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Mini-schools are springing up among homeschoolers all over the world.

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Starting Up

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AN A TO Z RESOURCE
Yahoo Group for those wishing to connect with others to form cottage schools or mentors to hire for your cottage school.

For Teachers Who Want to Tutor
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You want to break out of public schools. How do you enter the homeschool market?

Cottage School Net
If you are trying to form a cottage school, you'll be able to network on this message board with those trying to do the same and with homeschoolers looking for a cottage school to join.

Homeschool CPA
Helping Homeschool organizations obtain non-profit status.  Carol Topp has several articles about managing growing groups, mission statements, budgeting, by laws, applying for 501c3 tax exempt status, etc. As a homeschooling mother and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) she is blending her skills, education and experience to help other homeschoolers manage their organizations.

Start an Educational Alternative
The centerpiece of the program is a special listserve just for people who want to start new alternatives. In addition to the AERO staff, we have gathered an outstanding group of experts from a variety of educational alternatives to be on the listserve, to mentor and aid people who want to start new programs.

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Cooperative Homeschooling
Homeschool cooperatives, or groups, are a derivative of homeschooling where families join together to educate their children.

Creating Learning Communities: Freeing Education to create a sustainable Co-operative Society
These learning centres are cooperatively organised by the member families they serve with parents pooling their talents, resources and expertise. By Anna Jahns, Kindred Magazine.

Homeschool Resource Centers
Within the next 20 years community learning centers will become increasingly important as educational sources, often replacing what we now refer to as "schools." AERO is developing a kind of kit for people who want to start such programs.

Mom Schools: The Biggest Trend in American Education Since Home Schooling
Mom Schools are where a mom sees that her kids need something, so she sets it up, offers it, and invites others.

Tuesday School
Oregon. Ann Lahrson-Fisher describes two model mini-schools or expanded homeschool programs that could be duplicated by parents interested in having a little "dame school" in their home.

Examples

ARKANSAS

Home School Zone
Little Rock, Arkansas. We have a place where children are fully supported to pursue any interest they have, in the manner they choose, and at their own pace. The Zone is run democratically with students and parents having an equal say.

CALIFORNIA

Abacus Educational Services
Traditional and online classes for homeschoolers and homeschooling parents. Classes offered in Monrovia, CA and Online. All major core subjects are covered, including English through college entrance level and math through calculus.

Bakersfield Region Home Educators' Resource Center
California. Christian resource center offering classes and educational resources on a scheduled or drop-in basis.

Educational Resource Center of Santa Cruz
A membership-based lending library of hundreds of learning materials for homeschooling families. phone: 831-818-8178; email: .

LEAD Center Classes at Liber Community School
Looking for enrichment classes for your homeschooling student ages 5 and up? Los Gatos, California. (510) 825-7413.

Play Mountain Place
California. A humanistic educational environment that is developmentally appropriate for each age group. Our curriculum is organic, child-initiated, and primarily experiential. A child's inherent desire to learn is acknowledged and facilitated, not forced or squelched.

San Diego Homeschool Resource Center
We are a non profit group of homeschoolers in California. We offer a free monthly e-zine and we are building an online catalogue of teachers, tutors, clubs and classes in the San Diego area. We want to open a facility with a lending library and space for all homeschoolers to share and learn together.

COLORADO

The Hangout Homeschool and After School Learning Center
There is always something happening at The Hangout! 11700 Irma Drive, Northglenn, Colorado. Our hours are 10am-4pm M-F. 303-255-5514.

DELAWARE

Covenant Community School
CCS was established in 1998 to meet the needs of the expanding homeschooling community in New Castle County, Delaware. We are a school for Christian homeschoolers. We offer school one day a week for children in Grade 1 through Grade 7.

FLORIDA

Sunshine Learning Center
Classes are now being offered in the areas of math, science, and PSAT/SAT prep specifically for the homeschool community in Margate and Davie, Florida.

JAPAN

Tamariba
Kawasaki, Japan. An alternative free school for those who don't fit into the atmosphere of the regular school system.

KENTUCKY

The One Room Schoolhouse
Louisville, Kentucky. Classes for home schooled youth (ages 9-12). For adults, class offerings include creative writing, Shakespeare, poetry, and local history. Parents will find The One Room Schoolhouse a great site for field trip opportunities and a consignment connection for teaching materials and resources.

LOUISIANA

Home School Cottage
Louisiana. We have a consignment bookstore for your used homeschool curriculum and other educational materials, as well as co-op classes, workshops, and high school assistance.

MASSACHUSETTS

Milford Montessori Educational Center
Assists homeschooling families with the education of their children. Offers classes and tutoring for pre-kindergarteners through seniors in high school.

North Star, Self-directed Learning for Teens
Massachusetts. North Star students leave school. They embark upon non-compulsory, community-based, self-directed learning programs that include a variety of activities.

NEW JERSEY

The Enrichment Center Annex
It is our goal to provide exciting programming for students in this "School for All Ages." We are now running the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Community School.

NEW YORK

The Albany Free School
New York. Truth be told, we are a community far more than a school - a safe, nurturing, open space where daily fifty-five kids ages two through fourteen, eight full-time teachers, a cook, a steady stream of interns, volunteers and visitors, as well as myriad goats, chickens, rabbits, pet rats, lizards and goldfish work, play, learn and eat together.

St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church at North Ridge Homeschool Resource Center
This volunteer-driven, staff-supported educational program is designed to stay flexible and adaptable in providing resources and opportunities.

OHIO

Grace Home Extension Program
Classes are held at Kirtland Christian Fellowship in Kirtland, OH. We reach families in the counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull in Northeast Ohio. We are a Christian group and follow the classical education model.

The Sprouted Acorn
Holmes County, Ohio. An organization designed to promote mentoring between homelearners and local mentors through the sharing of arts, sciences and other talents.

OREGON

The Village Home Education Resource Center
Oregon. Designed and managed by homeschooling families as a private alternative education program, our resource center enhances and supports home-based education through tuition-free courses, field trips, and experiential learning opportunities, community meeting space, library and material loans, and access to technology.

TEXAS

Homeschoolers Hangout
Texas. A curriculum bookstore and activity center in Lockhart, TX, owned and operated by a local homeschooling family.

Houston Outdoor Learning Academy
Texas. A full-time, non-profit school for 6-12th grade students who wish to combine their innate curiosity, love of the outdoors, and academic growth into an educational setting that uses a hands-on approach.

Light House Education Center
Texas. Provides a loving environment in which to develop and nurture a child's enduring relationship with God and family while cultivating a passion for learning.

Master's Academy of Fine Arts
A full fine arts school designed specifically for homeschooled children ages 5-18. Meeting just one day per week, children are exposed to the arts from a Christian historical perspective.

Sonlight Christian Enrichment Classes
The purpose of SCEC is to provide enrichment classes for Christian home schooling families in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in order to supplement their own schools.

VIRGINIA

Richmond Enrichment Studio
The Richmond Enrichment Studio, located in Midlothian, 11000 Trade Road, is an affordable meeting space for homeschoolers throughout the Richmond area.

WASHINGTON

The Attic Learning Community
A progressive, independent school, in Woodinville, Washington. The Attic operates a developmental, multiage, child-centered learning community for children ages 5 through 18.

The Clearwater School
Washington. At Seattle's Sudbury School, children are always busy learning without the enticements of gold stars, without the requirements of pre-set curriculums, and without the pressure of constant evaluation.

ExCEL Academic League
We have a Co-op which meets once a week and offers a variety of classes that enhance the core education the students receive at home. We also organize a variety of nationally sanctioned academic competitions and teams such as Science Bowl, National Geographic Bee, Word Power Challenge and Science Olympiad.

Puget Sound Community School
Washington. An independent school for 9 - 18 year olds in the Seattle area. PSCS helps develop capable, committed, compassionate young people from the inside out.

Resources

Homeschool Resource Centers
A $25 video of a homeschool resource center, featuring the Snakefoot Education Center, at Common Ground Community. This is a group of families that created a center in which 15 homeschooled children meet three times a week. They also hired a resource person. Available through Aero.

Praxis National Teachers Exam
Potentially useful to homeschool parents who want to start up their own "school" for homeschoolers or want to qualify to help fellow homeschoolers in states that require a "teacher" to oversee homeschools.

 
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