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Our mascot, Homeschool Bunny, reminds us that we don’t fit into a one-size-fits-all educational approach. We all go at our own pace.

Explore new skills and resources related to interested career paths with your 12-17 year old student. 

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While we share multiple non-religious, secular resources to assist parents with their homeschooling efforts, we give particular attention to students with learning disabilities and disorders.

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The Careers in Demand page highlights occupations expected to have the most openings in the future. The list includes occupations that are expected to have a greater need for workers than there are qualified people to fill those jobs. This list can be used to help make career and training decisions.

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Starting Your Homeschooling Journey

Homeschooling is a rewarding and flexible approach to education, but it requires careful planning and organization. Whether you're new to homeschooling or preparing for high school, these steps will guide you through the process and help ensure a successful educational experience for your child. 1. Know Your State’s Requirements Each state has different laws and regulations regarding homeschooling. Some require...
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Homeschooling with Intent

Homeschooling with intent means approaching education with a clear purpose, focus, and tailored goals. It’s about intentionally shaping the homeschool experience around each child's unique needs, strengths, and interests rather than simply following a standard curriculum or going through the motions of schooling. Here’s what it generally involves: Setting Clear Goals: Establish specific learning objectives aligning...
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Using Humor in Your Homeschool Classroom

Using humor in your homeschool classroom can create a positive and relaxed learning environment, helping children engage more fully with lessons while reducing stress and fostering creativity. Here are some ways to effectively use humor in your homeschool setting: Incorporate Funny Learning Materials Jokes and Riddles: Integrate subject-related jokes or riddles to start the day or lesson. For example, in math: “Why...
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Preventing Your Student from Becoming Overwhelmed

Preventing your homeschooled children from becoming overwhelmed is essential to maintaining a positive and productive learning experience. When children feel stressed, anxious, or frustrated, their ability to absorb and retain information diminishes, making learning more complex and less enjoyable. To create an optimal homeschooling environment, it is important to recognize signs of overwhelming early, such as...
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Homeschooling Goals Considerations

When setting homeschooling goals, especially for children with specific learning needs, it's important to consider a mix of educational, developmental, and practical elements. Here are some homeschooling goals considerations: Child-Centered Approach Learning Style: Recognize your child’s preferred learning style (visual, auditory, kinesthetic). For example, if your child has Visual Processing Disorder (VPD), they...
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Create Your Homeschooling Academic Calendar

Creating an academic homeschool calendar can help you organize lessons, track progress, and maintain a balanced schedule by providing a clear structure for your educational goals. A well-planned calendar allows you to map out subjects, assignments, and key learning objectives while ensuring that all required topics are covered throughout the school year. It also helps schedule breaks, extracurricular activities,...
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Creative Time in Homeschooling

Incorporating creative time into homeschooling can be an excellent way to foster imagination, self-expression, and problem-solving skills. Drawing, painting, storytelling, music, and hands-on projects allow children to explore their interests, build confidence, and develop fine motor skills. Creativity enhances critical thinking by encouraging students to approach challenges from different perspectives and think...
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Lesson Planning in Homeschool

Lesson planning in a homeschool environment can be highly personalized to the student's needs, interests, and pace of learning, allowing for a flexible and adaptive approach that fosters more profound understanding and engagement. By tailoring lessons to accommodate different learning styles, strengths, and challenges, homeschooling parents can create a supportive educational experience that encourages mastery...
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Successfully Homeschooling with Children with Special Needs

Homeschooling children with learning disabilities, such as ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), autism, or other learning differences, requires a tailored approach that supports their unique needs while leveraging the flexibility of a home environment. By tailoring your homeschooling approach and incorporating supportive resources, you can create a positive and productive learning environment for children with...
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Record-Keeping Tips for Your Homeschool

While your state may not require homeschooling record-keeping or reports, many homeschooling families find tracking their child's academic progress, attendance, extracurricular experiences, and achievements important. Documentation becomes essential for high school students, especially if they are college-bound, applying to technical schools, or applying for jobs. It is also beneficial to have such records if you...
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Why Take Our Courses

“…teenagers with clear plans can typically expect to go on to better employment outcomes than classmates who are uncertain.”   — OECD (2024), “Teenage career uncertainty: Why it matters and how to reduce it?”, OECD Education Spotlights, No. 16, OECD Publishing, Paris

Explore Different Career Opportunities

Career aspirations are a good predictor of the jobs that students go on to occupy as adults. Students will likely realize their dream occupation when they have an expanded knowledge about the world of work and personal background to support those dreams.

Connecting Students with Employers

We strive to bridge the skill gap between employers and young people. We provide career insight information through career and subject talks, mentoring, workplace visits, job shadowing and short work placement opportunities whereever possible.

Leap into Learning

Our West Texas-based learning pod, Leap into Learning, serves actively homeschooled students (grades 6–12, ages 12–17*) in Abilene, Texas. We offer secular, career-focused education through bundle packs, online courses, in-person classes, field trips, workshops, and hands-on activities.

We offer both student and parent courses designed to enrich the homeschooling experience. Courses run 8–16 weeks and are available in person for local students or virtually.

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Testimonials

"To be able to provide our autistic son with a resource for the skills he wanted to learn (but struggles to obtain in a traditional way) is immeasurable. Thank you!"

Donald C.