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Sep 24, 2025

Homeschool Hacks for Elementary: 30+ Ideas to Simplify Your Day

The secret to successfully homeschooling your elementary-aged student lies in embracing this season as an opportunity to restore your own education while cultivating a family atmosphere that treasures learning together. Homeschool hacks elementary families need to focus on are building relationships and wonder rather than checking boxes, creating a...

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Sep 15, 2025

Top 5 Common Sense Skills Every Student Should Learn Before College

As you settle into college, many of the skills you develop will come as you learn by doing. However, you can take a few practical “common sense” steps right now to prepare for college and build your confidence before you arrive on campus. College Communication Skills: Stay on Top...

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Sep 11, 2025

How to Get Kids to Love Reading: Raising Bibliophiles in a Screen World

One of the most important milestones of your child’s education is learning how to read. Unfortunately, another increasingly common mile marker seems to be when your child ceases to read—usually immediately upon graduation, when it’s no longer required—replacing reading’s role in leisure and lifelong learning by the attention-grabbing gremlins...

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Sep 10, 2025

Mastering the 15 Classical Skills: A Parent’s Guide to the Trivium

The 15 classical skills are the Five Core Habits of Grammar, Five Common Topics of Dialectic, and Five Canons of Rhetoric, which teach students how to learn anything for life. Most homeschool parents feel overwhelmed when they encounter terms like “trivium” or “dialectic” in classical education materials, wondering if...

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Aug 18, 2025

Sacred Creativity in Classical Education: Finding God in Art

Using the classical skills of learning, you can help your children find God in art through appreciation, imitation, and reflection. Read on to discover how. Teaching art in your homeschool is about more than crayons and craft time. It’s an invitation to slow down, to see beauty, and to...

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Aug 13, 2025

Pack Like a Pro: The Ultimate CC Community Day Survival Guide

It’s 7:47 AM on CC community day morning. You’re standing in your kitchen, coffee growing cold, staring at the collection of bags, books, and mysterious items scattered across your counter. Your Foundations student is missing one shoe, your Challenge student can’t find her Latin notebook, and you just realized...

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Aug 04, 2025

What to Know About Homeschooling: 10 Tips to Get Started

Are you looking to homeschool your child? That’s great! Before you start, however, there are a few things to know about homeschooling, from researching your state’s homeschool requirements to understanding that you really are capable of homeschooling your child. What to Know About Homeschooling Here are just ten things...

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Jul 21, 2025

Tailoring for Growth: Homeschool Lessons to Meet Your Child Where They Are

A skilled tailor doesn’t discard a beautiful garment simply because it doesn’t fit perfectly off the rack. Instead, they make thoughtful adjustments to suit the individual wearing it. In much the same way, tailoring homeschool lessons allows parents to thoughtfully adjust a well-formed curriculum to fit the unique mind...

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Jul 02, 2025

Who’s Really Thinking? AI and the Future of Education- Part One

By Leigh Bortins Only The Battle for Home Education I’m Leigh Bortins, founder and visionary of Classical Conversations. Since my family started homeschooling, I have worked to re-humanize education from the dehumanizing effects of technology. As we face the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in education, I believe it’s...

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Jun 23, 2025

Can I Homeschool My Child? Yes, and You Already Are!

“Can I homeschool my child?” It’s a question many parents ask—often with a mixture of hope, doubt, and curiosity. But here’s the good news: you already are. From the moment your child took their first wobbly steps to the moment they asked their first big “why,” you’ve been teaching...

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Jun 18, 2025

What Is Challenge IV?

Classical Conversations® Challenge IV is the final level in the Challenge program, the culmination of the Classical Conversations experience. Whether your student has completed Foundations, Essentials, and the previous levels of Challenge or is entering Challenge IV as a first-time Classical Conversations student, this post is a great place...

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May 28, 2025

5 Ways Homeschooled High Schoolers Can Prepare For Their Calling

As Christian homeschool parents, we pour ourselves into providing our children with a rich education that nourishes both their minds and souls. While we focus on the great books and timeless truths, we also recognize our own roles in helping our teens in career preparation and discerning their God-given...

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