Your Homeschool Binder: One Tool to Keep You Headed in the Right Direction

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Have you ever floated in a large lake or the ocean? Then you know drifting is a serious threat to our safety. It can be the same in our homeschool. In our Homeschool we need direction. Don’t drift, instead use your homeschool binder to stay on course, know where your headed and know when you have arrived.

My Homeschool Binder is where I keep the top priority papers, schedules and teaching plans. The habit started years ago, back when I began homeschooling. I created a homeschool “WHY” page for my homeschool to satisfy the requirement for an app (ha ha, apps didn’t exist, it was a hard-drive, downloaded to the actual computer, kind-of program) I was using. I had to write my homeschool vision before I could click through to the next screen.

Keeping Renewal in Sight

My homeschool was in need of direction, so I gave it some thought. I really did want to be intentional about our vision. Little did I know, that piece of paper would follow me for all of the last eighteen years of our homeschooling. Every time I pulled my “WHY” page out of my homeschool binder, I was stirred by the words I wrote. My vision for my children, was alive and active. It reassured me, redirected and encouraged me. It was a paper pep-talk.

Over the years we developed many great practices. For relationships, discipline, planning, and streamlining our day. As I began teaching about homeschooling, I needed a way to teach the habits we cultured organically over eighteen years. I created The Accountability Bundle as a way to give parents a concrete way to implement habits and create accountability to follow through for the long haul.

Worksheets in the Bundle include…

• My Skill Inventory Worksheet
• Relationship Goal Worksheet
• Homeschool overwhelm Helper
• Growth, Resilience & Honesty Worksheet
• Multi Grade Homeschool Tips
• Student Daily Accountability Log

Keeping it All Together: My Homeschool Binder

Back in the beginning of my homeschooling days I had a fancy trapper keeper monster with the zipper. It kept all my papers, pens, and my most current reading selection. Recently, I have been using these slim binders with tabs and folio type pockets to keep my children’s papers close at hand.

I like being able to tuck my accountability sheets for each student in the pockets. I keep our schedule, notebooking pages. I keep my current teaching notes and still have room to keep a few tabs open to tuck my own work away in a few of the slots.

Creating a system that is easy for me to check on and use is the key to success. Being consistent is the only way to check on your progress. This means I keep coming back to this homeschool binder for working papers every day. This is an important key to keeping your goals in front of you. You need to see them often.

A Technical Homeschool for New Direction

Even a Vision Board becomes furniture after a while. Having a working binder is one way to keep your goals fresh in your mind every week as you homeschool. This year I am trying my hand at a new tech tool from Rocket Book. I had a friend recommend it. He knew that I write notes for everything. It is one of the ways I process information. I am sick of the stacks of notebooks I have to sort through to coordinate with different purposes.

I have a notebook for church notes, personal Bible Study, Business Teaching, Podcast Planning, Homeschooling and books I am reading. Rocket Book has pages I can scan to upload to each preprogrammed document file. The notebook is made of erasable pages, so I can reuse it over and over again. You can check it out here. The price dropped on it recently so I went ahead and grabbed one “for my year end planning.”

You can grab the Homeschool Accountability Bundle as a standalone purchase from our course site or you can enroll in the companion course: 30 Days to Homeschool Renewal and get four weekly video lessons, showing you how to use each worksheet to it fullest in your homeschool.

Looking for a course re-correct for your homeschool?

In 30 days your homeschool could be back on track and you could be experiencing peace in your home again. How do I know? Because that is exactly what happened when I got serious about being accountable myself.

In the 30 Days course, I will teach you exactly how I did it and I will provide the exact worksheet I use to stay on track all year long.

Maybe you need more than a reset. Do You need a guide?

My master course: The Six Keys to Your Best Homeschool Year, is more in depth, talking about your goals, vision, relationships, learning styles, time management and identifying your children’s need in your homeschool.

Each topic is covered in four weekly sessions, each with one weekly (personal) journal page where you answer questions about your family, building a Road Map that is unique to your needs. You will find out the questions you need to be asking to get the answers you need in your homeschool instead of spinning your wheels again.

Get Started with Building Your Homeschool Binder

Whether you need a Reset or a Full Redirect, I would love to help you create your own homeschool binder and start building a better homeschool for your family. You can start right now but creating your Homeschool WHY page. Use this link to gain access to a FREE unit from the Six Keys Course: WHY PAGE, as my thank you for being a reader.