These are articles & essays from the original Kansas Area Homeschool Network website. Watch our blog for notice of updates and changes to the new and improved website. 

index by date added

index by subject

index by date added

Articles & Essays (by subject)

College

• College Admissions for an Unschooler

Grammar & Spelling

Homeschooling: How to

• What you Need to Know about Homeschooling in Kansas ^{updated 8/7/07}

• Homeschooling in Kansas: A Beginner's Guide

• Starting a Co-op, Young Explorers' Academy

• Starting a Homeschool Support Group

Math

• Real World Math Application

• Musing about Math/Calculus

Strewing

• Strewing

Television

• An Unschooling Perspective on Screen Time

What is Unschooling?

• A Recovering Type-A Mom

• Experience vs. Being Taught

• How Unschooling Looks with Little Ones

• Learning via Obsessions

• Strewing

• Ten To-Do's for Unschooling

• Unschooling is Not... ^{**Contribute to this list!}

Unschooling Days

• Everything is Possible

• Catching Waterfalls

• Compilation of Examples "How Unschooling Works"

Articles & Essays (by date added)

A Recovering Type-A Mom, by Lisa Heston (May 2007)

What you Need to Know about Homeschooling in Kansas, by Shelley Ryan (April 2007/updated 8/7/2007)

YEA ~ Young Explorers' Academy, by Stephanie Stagner (April 2007)

Grammar & Spelling, Examples of Unschooling in Action (January 2007)

Unschooling is Not... ^{**Contribute to this list!} (January 2007)

An Unschooling Perspective on Screen Time,

by Ann Vetter (November 2006)

Thoughts Along the Way: Some Thoughts on Screen Time and Continued Growth as an Unschooling Parent, by Tracy Million Simmons (November 2006)

Thoughts Along the Way: More Thoughts on Unschooling, by Tracy Million Simmons (October 2006)

Thoughts Along the Way: Thinking about Fall, by Tracy Million Simmons (September 2006)

Wondering about Math? Real World Math Application, by Barbara Ballard (September 2006)

I Learned Something! Musing about Math by Tracy Million Simmons (August 2006, updated November 2006)

College Admissions for an Unschooler by Ann Vetter (August 2006)

Homegrown ramblings: Strewing by Justine Browning (July 2006)

Things to do in the Kansas City Area by Tracie Drake (June 2006)

Catching Waterfalls by Stephanie Stagner (June 2006)

Experience vs. Being Taught by Tracy Million Simmons (May 2006)

Homegrown ramblings: Thoughts from the editor about learning via our "obsessions." Stephanie talks about the seasonal nature of pursuits. Shelley shares thoughts on her children's recent Little House obsession. (April 2006)

How Unschooling Looks with Little Ones excerpt from a 1999 unschooling list disussion (added March 2006)

How do you know unschooling works? examples by the unschoolkansas discussion list (March 2006)

Homeschooling in Kansas: A Beginner's Guide (February 2006)

How to Spot an Unschooler, by the unschoolkansas discussion list (February 2006)

Thoughts on Unschooling, a list of ten things to do, by Tracy Million Simmons (January 2006)

Everything is Possible, by Samantha Stopple (January 2006)

Starting a Homeschool Support Group, by Samantha Stopple