Want to know something about us that I haven’t posted yet???
I run a homeschool co-op called HEART – Homeschoolers Educating through Art, Recreation, and Technology.
Talk about making homeschooling fun!!! HEART is fun AND educational.
Classes are 1 day a week – in the Spring we do 16 weeks and in the Fall we do 12 weeks. We try to pack everything into this one day so we can focus on our “book” work the rest of the week. We have classes for everything – Solar System to Chemistry, from Art to Cartooning, from Writing to Literature studies, from playground games to Photography, from dance to Tae Kwon Doe and everything in between. Moms teach classes and we also pay local artist/instructors to teach classes. It’s a great day for the kids and a great day for the parents. The moms love getting to hang out with other homeschoolers and support each other and love on each other.
This is my 3rd year leading this group. We have over 65 families and over 150 kids onsite each week. THIS IS MY MINISTRY and I LOVE IT!!! This is also the area God is using to grow me. Of course, He grows me daily in our homeschooling but He is also growing my leadership skills each day through our co-op.
As with everything else in my life (probably because I’m not great at sitting still and listening for God’s call), this was an “accidental” undertaking on my part. However, from the first week I knew this was my call, it has blessed me and my family and made our homeschool experience even more rich and has blessed us with friends we love sharing life with.
If you are interested in getting a co-op started in your area and would like advice, don’t hesitate to ask. I have great resources and experience that I would love to share with you.
But you must have the HEART for it … leadership comes from the HEART … and it will flow from you to your group.
By the way, I had just finished reading Waking the Dead when I learned I needed to start a co-op in our area. That’s when I got stuck on the name HEART.
Tags: co-op, HEART, Homeschool, leadership
