The schedule will be coming soon. Until then check out the descriptions of the workshops that will be presented at this year’s Expo. More are being added daily. Check back!
Classical Education
The Joy of Classical Education: An Introduction to Classical Education at Home
Susan Wise Bauer
The Well Trained Mind
An overview of the philosophy of classical education and the ways in which home schoolers can pursue classical learning at home. Covers the distinctives of classical education, the benefits to the student, the three stages of classical learning (grades 1-4, 5- 8, and 9-12), the subjects taught in each stage, and the overall goals of classical education. Also discusses the place of delight-led learning, and offers ways in which every home schooler can borrow from the classical tradition.
Experience the Classical Education Model
Carole Touard
Classical Conversation
Experience Classical Education in action! We will model and practice the three arts of the trivium: grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric. This interactive session will demonstrate how learning progresses throughout a student’s life.
Encouragement
Burning Out: Why it Happens and What to Do About It
Susan Wise Bauer
The Well-Trained Mind
Every home school family finds itself in the doldrums occasionally. But when the doldrums last for weeks or months, it’s time to consider the possibility of burnout. In this seminar–drawn from years of personal experience with effective home education and burnout–Susan defines burnout, investigates the elements that make burnout more likely, and offers a series of practical, experience-tested suggestions for moving forward.
How to Ensure you have Good Homeschool Support
Angela Pilcher
Unite Homeschool
Homeschooling can feel isolating and lonely until you find support. In this session we will cover what makes a good support network compared to one that will be a waste of your valuable time and energy. With so many free or local “support groups” to choose from it can be hard to find your tribe. We will discuss features of a good group, communication methods and ways to make sure you find one that helps you grow and keep the positive outlook you really want!
Faith-Based
The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength
Cheryl Kischuk
Unite Homeschool
You are not alone! Anxiety and depression are on the rise in our culture and there are unique aspects of homeschooling that contribute to these issues. During the school year, many educators and students alike struggle to renew their vigor for educational rigor. Cheryl is a homeschool mom with a Master’s degree in Professional Christian Counseling. She shares her personal struggle with worry and how she has found peace and joy along the way. She identifies several warning signs and gives you practical advice and resources to help you overcome this common battle. This session will build vision and life into your days. It will focus on where our sincere strength comes from to navigate the school year well.
Are Your Children Followers of Christ?: Living out a vision for faith in the home.
Craig Wrobleski
Union Gospel Press
People can fall into the trap of being a fan of Jesus—knowing about Him instead of knowing Him personally. Following Christ is the key to a joy-filled, peaceful life. Parents need motivation, the necessary tools, and the knowledge of how to use those tools in order to fulfill a vision of a family following Christ in their home and beyond.
Keeping Jesus the Center Focus
Author and Speaker Tiffany Wasson
Homeschool life can be full of distractions; grades, extracurricular activities, and making sure that our children are becoming functional human beings in society. During all the craziness, we can forget to care about the whole child and make sure they grow in the knowledge and character of Jesus Christ. Keeping Jesus in the center is crucial to surviving and thriving as a whole person. Join Tiffany Wasson, author of “I QUIT! Confessions of an Imperfect Homeschool Mom,” and learn tips to make sure your family stays focused on Jesus no matter how crazy life may get.
Preparation for Persecution: A Curriculum Proposal
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
At some time in the future, is it imaginable that freedom of speech and freedom of religion could be suppressed where we live? History would indicate so. How do we prepare ourselves and our families for such a contingency? What curriculum might best prepare us for persecution, even martyrdom? How do we cultivate necessary virtues without sparking burdensome fears? This may not be a pleasant subject to contemplate, but perhaps it will be an important one.
Conquering Corrupt Culture by Raising Christian Communicators
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
Today, many of us have an intuitive sense that major changes are coming, that soon our world may be very different in ways not necessarily convenient or comfortable. But at the same time, we must wake up each day and live as though things will continue on pretty much as they are. Resolving this cognitive dissonance requires that we carefully contemplate our circumstances because we truly are in a cultural war, fighting the “non-gospel” of aesthetic and moral relativism on three fronts – personal, familial, and social. What should our priorities be, and how can we prepare our children to be “culture warriors?
Counter the Culture by Knowing God’s Names & Attributes
Ava Pennington
Every value the world has corrupted, such as the sanctity of life, sexual morality, and the rightful place of nature, can be addressed by understanding who God says He is and how He relates to His people. Learning His names and attributes provides a solid foundation and filter equipping students to recognize and respond to teaching which conflicts with God’s character and His ways.
This workshop will include specific examples illustrating the relevance of God’s names and attributes to our relationship with Him, with others, and with our culture
High School
Helping your Teen Build the Community They Need
Angela Pilcher
Unite Homeschool
As kids get older their desire for connection to other people and the world grows strong. This is expected and important for their future roles in life! During this workshop you will be equipped with ideas and tools to help guide your teen towards building healthy relationships with other homeschool families or people in their areas of interest.
Andrew Chambers
What Would Jesus Think About Higher Education?
Excel College
Jesus chose 12 to be with Him for 3 years and those men turned the world upside down. Come here how adopting Jesus’ model of education could help transform our communities by producing wise, mature, and productive adults who live purposeful, fulfilling lives.
College is Not the Only Option: Finding Your Fit After Graduation
Kyle Atkins
Phoenix Education
Students find themselves with many options when it comes to what to do when they graduate. This workshop will provide an overview of how to find your fit when you graduate, how to prepare and some unconventional options that may help guide you in your decision
The Well-Prepared Student (High School): How to Get Ready for College
Susan Wise Bauer
The Well-Trained Mind
In this session, learn what and how to teach your child in grades 9-12–before they fill out those applications and head off for the freshman year. What expections should you have for high school? How can you teach those subjects that stump you? How should you personalize the high school curriculum for your student, while still making sure that the basics are covered? What skills will your student need to develop in order to thrive in college? As a college instructor, Susan Wise Bauer has taught scores of college freshmen and knows what they should have learned before the freshman year; as a home educating parent, she has shepherded four high school students successfully into college
History
Women and Children in American History
Karen Whiting
Karen Whiting Books
Discover the founding mothers and impact of women through American history. Women’s actions regarding tea had more impact on the English than the Men and their Boston tea party. Women and children also served as great spies, invented new methods to heal wounds, and kept factories and farms going as men served. Discover some important threads woven throughout the war times that opened doors for women and kept the home fires strong.
The Incalculable Value of a Purposeful Gap Year
Joshua Matteson
Salt Next Gen Ministries
What are ‘gap years’? How do they benefit students? What is the benefit for Christian students who want to take a gap year?
Homeschool Tips and Tricks
The Entrepreneurial Home School
Ena Hackaday
Brainy Bytes
Give your family the opportunity to grow a business that benefits your family and your community. Develop business acuity into your children’s education by engaging them in all aspects of business ownership.
Homeschooling According to Personalities
Karen Whiting
Karen Whiting Books
Knowing your personality helps you choose a system or teaching and organizing. Knowing your child’s personality helps you understand the best ways to motivate your child, discipline them, and build lasting bonds with you, and great faith connections.
Using Books to Teach Across Curriculums
Andrea Hall
Epic Homeschool
The beauty of homeschooling is the ability to combine multiple subjects in one lesson to create a rich experience. Join Andrea Hall, a certified teacher, and home educator as she walks you through her favorite books to teach across the curriculum with her learners.
Using Devotions in Your Homeschooling Curriculum
Ava Pennington
Incorporating devotions into your homeschooling curriculum can provide more than valuable, bite-size doses of spiritual insight. By carefully choosing devotional resources, you can integrate devotions across a variety of subjects, including history, grammar, creative writing, reading, language arts, even social studies and science, in addition to biblical truth. This hands-on workshop will use examples from published devotionals to equip you to integrate the use of devotions throughout your homeschooling curriculum.
How to Homeschool Without Losing Your Mind
Heart of the Matter
Cynthia Simmons
Homeschool mothers juggle running a household, mothering, and preparing lessons. That can often feel overwhelming. Sometimes mothers become ill and must quit. This class explains how to make choices and achieve an optimal work-life balance.
How to Revolutionize Your Homeschool in the Digital Age
Paul Cable
Ethos School
You homeschool because you want to ensure your child develops holistically – spiritually, socially, and academically. You love the freedom that homeschooling allows your family, but, like everyone, you need a rich community to support you as you guide your child’s educational journey. You need a partner. Maybe you feel lost when it comes to planning your child’s academic schedule to get them prepared for their next steps, or maybe your child’s learning needs outsourced your content expertise, say, in Math, Science, World Languages, or college and academic counseling? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to have the best of both worlds—the support of experienced educators and the freedom and flexibility of homeschooling? More and more families are discovering that supplementing their homeschooling program with digital courses, online tools, and virtual communities has revolutionized what’s possible for homeschoolers. In this workshop, you’ll learn how the digital future of homeschooling offers a way to have the choice and freedom you want to educate your children without giving up the expertise and support that you and your child need.
Exploring Your World – Utilizing cross curricular education with real world applications
Brandy Champeau
Exploring Expressions
Did you know that people retain learning better when they can connect it to other things that they know or have experienced? This is especially true for middle and high school students. Just because we need to break up classes for a transcript doesn’t mean that we have to bombard our children with many singular subjects. In this presentation I will show how we can use a single subject or topic with real world applications as a baseline to cover multiple core and elective subject areas in a manner suitable for any transcript.
Developing Healthy Expression: Incorporating Social and Emotional learning into your curriculum
Brandy Champeau
Exploring Expressions
For today’s child, social and emotional intelligence is equally as important as academic intelligence. SEL in children includes not only an understanding of who they are and how they feel, but also how to communicate their wants or needs to others in a healthy manner. But how do we teach these seemingly abstract concepts to our young children? In this presentation I will explain the basics of what social emotional learning is and why it is important to be intentional about teaching it to our children. I will also give you actionable tips for how to weave social emotional learning into your existing homeschool in order to help you build emotionally strong, resilient children.
Skill, Will and Thrill: Instilling a Lifelong Love of Learning
Lyle Jenkins
LtoJ
Learn practical strategies to create a homeschool environment where your child’s skill far exceeds societal expectations, and the enthusiam to learn is driven by their intrinsic love of learning. You can have both!
Language Arts/Reading
Fantasy and a Reader’s Heart
Bryan Davis
Fantasy and a Reader’s Heart: How fantasy can inspire readers in their spiritual lives, and how to discern good, moral fantasy and identify destructive fantasy. This is a helpful talk for parents, teachers, and other adults who guide children.
Cultivating Language Arts: Preschool through High School
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
Listening and reading well, speaking and writing clearly, thinking and debating effectively are abilities that most parents hope to cultivate in their children. With that goal in mind, Andrew will explore various environments and activities whichwill accelerate the development of these language skills, beginning with the youngest students and continuing into the high school years.
Understanding the Elementary Reader
Valerie Harrison
Educationally Yours
“Understanding the Elementary Reader” is a hands-on presentation designed to explore the relationship between students’ reading behaviors and academic success in reading. Participants will discover nine common reading behaviors exhibited by students in the elementary setting. In addition, they will explore the characteristics and emotions that elementary readers commonly display in an instructional environment. Finally, this insightful workshop provides participants with practical research-based strategies that they can utilize to increase academic success and improve student learning outcomes.
Help Your Child Become a Better Reader in Ten Practical Steps
Valerie Harrison
Educationally Yours
Reading is essential for success in school and throughout life. “Help Your Child Become a Better Reader in Ten Practical Steps” provides participants with ten research-based strategies that can be utilized to increase academic success in reading. Whether a child is a good reader or a struggling reader, these hands-on tips will equip participants with the knowledge to support their child’s growth in reading at any age. In addition, participants will leave with practical ideas that can be implemented at home and in an instructional environment.
Why Teaching Boys to Read is Different Than Teaching Girls
Aimee Eucce
Play ‘N Talk
We will dive into practical tips for teaching boys ages 3-10 how to read. Discover why many of the common strategies don’t actually work when teaching boys to read. We will also review why teaching boys phonetically using a “hands-on” approach will keep your active boys engaged and excited to learn. Plus you will receive a list of our favorite enrichment activities designed to keep your busy boy(s) interested and curious! (The supplies for these activities can easily be found at Walmart, Target, the 99 cents store or Amazon.
Re-igniting Your Struggling Reader! Using Phonics to Transform Kids into Avid Readers
Aimee Eucce
Play ‘N Talk
No matter what your child’s struggle, it’s possible to take a struggling reader and help them become an avid reader! First, we will review the top reading struggles, then we will show you how to help your child overcome these struggles using phonics. It does not matter your child’s age, it’s never too late to re-learn to read. We’ve seen thousands of children successfully use phonics as a remediation tool.
Nurturing Competent Communicators – The Power of Linguistic Patterns
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
Many parents think that good readers will naturally become good writers. Others think that writing talent is just that—a natural ability—some have it; others don’t. Both are myths. History and modern research show very clearly how good writers have developed. What are the two most critical things you can do as a parent to develop a high level of aptitude, from a young age and into high school? With humor and insight, Andrew will share the two easy but unbelievably powerful things you can do to build language patterns and nurture competent communicators in your family.
Life Skills
The Ultimate Applied Science
Angela Smith
Inquiscook Culinary Science
Are you searching for hands-on science activities with practical applications? Look no further than your kitchen! In this workshop, we’ll explore the role of science in cooking and discuss how to approach the subject in a way that leads to meaningful, delicious results.
The Encephalon Code: Unleash Your Superbrain
Sarah Reid
Innovate Learning
Many available curricula teach students what to learn, but not HOW to learn. Rote memorization, lack of focus, and general disinterest bring stress and anxiety to the homeschool experience. Using the latest Christ-centered neuroscience research, this fun, interactive session will introduce proven techniques for helping every student to: Focus better and retain more information; Memorize hundreds of facts easily; Read faster with full comprehension; Master new languages in a fraction of the usual time; Improve grades and discover a brighter future. These scientifically proven techniques work and the results are immediate! Come join us, parents and students. It’s time to unleash your superbrain.
Meal Prep for Busy Homeschool Families
Stephanie Wilkins
Stephenie Wilson Peterson Books
In this workshop we will be discussing how to systematically meal plan and meal prep for your busy life as a homeschool family. Topics include: The tools you will need, templates and apps, getting creative with food on hand, staple items, using your cookbook, weekend family favorites, great snacks, time savers, leftovers, breakfast ideas, and good nutrition for your budget.
Brain Fix
Stephanie Wilkins
Stephenie Wilson Peterson Books
IAre you or is someone you love dealing with focus and attention issues, anxiety, or stress? Whether you are having the issue or you are teaching a child with these issues, In this workshop, we will be discussing 10 natural ways to improve chronic ADHD, anxiety, and the overworked mind. Included in the components are: nutrition, lifestyle management, brain exercises, nature/nurture, habit training.
Math
Math from a Biblical Worldview
Kate Hannon
Christian Perspective
We see God’s hand in science and history, but what about in math? While most of us have come to look upon math as “neutral,” it’s not! Worldviews do matter in math—and there’s much more to looking at math from a biblical worldview than adding a scripture or Bible word problem to the lesson. Come discover biblical principles that make math come alive and give math meaning, helping children really understand what they’re learning. Find out how “neutral” presentations are really not neutral. Leave equipped to begin looking at and teaching math from a new perspective!
Math Through History
Kate Hannon
Christian Perspective
Discover how throughout history, math has been used to explore God’s creation. Math will come alive as you see how different people have used it, and your faith will be built up as you see how the Bible gives us answers for why math works–and how many of the worlds greatest scientists/mathematicians recognized there had to be a Creator.
Revealing Geometry from a Biblical Worldview
Kate Hannon
Christian Perspective
What worldview is coming across in your student’s geometry class? In this workshop, Katherine looks past the proofs and constructions we typically see as geometry, offering ideas on how to teach it as a real-life, God-given tool that points us to the Creator. We’ll touch on various concepts, from basic shape identification up to proofs and theorems.
Revealing Algebra from a Biblical Worldview
Kate Hannon
Christian Perspective
Overwhelmed by variables and exponents? In this workshop, Katherine cuts through the confusion, revealing algebra for what it is: a method of recording the consistencies God created and sustained. Leave with a new outlook on algebra and ideas on how to teach it from a biblical perspective.
Multiplication Mastery
Crystal Simon
Math Imagined
Memorizing multiplication facts can be a huge challenge and source of frustration for many students. During this workshop Crystal Simon will share different ways parents can help their children practice and master their multiplication facts without flashcards or worksheets. These techniques are based on self discovery, multi-sensory instruction, game based learning, and more.
Up Your Math Game
Crystal Simon
Math Imagined
Math gets a bad wrap for being boring, difficult, and useless but it doesn’t have to be that way. This workshop is for parents who want to help their children learn the subject more easily and have fun doing it. From a former homeschool student herself who ironically hated math, Crystal Simon will be sharing tips and tricks she has learned through the years about helping children form a passion for an often misunderstood but beautiful subject.
Parenting
Letting Them Fly
Sam and Jasmine
Back to the Basics
As your children get older, they become tweens, teens, young adults, and full-on adults. Letting them go is hard, letting them go is scary, letting them go is necessary. We will encourage you how to do this gracefully, how to have the right perspective, and provide practical tips on how to “show” this to your child.
Not Agreeing With Your Child’s Choices
Sam and Jasmine
Back to the Basics
Whether it is friendships, boyfriends/girlfriends, jobs, or careers, we will not agree with every choice our child makes. We will encourage you how to have the appropriate perspective, how to react well and how to share your opinion in a way that your child will listen to you.
How to Fix Conflict
Sam and Jasmine
Back to the Basics
Disagreements are common. Arguing does happen. We are human after all. We will encourage you and give you step-by-step instructionson how to repair that relationship, post-conflict.
How to Keep Your Mom Focus
Andrea Hall
Epic Homeschool
You have the very best plans laid out for your homeschool, you are excited, and you are motivated! However, something happens as you put your plans into action, and you lose focus. Discover 5 techniques to keep your mom focus during the school year.
How to Overcome Anger and be a More Joyful Homeschool Mom
Misty Bailey
Southeast Homeschool Expo
Do you struggle with being an angry homeschool mom? I have been there. Many times. My goal is to encourage you all that you are not alone. This session is going to be about anger, and patience, and homeschooling. We are going to talk about recognizing our triggers, finding ways to minimize the angry moments, how to give ourselves grace, recognize imperfect progress and become a more joyful homeschool mom.
Teaching With the Heart of Respect – Growing Good Humans
Pamela Prescott
Manners of the Heart
Within the development of every child, there is a strong association between their future success and the management of their emotional skills. This is often revealed in the student’s learning capacity and behavioral performance. It becomes clear when a child misses out on prime learning opportunities because they have no tools to help them navigate and command their emotions except to exhibit them in unproductive behaviors. Teaching the heart is respect-based learning. Students who can correctly identify their emotions and self-regulate them are poised for sustainable success in academics and life. Growing good humans only happens when the heart and mind recognize, understand, and manage themselves in even the most stressful situation, by using respect as a basis for decision-making. This interactive session will provide the user-friendly Heart Education tools and practices used to build good humans through Heart Education.
Parenting and Schooling with More Peace and Joy
Karen Whiting
Karen Whiting Books
Reduce stress and create an atmosphere of peace. Use a PEACE acrostic, improve communication skills, focus outward, and build A+ parenting strategies with A words your child needs (approval, attention, adventure, accountability and 9 more). Sprinkle in joy to inspire lasting bonds.
Cultivating Conversation Using Five Common Topics
Carole Touard
Classical Conversation
Enjoy rich conversations with your children using these 5 Common Topic questions. We will dig into how you and your children can learn through conversation instead of piles of worksheets. Gain confidence in your role as homeschool parent.
Principles of Motivation
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
A student of motivation for decades, Andrew has organized fundamental ideas of motivation into three categories: four forms of relevancy, three laws of motivation, and two secret weapons. This is an expansion of Andrew’s previous talk “Teaching Boys and Other Children Who Would Rather Be Making Forts All Day,” with new and updated information, stories, and tips to help kids learn happily and well.
Teaching Boys and Teaching Girls: Towards a Better Understanding
Andrew Pudewa
IEW
An in-depth look at the neurophysiological differences between boys and girls—how they hear differently, see differently, handle stress and pain differently—as well as the implications for our teaching of both boys and girls, this is an expansion on Andrew’s previous “Boys” talk. With added research, together with humor and practical stories, this presentation will delight and enlighten parents of boys, girls, or both!
Raising Boys to Live with Honor in all Aspects of Their Lives
Monica Irvine
Etiquette Factory
Parents, I know you want to raise sons who live with honor, but our society continues to strip away opportunities for our children to do honorable things. Here’s the great news…you can make sure that you are creating opportunities for your children to practice living with honor, but it requires parenting with purpose. Come and listen to master motivator Monica Irvine, inspire your family with lots of ideas of how to teach your sons the skills of honor through small simple acts of generosity. It truly can change their lives and yours as well. You don’t want to miss this!
Discipline with Love so We Don’t Break Our Child’s Spirit
Monica Irvine
Etiquette Factory
I know you have felt the pain of regret when you have had a moment of failure when discipling your children. I know many of you are fighting against habits you learned from your parents that you swore you would never do. I know you want to parent with love, honor and respect, but sometimes, you don’t. Parents, did you know that it is God’s perfect plan that his imperfect children raise his imperfect chil dren? He knew you and I would not be perfect parents. He knew we would get it wrong on some days. However, still, he knew that the best people to raise your children was YOU! It is! It’s you. Listen to Master Motivator, Monica Irvine, share some invaluable insights in parenting with greater love, greater understanding and greater self control. Mrs Irvine will help you to understand the differ ence in disciplining to stop or start behavior and disciplining to change our children’s hearts. It makes ALL the difference. If you want a loving happy healthy relationship with your adult children, you must start today creating that relationship. Don’t miss this!
How do I Stop Worrying About my Kids so I Can Have Peace?
Monica Irvine
Etiquette Factory
Parents, there literally is a process and a plan to help us stop worrying so much so we can live with peace and hope despite our current circumstance and even despite our children’s current choices. I promise there is. Come and listen, as I teach you what I learned years ago that has helped me so much. No, it’s not going to stop all worrying, but it will reduce your worry and give you tools that al low you to take action steps so you can feel at peace that you are doing all that you can. Don’t miss this. It truly will help.
Raising Confident, Generous & Compassionate Ladies require Skills… Come and Learn How to Give Your Daughters what is Becoming a Rare Commodity…Honor
Monica Irvine
Etiquette Factory
Imagine what it feels like to watch your daughter continue to strive for excellence in all aspects of her life, because she knows she has endless potential and a great responsibility. She matures with a desire to be a voice for good and a contributor to making our world a better place. She seems fearless, yet uses great wisdom. She is courageous, yet humble. She is KIND. You watch her as she exercises true empathy for those in need and although she holds herself to high standards, she never places herself above others. She has been taught by example of what a true lady is and she looks forward to one day being that example to her family. She is truly a lady. Parents, this Master Class will help you understand how to create the example your daughter needs to become this lady. You don’t want to miss this.
Expecting the Unexpected: How to prepare for what life can throw at you
Brandy Champeau
Exploring Expressions
From accidents to illnesses to natural disasters we can never tell what the day may bring. But how can we be better prepared for all of life’s incidentals? In this presentation I will teach you some simple systems that you can put in place to help safeguard your family from the disorganization and chaos that comes with unknown life events. You will leave with concrete tips and tricks that you can implement right away so that you can do the things that you need to do AND be ready when the unexpected occurs.
Healthy Family Living
Stephanie Wilkins
Stephenie Wilson Peterson Books
The Healthy Family Living Workshop is a short version of the 4 week HFLP Program. This workshop touches on how to successfully instill healthy habits into your own life as a parent first and then bring others in the family on board without struggle. It is especially for those with busy lives, who are short on time. It’s also for those who might even hate to cook and/or eat out a lot, but want to do better nutritionally for their family! The workshop includes not only nutrition, but active living techniques for the family, how to incorporate healthy traditions into family life, and teaches how to create wellness routines that promote and encourage good mental health, physical health, safety, as well as disease prevention from head to toe!
Special Needs
Surviving Your Special Needs Child
Cynthia Simmons
Heart of the Matter
Living with a special needs child can be horribly painful. Often parents have to make lifestyle changes as they face the reality of the problem. Cynthia will share a snippet of her own story along with education strategies. She’ll also cover how to cope with other normal children and describe long-term planning.
Why Can’t My Child Spell
Cynthia Simmons
Heart of the Matter
Computer programs include spell check, assuming you have the appropriate letters. Some children never seem to get close enough. This class unmasks the basic skill involved in spelling well and will demonstrate how to strengthen that perceptual ability.
Homeschooling a Child with ADHD
Misty Bailey
Southeast Homeschool Expo
Are you homeschooling a child with ADHD? Homeschooling with ADHD can be an exhausting job, but, so rewarding. We are laying out resources for the ADHD child, including diagnosis, best curriculum, taming the fidgets, encouragement for the parents, and so much more.
Homeschooling and ADHD Q and A
Misty Bailey and Alyson Bailey
Southeast Homeschool Expo
Will homeschooling your child with ADHD damage your relationship? Can a child with ADHD get the accommodations they need to be successful in high school? Does homeschooling ACTUALLY work for a child with ADHD? Misty Bailey has two children with ADHD. Her daughter Alyson, who is a homeschool graduate, will be joining Misty for this session to answer questions from parents about ADHD.
Dyslexia and Reading Challenges
Danni Gugel
The Nectar Group
Reading is the key that opens the door to an entire universe of learning. School can be overwhelming and frustrating at best when a child is struggling to read. There is real hope for treating the root causes of reading difficulties and disabilities. We’ll help you understand what can go wrong in reading development and how to help your child overcome all types of reading difficulties through the latest research in neuroscience. Participants will learn: ~The definition of dyslexia and other reading challenges ~What dyslexia looks like on brain imaging ~How dyslexia is diagnosed ~Causes for misdiagnosis ~Treatments for dyslexia and reading challenges ~Next steps for intervention
Time Management
Am I Doing Enough
Cheryl Kischuk
Unite Homeschool
In this current culture, how do we combat the frustrating pitfalls, struggles, and lies that we, as parents, are not doing enough? Parents are burdened with the heavy responsibilities of equipping, educating, and discipling our children well into a post-Christian era. In this session, you will learn the antidote to the apprehension surrounding curriculum decisions, co-op choices, and comparisons. With practical parenting and discipline tips, Cheryl will discuss where true success in home education comes from. We will focus on contentment in present circumstances and look expectantly towards the future God has designed for our families.
Writing
A Plan for Teaching Writing, Grades K-12: Focus on Basic Skills
Susan Wise Bauer
The Well Trained Mind
An overall plan for producing good writers at home. This workshop explains how to guide your student through a simple progression (copying, dictation, narration, summarizing, outlining, short critical essays, long critical essays, research paper) that will develop both writing and thinking skills in a systematic, stepwise manner. Particular focus on the elementary years and remedial work; includes suggestions on how to use these writing and thinking skills in every area of the curriculum. Recommended for those teaching all K-6 students, as well as for those teaching older students who are reluctant writers.