If you’re a homeschool parent and are considering forming a homeschool cooperative, you will quickly discover that there are dozens of ways you can structure your co-op to best serve its members.  Generally speaking, homeschool co-ops are made up of … Read the rest

Our websites will be undergoing maintenance this weekend, from approximately 8PM PDT on Saturday, 5/20 thru 6AM PDT on Sunday, 5/21 and will not be available.

Our curriculum, however, will remain online, should you need to access curriculum during … Read the rest

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

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The idea of Common Core State Standards goes back to 2008 when Janet Napolitano, former Arizona Governor and 2006-07 chair of the National Governors Association, wrote a report focused on improving math and science education … Read the rest

Research shows that students who attend summer learning programs often demonstrate learning gains over students who do not attend summer school.  Unfortunately, summer public school programs can be labor and cost intensive and many school districts have been forced to … Read the rest

Thousands of parents have watched their young toddler or elementary school child behave in ways that “seem so intelligent” and, based on these casual observations, have concluded that their child is most certainly “gifted.”  Unfortunately, many of these parents do … Read the rest

Global Student Network (GSN), a provider of state-of-the-art online educational tools since 2004, provides a wide variety of personalized learning tools that can be utilized as an alternative to “one-size-fits-all” instructional approaches often used in public schools.  GSN’s selection of … Read the rest

Global Student Network is pleased to offer Edmentum™ Study Island. Designed to help students in grades K-12 master content and improve skills in language arts and math, Study Island now includes science and social studies. This high-impact learning platform provides … Read the rest

GradPoint Music Appreciation has been extremely fun, engaging and informative course. Each unit provides new and useful information about music during different periods. There are many resources online to learn about music during different periods (i.e. Baroque and Classical), but … Read the rest

Typically, the Number 3 question asked of me right after “How do you socialize your kids?” and “What curriculum do you use?” is “How are you homeschooling more than one child?”

It’s a good question, especially in our day and … Read the rest