The OpenEd Podcast

Homeschool Burnout Is Real — Here's How to Recover Without Quitting

She spent nine years as a substitute teacher in the same school she graduated from. When she got pregnant with her first child, she started seeing the system differently. By the time COVID hit, she and her husband decided to homeschool — just for that one year, just to take it one step at a time. Read the full blog post: https://opened.co/blog/homeschool-burnout Connect with Amy:→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/organically.amy/→ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093049143774

3 Rules for Raising Emotionally Intelligent Homeschool Kids

Joey Mascio, teen life coach and creator of Sidekick to Hero, makes the case that there are three specific rules - named after Yoda, Dumbledore, and Haymitch - that keep parents in the mentor role and out of the villain seat. He was a 2026 Eddy Award finalist in two categories: Innovator of the Year and Open Education Resource of the Year. Read the full blog post: https://opened.co/blog/the-mentor-parenting-method-how-to-raise-confident-emotionally-intelligent-homeschool-kids Find Joey: - Mentor Parenting program: https://www.mentorparenting.com - Sidekick to Hero: https://www.sidekicktohero.com- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sidekicktohero

She's 13, Lives on a Sailboat, and Just Published Her First Novel

She wrote her first novel at 11. Two years later, it's published on Amazon, she's writing four more books, recording original music, free diving to 20 meters, and leading writing workshops for other kids. At 13, Sage Sedivec won the 2026 Eddy Award for Inspiring Student of the Year. Ela Bass sits down with Sage and her mom, Elizabeth — a former classroom teacher who moved her whole family onto a sailboat and traded curriculum for passion-led learning — to talk about worldschooling, homeschooling on a sailboat, and what happens when you stop asking kids to stop writing and do their schoolwork. Read the full blog post: https://opened.co/blog/homeschooling-while-traveling-sailboat

Homeschool High School Without Fear: Two Real Families on Transcripts, Trade School, and College

Homeschooling high school looks impossible until you talk to families who've actually done it. Helen Robson and ToriAnn Perkey cover everything parents actually want to know — unaccredited transcripts and college admissions, trade school paths, how to talk to a teenager who has completely checked out, and why 18 is not the deadline you think it is. If you're homeschooling through high school and not sure what comes next, this is the conversation to start with. Read the full blog post: https://opened.co/blog/homeschool-high-school-without-fear

A Public School Principal Stopped Following the Rules. Here's What Happened.

Kenneth Grover spent two decades as a public school principal proving that the rules governing American education - grade levels, bell schedules, age-based pacing - aren't always laws. They were habits. This conversation covers how a real mastery-based public high school actually ran, day by day, and what it took to build one from the inside. Read the full blog post: https://opened.co/blog/what-mastery-based-learning-looks-like-in-a-real-public-school Kenneth Grover LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kennethogrover OnFire Learning (OpenEd Marketplace): https://opened.co/marketplace?searchInput=fire