How to Start Homeschooling When You Weren’t Planning To

First, let’s start with what homeschooling is and what it isn’t. For many experienced homeschoolers, educating children at home is not always an “at home” process. It’s about exploring the world, building relationships with other homeschoolers, participating in group projects and activities outside the home, attending performances, exploring museums, and going on countless field trips.

So, we’re not all suddenly homeschooling. This is isolation schooling.

What homeschooling also isn’t is distance or remote learning. School districts across the country are scrambling to identify ways to finish out the school year by having students participate through Google classroom, Zoom, and other methods of learning remotely. It might work, but it might not. School…