? I looked at mine recently, and it’s a remarkably bland document. It...
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How to Avoid Writing Course Descriptions
Everyone should know that parents need to create a homeschool transcript for their children in high school. Is yours done, yet? Time to get with it! It’s spring, the perfect time to work on your...
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Help for Tubbies, Cubbies, and Binder Queens
Whether you are a perfectly organized homeschool mom, or “not so much,” you’ve probably given at least a little thought to keeping some kind of homeschool records. Perhaps you’ve only thought about...
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Grades & Mastery
Evaluating Classes and Estimating Grades Summertime, and the living is easy! Although I must confess, you might want to work a little bit on your high school planning and record keeping! Unless...
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How Many Credits?
Homeschool parents can be such worriers! We always struggle to find a balance in our home, our homeschool, and our life. High school is no different. We still struggle to find a balance. It’s...
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How to Stand Out From the Crowd – The Activity and Award List
Oh to be a fly on the wall! If you could take a peek through the window of your university admissions office, what would you see? Between September and March, you’d probably see frantic, frazzled...
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Senior Year Scramble!
Are you pulling together a transcript for your senior? Is yours up to date, and ready to send to the colleges? Here are some helpful things to consider when putting the final touches on your...
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How to Include Outside Classes on Your Homeschool Transcript
Think of your homeschool transcript as legalized bragging. You can show off your academics with reckless abandon! A homeschool transcript is your opportunity to show colleges all the great courses...
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How Do You Measure Success?
High School Accreditation Maybe it’s just me, but when I started homeschooling, I found myself full of doubts and insecurity. What would need to change in high school? I wondered whether I could...
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Christmas Presents that Pay for College
How can that be? Christmas presents that pay for college? It’s possible! Colleges are looking for passion in students – the interests that persist year after year. Our children are looking for...
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Warning! Empty Nest Ahead! How to Be Prepared for a New Beginning
The year ends, and a new year begins! One stage of parenting will end when another stage begins. As hard as it is to contemplate, one day your child will be done homeschooling and leave home. There...
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Love with Strings Attached
As a homeschooler, you have probably been getting quite a few emails from people who want you to stop homeschooling independently. These emails make lots of promises and are from parent partnership...
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Time to Spring into Transcripts!
It’s spring! And spring is the best time to work on your homeschool transcript! By springtime, you already know which high school classes you will finish, and which ones you have dropped because they...
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