What is the difference?
- 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. Do not 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 state requirements for home schools.
Schooling at home:
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:
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/
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
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/
- 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/
- search the library collection for homeschool resources
- 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/
- Secular Homeschooling with Netflix & Other Media – Private group · 24.1K members
Additional Resources for All
- Links to learning and fun sites, sites for parents, and sites for teachers https://jsplibrary.org/learning-and-fun/
- NM PED parent guide https://families.ped.state.nm.us
Check out a kit from the library
Learning and play kits are now available from from the library (search the catalog for “kit” and sort by location of kit) or lick here for kits as of October 2020. Thank you to the FOL for funding these kits!