About the Co-op

This is the informational page aimed at those homeschooling families who live in Central Texas, especially the northern Austin and Round Rock area.


Kim Jones (science tutor) and Kat Patrick (English) team up every year to offer a co-op for homeschoolers in the town where they both live. The program changes from year to year, but always builds on their subject expertise and is separated into middle- and high-school levels.


Kim and Kat at local homeschooling fair


Kim and Kat run paid-for, year-long courses with the international tutorial company called Dreaming Spires Home Learning. This local drop-off co-op, however, is a way that Kim and Kat give back to the community by volunteering their time. While there is a small charge for families, it's used for covering supplies and donating to the church which generously allows free use of the facilities.

For 2019-2020, the subjects will be General Studies and Science Fiction/Fantasy book club for middle school, and Conceptual Physics and Sci-Fi/Fantasy literature for high school.

You'll see that there is some overlap in what they offer at the co-op and what they teach for a fee at Dreaming Spires Home Learning: the difference is the intensity of expectation and the amount of oversight.

In other words, the co-op is more laid back in terms of the homework being set and tutors' input, and the relationship between it and the DSHL courses is purely by association of the people involved.

IN ADDITION TO THE TEEN/TWEEN CO-OP, we are gaining momentum in offering both a K-3 and 4-5 group. These won't be drop off and we're still working out the details.

For more info, you can contact Kat on Facebook or via the contact form on this website.

THE CO-OP BEGINS 20TH OF SEPTEMBER. A MORE DETAILED CALENDAR IS PUBLISHED ON THE FACEBOOK GROUP FOR ONLY REGISTERED MEMBERS.



PS The form is on this website, just not below.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Gearing Up for September 2019

Image
Here we are at the beginning of August and getting our ducks in a row for the Round Rock co-op. Discussions are happening between families who have registered already where we can offer K-12, something for every family, with a K-3 FIAR group, 4-5 studies of some kind that may include Texas history, 6-8 will do general science and science fiction literature, and 9-12 will do conceptual physics with science fiction literature. Co-op getting ready to go! The 6-12 group is a drop-off whereas parents have to stay with anyone K-5. You can see on our home page that we meet at a church in Round Rock who have let us use their facilities, and sometimes we get asked if it's a Christian group. My answer is: well, not specifically, our books aren't Christian textbooks or anything, but those of us who run it are Christian so we won't guarantee we'll never talk about our faith. Weigh that up with the level of tuition and social interaction you get for $110/family for the yea...
Read more

Winding down for Spring 2019

Image
After Easter break, the Round Rock Teen/Tween co-op will have just two more class sessions followed by an end-of-year party on the 10th of May. I've enjoyed seeing how homeschoolers in the north Austin/Round Rock area are starting to gel and hang out a bit more, and meanwhile, undertake some academic subjects that add to their learning experience. This was one of my favorite pictures of the year - a couple of boys in the teen group who purposely dressed like each other as a joke. It just felt like "tribe" to me! Building on the connections they made this year, the members of the co-op will be back in 2019-2020 to study more science and English in a laid-back environment. Check out the "About the Co-op" page to learn more about it, or use the registration form to save one of 15 spaces for your own child/ren.
Read more