COVID-19 and Homeschooling High School

This week on the Homeschool Highschool Podcast: COVID-19 and Homeschooling High School. COVID-19 and Homeschooling High School This week Sabrina has encouragement and resources to help you and your family get through the COVID-19 pandemic. She is especially interested in helping out those who are new to homeschooling high school, either after homeschooling middle school OR if you are a "suddenly homeschooler" due to the quarantines. Please share this episode with friends and colleagues who will be starting homeschooling high school in the fall. How do you get started homeschooling high school during COVID-19? Homeschooling high school can look different ways: * For those of you who are "unintentionally homeschooling" due to the affects of COVID-19, but are still registered with a local high school. The responsibility for instruction will continue to rest on the school. Your student will simply follow the scheduled online classes provided by the school and follow the assignments given. However, you parents will probably find that you are supervising more of the educational process than before the quarantines. * If you are homeschooling high school, (whether a homeschool middle school graduate or a new to homeschooling family), you now have something you did not have much of in the past: choice! This might sound intimidating but do not worry. Sabrina will share four practical ways to make these curriculum and format choices! Here's a bit of encouragement: Homeschooling high school is just an extension of the parenting you already do. You now get to extend your family's interests, values, and goals into a truly purposeful education for your teen. So what are Sabrina's four steps for homeschooling high school during COVID-19? First off, there's not ONE right way to homeschool high school, so do not allow anyone to pressure you that you MUST follow their "philosophy". For COVID-19 and homeschooling high school, give yourself permission to explore and learn about how your teens learn best. Here are four steps for handling COVID-19 and homeschooling high school. Step 1: Find out about your state (or international location's) homeschool laws. Find out the requirements for high school graduation. The easiest way to do this is check out Homeschool Legal Defense's website. This is a marvelous organization that, decades ago, helped make homeschooling legal in all states. (We always suggest joining HSLDA. There are lots of worthwhile benefits. (BTW- We are not affiliates, just thankful for the work they do.) Step 2: Check out your local homeschool community. There are homeschoolers almost everywhere! * Check for Facebook groups for your community or state. (Hey, join our 7SistersHomeschool Facebook group and ask ALL the questions you want. There are so many 7th Sisters who want to help. 7th Sisters? Who are they? Well, there are 6 of us in 7SistersHomeschool. The 7th Sisters are all our homeschool friends, including YOU!) * Google support groups in your area or state. * Google *umbrella or hybrid schools*, diploma programs or group classes for homeschool high school. * Sabrina points out that these local homeschool groups are the places that we 7Sisters met! We homeschooled our kids together with these groups. Our a couple of our kids fell in love and got married. As our kids graduated from homeschooling high school, we began publishing the curriculum that we developed for them and the local homeschool group classes at 7SistersHomeschool.com Step 3: Check out online community for homeschool high schoolers. There is SO much available online!