Admissions Spring 2025
Join Us for Spring 2025 - Applications Now Accepted
Academic
Our Math and English Language Arts skill-building groups came out of supporting members transition to mainstream education systems with confidence needed for required testing.
Life Skills
We hold community meetings to uncover and understand the balance of individuality with navigating relationships in a community. Members' experience of autonomy and feedback processes often results in gaining transferable life skills. Additionally, the group focuses on meal preparation on alternating Thursdays during the Fall of 2024.
Social
HGEC is instrumental in facilitating friendships simply by existing. These relationships happen with continuous, unsupervised, and unscripted, organic play. Members decide how to fill unstructured time. When homeschooling kids are young, parents work hard to provide opportunities for park days and meetups for social interaction. As kids get older, consistent fun relationships get harder to find. Attending HGEC provides the added benefit of having a peer group.
The Arts
PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTS
Our Performing Arts Director and Visual Art Facilitator have consistently provided programs that are engaging and in demand.
We invite you to join us in either of these programs for the full semester on an a-la-carte basis. Our hope in extending these programs individually is to entice your family to join us for our regular HGEC full day programming.
Tuition
We are committed to global representation, diversity, equity, and inclusivity, including historically marginalized or under-represented folks in Self Determined Education settings.
Our requested contribution is based on $60/day (equal to $10/hr.) for 18 weeks in Spring 2025. We require 2 days/wk. attendance if new to the community, for social consistency and relationship building.
The financial contribution should reflect your value of our program, and fit in your overall family financial budget.
We will endeavor to meet you at the intersection of tending to both our needs on this journey!
What makes our 501(c)(3) program sustainable?
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Kind, compassionate, and trauma-informed Program Director, Carisa Socco.
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Friendly subject-matter-expert facilitators and their willingness to work within our resources.
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Open, kind, curious, collaborative, and non-judgmental communication with Parents.
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Member families' financial contributions.
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Synergistic structural support from the founding family.
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No overhead cost for the location, utilities, capital repairs or improvements, and grounds.
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Full-time (40+ hours/week) work commitment by Founder (Board Member/ Organizer/ Facilitator/ and Parent) at no cost to HGEC for almost 6 years.
What does the financial contribution provide?
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Access to a committed community of homeschooling families with tweens/ teens.
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Subject Matter Expert Facilitators!
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Most materials and supplies for exploration and creative endeavors.
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In-house Facilitator(s) that provide emotional and physical structural support for sustainability.
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Working together with Parents and Teen Members for "graduating" from High School.
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Parent group support during the Teen years for Transcript & Portfolio construction, including the entry process into community college.
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Social Emotional Learning emerges from kind & intentional dialogue around conflict and challenges of being in a community.
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Access to 501(c)(3) non-profit educational resources, like TechSoup, Canva, etc.
