Our goal is not efficiency.
Like good moderns, we work to make our homeschool days smooth. We organize, streamline, plot and plan. We grade ourselves on our output, on the quantity of work accomplished.
Scholé attracts us, but how do we work at a leisurely pace when we have so much to do? Does scholé simply mean working less? (hint: it doesn’t)
Our relationship with time, work, and each other is out of joint.
Education takes time.
“There is no right time left for what is not done in its own time.” – Charlotte Mason
A professional development day for homeschool moms.
from attendees
Homeschooling takes time because people take time.
what we believe about time and education –
1
Time is short.
God gives us our time on earth and asks us to invest it for His glory and His kingdom. Our time is not our own, for it was bought with Christ’s blood.
2
Where we spend our time is where we set our hearts.
You know people’s actual priorities and desires not by what they think or say, but by where they spend their time.
3
Education doesn’t happen by the clock.
Setting rigid schedules and measuring every moment will not get us a genuine education because hearts and souls aren’t well formed that way.
register for this retreat
Come spend the day with practical, hands-on, conversational, and relational sessions
We provide a professional development day for moms, perfect for individual OR group use!
Introducing
HOMESCHOOL ESSENTIALS:
TIME
We can become easily frustrated by how time crawls and how time flies while we are at home with our kids. However, time is the stuff life is made of and we must learn to invest it wisely. In these retreat sessions we talk about structuring homeschool days, homeschooling well even with the last children, and many more practical, needed topics on time management for homeschool moms.
Homeschool Essentials: Time
will help you
Mystie Winckler. Brandy Vencel. Abby Wahl.
No. We’re not actually sisters.
Hi! We’re the Scholé Sisters.
Like you, we homeschool our children for better or for worse
We all have struggled feeling like our abilities did not match up to our vocation as a homeschool mom. We have hard and rough days that include yelling, huffy comments, and messy houses. We can cry about that (and sometimes we do). Or, we can laugh. We think we should choose laughter more often.
Homeschooling well can be an overwhelming and lonely task. We will give you practical help to make it less overwhelming and connect you with sisters who can relate to what you are going through and who will help you grow in love of God, your family, and wisdom as you do.
Time is ticking away
Here is what we cover…
#1
Time: What does it mean?
Think of time as a tempo. Using time is like singing, is like dancing – a matching of our movement to the given situation and calling.
#2
Time: Why care about it?
We should care about time because it’s a gift, a talent – remember the parable of the talents. Each steward is given a different amount. Do you invest it and make the most out of what you’re given, or do you guard and protect it from risk so tightly and so miserly that it stays buried and unprofitable?
#3
Time: How to manage it
Homeschooling is character boot camp for MOMS, not just kids. In homeschooling, while homeschooling, through homeschooling WE, the moms, will develop in character, grow in virtue, IF we take the opportunities given us each and every day, moment by moment.
#4
Time: Tips & Tricks
God works on us our whole life long and doesn’t get bored or tired of us. How much more should we enjoy disciplining our children rather than be frustrated by their needs?! God gave us our children for 18ish years – so we should plan on parenting them, in different ways, that whole time.
INVIte some friends and make it a real retreat
Pull your local moms together for a fun, easy teacher in-service community day.
GEt the deets on how easy we make hosting a local community day!
“We all agreed it was well worth our time.”
— Jaime Shorey
We want local connections and face-to-face discussion to be easy for you to do.
If you want to plan a local “teacher’s inservice day” for your own homeschool community at a local church, library, home, conference room, other retreat venue, or virtually – we’ll help you make it a day to remember.
Your local retreat gathering can happen live or be scheduled after October 9 with the recordings on your own time table.
Your local attendees will only pay $25 to attend (plus food costs if you do a catered meal), scoring a $13 discount off the regular price AND still receiving the replay recordings after the group invoice is paid. Part of that $25 will reimburse your own hostess kit cost and we will invoice you for $22/person after you submit a photo of your registration sheet (provided in the kit).
PLUS, as a hostess, you’ll be invited into the Local Leader’s Sistership Group with dozens of other local hostesses, several of whom have done events for 6 years now.
Use this Homeschool Essentials Retreat as an excuse to gather homeschool moms together and foster meaningful connections and relationships. We make it easy, promise.
Homeschool Essentials: Time
Mystie, Abby, & Brandy share what they’ve done at various points in their homeschools to use their time generously, gratefully, and graciously.
Plus, every session will have an application wrap-up segment where Abby will help you reflect on the material and be prepared and excited to apply it in your own home.
This is the teacher’s development day you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
Homeschool Essentials: Time
Mystie, Abby, & Brandy share what they’ve done at various points in their homeschools to use their time generously, gratefully, and graciously.
Plus, every session will have an application wrap-up segment where Abby will help you reflect on the material and be prepared and excited to apply it in your own home.
This is the teacher’s development day you need.