The Year in Review from AHEM!

Please consider AHEM when you are making end-of-year charitable donations!

Highlights of 2023 - the 20th Year of AHEM's existence!

A trip down memory lane, or an opportunity to catch up on events and information you may have missed the first time around:

AHEM provided:

• Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling presentation in Millbury in September

• Articles clarifying homeschool policy and practice

• Help Getting Started Homeschooling
• Reading Massachusetts Homeschool Laws
• Step One: Don’t Panic
• Overreach, Reasonable… or Essential?
• Conform to Forms?
• FAQ: End-of-Year Evaluations
• Your Progress Report Questions Answered

• Homeschooling Fact Check series

• Surveys

• Year-end evaluations
• Homeschool policy and practice in Massachusetts
• Education plan submissions
• Best homeschooling memories
• Field trip survey results Part 1 and Part 2
• Homeschool graduate outcomes

• Meet Massachusetts Homeschoolers

• Meet the Bautistas

• Articles on homeschooling high school

• Finding College Scholarships & Grants

• Ways to connect with others

• In Praise of Park Days
• Why and How to Get Connected
• Not-Back-to-School Events
• AHEM Networking Forum
• Town Point People

• Reporting on issues and services important to Massachusetts homeschoolers:

• Maintaining Homeschool Freedom
• Massachusetts legislation
• Student Charlie Cards

We were thrilled when Summer Peeso joined the AHEM board.

Thanks to our many volunteers! If you are interested in joining them, fill out the application here.

Ongoing efforts include:

• Maintaining our comprehensive website, including dynamic information such as Networking listings and News & Events pages along with go-to information on homeschooling in Massachusetts, including the widely used and accepted AHEM sample education plan
• Communicating with our subscribers
• Legislative watch
• Policy & Practice Database about homeschooling in Massachusetts
• One-on-One help, available by email anytime

Thank you

As we bid goodbye to 2023, we want to be sure to thank all of you for your support over the past year, whether it came in the form of reading our emails, filling out the questionnaire, referring a friend to AHEM, inviting us to speak to your group, or sending us a cash donation. Any level of interest and participation is greatly appreciated and is what fuels our efforts.

Looking forward to 2024 we will continue to support and inform homeschoolers in Massachusetts. Help us by encouraging your friends to subscribe to AHEM! We always appreciate feedback on how we are doing and ideas about how we can serve you better.