Victoria Khaze Victoria Khaze’s passion for business and children lead her to create Money Munchkids; a children’s financial education company. She has almost a decade in business, five years in marketing, over 10 years as a child care professional and 13 as a sister. She utilized both her own experience as a homeschooler, extensive research into children’s learning and education and the expertise of multiple national and international child education professionals to create the products and services that focus on financial education for children. Victoria is a four-time published poet and has been featured in several local and national publications. …
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Joshua Jernigan Joshua Joshua Jernigan (he/him/his) is a transgender rights activist and philanthropist living in the greater Charlotte metropolitan area where he and his husband are raising their daughter together. He started the Gender Education Network, an organization helping transgender and gender diverse kids 12 and younger, and is passionate about ensuring every child has a safe and loving home to nurture their growing identities. He also is passionate about accurate LGBTQ+ History and teaches courses on Queer History through SEA Online Classes. Most recently he published his first children’s books, Meet My: Best Friend, the first in a series of books …
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Blair Lee: Earth Is Warming Up (Elementary Workshop) June 2020 – Freebie Download
Amy Sharony, Ph.D. Amy Sharony, Ph.D., is the editor of home|school|life magazine and the author of The A+ Homeschool Planner. She homeschools her rising 7th grader, recently celebrated graduating her 12th grader, and teaches literature, history, and Latin classes for homeschoolers in Atlanta. Sunday August 14, 2022 1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDTBuilding Academic Stamina It was important that my kids graduate high school with the ability to work through assignments, setting goals along the way, and ending up with a finished product they could feel genuinely proud of. These are skills I think you have to build, and our homeschool wasn't set …
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Elizabeth Porter Elizabeth Porter is a National Board Certified French teacher (EAYA/WLOE) with a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education and a Bachelor’s in French and Linguistics. Elizabeth also holds a French Degree in called a DEUG Français Langue Étrangère (FLE) from the Université de Caen in Normandy, France. Elizabeth began her career teaching elementary and middle school English in Normandy France, then returned to the United States in 2002 where she taught for three years at the French Immersion School of Washington. Elizabeth then taught high school French and was a World Languages Curriculum Specialist in Washington State and Iowa. …
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Samantha Matalone Cook, MAT Samantha Matalone Cook, MAT, is an educator, historian, writer, maker, and speaker. She has almost three decades of experience in education, program development, and the arts and has worked with both small and large organizations to create educational programming that centers and connects the learner to concepts and skills. She has taught in classrooms and in private workshops, mentored other educators, and worked for and with many museums including the Smithsonian. Samantha recently released her co-authored book, Project-Based Learning: Creating a Modern Education of Curiosity, Innovation, and Impact, and she is currently working on a new …
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Lindsey Sodano Lindsey Sodano is the author of the upcoming History Quest: Middle Times, the next chapter book in the children’s history series from Pandia Press. She was also the development editor for History Quest: Early Times and the co-author of the History Quest: Early Times Study Guide. Lindsey is a writer, editor, and mom of three who lives in Mason, Ohio. She has degrees in English and education from Boston College, where she focused her studies in English on children’s literature and feminist literary criticism and her education studies on alternative forms of education such as homeschooling and gender-specific …
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Pandemics – Unit Study Several days ago Pandia Press reached out to Pandia authors & SEA Homeschoolers Samantha Matalone Cook, Amy Sharony, Lindsey Sodano, and Blair Lee and asked us to collaborate on a unit study focused on the history and science of the causes, cures, and responses of pandemics. Here it is as a direct download. We worked to create something usable for a large grade range. Much of the science is excerpted, rearranged, and edited (to be specific for this topic) from RSO Biology 2. All the rest is newly written. Even the science has some new labs …
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Advice on Homeschooling to College By Blair Lee, MS This year is an exciting one for us. Our son, who was homeschooled from 1st grade until he graduated, is going to college. He applied to nine colleges and was accepted at six of them and was put on the waitlist of one of them. He received scholarship offers at three of the colleges. In the end, and after some soul searching on his part, he accepted the offer from the college that was closest to home, San Diego State University. We have a close-knit family, and he decided that he …
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The Art of Movie Magic Unit Study
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Global Academic Productions Vendor Showcase with Live Q&A Monday, July 22nd 1:30-2:00pm EST GAPro Courses serve students who are late middle school to early high school. These courses are designed to be the transition step before college - building "college ready" skills using amazing social studies content. Students finish the courses with the tools needed to enroll into Community College or Universities. GAPro currently offers World History (Act 1 & 2) and Modern Global Studies. GAPro makes Social Studies simple for parents. EVERYTHING is included in an easy-to-use online format (readings, activities, videos, parent guides, assessments...) Just sign in & …
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Brett Kennedy A dad of two homeschoolers, Brett E. Kennedy is the founder of KennedyMathews Educational Consultants LLC and works with students and families to find the right colleges to consider, to navigate the admissions process, and to figure out how to pay for college. Brett has spent the last 26 years in college admissions, scholarships and aid at both large public flagship universities and private liberal arts colleges. He spent the last 10 years as the Dean of Admissions at Berry College. He holds a Master's degree from the University of Alabama in Higher Education Administration and a Bachelor's …
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Our Kids Need Us To Teach by Farrar William As my kids have gotten older, they’ve naturally become more independent. For high school, some days they stalk off with their computers, online classes, and textbooks, confident in their assignments as they head to their rooms to stick on their headphones and get work done. Wow, I think to myself. I am so awesome. My kids really have this homeschool thing down. And then I go to check their work. Oh, maybe we do not have this homeschool thing down. It’s not that bad, though I have to admit that one of my boys …
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2019 SEA Homeschoolers Online Symposium Event Schedule **All times are US Eastern PM** Monday, July 22nd 12:00-12:30 - Symposium Opening: SEA Homeschooling by Blair Lee 12:30-1:15 - Evidence of Evolution and How to Teach It by Bertha Vazquez 1:15-1:30 - Break 1:30-2:00 - Vendor Showcase: Global Academic Productions 2:00-2:45 - Building Radically Inclusive Homeschool Spaces by Alycia Wright, M.Ed 2:45-3:00 - Break 3:00-3:30 - Vendor Showcase with Give-Away: Project-Based Learning: Creating a Modern Education of Curiosity, Innovation, and Impact 3:30-4:15 - The Importance of Teaching History in a Modern Education by Samantha Matalone Cook, MAT 4:15-4:30 - Break 4:30-6:00 - …
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