Listen to this off-the-cuff planning session to hear how Michelle and Karen each plan units using Layers of Learning.

Learn the difference between content knowledge and skills, then watch your kids flourish as you dovetail them both in your homeschool.

Every Layers of Learning begins with a Unit Overview sidebar. Here are some fun suggestions for ways to use this learning tool in your homeschool!

Guidance for teaching emergent writers how to write by making lessons fun and interactive along with breaking down the writing process into baby steps and sharing the pen.

Listen in for lessons we've learned after two decades of homeschooling!

The single best decision we made as homeschool moms was to create a family culture of reading aloud to our kids. In this episode, we share our favorite read-alouds and what to look for in a book to help your kids become bookworms.

Teaching independence in kids feels cumbersome and difficult, but there are big pay-offs. You are raising people to live their own lives, not your life, and those lessons begin when they are little. In the end, independence fosters capability, responsibility, and confidence.

Having strong, happy sibling relationships isn't automatic, but they are possible. Listen in on how Michelle and Karen have taught their kids to be aware of each other and learn to communicate with kindness.

Advice on how to find and evaluate sources you learn from in your homeschool. This is especially important as your kids reach high school age and are learning to research.

Student journals are a perfect way to have your kids write about what they are learning in small doses with help from prompts, printables, and their mentor. Each day they add a tiny tidbit in their journal, and over the years, it adds up to an incredible memento of all they are learning about in your homeschool.