HOW TO HOMESCHOOL IN MICHIGAN WITH BOOKSHARK VIRTUAL

<p>Hear how <a href="https://www.bookshark.com/michigan-bookshark-virtual" target="_blank">Michigan Bookshark Virtual</a> works for <em>any </em>family in Michigan and how it might be exactly what you're looking for in your homeschool journey—the perfect blend of print curriculum with online support and accountability. With this program, students are mostly learning via reading, discussing, hands-on experiments, and math manipulatives. Only about 25% of the time are students working on the computer. So this isn't a typical computer-based, highly <strong>screen</strong>-dependent program. It's a book-based program with a virtual component for assessment, grading, and recordkeeping.&nbsp;</p> <p>Jen Myers: "...being an educator, one of the things that I looked at was the <strong>standards</strong>. I went through each grade level, each subject to really comb through that to see, 'Is this meeting grade level?' And when I saw that it covered the standards and benchmarks for Michigan, I thought, 'Well, this could be a great fit for our families who do want the option to learn online.' And so then as we started to use it with our families, I just kept hearing more and more positive feedback on how much they<strong> loved the materials</strong>, <strong>loved the curriculum</strong>, <strong>loved the supplemental activities</strong>, <strong>loved having online teachers work with their kids</strong>. Here they had been homeschooling and everything was on their shoulders as far as preparing the curriculum, doing the grading. And now, these parents were able to step to a <em>facilitator </em>role where the curriculum is set for them and there's other teachers grading, especially like with the language arts. They loved having someone else grade the papers that their students were writing."</p> <p>Our guests are Jen Myers, Partnership Program Director at Alpena Schools, and Gwyn Domke, the BookShark Coordinator. Find out about <strong>your </strong>eligibility to receive <a href="https://www.bookshark.com/michigan-bookshar