Resources: Homeschooling

GHF Resources  -  Organizations  -  Web Sites
Mailing Lists - Books and Other Media

Gifted Homeschooling Forum (GHF) Resources

• Definitions
• Articles
• Favorite Things: Recommended Learning Materials
• Getting Started Homeschooling: Legal Issues
• Gifted and Homeschool Friendly Professionals
• Blogs
  
• Join our Kiva team (a real-life learning experience!)
• Evidence for Homeschooling: Constitutional Analysis in Light of Social Science Research

Organizations

• Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF)
  
• California Homeschool Network (CHN) — CHN has a "How to Homeschool" FAQ as well as other resources you'll find useful wherever you are.
• African American Homeschoolers Network — Information and support for African American homeschoolers.
• Autodidact Symposium — A gathering for self-directed learners (focusing on unschooling and on the teen to adult transition).

Web Sites

• Homefires — The Journal of Homeschooling Online... the homeschooler's resource center for ready-made curriculum, advice, support and community.
  
• A to Z Home's Cool — This is a link to the gifted page, but it's worth
  exploring this entire Web site further. It is loaded with homeschooling information and links of all types.
• The Homeschool Diner — Homeschool resources "served up with a smile!"
• The Homeschooler's Resource
• eHow's Resources for Home Schooling Gifted Children
• Internet Resources for Homeschooling Gifted Students, Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
• Gifted Homeschooling on Hoagies' Gifted Education — "All Things Gifted" including information on homeschooling.
• National Distance and Short-Term Residential Programs for Gifted Children — Listing of camps and distance learning programs for gifted children. Many homeschooling families use these to provide academic challenges and peer socialization for their gifted children.
• Online Best College's 50 Eye-Opening Unschooling Blogs
• SecularHomeschool.com — Where "secular homeschoolers are the majority!"
• College Confidential — Includes discussions relevant to homeschoolers.

Mailing Lists

• GiftedHF — the mailing list associated with Gifted Homeschoolers Forum. Members are from around the world
• TAGMAX — This is a mailing list focusing on homeschooling gifted kids anywhere in the world. The volume of emails can get a little high, but there is an excellent exchange of information.
• Work and Homeschool — a mailing list for families who are doing both (or considering the possibility)
• Regional Support — These are links we have collected for families homeschooling gifted kids in specific regions or specialty groups.
• Homeschool2college — restricted list for families making the transition to college
• Hs2coll  —another list for families making the transition; less 'chatty'

Books and Other Media

• 7 Secrets to Finding the Best Homeschool Curriculum is a FREE e-book which includes interviews with some of the most influential names in homeschooling... including Corin Barsily Goodwin, Executive Director of GHF!
• Creative Homeschooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families, by Lisa Rivero. This book is a great resource and covers a wide variety of homeschool topics.
• Check out this comprehensive "how to" on homeschooling, written by prolific author and homeschooler Ann Lahrson-Fisher, Fundamentals of Home-Schooling: Notes on Successful Family Living. Easy to understand, you can read it from the first page to the last or simply thumb through it, using it as a resource whenever questions come up. It's not written specifically for gifted learners, but there is plenty of information here that will apply. The author is a terrific speaker, too, and gives presentations at homeschool workshops around the United States.
• Updated! Opportunities After High School: Thoughts, Documents, Resources, by Wes Beach. In his book, the GHF Teen Advisor describes his work with hundreds of students who have spent their teenage years in a wide variety of ways, all non-traditional, and have gone on successfully to college and other endeavors ranging from business ownership to professional rock climbing. Those who have gone to college have been very successful, always without having had a complete traditional high school education. The majority of the book is about writing transcripts, including sample transcripts that show how these kids spent their teenage years. Read more on Teens and College, including articles by Wes Beach!  
  
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, by Grace Llewellyn. Written for teenagers, this book gives all kinds of practical suggestions on making the change from school to homeschool, discusses getting a job or moving on to college, and generally encourages teens to get out into the world and think for themselves.
• Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow. Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love, by David H. Albert.  David Albert is a wonderful writer and speaker who has at times claimed not to do the "g" word (for the "gifted" label), yet  he and his children clearly are gifted and his books and articles are a refreshing change for parents who are stressed about raising gifted children and guiding their education.
• And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education, by David H. Albert
• Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery, by David H. Albert
• Bibliography: Gifted Children and Homeschooling, compiled by Kathi Kearney