The Homeschool Advantage Podcast

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Deepti Jain Co-Founder of We Skoolhouse,  felt the challenge and constraints of accessing quality early childhood learning programs for children, and quickly realized she wasn’t alone. With an evident need, combined with a deeply rooted love for children and an understanding of how critical these early years are, Deepti and her partner embarked on a journey to elevate the quality of early childhood education by opening brick...

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Lauren Bordeaux CEO and Founder of Homeschool HQ. The HomeschoolHQ app is a user-populated homeschool resource platform. The app was built by homeschoolers for homeschoolers to help build community. Users can add resources in multiple categories like co-ops, activities, camps, conventions, and field trip ideas. The app also has a Built-in location service to enable homeschoolers to find nearby resources that work for their f...

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Svetlana Khmelnitsky CEO of Kids Look Listen Create. Each Kids Look Listen Create program is a multisensory experience that exposes young children to classical music and fine art through active engagement. It stimulates imagination and encourages unlimited interpretations of works of art and classical music. It celebrates childhood creativity and play by offering creative movement, open-ended crafts, and drawings. 

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Monica Cuquerella is the CEO and Founder of Active Play. When Active play was born, Monica was running workshops, extracurricular and after school classes, birthdays party, corporate events, camps, messy play sessions, phonics and private lessons, and much more.  Active play  provides great experiences for you& your family that shape your little child life. Their motto is learning through fun & play. Active play off...

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Jane Engel CEO of Angel Educators, she started tutoring after she retired from the classroom, due to the overwhelming amount of students that were struggling with reading. As she searched for educational materials to support almost everything she found online didn't comply with the approach she learned during her training, and over the years Jane ended up making hundreds of worksheets of her own.  

Unsure if this was the di...

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Tiffany Philips Founder of Learning Made Easy Publishing was inspired by the negative impact virtual learning had on young children during and since the pandemic. She believes that it’s incredibly difficult to replicate the benefits of an in-person learning environment to young kids in a digital space. After seeing how ineffective virtual learning was for young kids to grasp fundamental concepts, she started Learning Made E...

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Peter Edwards is Director of San Diego Liberal Arts Academy.  SDLAA employs an "upside down classroom" model, in which live class meeting time focuses on hands-on activities, collaborative learning, interactive discussions, projects, and simulations.  Background research and assignments are completed independently, with teacher support available. SDLAA strives to focus on teaching students how  to learn, building skills tha...

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Marcela CEO and Founder of Calming Bee, Calming Bee is designed to be a Balance for children.  Their class routine here is designed with the purpose to create a harmonious balance between structured and non-structure activities. Children are set up for success. When children are engaged they get to explore, think outside the box, they are creative and free to be!  

At the Calming Bee children can play, learn and be artist...

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Gabrielle Hughes a Tutor and an Autism advocate, Gabrielle got her start in by teaching sewing lessons when she was a homeschool senior. She taught classes at a local home school group and discovered she had a passion for teaching. When she was 19 she discovered she was most likely autistic and was able to get an official diagnosis at 21. This was a huge revelation and helped explained so much and once she was able to seek ...

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Sensei Jan Stockton, she is a 3rd degree black belt, and has been a leader in the martial arts for over 35 years.  

She is the founder of Great Start Karate and co-founder of Karate West in Washington state, one of the largest martial arts schools in the country. 

The Great Start Karate hosts in-person and virtual programs! Our programs are exclusively designed for kids ages 4 to 12. Our motivational black belt instructors ...

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Erin Madden, BSc AHN Dietetics is the founder and CEO of Happy Kids Nutrition Academy. At Happy Kids Nutrition Academy, they believe that good food starts with good education. That’s why they offer online nutrition and food science courses to teens and preteens. Their programs are designed to give kids the skills and knowledge they need to make healthy choices about food. They offer a variety of courses, each with its own u...

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Katie Kelly CEO, Director of Learning and Platform Development  at Cresconova  Cresconova is a nonprofit organization that fosters critical thinking, social-emotional learning, collaboration and problem solving. The world has changed drastically over the past 20 years, but so much of what is taught in the classroom has remained the same.  

At Cresconova they believe children should learn how to ask questions instead of memo...

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Leon Olguin CEO and Teacher of At Home With Music, He is a classically trained pianist with over 3 decades of experience in playing classical music, pop, rock, and jazz.  

His career as a professional musician and record producer afforded him the flexibility to homeschool her daughter for 5 years back in the 90s from grades 6 through 10! He has a tremendous amount of admiration and respect for homeschool families. 

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Michele Holmes CEO of is a veteran homeschool mom of 30 years. Her desire is to help you give your student the best home education you can for their high school years. She helps homeschool parents create high school credits that meet their homeschooled teen's needs and interests. You'll get clear on credit requirements and work out a plan for the next four years so you can confidently prepare your teen for life after graduat...

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Teresa Wiedrick CEO of Capturing The Charmed Life, author of Homeschool Mama Self-Care: Nurturing the Nurturer, Theresa offers homeschool life coaching, helping you shed what’s not working so you can show up in your homeschool (& life) authentically, purposefully, and confidently. Her coaching helps you 

• Transform your frustration, confusion, and overwhelm to clarity, confidence, and purpose. 
• Get clear on your trig...

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Carabeth Rahtjen consultant at HomeWorks by Precept where they provide the homeschool community with the best textbooks and resources available. HomeWorks Consultants are veteran homeschool moms available to help equip parents to give their children a strong Christian homeschool education.  

Their goal is to equip parents with the tools needed to produce a strong, creative, and engaged learner. Written within the framework ...

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Maggie Cure Founder of Counting lives: back to the basics, before she became a mom, she taught second grade. It never once crossed her mind to homeschool her own kids one day. When her oldest was a year away from entering kindergarten, she figured she’d have nothing to lose by giving it a trial year. She went into it focused on the curriculum, schedule, and academics and came out of it being blown away by every non-academic...

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Tammy Founder of Create A Homeschool Life, Tammy found that homeschooling is more natural than she thought and understanding that it is human nature to over-complicate things, she soon realized that this area is not immune to that perception. Letting go of preconceived notions of what she thought homeschooling was, allowed her to find a rhythm that worked for their family.  

And thus was born Create a Homeschool Life.  Crea...

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Dr. Amit Dongol founder of Neurostem has a passion to give back as well as be part of an intellectual, healthy, and growing community. After earning a PhD in physics like all great intellects he realized there must be more all the while challenged to find a school that would meet his gifted son’s educational needs at the elementary school age. Through trial and error they enrolled him in public, private, chartered, and Mont...