Links
We are pleased to provide this list of links of resources to help you in your home schooling. This list is not exhaustive, but it represents the most often used resources for home educators.
National Organizations
- Beginning Homeschooling is a website dedicated for the beginning homeschooler. If you are considering educating your children at home, this website is a great place to start. It answers questions about why and how to homeschool, teaching teens, preparing for college and other important information.
- Generation Joshua is a youth movement for ages 11-19. The goal of the program is to help educate and train the leaders of tomorrow. Students are educated through their online civics curriculum that covers topics in history, government, and worldview and their annual summer camp. The training comes as the result of participation in hands-on activities like HSLDA-PAC Student Action Teams, GenJ Clubs, and Voter Registration.
- Home School Legal Defense Association is the cutting edge of home education in the United States. It provides legal services for members, keeps abreast of legislative developments in Congress and the states, and provides leadership training workshops and resources for state home school leaders.
- National Home Education Research Institute is a great resource for statistics on the performance of home schooled students across the United States. NHERI provides the results of research from a number of studies.
- TeenPact is a comprehensive leadership experience that challenges students to grow both personally and spiritually. During TeenPact, students will enjoy meeting and interacting with other Christian young people and leaders from across their state. Students will come away from TeenPact with a realization of their spiritual capacity as young people and a desire to change America for Christ.
Special Needs Children
- GIFTSNC Home Schooling Special Needs is a home school support group for families with special needs children. Our goal is to support, empower, guide and educate families home schooling children with special needs through conferences, workshops and family to family support.
- Linda M. Kane founded Hope and a Future, Inc. in September 1999 out of a desire to have a strong Biblical foundation and Christian basis when working with families. Hope And A Future’s primary mission is to give hope and specific help to families involved with developmental needs, genetic syndromes, brain injuries, Autism, and learning issues. Linda firmly believes the potential of an individual is determined by the opportunities presented to them. Hope And A Future guides families in offering the best opportunities to their children. Linda is certified through the International Christian Association of Neurodevelopmentalists, Inc. (ICAN). Currently, in affiliation with ICAN, the opportunity for continued research, study, and the exploration of options and methodologies to enhance the field of neurodevelopment is an ongoing critical part of her work.
National Publications
- Home School Digest Magazine is a quarterly publication for serious homeschoolers. Focuses on lifestyle issues from the Christian perspective.
- Homeschooling Today Magazine features ready-to-use curriculum, teaching tips, resources.
- Practical Homeschooling Magazine The latest homeschooling news, articles, organizations, events, Homeschool Mall, and much, much more!
- Teaching Home Magazine is a Christian magazine for home educators, written for homeschooling families by homeschoolers.
- The Magazine for Homeschool Families is a biblically-based magazine that is a practical resource, introducing products and services to the home educator that will strengthen, support and challenge the family both spiritually and academically as they impact their world for Christ.
Major Curriculum Providers
- A Beka is a major publisher of curriculum, complete programs for all grades. Books and videos.
- Accelerated Christian Education advance education through character-building individualized curriculum and programs, K-12th grade.
- Alpha Omega provides Bible-based curricula for students in preschool through 12th grade.
- Bluestocking Press features many wonderful resources in American history, economics, and American government.
- Bob Jones University Press is a major publisher of curriculum, complete programs for all grades. Books and videos.
- Christian Book Distributors offers many curriculum at discount prices.
- Christian Liberty Press finds, evaluates and produces curriculum rooted in God’s Word.
- Elijah Company is a comprehensive catalog of books and materials, including many hard-to-find items.
- Excellence in Writing offers a method for teaching writing skills.
- Green Leaf Press offers many world and American history resources.
- Hearthstone Learning is a family owned and operated retailer of educational resources for families. We have been home educating since 1996 and continually search for materials that are consistent with Christian values, encourage an enjoyable learning experience, and make effective use of time.
- Konos is a unit study approach dealing with Godly character, fostering a love for learning, achieving academic excellence, and equipping parents to teach with excellence.
- Math-U-See helps produce confident problem solvers who enjoy the study of math. The study of math is much more than committing a list of facts to memory. It includes memorization, but it also encompasses learning the concepts that are critical to problem solving.
- Rainbow Resource Center is a resource center of learning tools for homes and schools, preschool through 12th grade.
- Rod and Staff provides textbooks designed to make children God-conscious.
- Sonlight Curriculum is a homeschool supply company that gathers the best homeschooling materials, puts them together into a complete package and makes them available for parents.
- Book Peddler provides books and materials to homeschools.
- The Timberdoodle offers curriculum, supplemental materials, and hard-to-find items.