Welcome to OM's Newsletter for Homeschooling Families: We're Highlighting High School Each month, we share homeschooling tips, resources, activities, and more, geared to different grade levels. We're highlighting high school with a college counseling update, sewing projects, and an opportunity to get your writing published.

Selecting Your High School Courses

Whether you’re on the path towards college or are just looking for an academically and creatively fulfilling high school experience, you have the opportunity to build a high school course schedule that will meet your individual needs. To support you on your high school journey, we've created this resource page to help you with high school course selection for this year and your high school years to come.

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Sewing Projects for Teenagers Sewing is a wonderfully practical and artistic skill. Plus, it provides a dedicated time to step away from screens and use your mind and hands to create! Creativity is so good for teenagers (and adults), and there is a strong link between creativity and mental health. Whether you're sewing for the first time or are searching for a new project, you will find fun and fulfillment from these sewing suggestions and templates. START SEWING >

College Admissions Update

It's no secret: the world is changing! College admissions is no exception. Many of the 'givens' in the college admissions process have shifted, and it's unlikely that we'll go back to what we'd accepted as 'normal.' Take, for example, standardized tests. The Common Application reports that only 44% of students submitted SAT or ACT scores in 2020-21, compared to 77% in 2019-2020. That percentage will probably drop again this year. And the number of colleges and universities who have suspended test requirements, temporarily or permanently, grows each week. Regardless, the college admissions process for a student (enrolled or homeschooled) remains fairly consistent, and, as always, it helps to start thinking about it well before the student enters their senior year. Oak Meadow can help orient a family to that process through our free college counseling webinar series, offered each fall and spring (our fall series is happening now!). One-on-one assistance with KD Maynard, our college counselor, is available to enrolled students and is available for independent families through the bookstore. Get informed early, and save yourself the stress of a last-minute scramble!

Study Skills Toolkit To become an effective and efficient learner—whether for schoolwork or professional development—you need a well-stocked tool kit of study skills to draw from. Luckily, we have a Study Skills Toolkit available for you to use as an easy reference guide along your educational journey. Click here to grab the toolkit, and keep it handy as you get into (or back into!) the swing of studying independently.

Calling All Writers! Practice your writing skills and get published by submitting a piece to Living Education, our biannual magazine. The theme for our Spring 2022 issue is Success! Defining, Measuring, and Making the Most of It .⁣ ⁣ We’re looking for stories of families finding their own ways of defining success in schooling, tips for encouraging and assessing social and educational skills, and musings on how to use successes as a starting point for continued growth. ⁣ Submission deadline is December 15, so get started today! Review submission guidelines and details on our website >

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