It's mid-August! Can you believe the summer is winding down and it's almost time for school to start and our co-ops to begin meeting again? That means it's time to be thinking about your first day of your community meeting together! The first couple weeks will set the tone for your community, so it is important to try to have a successful start. You will have new people joining you, so we thought it would be fun today to give you some ideas of great ice breakers you can do to kick off your first day of class. If you, as a listener, have more ideas, please post them in our facebook group.

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! – Psalm 32:11

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Are you waking up in the middle of the night in a panic with all the things you need to add to your to-do list to get ready for the first day of your co-op? Are you panicking because you don’t even have a list and you know you should, but you don’t even know where to start or what should be the priority? The clock is ticking and you want to be ready. Take a deep breath and relax. Here are 5 simple questions to get you organized and help you think through this process. It doesn’t have to be overwhelming or perfect right out of the gate. Give yourself grace to make changes over time and adjust your expectations, knowing that this is an ongoing process. You are building a community to grow together in faith and it takes time.

1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

Proverbs 30:25 The ants are not a strong people, but they prepare their food in the summer

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. www.homeschoolcommunitybuilders.com

Are your teachers overwhelmed and lacking confidence in their ability to teach at your co-op? Is your community struggling with inconsistencies among your teachers? Are your teachers burnt out due to spending massive amounts of time planning for their class(es)? In today’s episode, we are talking about teacher training- why it’s so important and how it serves your community to do it.

Educate, Equip, Encourage, Expect

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.”

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Are you struggling to motivate parents to stay involved? Do you wonder how you will ever find and train your replacements as leaders? Do you have student behavior problems that you are having a hard time handling? All these problems can be mitigated by being a parent-led co-op. Today we are excited to talk about all the benefits that you can experience as a co-op by having parents present and engaged on campus.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Wish you and your teachers had more insight on how to teach to different learning styles? What if you had the key to unlock your own child's best way to learn? Today, we have a special guest, Dawn Jackson who is an expert on learning styles and personality dispositions to give us some tools to help all the kids in our co-ops thrive.

Want to connect with Dawn? Email her: dawn@solimaracademy.com

or visit her website: solimaracademy.com

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call with Molly, Pam and Hannah:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Investment! As leaders, we all want and need the families in our co-op to step up, to volunteer, to stay invested. But how do we achieve this? How do we motivate parents to stay involved and to step up and willingly volunteer their time and effort to our co-op? Two weeks ago we talked about the absolute must of intentionally creating a culture of LISTENING to your families. Today we are going to talk about another way you can walk that out - by encouraging your families to teach unique classes. If you haven’t listened to Episode 51 yet, make sure you go back and listen to the why and how to make sure you are hearing from your families. And stick with us today - we hope this discussion will spur some great ideas for you for your own co-op!

Bible verse Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Are you ready to get started building a community where you can grow together in faith? Are you feeling overwhelmed and not sure where to start? Creating a mission statement that will serve your community over the long haul is worth the time and effort you put in up front. Your mission statement is the cornerstone for the foundation of your co-op and one of the most valuable tools you will utilize time and time again. In this episode we will take two samples of real co-ops and audit them, so that you can have practical ideas to get you started right now!

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/

Additional Podcasts -

Episode 8: Mission Statement Part 1: Determining Who You Are https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-8-mission-statement-part-1-determining-who-you-are/id1689867945?i=1000632661686

Episode 10: Mission Statement Part 2: Determining What You Do

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-10-mission-statement-part-2-determining-what-you-do/id1689867945?i=1000633437962

How many of you leaders out there feel like you are doing ALL the work for your co-op and it is completely overwhelming? Why is it that 20% of the people do 80% of the work? What is it that inspires the families in your co-op to step up and take on extra tasks and truly INVEST in your community? Today we are going to talk about one big strategy that will help you increase investment and excitement in your community - are you ready for this? Stick around and we will share with you the magic solution for getting your families involved.

Next Steps:

Schedule a coaching call:

https://calendly.com/leadyourhomeschoolco-op/coaching-call?month=2024-03

Join our Facebook group- Lead Your Homeschool Co-op https://www.facebook.com/groups/72507320516066

Become a Lead Your Homeschool Co-op Insider and get first dibs on valuable resources to help you lead, organize, and connect your community. https://lead-your-homeschool-co-op.gr-site.com/