Scheduling Your Homeschool High School Year Successfully- Special Replay

This week on Homeschool High School Podcast: Scheduling Your Homeschool High School Year Successfully- Special Replay! Scheduling Your Homeschool High School Year Successfully We know that many homeschooling moms love scheduling…and many DON’T. Whether you enjoy scheduling, it is a good idea to employ some scheduling skills! High school needs organization and scheduling if you are going to achieve your goals (and your teen graduate in four years). We often receive questions about the right way to plan and then create schedules for homeschool high schoolers! What is the one right way to schedule your homeschool high school year? There’s NOT one right way to schedule but there are some tips for developing a schedule that works for you! Based on what has worked for our 7Sisters families (along with our teens), here are some tips for successfully scheduling your homeschool high school year: Start with the end in mind. Write out your vision or mission statement (click here for a writing your mission statement guide). For our purposes right now, vision and mission are pretty similar. A written vision or mission statement really does help you keep your homeschooling family on task. It helps you choose curriculum (will it advance the vision or mission? or am I experiencing peer pressure to buy curriculum that just will not fit our needs?) When you remember your vision or mission, you can best choose activities that fit the family’s needs. (These days there are SO many options for our homeschool high schoolers that we are often faced with having toooo many activities to choose from.) It helps you imagine and create an idea of the kind of homeschool environment you want. Do your want a quiet, serious, by-the-book homeschool or a rollicking, spontaneous homeschool (or a mix of both)? When you feel stressed, a vision or mission statement can actually help you keep calm and homeschool on. Next, set four year goals. What do you want your teens to have accomplished by the time they graduated (on the transcript and in real life). When they walk across the stage at