Here are some suggested resources that you may want to look through. These have been recommended by ENRICHri members.
BOOKS
What to Teach?
- What Your (Xth) Grader Needs to Know (series) – E.D. Hirsch
- Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School – Rebecca Rupp
- The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home – Susan Wise Bauer*
Starting Out & General Inspiration
- The Call of the Wild + Free – Ainsley Arment*
- The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child – Your Complete Guide to Getting off to the Right Start – Linda Dobson
- The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life – Julie Bogart
- Out of the Box Learning: Empowering You on your Homeschool Journey – Beverly Burgess
- Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education – Susan Wise Bauer
Self-Directed Education
- Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World – Ben Hewitt
- Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners – Lori McWilliam Pickert
- Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life – Peter Gray
- Unschooling Rules – Clark Aldrich
Homeschooling High School
- Homeschooling for College Credit – Jennifer Cook-DeRosa
- Graduating With A Homeschool Diploma: How Your Homeschooler Can Graduate With An Official High School Diploma That Is Accepted (Nearly) Everywhere – Rebecca Leach
- Homeschool High School Made Easy: Find Your Why . . . Then Find Your Way (Easy Homeschool) – Lea Ann Garfias
- Planning High School Courses: Charting the Course Toward Homeschool Graduation – Lee Binz
HOMESCHOOLING PODCASTS
- Wild + Free*
- Learning Outside the Lines
- Raising Lifelong Learners
- Exploring Unschooling
WEBSITES
- www.worldbook.com/typical-course-of-study
- www.homehighschoolhelp.com
- www.secularhomeschool.com
- www.outschool.com
- www.khanacademy.com
- www.masterclass.com
- www.mysteryscience.com
FACEBOOK PAGES & GROUPS
(open to the public to request to join)
- ENRICHri Information Page
- Homeschooling Rhode Island (RI) Special Needs Parents
- Rhode Island Homeschooling for College Credit
- RI Homeschoolers
- RI Homeschool Teen Scene
- RI Home Schooling and Unschooling
- MHLA Homeschool Group Discussion Page (Mass)
- Village Homeschoolers (Milford, Mass)
- Massachusetts Homeschoolers Connection
- New England Happy Homeschoolers
- Working Homeschool Mom Club*
- Secular, Eclectic, Academic (SEA) Homeschoolers
- It’s Not That Hard to Homeschool High School
- Homeschool with Netflix, Amazon streaming, etc.
- Radical Unschooling
* These resources are not completely secular; there may be mentions of the Bible or other religious texts or of praying or the author may have a non-secular viewpoint. In all cases, ENRICHri members have found these resources to be useful and to be able to take from them what they needed.