“What curriculum do you use?”
We all get asked that question way more than we like. Honestly, we ask that question more than we’d like because we don’t know how else to talk about what we do on a typical homeschool day.
Understand the real answer to this common question.
Early bird pricing ends August 6!
Curriculum is more than what you buy.
“The primary purpose of education is wisdom and virtue, and every part of the program should serve to teach learners how to think and act rightly.”
– Karen Glass
A professional development day for homeschool moms.
LIVE
Saturday, October 11, 2025
9:00-3:45 Pacific
from attendees
Curriculum is what you live alongside your kids.
what we believe about CURRICULUM –
1
CURRICULUM IS FORMATIVE.
Curriculum is not just what you teach–it’s what shapes you and your children. Every curriculum forms affections, habits of mind, and understanding–in one direction or another.
2
CURRICULUM IS MORE THAN MATERIALS.
The most important parts of our curriculum can’t be purchased. You can buy books, plans, and programs, but you can’t buy wisdom, culture, or virtue. These greater goals require engaged attention, intentional practice, and dedicated perseverance.
3
THE HOMESCHOOL MOM HERSELF IS PART OF THE CURRICULUM.
You learn what you pay attention to. If you pay attention to nothing, you learn nothing. If you pay attention to trivialities, you become trivial.
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!
Physical hostess kits available until sold out!
Introducing
HOMESCHOOL ESSENTIALS:
CURRICULUM
Our retreats are a unique blend of online conference, live podcast, and face-to-face community. We stream 4 live sessions with 3-4 10-15 minute conversational segments so the pace is upbeat, the conversation is personal, and the ideas don’t get too heady. We’re prepared, but we interact, so there’s no rambling but there’s also no extended-talking-head feel. If you join live, not only is there chat happening with attendees, but also Zoom breakout rooms available for you to discuss the practical applications with other homeschool moms. You’ll love how we’ve reimagined the online conference!
Homeschool Essentials: CURRICULUM
will help you
Mystie Winckler (ID). Brandy Vencel (TX). Abby Wahl (OR).
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.
OUR RETREAT’s CURRICULUM
Here is what we will cover…
#1
Curriculum: What is it?
Sometimes just thinking about what a thing actually is gets us halfway toward addressing the real issues. Curriculum is the path your educational efforts are following.
#2
Curriculum: Why care about it?
The programs you buy aren’t the most important curriculum decisions. Before we pick what to buy, we need to set our big picture curriculum (and we don’t mean a scope and sequence)
#3
Curriculum: How to fix it
Most of us are in the middle of homeschooling. Many years and purchases are behind us. How can we course correct and fix what we have without starting from scratch and getting overwhelmed?
#4
Curriculum: Tips & Tricks
With over 30 years of homeschooling and 8 graduates between them, Brandy, Abby, and Mystie will share their go-to tactics for developing your own curriculum plan with confidence.
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 5 with the recordings on your own schedule.
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 5 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: Curriculum
Mystie, Abby, & Brandy share what they’ve done at various points in their homeschools to grow not only their children’s attention, but also their own.
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: Curriculum
Mystie, Abby, & Brandy share what they’ve done at various points in their homeschools to be confident in their curriculum choices and development.
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.