Whether you’re just starting to homeschool or well on your way, I hope you’ll find my list of recommended articles, books, organizations, websites, and podcasts helpful. If there are other resources you’d like to share, please be sure to let me know!
Articles
For a terrific guide to all things homeschooling, check out: “A Guide To Homeschooling Your Children” by Mom Informed.
Books
Linda Dobson – The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas
John Taylor Gatto – Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling and The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
Peter Gray and Kerry McDonald – Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
Mary Griffith – The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom and The Homeschooling Handbook: A Parent’s Guide to Making the Decision; Discovering Your Child’s Learning Style; Getting Started; Creating an Effective Study Program; And much, much, more!
John Holt – Teach Your Own, How Children Learn, and Learning All the Time
Pam Larrichia – The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide
Rebecca Rupp – Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Creative and Comprehensive Curriculum
Grace Llewellyn – The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education and Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
Carpe Diem, Illinois – My award-winning novel about a Chicago reporter investigating an unschooling town.
Organizations
Wisconsin Homeschooling Parents Association
National Home Education Resource Institute
The Alliance for Self-Directed Learning
Podcasts
- Off-Trail Learning
- Homeschool Unrefined
- Exploring Unschooling – Living Joyfully
- Stories of an Unschooling Family
- The Homeschool Sisters
- The Unschool Files
- Unschooling with Kai
Websites
- Blake Boles
- Self-Directed Learning 101
- John Holt GWS
- Unschoolers.com
- The Homeschool Mom
- Wide Open School
- #metkids – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Smithsonian Institute – fun stuff for kids and teens
- Library of Congress Activities for Kids & Families
- Library of Congress Resources for Family Engagement
- NASA Kids’ Club
- MIT Open Courseware – free classes at MIT
- edX – free online courses from over 140 institutions
- TED Talks
- Sandra Dodd on Life and Learning