The Year in Review from AHEM!
Please consider AHEM when you are making end-of-year charitable donations!
Highlights of 2021
2021 saw sustained interest in homeschooling. While not as busy as 2020, you can see in the chart below that in 2021, we still had increased visits to our website compared to the years prior to the pandemic.
AHEM provided:
- Virtual presentations, hosted by AHEM or local libraries, including Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling in Massachusetts and Pop-Up Virtual Homeschooling Q&A
- Articles clarifying homeschool policy and practice, sometimes confounding to homeschoolers, new and experienced:
- A Brief History of Homeschooling in Massachusetts
- Conform to Forms?
- Homeschool Policies in Massachusetts
- Tips for Writing Your Ed Plan
- To Meet or Not to Meet?
- Articles to help orient newcomers to the homeschooling lifestyle:
- Art of Motherhood
- Homeschooling Styles
- Home with Kids 24/7
- I Sought, I Found, I Joined
- In Praise of Park Days
- Why and How to Get Connected
- A series of articles on homeschooling high school:
- Homeschooling for College Admissions, Part 1
- Homeschooling for College Admissions, Part 2
- Tips and Tricks for CLEP Exams
- Ways to connect with others:
- Reporting on a variety of issues and services important to Massachusetts homeschoolers:
We were thrilled to revitalize the board with new members:
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 2021, 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 2022 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.