What is in the Membership?

The Simple Scholar Membership gives homeschool parents access to training, mentoring, resources and tools, that help you to leverage time and money in educating your children.  Learn how to eliminate curriculum frustrations for your special needs child and change education to actually benefit them.  With an in-depth background in helping special needs children excel, as well as high school and college preparation, and alternatives to college, Dianne Kelley provides extensive and comprehensive guides to everything you need. Her approach is gentle, yet direct. There is also a free version. No fluff, no nonsense, just the straight information and REAL guidance.

Upcoming online events

  • LIVE MENTORING

LIVE - FREE Transcript Reviews & Mentoring- Monthly!

When:  Next is Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023
Time:   12pm (Pacific Time)
Cost:    No additional $$!!
Who:    Premium Members Only

Transcript and plan reviews are held for Premium members on the first TUESDAY of every month.  We also mentor in other areas of homeschooling in these meetings.  Recordings are indexed and added to the Homeschooling High School and Beyond course.  

Past recorded online events

  • ONLINE SUMMIT

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The Great Education Shake-Up Summit

When:  Sep 26 - Oct 8, 2022 - Ended

Event Ended -  Get LITE or PREMIUM membership for replays

Come learn from the BEST speakers about what home education really is and how you can change everything with simple steps and principles!!
LITE members have video-only replays.  PREMIUM members get video access plus certificates and any downloadables that speakers offered.

  • ONLINE EVENT

Featured Monthly Speaker Series

When:  Live, Thru Aug 2023

For:  Replays are for Members Only

Each month a theme and speaker beginning in January 2023.  The LIVE sessions are FREE.  Replays will be available for FREE and LITE members (24 hour replay after speaker's live workshop) and Premium members (unlimited replay access).

Pre-Recorded Workshops

  • WORKSHOP

Homeschool Foundations Workshop

Length:  60 minutes
For:  Lite & Premium Members

Learn what you must do before choosing curriculum or starting to homeschool.  Get the basic principles and keys to help you feel more successful out of the starting gate, or restart if you have been feeling lost at sea.  Also, how to juggle home responsibilities, family chores, outside activities, and time for yourself.

  • WORKSHOP

Homeschooling Special Needs Workshop

Length:  60 minutes approx.
For:  Lite & Premium Members

Here, we cover all the foundational information for homeschooling a child with special needs and all abilities, even if you have special needs yourself.  Many tips and strategies here to address various aspects of the spectrum, and we'll cover academics as well as jumping through the hoops.  

  • WORKSHOP

Socialization Workshop

Length:  60 minutes approx.
For:  Lite & Premium Members

How do you get out there?  What about all the social things people say your child might be missing out on?  We'll cover all of this and more, not only addressing the misconceptions but also giving you real solutions and ideas (socialization for special needs are also addressed).

  • WORKSHOP

Ditching Grade Levels Intro Workshop

Length:  70 minutes approx.
For:  Lite & Premium Members

I am the original author and pioneer of the "Skipping Middle School" philosophy, and will show you how to leverage the advantage of understanding grade levels to break down barriers for kids who are ahead or considered "behind".  This is a game changer in education!

  • WORKSHOP

Teaching Mastery Intro Workshop

Length:  70 minutes approx.
For:  Lite & Premium Members

This workshop introduces you to the concept of teaching mastery as opposed to restricting your child to grade levels.  It is highly beneficial for kids who are "behind", as well as those who are ready to move forward in single subjects.

  • WORKSHOP

Are You Ready to Homeschool High School?  Workshop

Length:  60 minutes approx.
For:  Free, Lite, & Premium Members

Discover THREE SIMPLE THINGS you MUST do - to be ready to homeschool through high school. My simple strategies work for any homeschooler, anywhere in the world, and they can work for you!

  • WORKSHOP

The High School Transcript Workshop

Length:  60 minutes plus Q&A
For:  Lite & Premium Members

This workshop tells you everything you must know about the high school transcript for homeschoolers.  It is a critical document and a valuable planning tool that you can leverage in so many ways.  

  • WORKSHOP

Genealogy to Teach Social Studies  Workshop

Length:  60 min. approx.
For:  Premium Members

Learn how to teach social studies in an engaging way, by infusing your own family genealogy!  Leveraging this powerful and long lasting way of teaching goes beyond history - your children will learn many other skills that you can incorporate across multiple disciplines!  Learn the coolest tools that you need to get started right away.  This workshop is found under the Teaching Social Studies to Mastery Course.

Courses

  • FULL COURSE

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The Ultimate Homeschool Course

Length:  15 Hours
Modules:  15
For:  Premium Members

A self-paced, comprehensive program with 15 modules, each about 1 hour long.  Premium members enjoy the benefit of being able to easily jump to relevant topics that help resolve day to day homeschool challenges.

  • FULL COURSE

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Homeschooling High School and Beyond, Course

Length:  14 Hours
Modules: 14 modules, plus mentoring recordings
For:  Premium Members

The most comprehensive course available worldwide for homeschooling high school!!  Everything you need to prepare your child to graduate and go out into the world - whether their goal is college, military, general employment, entrepreneurship, or otherwise.
Premium members meet monthly for free transcript preparation and homeschool mentoring.  All mentoring recordings are added to the course for reference.

  • FULL COURSES

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Skipping Middle School & Ditching Grade Levels Course - Teaching the Prep Year(s)

Length:  4 Modules
For:  Premium Members

This course goes more in depth with the ditching grade levels concept, showing you step by step why we have grade levels and how to remove middle school to provide a more customized and superior education.  Learn what can be removed and what actually needs to be taught in the years preparing for high school, and how to teach it.

  • FULL COURSES

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Teaching Mastery Series of Courses - Four Separate Courses in this series

Length:  Multiple Modules within each course (Over 150 modules already!)
For:  Premium Members

Four separate courses, each goes more in depth and provides step-by-step strategies, videos and tools for parents to use to learn how to teach math, language arts, social studies, and more.  

  • Teaching Mastery - Math thru 4th level - 8 areas and growing!
  • Teaching Mastery - Language Arts - 12 sections, plus sub sections
  • Teaching Mastery - Social Studies - 10 sections
  • Teaching Mastery - Math - Level 5th thru Algebra 2 - Over 80 sections with videos, worksheets, tests

  • FULL COURSES

Shakespeare, Simplified!

Length:  8 Modules
For:  Premium Members

This course explores the tragedy plays of Shakespeare.  It is an extension course to the Teaching Language Arts to Mastery Course.  Each of the 8 modules in the Shakespeare, Simplified! Course has a video and downloadable teaching guide for parents that includes an overview of the module's objective, plus worksheets, games and activities, and a mastery check with answer key.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO 


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