Inspiration Sessions
Videos and talks about homeschooling — shared by parents
The Finnish education model at home
The Makinen Family · Finnish family drawing on education research from Helsinki.
Evidence from Finland's education research applied at the kitchen table. Exactly what we took, what we adapted, and what we left behind.
06-09-2026
Biodiversity as STEM curriculum
The Hernandez Family · Colombian family in Bogota.
Colombia has 10% of the world's biodiversity. How we built a complete science programme around our own ecosystem - from rainforest to cloud forest to Pacific coast.
06-09-2026
Homeschooling as cultural preservation
The Osei Family · Ashanti family in Kumasi, Ghana.
How we use our Ashanti heritage - Kente weaving, Asante history, Twi language, traditional storytelling - as the foundation of a complete modern education.
06-09-2026
Peace education as curriculum design
The Nakagawa Family · Family from Hiroshima with a peace education commitment.
How we made Hiroshima's history the lens through which we teach science, ethics, history and politics - and why this approach produced children with unusual moral clarity.
06-09-2026
Scottish literature as a complete humanities programme
The Wilson Family · Scottish family in Edinburgh with a literature-led programme.
How Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Muriel Spark and Ali Smith became the spine of our humanities curriculum - and why Scottish literature is one of the world's most overlooked educational resources.
06-09-2026
The Rotterdam port as curriculum
The Jansen Family · Rotterdam family homeschooling with a port-city mindset.
Industrial geography, logistics, economics and engineering - all within sight of our window. How we used one of the world's largest ports as our primary STEM resource.
06-09-2026
Rebuilding education after crisis
The Kovalenko Family · Ukrainian family who continued homeschooling through 2022-2024.
We continued homeschooling through displacement, loss and uncertainty. This is an honest account of what education looked like during the hardest years.
06-09-2026
Homeschooling through a city: using Naples as textbook
The Romano Family · Neapolitan family homeschooling in the historic centre.
Vesuvius as geology, the Bay as marine biology, the ruins as classical history. A city two thousand years old makes an extraordinary teacher.
06-09-2026
Three languages by age ten: our exact approach
The Walsh Family · West of Ireland family. Irish language at the centre.
How we built trilingual fluency in French, English and Irish without formal lessons for any of the three languages until age seven.
06-09-2026
Waldorf-inspired daily rhythm without the dogma
The Dlamini Family · Johannesburg family with Waldorf-inspired rhythm.
Taking the best of Waldorf - seasonal rhythms, artistic work, main lesson books, morning circle - and leaving behind what does not work for a modern family.
06-09-2026
Teaching competitive maths at home
The Kuznetsov Family · Latvian family with strong competitive maths focus.
How our children went from average to Olympiad-level without a school programme. The exact resources, the daily routine and the mindset that made it possible.
06-09-2026
Project-based learning from first principles
The Flores Family · Mexican project-based homeschool family.
How to design a multi-week project that covers maths, literacy, science and social studies without the children realising they are doing all four at once.
06-09-2026
Music as the spine of our curriculum
The Bauer Family · Viennese family with classical music at the centre of all learning.
How we made music the organising principle of our entire programme - maths through rhythm, history through composers, science through acoustics.
06-09-2026
How we built a six-year homeschool without burning out
The Harrison Family · Canadian family, six years of homeschooling four children.
Practical strategies for sustainable long-term homeschooling. What we dropped, what we kept, and the weekly rhythm that finally stuck.
06-09-2026
Democratic learning in practice
The Andersen Family · Danish family with a fully democratic approach to curriculum planning.
Our children vote on their curriculum. Here is what actually happens, what surprised us, and what the research says about child agency in learning.
06-09-2026
Drama and performance as a learning method
The Beaumont Family · Trilingual francophone family in Montreal.
How we use theatre, improvisation and public performance to develop writing, confidence, memory and collaboration in children aged 6 to 17.
06-09-2026
Mother tongue first: why it matters and how we do it
The Nkosi Family · Zulu-speaking family homeschooling in Durban, South Africa.
Why we teach Zulu and isiXhosa before English, and how this approach has produced children with stronger English literacy than their English-first peers.
06-09-2026
Going against the grain in South Korea
The Kim Family · Busan family homeschooling bilingually.
Homeschooling in one of the world's most exam-driven education cultures. The social challenges, the practical wins, and why we have zero regrets.
06-09-2026
Nature immersion as primary curriculum
The Yamamoto Family · Family in Sapporo, Japan. Heavy nature immersion programme.
Three years of treating Hokkaido's landscape as our main classroom. How outdoor immersion changed our children's attention, memory and wellbeing.
06-09-2026
African-centred homeschooling: putting context back in education
The Mensah Family · Ghanaian family homeschooling since 2021.
Why Eurocentric curricula fail African children and how we rebuilt our programme around Ghanaian history, ecology and literature without losing international rigour.
06-09-2026
The classical curriculum in a bilingual household
The Dubois Family · French-English bilingual classical homeschool, Lyon.
How to run a rigorous classical curriculum across two languages without doubling the work. Latin, great books and grammar in French and English.
06-09-2026
STEM in a homeschool context: building real projects
The Petrov Family · Bulgarian STEM-focused homeschool family.
From electronics kits to Raspberry Pi to 3D printing. How we build real engineering projects with children aged 8 to 14 using affordable materials.
06-09-2026
Teaching through place: using your city as curriculum
The Papadopoulos Family · Greek family homeschooling in Athens.
Athens as a classroom - how we use our city's history, architecture and living culture to cover history, geography, art and science without leaving home.
06-09-2026
Worldschooling on a real budget
The Al-Rashid Family · Family travelling six months per year while maintaining a full bilingual program
We have worldschooled for three years without a trust fund. Here is what actually costs money, what does not, and the mindset shift that made it sustainable.
06-09-2026
Swedish education philosophy applied at home
The Svensson Family · Swedish family drawing on Nordic education research.
What Finland and Sweden actually get right - and how to apply it without moving to Scandinavia. Short focused sessions, long outdoor breaks, zero homework.
06-09-2026