This week on the Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Cool Online Homeschool Resource Hub: IndyEd!

 

Cool Online Homeschool Resource Hub: IndyEd!

There are so many homeschool resources available these days! What a blessing! Sometimes it helps to have them in one place so that you can scroll one source and find what you need. That’s why Vicki asked Mary Middlebrook from IndyEd.com to share about her online catalogue of homeschool resources.

About Mary Middlebrook

Mary’s homeschool story starts with an adoption. In 2005, she and her ex-husband adopted a ten-year-old boy from Russia. He did not speak English. They did not speak Russian. That was interesting!

At the time, Mary was a working mom. Along with her husband, she was in the marine aquarium industry. (She has a degree in marine biology.) They placed their son into Christian private school along with my oldest son and thought he would figure it out.

Unfortunately, the private school had no idea what to do with this child who was lost linguistically, emotionally, socially, and academically. They needed to try some other educational format for him. Another option was public school but they thought, “Absolutely not”.

So they sold their business in California and moved to Colorado. They put their oldest son into public school there because they were good public schools. Then she started homeschooling their youngest son (which definitely had a lot of challenges at the time). There were not a lot of resources available because she was teaching him on more of a secular track.

When her youngest was a teenager and he was needing more socialization. However, he was still uncomfortable meeting lots of people

So Mary thought, “if Muhammad won’t go to the mountain, I’ll bring the mountain to Muhammad”. So she thought that she would start some online classes in my home. She was going to teach him marine biology that year anyway. So she and invitation out. It filled up with like twelve teens immediately.

When that semester was over, everyone said, okay, what’s next semester? Since then, Mary has taught online and in co-ops.

She has been running an online school, nextlevelhomeschool.com, for nine years now.

Then Mary started IndyEd.com. It’s a busy time!

Mary saw that what was missing in the homeschool marketplace was a single website that was focused on educational opportunities resources. It should help homeschooling parents with sorting through all of the many curriculum choices and allowing families to really narrow down exactly what they were looking for.

IndyEd.com does not sell anything to learners. They do not sell classes, tutoring, or resources. They are simply an online catalogue, a  consolidator of educational opportunities. IndyEd.com facilitates connecting learners with educators. When a learner goes to the IndyEd.com database, they see that they can search for online classes, and educational resources that might be downloadables, books, kits, in-person experiences, or online schools.

An example

Go to the search column. The search tool will ask you:

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• Do you want private tutoring? Go to the search section. From there, you can sort.
  
• Do you want secular or non-secular?
  
• What is your homeschooler’s age?
  
• Is your child neurodivergent or special needs?
  
• What subject(s) are you looking for?
  

Once these questions are answered, you will be shown curriculum or course that fits that specific search! Find the just-right curriculum, then click the link to go directly to the teacher, school, or curriculum publisher.

You can also speak to the listed tutors or educators. Just click the link!

You do not pay money to use IndyEd.

It’a service to the community. It’s absolutely free for learners to come on and search for the database. You do not even have to log in or make an account or anything. (There IS one time you do have to log on: If you want to view coupons.)

Every month we have educators who are offering free classes and free resources.

When you come to IndyEd, you’re dealing with independent educators, not huge corporations.

You are dealing with IndyEd. It is owned by a former homeschool mom and an independent educator, not a huge corporation.

IndyEd is for independent education. Homeschoolers are very independent and they have their own ways and their own thinking, and they don’t want to be put into boxes that corporations.

IndyEd is truly representative of the homeschool community as a whole!

BTW- You will find 7SistersHomeschool curriculum and courses on IndyEd.com and at 7SistersHomeschool.com.

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