Schooling At Home & Homeschool Info

Schooling at home via Public School vs. Homeschools:

• If you are schooling at home through a public school that creates lessons, takes attendance, teaches your child, requires you register with a state run school, and provides curriculum it is not home schooling, it is schooling at home and doesn’t require the same as a home school. You don’t register as a home school with the state.
• Homeschools are schools led by a parent at home. The parent/guardian creates lessons, teaches lessons, provides curriculum etc. It requires the parent/guardian to register with the state as a homeschool and meet all of the stat requirements for home schools.

Free State virtual schools (you do not need to register as a home school for these as they are a virtual school district within the state). These are all inclusive virtual schools that allow a student to school at home via internet instead of in a traditional school building.

• Pecos Connections Academy https://www.connectionsacademy.com/pecos-virtual-school for grades K–12 virtual opportunities
• NM Connections Academy for grades 4–12 at https://learn.connectionsacademy.com/new-mexico/
• eAcademy Magnet School is one of the schools under APS:
  • K-8:  https://www.aps.edu/schools/schools/ecademy-k-8-online-magnet
  • 9-12:  https://ecademy.aps.edu/

These two schools have come across our radar. They are often found when searching for free online schools.  They require a parent/guardian to register as a homeschool to use them.

• Destinations Academy:  https://www.destinationsacademy.com/
• NM Virtual academy: https://nmva.k12.com/

Internet safety sites for everyone:

• Bark: https://www.bark.us/
• Qustodio: (offers free version) https://www.qustodio.com/en/
• Net Nanny: https://www.netnanny.com/products/?pid=10-4487631
• Kaspersky: (offers free version) https://usa.kaspersky.com/safe-kids
• Kinetic by Windstream: https://www.windstream.com/kinetic-secure-packs#/

Other things for everyone:

• NM PED parent guide https://families.ped.state.nm.us

For Homeschooling:

• To register your homeschool: https://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/options-parents-families/home-schools/
• Homeschool defense league of America HADLA: https://hslda.org/legal/new-mexico

• For curriculum ideas:
  • Cathy Duffy Reviews https://cathyduffyreviews.com/
  • Homeschool buyers co-op: Free to join and you get district discounts on books through them https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/
  • Rainbow Resources: https://www.rainbowresource.com/

• Some Facebook pages: (this is not all of the homeschool groups by any means)
  • Secular Homeschooling with Netflix & Other Media – Private group · 24.1K members
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/267905676686095/
  • West Side Albuquerque/Rio Rancho homeschoolers (they allow people outside of Rio Rancho/West Side Albuquerque to join. They often have good information on activities and supply sales in the area.) https://www.facebook.com/groups/447753998744589/