IN THE LOOP

Friends and families,
As the calendar year draws to a close, we want to make sure you are in the loop with important next steps:

1. For a couple months you get to enjoy a break from our class routine. Classes will begin again in two months, so for now, your children get to enjoy reading and writing books and stories that have been awaiting their attention.

2. You’ll find our new Student Lesson Guide is now available for purchase as a downloadable on our website. This might be a great option for your children during the holiday break. The lessons provide an excellent review of our writing methods, and they are appropriate for a wide range of ages. You’ll find more information about this new product on our website.

3. Registration for all spring classes has already opened! Make sure you head over to our website to see what the options are for your children. As always, contact our home office if you have any questions. And don’t forget to order your vouchers before the Christmas break if you are using charter funds.

4. Now is a great time to share our classes with your friends so they too can enjoy the benefits of quality language arts instruction with our excellent instructors next semester.

5. We are excited to offer two course options for our Adult Training Program (ATP):

•  Writing Foundations for ATP: Handbook Instruction

•  Blending Literature with Writing: Practical Suggestions for All Ages

 Register for one or both of these courses now by contacting our home office. Based on the individuals attending these classes, days and timesare TBD.

If you are unfamiliar with our ATP course, you can find more details on our website. Then you will need to contact our home office for more information and details about these courses. Without doubt, these courses are extremely beneficial for equipping all parents to better assist their children with ALL writing assignments.

Great job getting through Fall 2022 with your amazing kiddos! Enjoy the holidays, and we’ll see you in 2023!! Remember: don’t hesitate to contact us if we can help you with ANYTHING - call or send us an email: 916-696-1759 or www.thewritejourney.net.

YOU ARE INVITED & YOU ARE WELCOME

If you have questions about ANYTHING related to us, The Write Journey, we want to hear from you. Perhaps you’re new to The Write Journey community, and you have questions about how we might be able to partner with you to bring quality writing instruction to your children. I want to encourage you to connect with us:

1. Visit our website if you haven’t already done so.

2. Join our Facebook Group where you’ll hear from other families in our community.

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3. Follow us on Instagram if you like getting little nuggets of information regularly.

4. Call or email our home office to get answers to your specific questions.

916-696-1759 info@thewritejourney.net

One of our core values is to build quality relationships with students and parents.

In a culture that makes it so difficult to connect with an actual human being, we go to great lengths to be available. It’s simple. If you call our home office and leave a message, someone will call you back within a day or two at the most and spend as much time as needed to answer all your questions and help you understand how we can partner with you to bring quality education to your children.

We hope you’ll connect with us in whatever way works best for you. You are invited. You are welcome.

ONE OF THE MARVELOUS THINGS ABOUT COMMUNITY

"One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence . . .” Jean Vanier

We invite you to join our community. We welcome you, and we join with you to share the work and responsibility of educating your children well. If you experience deep distress on this homeschool journey (and even if you don’t), perhaps we can help you find self-confidence as you learn alongside others on a similar journey. Join our facebook group (The Write Journey Community) where we walk together through the ups and downs of learning to become great communicators and of teaching our young people to become the same.

CALLING BOLD ADVENTURERS (THAT'S YOU!)

By Mikaela Bagdanov

Every calendar year has two New Years. Everybody knows the one in January, where we look back at how we’ve changed in the past twelve months and look forward to how we’ll grow in the next twelve. The second New Year goes by another name: Summer Break. We celebrate our students’ maturity and achievements during the school year and anticipate their next growth journey. For many parents this year, Summer Break prepares a new adventure into the homeschooling realm. Thanks to recent pandemics, politics, and policies, the homeschool community now welcomes many public school parents into its guild of bold adventurers. Do not be mistaken, dear parent-educators, it is an adventure - the likes of which you’ve barely seen.

I worked as a classroom aide in a mainstream school during the distance learning years, and I witnessed teachers’ valiant efforts to maintain the familiar system. To the defense of my former colleagues, the familiar has its place and its purpose. However, the public school system seemed to me like a train track, where students follow a single, inflexible path to arrive at certain standards. My job was to help those students who learned outside the box to learn according to expectations. As a homeschooled student myself, let me tell you - we all learn outside the box. That is the beauty and the challenge of homeschooling.

If public schooling compares to a train track, then homeschooling relates to an all-terrain vehicle. It’s not the same method or experience as following a system. You are embarking on a journey, through murky forests and across scenic mountaintops. Before you lies the quest for your student’s education that will lead to places you never thought to explore. Like all adventurers, you need tools of flexibility and creativity as you uncover the hidden treasure in your students. Here in the homeschooling realm, you have the opportunity to teach outside the box - to follow your child’s pace, to seek out fun assignments, and to re-chart your curriculum as needed. What’s more, you have the resources of your fellow adventurers who have traversed this journey before you and of those who trek beside you.

Bold adventurer, this is a New Year. Look back at what you’ve learned about yourself and your child in public school. Take those lessons, yet also invite new approaches and novel perspectives. Enlist the help of guides to navigate those forests and the companionship of friends to climb those mountains with you. Watch your students grow into the expert life-adventurers you know they can become. Lastly...remember to enjoy the journey!

HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU?

We have had so much fun meeting new families in the Carolinas and Tennessee! In June we have one more convention in Virginia on June 9-11. It excites us to have the opportunity to expand The Write Journey business to families across America. There are so many of you, and the numbers are growing daily. While on the one hand, these may be troubling times; on the other hand, these are exciting times as many families engage in their children’s education much more seriously than in the past. When we look for it, we can almost always find a silver lining – a blessing – in the midst of the storm and the turbulents that life sends our way.

You may already know that we are on a journey to partner with your family and your educational community to not only provide quality language arts instruction, but also to support you by building relationships. In a culture where many experience information overload, we bring the opportunity for relationship building. Here are some ways we do that:

•  LIVE virtual classes for students of all ages

•  Virtual TUTORING for students who benefit from one-on-one support

•  Small group MENTORING for adults

•  SPEAKERS to provide quality language arts instructionf or your

  educational community

• Willingness to CREATIVELY explore unique ways to connect

The point is we value relationships because we recognize that no two individuals or groups are the same. We desire to bring our knowledge and experience to your educational community in a way that supports you the most. We do this through relationship and connection. We’d love for you to invite us to join you at your next co-op. If we can’t be there in person, we’d love to join you virtually. We invite you to start getting to know The Write Journey community.