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You are teaching at home and cannot account for the year.

“It is March and I could not tell you what we covered in October, or whether the fractions ever stuck. If somebody asked me to account for this year I would be guessing.”

9 guides · 21 minutes of reading

  1. 01Homeschool record keeping requirements, state by stateWhat each state actually asks you to keep, which states require a portfolio, and the records worth keeping even where nothing is required.5 min read
  2. 02Homeschool record keeping template: what actually needs to be on itMost free templates ask for too much and get abandoned by half term. The four fields that survive a real year, and what to do with them.2 min read
  3. 03What actually goes in a homeschool portfolioWhat to include, what evaluators are really looking for, and how to build it through the year instead of in a panic in April.2 min read
  4. 04How to catch up on homeschool records you have not keptHow to reconstruct a homeschool year honestly, what is genuinely recoverable, and how to make the rest of the year different.2 min read
  5. 05How to check whether your child actually learned somethingCovering a topic and learning it are different. A low effort way to find out which happened, without turning your house into a school.2 min read
  6. 06Preparing for a homeschool evaluation or reviewWhat evaluators actually look for, what to bring, and how to prepare in an evening rather than two weeks.2 min read
  7. 07Homeschool attendance: what to track and what is pointlessWhich states count days, what actually counts as a school day, and the lightest record that satisfies a requirement.2 min read
  8. 08The simplest homeschool record keeping system that actually lastsWhy elaborate tracking dies by half term, and what the version that survives a bad week actually looks like.2 min read
  9. 09How long to keep homeschool records, and what to throw awayYou cannot keep everything and you do not need to. What is worth archiving, what to photograph, and what to recycle without guilt.2 min read