This week on HSHSP Ep 76: Homeschool Transcripts for Transfer Students!

This is an episode that you’ll enjoy EVEN if your teen isn’t a transfer student: LOTS of tips for transcripts and highschool planning.

However, if you are beginning to homeschool after your teen has been in traditional school for part of highschool, here are some great ideas for homeschool transcripts for transfer students (along with LOTS of planning tips).

Join Vicki, Marilyn and Dr. Barbara Varnell for a lively hand and helpful discussion. You’ll be glad you did!

Not only that, but Dr. Varnell shares some insider tips such as: getting a syllabus BEFORE you withdraw your teen from traditional school! And success tips for college, too!

Your newly homeschooling highschooler will have the best years yet. You CAN do this!

(And our editor, Seth, gave us another blooper reel this time.)

HSHSP Ep 35: Homeschooling Intellectually Gifted Teens

Here’s another great discussion with our friend, Dr. Barbara Varnell!

HSHSP Ep 64: Grammar: Gotta Have It!

Listen in on this useful episode!

College Attractive Transcripts- What to Include

Here’s what you need to include!

Contact Vicki at VickiTillmanCoaching.com for coaching through the process of college search and application.

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This week on HSHSP Ep 75: Fine Arts Electives Give Transcripts SPARKLE!

College admissions officers look at thousands of transcripts each year. How can your homeschool highschooler stand out? Fine Arts electives give transcripts sparkle. It’s one way to catch their attention!

Join Sabrina for an eye-opening interview with Dr. Duane Cottrell, Associate Professor Choral Music Education at University of Delaware. Duane is not only a professor at UD but also has homeschooled his own children, which helps him understand and explain what homeschoolers need to know about Fine Arts on the transcript and in college.

Dr. Cottrell explains the current job climate where often:

Dr. Cottrell explains the music major choices  such as (and why a homeschool highschooler might choose one:

Sabrina and Dr. Cottrell also share how to handle Career Exploration in highschool so that they can clarify major choices.

Join us for a real-life, practical information about Fine Arts Electives!

5 Reasons You Need Fine Arts in Homeschool High School

Why Waste High School Credits on Career Exploration?

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This week on the HSHSP Ep 74: Nuts and Bolts of Starting Homeschooling in Highschool.

More and more families are beginning the homeschool journey during the highschool years. Do you know anyone who is just starting out in one of the highschool years?

If so, let them know about this episode: Starting Homeschooling in Highschool!

Many parents feel intimidated when they start homeschooling highschool with their teens, especially if they are bringing their teens home from traditional schools. Don’t fear! 7SistersHomeschool.com’s own Sabrina, Marilyn and Kym share from years of experience the nuts and bolts of homeschooling highschool.

In this episode the Sisters share:

Join us for fun and encouragement in starting homeschooling in highschool!

Homeschool High School Transcripts- the 26 Credits Needed for Graduation

How My Teens Made College-Attractive Homeschool Transcripts

Did We Miss Anything? Plugging the Holes in the Homeschool Transcript

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This week on HSHSP Ep 73: Bringing Your Teen Home for Highschool.

There are tens of thousands of homeschooling highschool in the US today. Many of them are just starting the homeschool adventure at grade 9. We get lots of questions from those parents who are just starting homeschooling highschool after their kids have been in regular school grades K-8.

What are the reasons families have from bringing teens home for highschool? We often talk to families:

What are some tips for handling the transition from traditional to homeschooling highschool?

Join Sabrina, Kym and Marilyn for helpful how-to’s and enlightening encouragement about Bringing Your Teen Home for Highschool!

New Help for Homeschooling High School Parents!

How to Plan and Schedule Your Homeschool High School Year

HSHSP Ep 42: Highschool Goals and Planning

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This week on HSHSP Ep 72: Newbie Homeschool Highschool Moms: Nuts and Bolts to Get Started.

In Episode 71, Sabrina, Vicki and Kym discussed the many things newbie moms will need to think about as they start to homeschool highschool with their teens.

Now, on Episode 72, we share the nuts and bolts (or nuts and chocolate) about the actual how-to’s of beginning your homeschool highschool.

We know it may seem overwhelming, but really homeschool highschool years are the best years yet. You’re going to love them!

Have some laughs and relax with your big sisters from 7SistersHomeschool.com and Homeschool Highschool Podcast. We’ve helped hundreds of homeschool highschoolers graduate and go onto healthy, productive adult lives with appropriate college and/or career. (We’ve also done the same with our teens!) HSHSP is where you can find the support and encouragement you need!

We’ll help you get started with lots of helpful info and lots of great encouragement. You CAN do it!

5 Practical Tips for Writing Homeschool Goals

HSHSP Ep 44: Including Teens in Highschool Planning

How to Plan and Schedule Your Homeschool High School Year

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This week on HSHSP Ep 71: Newbie Homeschool Highschool Mom: You CAN Do It!

We can remember those days long ago when we were getting ready to homeschool highschool. We all were SO intimidated! There’s so much riding on a successful highschool experience…could we pull it off?

Yes! We found out that homeschool highschool years are the best years yet! Here’s what we have to say to you:

Now that we have graduated our youngest and helped hundreds of local homeschool highschoolers graduate and go onto college and/or career, we can assure you that this it true. You CAN do it!

We’d like to help you get started homeschooling highschool! Join Sabrina, Vicki and Kym for some homeschool highschool bewares:

PLUS ways to avoid them!

AND 3 secrets for SUCCESS at homeschooling highschool.

What Does a Teen Need Most from Homeschool High School?

New Help for Homeschooling High School Parents!

After you listen to this encouraging episode, drop by Homeschool Sanity and learn some ways to avoid curriculum addiction!

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This week on HSHSP Ep 70: What Happens When the Last Kid Graduates?

The idea of graduating the youngest kid inspires LOTS of mixed emotions:

What happens when there are no more teens at home to educate? No more souls to guide and mold?

Recently the entire team at 7SistersHomeschool.com (sponsors of HSHSP) got together for our annual retreat. All 6 of us got together to discuss our experiences when the last kid graduates. We’ve all graduated our kids, 26 of them graduated homeschool highschool!

We’ve also helped hundreds of homeschool highschoolers in our local community find success in highschool, graduate and move onto the next phase of life. Some of those entered careers, military or homemaking immediately; most of our local homeschool graduates have gone onto college.

As our teens and our other local teens have been transitioning into adulthood, we’ve had the opportunity to discuss what happens next with many homeschool moms.

This episode of HSHSP, we discuss what happens when the last kid graduates:

That may sound silly when you see it in writing, but it doesn’t FEEL silly when you close that last textbook! Join us for some experienced wisdom, encouragement and guidance for getting started on that next part of life.

Also, contact our sponsor, Vicki Tillman at VickiTillmanCoaching.com for life transition coaching via Skype or phone.

BTW- there are 6 of us at 7SistersHomeschool.com…who is the 7th Sister? YOU are!!

Omega Moms: Life After Last Kid Graduates

What Retired Homeschool Moms Tell Me

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This week on the HSHSP Ep 69: Homeschool Highschool Co-ops Nuts and Bolts for Starting One.

Until you’ve started your own homeschool highschool co-ops you might have NO idea all the details that go into it!

Co-ops are lots of fun but lots of work. They work much more smoothly if you handle the details up front during your planning. What are the many things you need to think about?

Join Sabrina, Vicki and Marilyn for an amusing chat (and “we’re ditzes” bloopers). We we’re discussing the nuts and bolts for starting a homeschool highschool co-op such as:

Help your homeschool highschoolers have a great educational year, make some great friends and have lots of fun by planning for the details as you set up your co-op!

Homeschool Co-op: How to Use College Application Essay Writing Guide

7 Engaging Activities for Financial Literacy in Homeschool Co-op

And when you or your teen need some wise guidance for the next steps in life, visit Vicki’s life and career coaching site for great information and personal coaching.

3 Top Priorities for Success in College

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Today on The HSHSP Ep 68: Highschool Co-ops- Why and How to Start One.

What’s fun and fulfilling and fine for creating credits? Co-op! Homeschool highschool co-ops are often a great resource for families with teens.

Our hosts Sabrina, Vicki and Marilyn have co-oped their homeschool highschoolers in several different formats:

We’ve had some GREAT experiences and some experience that make GREAT stories. The ups and downs have taught us moms and our teens lots about rolling with life’s punches, social skills and supporting one another in good times and tough times.

Often co-ops classes can make up for subjects that we don’t like to teach or feel unqualified to teach.

Co-oping isn’t for everyone, but a good co-op is lots of help for homeschooling families…Plus the friendships can last for many years. We have found that our teens have made lifelong friends from their peers at homeschool co-op and a couple of the teens married in the years after highschool graduation.

That’s why we’d love for you to join Sabrina, Vicki and Marilyn on the Homeschool Highschool Podcast for Highschool Co-ops- Why and How to Start One.

Help and How-to’s for Homeschool High School Co-ops

10 Great Discussion Questions for Homeschool Literature Co-op

How to Create Filmmaking Elective in Homeschool High School Co-op

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This week on HSHSP Ep 67: Science Labs for Non-STEM Teens!

Not everyone loves science. (You probably knew that.)

Some teens are not STEM majors! Their idea of fun education has nothing to do with Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics!

Nevertheless, they must do science labs! In their 3 or 4 required high school science courses, most of those will need labs!

It is true that many college prefer for their incoming freshmen to have experienced 3 lab sciences in high school. These usually include Biology and Chemistry. The third lab science varies according to each homeschool highschooler’s interests.

But what if you have a non-STEM teen?

The very idea of dissecting things in biology lab or mixing scary chemicals in chemistry lab makes them feel queasy (or worse)!

Do not fear! Your friendly big sisters, Sabrina, Vicki and Marilyn are here to help. They have raised STEM-type teens and non-STEM type teens and have done science labs with both (as well as running science labs for their homeschool co-ops and group classes).

They will encourage you with real-life stories of real-life science labs for non-STEM teens!

You CAN do it! Here’s a post on some things we did at one of our homeschool chemistry lab co-ops:

How to Start an Easy Chemistry Lab Co-op for Homeschoolers

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