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Please note: These websites are maintained by other people. We neither endorse by inclusion nor condemn by exclusion. This page is a work in progress. If you have a recommendation for an addition, or if you discover a broken link, please send an email. New York City Organizations New York State Organizations Other Regional Organizations (by state) CA / CT / MA / NJ / NM / PA / TX Homeschooling in Other Countries General Homeschooling Websites and Organizations Homeschool Empowerment Webring General Education Websites Free Lesson Plans Resources for Kids with Disabilities – See our Special Ed page See also Social Networking, Blogs, etc., Magazines on Homeschooling, and Books on Homeschooling For links to websites covering specific topics, see the blue menu bar on the left. Back to top New York City Organizations NYC has a thriving community of homeschoolers, with groups forming in nearly every neighborhood. New York - Citywide / Manhattan / Bronx / Brooklyn / Queens / Staten Island New York - Citywide A.P.P.L.E. (Actively and Positively Parenting and Lovingly Educating) functions as a family group where families of like interests can come together in a variety of ways. Homeschool New York is for families who are homeschooling in the New York City Area. The purpose is to share information about workshops, trips, classes, meet-ups etc. that are of interest. Home educators are also welcome to post on topics (newspaper articles, curriculum, websites,etc.) that may be of interest to homeschoolers. They are inclusive and secular, although diversity and acceptance are welcome and encouraged. Jewish Home Educators of New York City (JHENYC) is a meeting place for homeschooling or unschooling Jewish parents (or those just thinking about it) living in or around New York City. It is a place to discuss issues unique to New York-area Jewish homeschoolers and unschoolers. NYC Department of Education New York City Home Educators Alliance (NYCHEA) Back to top Manhattan Different Directions on West 57th St. The ROC (Resource and Opportunity Center) for Homeschoolers, is open to homeschooling families in the New York City area, and serves as a gathering/meeting place and informal resource center. Their home base is in the East Village and there are various other locations including The Dana Discovery Center in Central Park, The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew on the Upper West Side, and the New York Riding Academy on Randall's Island, among others. Bronx The Uhuru Homeschool Hut (Bronx) offers anAfrican–centered to a curriculum that will best fulfill the needs of children, communities and people in hopes to initiate global solutions. Back to top Brooklyn Brooklyn African-American Homeschoolers Connections, connecting families of color with other families of color who are homeschooling in Brooklyn. Park Slope Homeschool Community (Brooklyn), email group was created to facilitate networking, event planning, and friendships for homeschooling families in Brooklyn, NY. This is a secular group that it is not limited to one form/method of homeschooling. Queens Queens County Homeschoolers Field trips, outings, educational opportunities, socialization network and so much more. Queens Homeschoolers is a secular homeschooling group based in Queens, New York. They host and attend events in Queens County and surrounding areas. The group is open to all homeschoolers regardless of homeschooling philosophy, religion or ethnic background. They also invite those who are interested in home schooling their children in the future to join us in order to learn more. Back to top Staten Island Staten Island Homeschoolers is a group open to all Staten Island home schoolers. They welcome people of all religious backgrounds and theoretical approaches! Back to top

New York State Organizations

See the list of Groups of Home Instructing Parents from the New York State Education Department.

The Open Directory has a list of Local Support Groups

• Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Education in New York State (AGATE)
• Catholic Homeschooling in NY State
• Loving Education at Home (LEAH). The Christian resource for home schoolers in New York
• DREAM (Discovery, Resources, Education and More) Home School Group, which has members mostly from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, as well as a few Brooklyn and Manhattan-ites. This is a secular group with over 100 members. The group offers a forum for discussing homeschooling and other issues, sharing resources, and planning activities such as learning co-ops, field trips and get-togethers.
  The contact info is:
  Lauren Scott (Boingercat (at) aol.com; 516-746-4270)
  Susan Proven (Ulysses942 (at) aol.com)
• LIGHT (Long Islanders Growing at Home Together)
• New York Home Educators' Network (NYHEN)
• Rochester Area Home Schooling Groups/Resources
• St. Thomas Aquinas Homeschoolers of the Rochester Area
• Tri-State Homeschoolers, Contact: Sylvia Diaz, syldiaz@optonline.net. Tri-State Homeschoolers is an active homeschooling group in the Tri-State NYC area, including Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess, Sullivan, Ulster and Orange counties in NY as well as Bergen County in NJ and Fairfield County, CT.

Other Regional Organizations (by state)

Find your local State Board of Education through this page from NASBE.

About.com lists Homeschooling Organizatins by State.

California

• California Homeschool Org.
• Conjo Valley Homesschoolers
• HomeSchool Association of California

Connecticut

• Connecticut Homeschool Network
• Tri-County Homeschoolers. (Fairfield County, CT)
• Unschoolers Unlimited, in Guilford, CT.

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Home Learning Association
• Massachusetts Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators (MassHOPE)

New Jersey

• Gifted homeschooling in New Jersey .
• Tri-County Homeschoolers. (Bergen County , NJ)
• The Unschoolers Network

New Mexico

• Albuquerque Homeschoolers

Pennsylvania

• Bucks County Educational Resource Center
• Pennsylvania Homeschoolers

Texas

• Tarrant Home Education Association (THEA) Texas
• Texas Home School Coalition

Homeschooling in Other Countries

Australia

• Home Education Association

Canada

• BC Home School Association (British Columbia)
• Canadian Homeschool Resources

United Kingdom

• Home Education UK - Educating away from school

General Homeschooling Websites and Organizations

• Free Homeschooling Resources
• A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
• Adventures in Homeschooling
• American Homeschool Association
• Books4HomeSchool. Lots of resources.
• EducationalFreedom.com
• Family Online - lots of ideas on many topics.
• Family Unschoolders Network
• Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• Google Directory: Homeschooling
  • Google Directory: New York
• Hewitt Homeschooling Resources
• Home Education Magazine
• HomeEducator.com
• Home Educators Resource Directory
• Home School World
• Home Sweet Homeschool
• Homeschool Central
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• Homeschool Curricula, from Hoagies' Gifted Education Page.
• Homeschool Diner
• Homeschool Education Magazine's Resources
• Homeschool Freedom
• HomeSchool Help at Sassafrass Grove
• Homeschool Legal Defense Assoc. (HSLDA), with the latest homeschooling news, including a list of internships for teens .
• Homeschool Talk and Swap from VegSource.
• The Homeschool Zone
• Homeschooler Savvy – "We did it wrong so that you can do it right!"
• Homeschooling from About.com
• Homeschooling, A Light at the End of the Tunnel. Links to religious curricula and foreign orgs.
• Jewish Home Educators Network (JHEN)
• Let's Homeschool
• John Holt and Growing Without Schooling
• Jon's Homeschool Resources
• K12 Academics - homeschool resources in most states
• Learn in Freedom!
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• National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATTHAN). See also our Special Ed resources page.
• National Black Home Educators (NBHE)
• National Independent Home-Education Network, where Independent Home-Educators discuss political and social issues that affect independent home-educators throughout the nation.
• Although is not in NYC, it is a model center of self-directed learning for homeschooled teens, and well worth a visit. It is a self-directed learning center in Massachusetts (near Amherst) for homeschooling teens.
• Organizations replicating North Star or offering similar services
• ParentAtTheHelm.com. Homeschooling blog by Linda Dobson.
• Parents Educating at Home (PEAH)
• Parents Educating Children
• Unschooling

General Education Websites

Although not all these sites are specifically aimed at homeschoolers, they host some useful information.

• Amazing Kids. A a non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping kids realize their amazing potential.
• ArtsEdge - the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO).
• Awesome Library
• BBC Learning Homepage
• Bob's Place of Educational Links
• Marion Brady is an educator seeking reforms, and offering free educational downloads
• The Brain Connection, including articles on education and links to brain teasers.
• Busy Teachers' Cafe
• Caine Learning Center explaining brain/mind learning principles
• California Achievement Test (see also FAQ: What about Testing?)
• Center for Anti-Violence Education works as a catalyst for change in the lives of women, LGBT people, teen women, children, and other communities especially affected by violence. CAE’s programs are designed to develop participants’ skills, knowledge, and awareness to enable them to heal from, prevent, and counter violence.
• Center for Talented Youth (opportunities for gifted kids)
• Channel Thirteen. Education resources and lesson plans.
• The Co-Intelligence Institute
• Creating Learning Communities.
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• Davison Institute for Talent Development, a national non-profit serving gifted children.
  • Read their Mentoring - A Guidebook (pdf format)
• Discovery School includes Kathy Schrock's Educators Guide and lesson plans related to cable TV shows aired on the Discovery channel and the Learning Channel
• Dr Thomas Armstrong's work in special ed. and the use of multiple intelligences is fascinating. His website lists the eight multiple intelligences that we all have (to one degree or another) and also has several interesting articles. Click on the Myth of ADD to find a list of 50 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion.
• EDinformatics – Education for the Information Age. An awesome website.
• EDSITEment, humanities resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Educate the Whole Child, based on k"> by Lynn Stoddard.
• Education by Design
• Education for Gifted Youth (Stamford Univ.)
• Education Place from publisher Houghton Mifflin.
• The Education Revolution from the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO).
• Education World, helping educators integrate the Internet into their teaching. Lesson plans, articles, resource links.
• Educator's Reference Desk offers lesson plans and more.
• Edutopia, from the George Lucas Foundation.
• ElementarySchools.org lists information on public and private elementary schools nationwide.
• Enchanted Learning. Lessons for young ones.
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• Family Education. Parenting advice and child development.
• Family Education Network
• Fires in the Mind, an organization that came about from a nationwide collaboration among youth and adults to investigate the question “What does it take to get really good at something?”
• Freerice.com – multiple-choice queries on many subjects
• FunBrain. Educational games for kids
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), a mega-database of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
• John Taylor Gatto was a NYC and NYS Best Teacher of the Year, and also the author of Dumbing Down Our Schools and The Underground History of American Education. Go to his website to read a recent essay and click on The Makers of Modern Schooling to get an eye-opener into the actual background of our educational system.
• The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, dedicated to improving the quality of life for Latino children and their families.
• Interactive Sites for Elementary Students. A good general list of interactive educational sites for all ages and subjects.
• International Education and Resource Network
• Kids and Teens Directory
• Kid's Page Archive. Free printable worksheets for pre-K through 5th grade. English, math, science, history, word finds and more. New worksheets added weekly.
• Alfie Kohn, well-known author and educator, this site includes several of his articles.
• Latest Lesson — educators hand-pick their favorite lessons, books, on-line lectures, courses and videos for teachers, parents and students. Lessons in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects, from preK to adult, are now available. Humanities subjects are forthcoming.
• Lefty Parent, Living and Parenting Without the Rule Book, a blog by parent and unschooler Cooper Zale.
• Links for All Teachers
• Learning Styles and Strategiesfrom Professor Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University.
• Megasite for teachers
• Chris Mercogliano is co-director of The Albany Free School, a democratic school in Albany, New York.
See his website for information on him and a free selection of his essays. Author of Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed.
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• Deborah Meier changed the face of public education in NYC by creating Central Park East (in Harlem, this school had been failing miserably, and now 90% of its students go on to four year colleges) and a few other small schools that became extremely successful. She championed smaller schools with smaller classes, and coined the 20/20 formula (no more than 20 teachers in a school and no more than 20 kids in a classroom). In her school she had an answering machine take all calls with the message that every single person in the building was busy working directly with the children.
  
  Now she is semi-retired, on staff at NYU, and lecturing on alternative education. Here is a tidbit from the speech which opened the 2008 AERO Conference in Troy, NY, a four-day conference for alternative educators from around the world.
  
  In her keynote speech, Ms. Meier stated that she used to be against homeschooling because she thought that those children would lack social skills. But then she met some homeschoolers. And they were self-assured, had a great deal of poise, and easily communicated with adults. Now, when she hears of homeschooled kids, she thinks how great it is that they haven't been conditioned by the social environment of school and "socialized".
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• Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School. K-5 and middle school links .
• Mrs. Rollman's Second Grade
• Multiple Intelligences. Our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence. But we should also place equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live.
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• NIEHS Kids' Pages (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• Number 2. Free test preparation.
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• Education & Teaching from RefDesk.com
• Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills
• Susan Ohanian is an educator fighting against testing and seeking other reforms
• Open Learning Initiative, freely available online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Pro Teacher. Resources & lesson plans.
• RHL School. Free worksheets.
• Scholastic's page for Teachers
• SchoolExpress. Free lesson plans and worksheets.
• Sites for Teachers
• Snag Films – educational videos listed by grade level and subject
• Songs for Teaching -- all about using music to teach a variety of subjects.
• Sporcle.com – scads of free online games on many subjects
• Stop National Standards is an organization fighting standardization in our schools.
• Teach Kids How – Preparing your child for life. Includes social skills.
• TeacherNet
• TED Lessons
• Thinkfinity
• Toy Portfolio is an independent consumer review of children's media. Their quarterly newsletter is an ad-free subscription-based periodical for parents, grandparents, libraries and childcare providers. They test and review products for children the year-round -- they open the toys, run the videos, read the books, play the music, and boot up the software.
• U.S. Department of Education
• The Wallace Foundation seeks to support and share effective ideas and practices that will strengthen education leadership, arts participation and out-of-school learning. ALthough mainly about public schools, there are some thought-provoking articles, especially in their page on Arts Participation & Arts Education Research .
• What Kids Can Do (WKCD), a non=profit supporting adolescent learning in and out of school.
• Yahoo's Kids' Directory

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