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Montessori Education – What is It? Why Is It? Will It Work for My Family?

August 4, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool / By Jacqueline Zote

For families that want to homeschool their kids, one of the biggest challenges lies in deciding on the right homeschool approach. Maybe you’re considering eLearning and remote learning to maintain safety during the pandemic or perhaps you want to pool in resources with other parents to form homeschool pods. Among these options, the Montessori homeschooling …

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8 Common Myths about Homeschooling, Debunked

July 24, 2020 July 22, 2021 / Homeschool / By Jay Pike

According to a Real Clear Opinion Poll, 15% of the 2,122 families surveyed said they plan to homeschool their children in the fall of 2020. The trend continues to grow. When it comes to kids learning at home in the fall, it’s reasonable to feel confused about what things are true about homeschooling, and what …

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3 Online Resources to Get Students and Families Ready for “Back to School”

July 23, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool / By Wyzant

The abrupt move to remote classrooms in the spring left a lot of parents and students with a feeling that education had taken a backset. Although teachers strove to make the best of a very difficult situation, according to a recent survey of 107 parents we conducted, more than 60% said they believed their children …

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Which Homeschool Approach is Right for Your Kids?

July 23, 2020 August 26, 2020 / Homeschool / By Cora Majewski

It’s no secret: families and students now have to imagine a new way of learning. In 2016, only around 3.3 percent of kids in the US were homeschooled. That number is quickly changing. For many parents, a short-term measure in Spring taken to ensure their kids’ safety may become more long-term than they expected…or prepared …

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People Want To Learn From Humans, Especially During a Pandemic

May 29, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool, Wyzant News / By Andrew Geant, CEO

This article was originally published on LinkedIn on May 21, 2020 If necessity is the mother of all invention, global pandemics are the father of adoption. Overnight, people have been forced to embrace tech-enabled behaviors like online tutoring, remote work, ecommerce, telehealth and grocery delivery. All of these were at various points on the adoption …

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WATCH: Wyzant Homeschool Roundtable

May 29, 2020 September 2, 2020 / Homeschool, Video / By Jay Pike

In many ways, tutors are on the frontlines of our shared education crisis. They’re out there all over the country, day in and day out, working to keep students engaged and learning as routines and support systems – both their own and those of their families – have been turned upside down by the pandemic. …

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5 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed the Meaning of Tutoring

April 15, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool, Online Learning / By Andrew Geant, CEO

It seems that every day the ripple effects of COVID-19 keep expanding. As the nation’s largest tutoring marketplace, Wyzant and its 60,000 tutors have observed major changes to students, their needs, and the role of tutoring. In many ways, tutors are on the frontlines of the education crisis, working to keep students learning as their …

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Making Sense of the Different Types of Remote Learning

April 14, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool, Online Learning / By Jacqueline Zote

With the global COVID-19 pandemic requiring educational institutions to remain closed, many schools are taking to remote learning, and most parents have to find a way to “homeschool” their kids. For those completely new to the concept, it may be difficult to understand what remote learning really entails. What kind of at-home learning options do …

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“How Does This All Work, Exactly?”: Remote Learning and Homeschooling FAQ’s

April 13, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool, Online Learning / By Jonathan Reidenouer

This is truly an unprecedented sequence of events we have recently experienced, and perhaps the most astounding aspect of our current circumstances is the way time is moving. In a paradoxical manner that we haven’t before witnessed, time seems to be simultaneously dragging along and moving at warp speed. In less than a month, schools …

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How to Homeschool: 8 Important Tips from a Professional Tutor

April 1, 2020 January 20, 2021 / Homeschool, Online Learning / By Jonathan Reidenouer

March 2020 may very well go down as the “longest” month in our lives. The degree of change in our day-to-day existence from the beginning of March to the beginning of April is staggering. Many people are unable to work at all due to the closing of non-essential businesses, while others have been forced to …

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Montessori Education – What is It? Why Is It? Will It Work for My Family?

8 Common Myths about Homeschooling, Debunked

3 Online Resources to Get Students and Families Ready for “Back to School”

Which Homeschool Approach is Right for Your Kids?

People Want To Learn From Humans, Especially During a Pandemic

WATCH: Wyzant Homeschool Roundtable

5 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed the Meaning of Tutoring

Making Sense of the Different Types of Remote Learning

“How Does This All Work, Exactly?”: Remote Learning and Homeschooling FAQ’s

How to Homeschool: 8 Important Tips from a Professional Tutor

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