Renae Zentz is the Director and Founding Mentor of Family Lyceum. Renae holds a BA in Humanities from BYU and an MA in Education from George Wythe College. With over 20 years of homeschooling experience, she is passionate about providing a wholesome and safe educational experience for students.

Family Lyceum is an exceptional part-time private school that offers personalized education for K-8 students. Their mission is to ignite the FIRE in each student, inspiring them to reach their academic goals while prioritizing Freedom, Individuals, Respect, and Excellence. They do this while honoring the family's role in their child's education.

At Family Lyceum, students benefit from a personalized education experience that caters to their unique needs. Whether the student requires extra support or an accelerated pace, they receive the guidance and assistance they need to achieve their academic goals. This part-time innovative approach is a great supplement to homeschooling families. As a parent, you can expect an innovative approach to education that prioritizes the individual student.

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Meet Heather Poll, a highly qualified and dedicated science teacher and mentor at Ascend: A Mentored Education. With her husband Val and three other couples, she co-founded the microschool eleven years ago to provide a leadership education for her children.

Heather holds an Elementary Education degree from Utah State University, where she was recognized as the Outstanding Graduate from the College of Education. With a wealth of experience teaching in various settings, she cherishes her time homeschooling her five daughters the most.

Heather is passionate about providing a wholesome and safe environment for young people to grow into their true selves. At Ascend Microschool, she helps students succeed with a personalized education and mentorship. 

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What is microschooling and what are some of the new and innovative models? Jon and Kellee explore this question and Utah's new education choice program Utah Fits All. This is Utah's new education spending/savings account (ESA).

Microschooling is a new and innovative educational model that offers a number of benefits for students, parents, and teachers. This model involves small-group learning in a personalized environment. The goal of microschooling is to provide students with a personalized education that meets their individual needs and helps them succeed in the modern world.

One of the biggest benefits of microschooling is that it provides students with a more personalized education. Rather than being taught in large, one-size-fits-all classrooms, students in a microschool are grouped with other students who have similar interests and abilities. This allows teachers to tailor their instruction to the specific needs of each student, providing a more customized education.

Another benefit of microschooling is that it provides a more supportive and collaborative learning environment. Because students are in small groups, they are able to build strong relationships with their classmates and teachers. This allows for more opportunities for collaboration, discussion, and peer-to-peer learning. Additionally, students are able to receive more individual attention from their teachers, which can help to increase their motivation and engagement.

The new education spending account in Utah, The Utah Fits All Scholarship, is one way to expand microschool options in Utah. ESAs can be used to truly personalize and individualize education for the students of Utah. Parents can use the ESA to mix and match curriculums and classes, tuition and teaching for a unique education for their children.

American Heritage School Worldwide is an online learning platform that aims to provide homeschooling families with a comprehensive and affordable education. Led by Peter Knecht, the school is designed as a stepping stone for new homeschool families, providing them with all the curriculum and support they need to succeed.  

One of the key features of American Heritage School Worldwide is its multi-faith learning platform. Peter is working with a variety of different faiths from around the world, providing families with the opportunity to access the principles of their religion in every lesson. This is particularly valuable for families who may not have access to religious education in their local area. The platform will be built on the Lifted.world website, making it easily accessible to families all over the world.  

The curriculum offered by American Heritage School Worldwide is designed to be comprehensive and tailored to the needs of each individual student. The curriculum covers a wide range of subjects, including math, science, history, language arts, and more. The school also provides support for students who may be struggling in certain areas, helping them to overcome any challenges and achieve their full potential.  

#homeschool #parents #education #learning #onlinelearning

American Heritage School Worldwide is an online learning platform that aims to provide homeschooling families with a comprehensive and affordable education. Led by Peter Knecht, the school is designed as a stepping stone for new homeschool families, providing them with all the curriculum and support they need to succeed.

One of the key features of American Heritage School Worldwide is its multi-faith learning platform. Peter is working with a variety of different faiths from around the world, providing families with the opportunity to access the principles of their religion in every lesson. This is particularly valuable for families who may not have access to religious education in their local area. The platform will be built on the Lifted.world website, making it easily accessible to families all over the world.

The curriculum offered by American Heritage School Worldwide is designed to be comprehensive and tailored to the needs of each individual student. The curriculum covers a wide range of subjects, including math, science, history, language arts, and more. The school also provides support for students who may be struggling in certain areas, helping them to overcome any challenges and achieve their full potential.

#homeschool #parents #education #learning #onlinelearning

What does it mean to unschool your child? In this episode, Jon and Kellee ask the practical questions to unschooling to the author of the book.

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE, host of the LiberatED podcast and the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. Kerry is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, education policy fellow at State Policy Network, and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry has a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in economics and a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard. Kerry has researched homeschooling, public schooling alternatives, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, Washington Examiner, City Journal, Entrepreneur, and the Journal of School Choice, among others.

Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

She travels the country collecting and sharing stories of education entrepreneurs.

A highlight from our recent podcast with Andrew Pudewa. Watch the full episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4QG6Hbp6u5NLQpmMWr3Mjw?si=-o5ktKTQRSK2wvuY_Sd3VQ 

Andrew Pudewa is a veteran education consultant and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) who has spent the past three decades teaching students  as an independent violin instructor, preschool owner, tutor, homeschooling parent, and lead instructor for IEW. In this episode, Jon and Kellee discuss with Andrew his reflections on the philosophical lessons he has learned over the years. We discuss the dangers of modern schooling, individualized education, valuing the process of learning over learning products and so much more.  

You can find out more about Andrew Pudewa and IEW on his website. 

https://iew.com 

Or on his podcast: The Arts of Language 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-of-language-podcast/id1024190279 

#parents #homeschool #education #school

Andrew Pudewa is a veteran education consultant and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) who has spent the past three decades teaching students  as an independent violin instructor, preschool owner, tutor, homeschooling parent, and lead instructor for IEW. In this episode, Jon and Kellee discuss with Andrew his reflections on the philosophical lessons he has learned over the years. We discuss the dangers of modern schooling, individualized education, valuing the process of learning over learning products and so much more.

You can find out more about Andrew Pudewa and IEW on his website.

https://iew.com

Or on his podcast:

The Arts of Language https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-of-language-podcast/id1024190279

#parents #homeschool #education #school

Listen to the entire episode here: https://anchor.fm/dimond-education/episodes/Teaching-However-Imperfectly-with-Andrew-Pudewa-Part-1---Episode-16-e1sttv6 

Andrew Pudewa is a veteran education consultant and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) who has spent the past three decades teaching students  as an independent violin instructor, preschool owner, tutor, homeschooling parent, and lead instructor for IEW. In this episode, Jon and Kellee discuss with Andrew his reflections on the philosophical lessons he has learned over the years. We discuss the dangers of modern schooling, individualized education, valuing the process of learning over learning products and so much more.     

You can find out more about Andrew Pudewa and IEW on his website.  

https://iew.com   

Or on his podcast:  

The Arts of Language https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-of-language-podcast/id1024190279 #parents #homeschool #education #school

Andrew Pudewa is a veteran education consultant and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) who has spent the past three decades teaching students  as an independent violin instructor, preschool owner, tutor, homeschooling parent, and lead instructor for IEW. In this episode, Jon and Kellee discuss with Andrew his reflections on the philosophical lessons he has learned over the years. We discuss the dangers of modern schooling, individualized education, valuing the process of learning over learning products and so much more.   

You can find out more about Andrew Pudewa and IEW on his website. 

https://iew.com 

Or on his podcast: 

The Arts of Language https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-of-language-podcast/id1024190279 

#parents #homeschool #education #school