What is play based learning? Listen in to our podcast episode with Stephanie Nicole Johnson, director of Naturegarten Playschool in Jupiter Florida. Stephanie offers a play-based preschool reimagined for kids ages 3-6. Stephanie Nicole Johnson is also a children’s book author on child development, aimed to influence a generation of children who are self-assured thinkers. Find Out more about Naturegarten Playschool. Check out her book, You Are...: What will your child's inner narrative sound like?

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Tune in for a Homeschooling Q&A session with Evaluator and Homeschool mom of 18 years, Cheryl Trzasko. We've compiled some of the top homeschool questions for this jam packed educational episode. If you have questions about evaluations, homeschool credits or re-entering public school in the future, then you won't want to miss this episode.  

Cheryl Trzasko is the director or Palm Beach County Homeschoolers, an organization supporting all things homeschool in Palm Beach County. Cheryl is a Florida State homeschool evaluator and a seasoned local homeschool mom. Visit Cheryl's website for further information or to contact her for an evaluation: 

https://pbchomeschoolers.com

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Listen in as we discuss the important differences between deschooling vs. unschooling with Nance Confer Director of Florida Unschoolers. Also, learn why using an umbrella school may be the right structure for your homeschool. Florida Unschoolers is a private umbrella school focused on independent home education, serving unschoolers and other home educators in Florida since 2001. It is private school enrollment for attendance purposes while you support your particular child's learning at home. 

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Check out our latest podcast episode on learning and doing life together with Marissa Lavin, owner of Fitness Redefined in Jupiter and founder of a new unschooled pod, Soul to Soil. Soul to Soil (s2s) is a new learning program for homeschoolers right here in Jupiter. For children ages 5-12 yrs old, this Waldorf based education model aims to nurture self trust, spark curiosity and ignite an inner sense of connection with the outer world - all by learning from nature while in nature!

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Are you new to homeschooling in Palm Beach County and looking to find your tribe? Check out our latest podcast with Jennifer Ortiz and see how starting a Homeschool Pod might be right for you. Jennifer is passionate about growing a network of families seeking alternative homeschooling options within Palm Beach County. She shares her insight on homeschooling and gives a few tips on taking the leap to start your own local homeschool pod. Be sure to check out her Facebook page, Homeschooling Pod Network, for more resources and to plugin to the growing community of homeschoolers within Palm Beach. 

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Tune into our latest podcast interview with Michelle Howard, the founder of the Living Learning Library, located right here in Jupiter, Florida. If you are making careful decisions about your kids' education, please consider the reading materials so equally crucial to the development of their hearts and minds. They should be truly rich in content and inspired in their view of the child as a learner. Their books should be living! Imagine a book so life-filled that it "captures attention, secures interest," and "arouses something noble in the heart of the child, without any effort on the part of the teacher or the taught." Seeing is believing--not just the library, but also the surprising impact of these books in engaging your students in learning and virtue. Sound like what you want your kids to read? Please visit https://www.livinglearninglibraries.org for a preview of the Living Learning Library. 

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Listen to our latest episode on finding your homeschool grove with Liz Sandt, local Jupiter Florida mother of two.  Take a moment to be inspired as we discuss Liz's first year homeschooling. She will encourage you to take time to discover how your child learns best, and by doing so finding freedom in the homeschooling process.

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Get encouraged and inspired as we discusses how Melissa Martz is fighting for our families and freedoms in Palm Beach County and hear how we can support her campaign for Florida's Congressional District 18. Martz is a homeschooling mother and homesteader with a love for our earth and the "fearfully and wonderfully made" human beings that inhabit it.

Melissa Martz has a long list of passions and accolades but at the center of nearly all of them is one thing – people. Martz is a Registered Patent Attorney with a B.S. in Pre-med/Biology and minors in Chemistry and Religion. Martz was raised in both the Jewish and Christian faiths and attended an Assemblies of God undergraduate college. Out of college, Martz briefly worked for the public school system as a high school biology teacher. 

Martz has always been a constitutionalist and government minimalist. However,  it has been the recent display of outright government tyranny, in this last year, that has ignited her to fight on behalf of her fellow Americans, to protect our freedoms at all costs. Martz was the first of four attorneys to stand up and sue Palm Beach County against their unconstitutional mask mandate. Martz rejects the concept of "anti-masker" and embraces the idea of "pro-freedom", choice and medical autonomy. 

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Are you wondering if it's possible to homeschool a child on the spectrum? Listen in to hear Lyndsay Rager give practical advice on how to homeschool a child on the Autistic Spectrum in Palm Beach County. Lyndsay is paving the way for her homeschool using the Gardiner Scholarship, as well as other resources, in order to design a customized educational program for her son. You won't want to miss her encouraging advice. Check out more about the Gardiner Scholarship and how you child may benefit. http://www.fldoe.org/schools/school-choice/k-12-scholarship-programs/gardiner/

https://www.stepupforstudents.org/for-parents/special-needs/how-the-scholarship-works/

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Tune in to this episode with Cheryl Trzasko of Palm Beach County Homeschoolers, an organization supporting all things homeschool in Palm Beach County. Cheryl is a Florida State homeschool evaluator and a seasoned local homeschool mom. Get encouraged on your homeschool journey and find valuable answers to your questions as we discuss pressing issues facing homeschoolers today! Visit Cheryl's website for further information or to contact her for an evaluation: https://pbchomeschoolers.com