How to Keep Your Homeschool Vision in Focus
A homeschool vision can keep you on track for your long-term goals. It can also keep you from floundering when you’re unsure what’s next in your homeschool journey. Read about how to keep your homeschool vision in focus and gain confidence in your overall homeschooling experience.
How to Keep Your Homeschool Vision in Focus
Homeschooling is a calling. It’s a commitment that is not for everyone. I firmly believe that homeschooling is part of my purpose in life.
Academics are essential in providing a sound education, but homeschooling is about more than just learning how to read and write. As I’ve written before, relationship is at the heart of it — relationship with Jesus and with each other. Being purposeful in homeschooling means instilling good character qualities based on Biblical examples just as much as learning algebra and fractions. Children learn best by seeing examples in practice, so this means we have to be mindful of showing them grace, patience, and love in our own behavior.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:5-7
In order to be purposeful in our homeschooling, it’s important to keep our “eyes on the prize.” For the days when the plans go awry and frustration runs high, here are a few ways to keep your focus and remember your purpose.
Choose a favorite Bible verse for your homeschool
Memorize it with your children. Post it in a prominent place so you can see it all the time. Consider making a printable or some kind of art with it. Our homeschool verse is Psalm 90:12 ~ Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Name your homeschool
People name the things they love. Naming your homeschool will give it more legitimacy and importance not only among others, but in your own heart. Give yourself credit for being a real teacher of a real school (that just happens to be in your own home). Our homeschool is called Legacy Academy. I chose the name because it represents what I hope to do — build a legacy of learning for my girls that they can carry with them all of their lives.
Write a homeschool mission statement
Put your goals in writing and you are more likely to meet them. Remember the reasons you began homeschooling in the first place. I wrote about our homeschool credo, including our top 10 reasons for homeschooling, in this post.
These ideas are simple, but it’s amazing what a difference it can make to rely on your faith and your sense of purpose when things feel overwhelming. It’s like a pep talk for your soul, which goes a long way in purposeful living.
Cultivating Your Homeschool Vision with a Mission Statement
Feeling overwhelmed? Lost sight of your original reasons for homeschooling? Wondering what to do next in your homeschool?
You need a vision for your homeschool!
Most homeschool families have short-term plans by day, week, or semester. But what are your overall, deep down goals for your homeschool? When you get to the end of your homeschooling career, what will success look like to you? This overarching theme will keep you on track. This is your homeschool mission statement!
Purposeful Homeschooling: Cultivating Your Homeschool Vision is for new and seasoned homeschoolers alike, regardless of curriculum choices or homeschool methods.
I wrote this guide to explain the why and how of creating your homeschool mission statement, along with the workbook pages with questions to guide you as you write your own. It is not dependent on your homeschooling method or any particular curriculum.
After reading and completing the Purposeful Homeschooling workbook, you will:
- Craft your homeschool mission statement, which will guide your homeschool journey
- Be encouraged by focusing on the positives of homeschooling
- Gain confidence in your homeschool vision
- Have renewed enthusiasm for your homeschool experience
- Set long-term goals for your homeschool
- Feel a sense of overall purpose instead of random overwhelm in your homeschool
- Have a keepsake vision journal to treasure for years to come
Workbook is in pdf format for instant download. 20 pages.
This workbook is designed to help you write a homeschool mission statement that will guide you in your homeschool goals over time. It is your purposeful vision.
This is not a typical homeschool planner. This is a mindset shift.
Your mission statement will anchor everything you do. Take your time to craft something enduring that will cultivate your homeschool vision!
Homeschool with joy and confidence because you know your purposeful homeschool vision!
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It is sooo hard to keep those “first things first.” Thank you for the encouraging advice!
You’re welcome! Thank you for the nice comment. 🙂
These are great pointers for keeping first things first in homeschooling. It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily grind that we forget why we chose to homeschooling the first place. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by. I need to remind myself of these basics sometimes, too.
Finding my focus, keeping my focus where it needs to be is an ongoing process. Thank you for these wonderful words of encouragement.
I’m featuring your post on today’s Hearts for Home Blog Hop 🙂
Thanks so much, Linda! I’m honored that you featured my post. I appreciate it!
Thank you for your timely reminder 🙂 I always have to go back to our homeschool mission statement to stay focused and encouraged.
I’m so glad my post was encouraging to you! Keeping that mission statement in mind can help through the rough spots, for sure.
Homeschool is the same as life, when the overwhelming day to day happens, we get overwhelmed and we forget about the foundation. These are great reminders of the foundation we set for our homeschool journey.
Thank you!