7th Annual TJEd Online Convention

This year’s content* is laser-focused on specific helps and “how-to” trainings, with printable organizational tools, hands-on workshops and coaching for subject-specific application of what TJEd looks like in each phase and topic – from Math to Music, from Science to History, from Foreign Language to Writing and Spelling.

Plus! Lots of advanced coaching for serious mentors, grandparents and adults in Mission and Impact Phase!

AND! An expanded roster of live, interactive workshops! These have been hugely successful in past years, and due to popular demand we’re offering even more this year!

“Oh my gosh! I’m loving the convention videos! Someone won’t be sleeping tonight…” ~C.D.

Scroll down for more testimonials from previous year’s participants!

Your subscription to the TJEd Online Convention will give you full, month-to-month, on-demand access to a huge treasure trove of video and audio content* to help you on the path of Leadership Education!

Think about it:

Homeschool conventions usually cost a LOT more; and you only hear maybe seven presentations. This convention costs less than most, and:

• you can access it from the comfort and convenience of your own home
• you don’t have the added expenses of childcare, travel, etc.
• you can watch/listen to favorites over and over
• you can share the experience with your household
• you get dozens of presentations to choose from, and time enough to digest them and put them into practice!

PLUS! Nowhere can you get this much content specific to Leadership Education, with its focus on developmentally-empowered, mission-focused, classics-anchored learning 

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What to expect from this year’s convention:*

2023 TJEd Online Convention

Inspirational. Transformational. Practical. Doable.

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Part I: Keynotes

Keynote 1, Featuring Oliver & Rachel DeMille:

The 55 Ingredients (and what we’ve learned since then)

In 2008 we published a life-in-our-fishbowl sequel to A Thomas Jefferson Education – a detailed look at how we approach the TJEd lifestyle and learning model. When we wrote that book, our oldest was just sixteen, and our youngest was two.

Now, fifteen years later, we have four married kids, eleven grandchildren (and more on the way), and our last child is now in Scholar Phase. Needless to say, in the intervening years we’ve learned a few things!

There are things that, with the benefit of hindsight, we would add, subtract or amend with respect to what we wrote back when our family was younger and we hadn’t seen quite so much water under the bridge. In this Workshop, Oliver and Rachel talk about The 55 Ingredients and the Phase of Learning – with a 2023 update.

Keynote 2, Featuring Oliver DeMille: The 2023 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

“What I’d Say to the Graduating Class (and their Parents) Right Now”

It’s not the same thing they would have needed to hear in the 1990s. Not even close. Nor is it what they needed to hear in the 2000s, or anytime before the world-shifting happenings of 2020.

It’s a new message, for a new time–a rising era where the rules are different and success is based on a whole new approach.

Most people don’t realize it yet, but the new realities are here to stay, and it’s time to embrace them and build our futures accordingly. Anyone who doesn’t will be left behind.

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Part II: In the TJEd Trenches

Workshop, Rachel DeMille:

Mother Culture: TJEd and Charlotte Mason – I Am, I Can, I Ought, I Will 

Last year, Rachel was invited by her dear friend Donna Goff to present in a Charlotte Mason conference. The resulting presentation, which showed the harmony between Charlotte Mason and TJEd, is a gem we want to share with you here.

From that intro: “Mother Culture is all about the heart and hope that define TJEd and Charlotte Mason family learning. Discover how the principles of Leadership Education (TJEd) align with Charlotte Mason, and how to set a plan in motion that leads to lifelong, mission-driven learning by simply striving to own and live your role as a mother.”

Workshop, Rachel DeMille & Emma Cox:

Living Your Mission with Littles

Living in this generation feels like a daily call to a life of principle and purpose – to have clarity and conviction with regard to living your mission. And yet, when your day-to-day time is absorbed by caring for a young family, it’s easy to feel conflicted, wondering if you’re doing enough to build your Two Towers.

In this workshop, grandmother Rachel and young mama Emma talk about how to live your mission, right-now-today, while being fully vested in the home and family. 

Workshop, Emma Cox and Rachel DeMille:

Explaining The New TJEd for Kids Program – for Ages 7 to 13 and their Parents

Which kind of family are you?

• TJEdi: TJEd is your jam. You want to connect with others who resonate with your values and who share and support your family’s learning journey.

• The “Reluctant” homeschooler: maybe your home is divided on the decision to homeschool, or has serious challenges that make you question how you’ll be able to make it work.

• The “Accidental” homeschooler: homeschool was not the plan, but suddenly you find it as your best or only option.
• The “Frustrated” homeschooler: you’re finding that your past approach no longer serves you, and you need a lane change and/or a healing path.

We hear you! With thirty years of happy and successful TJEd-ing in the rear-view and a new crop of TJEd kids in our family, we’re inviting you on the journey we took with our adult kids as we now pass it on to the next generation. 

The Young Statesmen/Stateswomen Society [YSS] is our answer for training parents to coach and mentor their kids while offering hands-on projects for Love of Learning and Transition to Scholar Phase.

YSS:

• • Guides you step-by-step in becoming a better mentor

  • Supports you with inspiring content that not only doesn’t compete with the Phases of Learning, it actually empowers them

  • Facilitates a successful Love of Learning

  • Catalyzes the Transition to Scholar 

  • Connects you with a community of families who share this journey! 

• This workshop will explain the program, the recent upgrades, and how YSS can work for you. 

Workshop, Ian Cox

Explaining The New TJEd Depth Program for College Level!

TJEd Depth is Committed to Developing New Founders Around the World 

Simply put, TJEd Depth is designed to help you get “An Education to Match Your  Mission.” 

• • To become a greatly needed New Founder of freedom in the 21st Century.

• • To become a man or woman of integrity and wisdom who knows how to effectively stand for freedom, family, leadership and excellence in the modern world.

This is an intensive mentor-based education for becoming the 21st Century’s Jeffersons, Washingtons, Adams, Franklins, Madisons Abigails, Marthas, Marys, etc. No credits, no grades, no B.S.’s, no socialist indoctrination. 

Simply great classics and mentoring. There is no more time to waste. 

In this workshop you will learn how TJEd Depth will empower you to fulfill  your generational mission and live your true purpose.

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Part III: The Inspired Mind – the TJEd Master Mentor Planner 

[The seminars and workshops in Part III marked with an *asterisk have coaching/record-keeping pages in the Master Mentor Planner. Those who sign up for the Early Bird Registration will get a free download from the Master Mentor Planner!]

Workshop featuring Rachel DeMille:

*FEC and Weekly Interviews 

In this workshop, Rachel explains the Family Executive Committee process, with additional coaching on how to conduct weekly interviews with kids. 

• • *The Planner page for FEC includes an agenda form with coaching.
  • *The Mentor Meetup Planner page includes an interview template, and prompts for interview questions and things to watch for in each phase.

Workshop by Rachel DeMille:

*Revolutionize and Simplify Your Mentoring with  “Cresting”

“Cresting” is a parent/mentor’s focus on a subject with the purpose of building a foundation and rapport with it and growing in the ability to mentor and inspire others. In this Cresting workshop, Rachel gives a detailed how-to on “Inspire, not Require,” with “You, not Them.”

Whenever there is a topic that you want to introduce, expand on, reframe or heal  in your family learning, the Cresting process will help you organize your approach so that you can confidently and effectively mentor your family in new and inspiring ways. 

• • *The Cresting Planner page has sections on: Adult Reading; Family Read-alouds; Projects; Games; Resources; Local Opportunities; Heroes and Mentors; Vocabulary; …and more.

Workshop, Rachel DeMille:

*The 6-Month Inventory

Many tribal traditions in history used vision quests to get life direction, while during the Agrarian Age a summer hike to the lake or time spent pondering in nature fulfilled a similar function. In the Industrial Age, leaders learned how important a company retreat can be, and mothers everywhere know the value of a weekend away to recharge and refocus.

In TJEd, we emphasize a special kind of personal retreat that we call The Six-Month Inventory. We recommend that each person do this at least twice a year, and in this workshop, Rachel coaches the process and introduces the planner pages to inspire and facilitate it.

• • *The 6-Month Inventory Planner pages also include sections on The 6-Month Purge, the 6-Month “No,” The Compass

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Part IV: The 7 Steps of the Inspired Mind

Seminar, Rachel DeMille

*The “7 Steps” Model for Teaching and Learning Anything Through the Phases

Oliver proposed some time ago that there are seven steps to learning and teaching math, and Rachel has expanded this to show how these same steps apply to any subject. In this seminar, Rachel first outlines the template for the 7 Steps, and then in subject-specific workshops, translates the template into concrete “How” and “What” for each subject. Applying this 7-Step model will transform your family learning, and alleviate a world of stress and frustration. These short workshops are easily digestible with printable worksheets to help apply the vision in your home and mentoring.

• • *The 7 Steps Planner pages outline each step for easy review

• *Introduction, Rachel DeMille: The Inspired Mind – Defining the 7-Step Model of Learning and Teaching Anything
  
• *Workshop 1, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching Math [For more details and coaching on this topic, see also our “TJEd and Math” seminar in this convention!]

• *Workshop 2, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching Science

• *Workshop 3, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching Music

• *Workshop 4, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching History

• *Workshop 5, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching Foreign Language

• *Workshop 6, Rachel DeMille: The 7 Steps of Learning and Teaching Writing & Spelling 

Seminar, Rachel DeMille:

*The 6 Steps of Family Reset for Deschooling, Detoxing or Rebooting Your Successful Family Learning

Whether your family is coming off the conveyor belt, looking for a lane change or just needs to relocate your family harmony and love of learning, the Family Reset works miracles!

This is not a one-time process, but a tool to be returned to again and again whenever happy or hard things alter your dynamic.

These tried-and-true principles reset your family culture to reignite the love of learning, reconnect sibling friendships and re-establish parental leadership. 

• *Workshop: Step 1 – Simplify
• *Workshop: Step 2 – Family Reading
• *Workshop: Steps 3 – Core Phase Fun; and 4 – Group Activities
• *Workshop: Steps 5 – Show Restraint; 6 – Lead Out

• • *The Family Reset Planner pages include sections on each of the 6 Steps

More about the Inspired Mind TJEd Master Mentor Planner

There are other available planner pages, including:

• • The Blank Page Brainstorm form [live workshop with Ian Cox available in this convention!]
  • Page with coaching for each season
  • Page for each Phase
  • TJEd Booklists
  • TJEd for Teens Top-100 List
  • The TJEd for Teens “Real You” Exercises
  • The Student Whisperer Journal
  • The Hero Education 4-Year Plan
  • 35 Steps for Transition to Scholar
  • The Levels of Scholar Phase
  • Mentoring The Bridge to Depth Phase
  • 35 Reasons for Studying the Classics
  • The TJEd Compass
  • And more!

Available Soon in the TJEd Shop!

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Part IV: Building on the TJEd Lifestyle

Workshop, Rachel DeMille:

Georgic Health

In this workshop, Rachel discusses the Core value of physical health and its huge impact on learning, education, success and happiness.

She offers some Georgic solutions to vibrant health in our time. As Count Rugen said, “If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.” 

Workshop, Rachel DeMille:

Mentoring Grandchildren

In this workshop, Rachel presents on the unique experience of mentoring the next generation. She muses: “It’s often said that grandchildren are even more fun than having your own kids! I don’t know where I stand on that, but I will say that it’s a humbling and entertaining experience to get to know these valiant souls that were born for such a time as this.”

In the next few years, families will tend more toward tribal-type culture, where extended loved ones have a more active role in supporting and mentoring the children than in the past couple of generations. In this workshop, Rachel takes on several scenarios:

• What to do when your active input is not welcome
• What to do when it’s asked for
• What to do when it’s needed
• What to do when you’ve got full-charge of homeschooling and/or raising the grandkids
  

Workshop, Rachel DeMille:

Mentoring Adulting

One of the more challenging transitions in life is the leap from “child in the home” to “running your own life in the big, bad world.” It’s almost hard to say who finds this more terrifying: the youth, or their parents!

In this workshop, Rachel shares her experience in coaching a variety of youth and young adults moving into adulthood, and gives tips and checklists to help guide an approach to mentoring this challenging and rewarding transition.

Workshop, Group Discussion with Oliver, Rachel and adult kids:

Mentoring Adult Children

You thought that when they turned eighteen you’d get to return to being, you know, YOU. Or at least when they married and started a family of their own, right? But it turns out that the role of a parent/mentor never ends. Still, it does change.

There’s an art to mentoring adult kids, and it can be all the things, from heartbreaking to joyful.

And, it can be the best part yet of your parenting journey.

Workshops, Various:

“My Journey to Scholar Phase”

One of the most popular and impactful  presentations we have ever done for the TJEd Online Conventions was an interview between Oliver and our fourth child, Eliza. Her journey to Scholar Phase as a self-described “late bloomer” was not what she or we expected. And her story has inspired and healed many others whose path had twists and turns. 

But Eliza is just one of our adult children, and each of them has their own unique story to tell. The accounts of how a dyslexic, an unschooler, a part-time public schooler, a Physical and a traditional book learner each transitioned to Scholar Phase on their own terms, and then successfully moved on to Depth Phase and beyond, paint a landscape that many if not most will find something to identify with, and gain inspiration from. 

This year, we feature a son who is dyslexic and a daughter whose style is unschooling, with an encore of Eliza’s original “Journey” video.

• Workshop: My Journey to Scholar Phase, with Oliver James DeMille
• Workshop: My Journey to Scholar Phase, with Sara DeMille
• Encore Workshop: My Journey to Scholar Phase, with Eliza Robinson

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Section V: LIVE! Interactive Events with Ian Cox

Blank Page Brainstorm Workshop

In this workshop we will be working through the Blank Page Brainstorm (BPB) mentoring process. If the BPB is new to you, then here’s what you need to know: this is mentoring. When you do it, you’re mentoring. When you don’t do it: you’re not mentoring at your highest level. It is simple, it is easy, it is powerful and it is incredibly effective.

The Blank Page Brainstorm is a critical tool for any successful mentor and parent. It is a great time to pause, reflect, and line up the specifics you are going to implement from the TJEd Online Convention right now. Even if you’ve done this workshop before, the fact that it’s live and interactive makes it a unique experience each time.

Blank Page Brainstorm Followup Workshop

Once you’ve completed the BPB workshop, this going-deeper review will help you brush up on your mentoring skills and take them to the next level. 

Aristotle Reading & Discussion Workshop: Nicomachean Ethics

This is a fun one! We talk about the classics a lot, read-alouds, and great reads for youth, but sometimes we forget to read great depth and mission classics for ourselves. This workshop is an introduction to learning the language of the greats!

As we seek to broaden and deepen our thinking, our ability to serve others increases. Sometimes all we need to turn things up a notch is a little help over that first hurdle, or a little extra insight from a mentor, or simply a group of like-minded friends to bounce ideas around with. This is what studying Aristotle has done for me and I think you’ll have a similar experience.

Euclidean Geometry Book 1 Workshop: An Introduction to the Love of Math 

Ian says: “I struggled with math as a youth. In my experience, the conveyor-belt approach chased the fun and majesty of mathematics away. In my teens I took a Geometry class where it finally started making more sense and I actually started to enjoy my studies. It wasn’t until my early 20’s that I really began falling in love with math once I had a mentor who loved math and shared his passion for Euclid with me. This started my love of learning journey with math and I started seeking it out in my personal studies.”

Now Ian is a math-loving mentor! Come play with shapes and angles and let his passion for the subject rub off on you! 

7 Steps of Mission & The Law of the Wall

The path of the Hero, the path of Mission, has predictable features, and one of the most powerful reason to have a mentor is to help us through the tests, trials and traps we find on this path.

In this workshop we will explore the 7 Steps of Mission, starting with The Call and ending with The Pressure Lets Up. Also discover the Law of the Wall and how to approach the 3 Challenges we all face along the way. 

Come join Ian for this insightful and empowering Mission workshop!

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Section VI: Mentoring Youth Greatly on Freedom and the Constitution

MINI-SEMINAR, Featuring Oliver DeMille:

This is a seminar for parents and other adult mentors on how to teach this vitally important topic to the youth. Getting this right will make all the difference in how inspired, motivated and energetic your youth are about studying the principles of freedom and the Constitution during their Scholar Phase. Sadly, this topic is very rarely taught well or effectively in our modern world.

This workshop will make you an expert on what to teach, in what order, and how to do it in a way that sticks. Freedom matters. And the Scholar Phase approach to the topic of freedom–as guided by parents–sets the tone for a life of loving and standing up for freedom, and knowing how to do it.

• WORKSHOP 1: What Every Youth Should Know About Freedom
  • Basic Level (to adults, parents and others who mentor youth):  The 12 Skills of Free People
    
• WORKSHOP 2: What Every Youth Should Know About Freedom
  • Intermediate Level (to adults, parents and others who mentor youth): The Natural Law Principles
    
• WORKSHOP 3: What Every Youth Should Know About Freedom
  • Advanced Youth Level (to adults, parents and others who mentor youth): The Federalist Papers Core Plan
    

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Section VII: How to Be a Great Reader (And Help Your Children Become the Same)!

MINI-SEMINAR, Featuring Oliver DeMille:

Due to the widespread impact of conveyor-belt schooling that dominates most people’s educational background, there is a natural tendency to teach reading as a rote chore, and also to hear topics like “How to Be a Great Reader” and unconsciously assume this is for the kids. But these 3 Workshops are for YOU, the parent, the adult. 

Of course, the principles covered in this Seminar do apply to your youth, and teaching these things to them is a great idea. But this Seminar is for YOU. And if you’re already a good reader, how can you be an even better reader, a truly great reader? Going back to some of the greatest classics in human history to address this topic, Oliver DeMille shows you…well, that’s in the 3 Workshops. This Seminar is a game-changer!

• WORKSHOP 1: Why Virgil is the Key to Becoming a Great Reader, and How to Do This Yourself
• WORKSHOP 2: The 3 Types of Great Readers /or/ Virgil vs. Homer vs. Plato–the 3 Types of Great Readers–and Which is Right for You
• WORKSHOP 3: THE RARE “S—;” Those Who Have it Are Great Readers (A Whole New Level of Great Reading)

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Section VIII: “TJEd and Math” Seminar

For some parents and teachers — especially homeschoolers it seems — teaching math and science is the greatest worry. As TJEders, those of us who aren’t math-inclined find this especially challenging: How do you “Inspire” when you don’t like math? How do you use math “Classics”? And Omigoodness, what of “You” in math studies? Must I really???

Never fear. As with everything else, your change of heart and new-found inspiration in math (suggestions to discover this new-found inspiration follow below…) will infuse your home and classroom with a dynamic and enthusiastic Love of Learning that leads to a successful Scholar- and Depth-approach to mathematics.

As with everything worthwhile, “there ain’t no quick fix”; even so, you’ll be amazed at how much you have to offer as a mentor and educator when you find yourself having “a-ha’s” and epiphanies, and when you start to daydream and ponder in the wee hours about the mathematical thoughts, readings and projects that are spinning in your creative mind! Sound impossible? It’s not! This has been my experience. What have you got to lose?

Your goal: to inspire your students to love math and to become life-long students of math.

Your strategy: You. Inspire. Classics.

Your tactic: come face-to-face with greatness, experiencing the works of others who love math and are life-long math students.

It works! It will work for you!!!

• Section 1 – The Big Picture: Your Brain on Math

• • AUDIO: This is Your Brain on Math, Part 1 by Oliver DeMille
  • AUDIO: This is Your Brain on Math, Part 2 by Oliver DeMille
  • AUDIO: This is Your Brain on Math, Part 3 by Oliver DeMille
  • AUDIO: Inspiring Math by Rachel DeMille

• Section 2: In the Beginning

• • VIDEO, Rachel DeMille: Teaching Math Through the Phases
  • VIDEO, Rachel DeMille: What does TJEd math look like in Love of Learning?
  • VIDEO: Rachel DeMille: The Language of Math, Math Love and the Bubble Top Principle
  • VIDEO: Math Resources Panorama
  • VIDEO, YSS: Math Resources and Mentor Training

• Section 3: Math with Youth

• • VIDEO, YSS Math Projects: Learning Times Tables
  • VIDEO: Why Math Matters: Learning Math Using the Classics by Ian Cox
  • AUDIO: Three Short and Fantastic Math Readings: A Group Discussion (Lockhart’s Lament, Benezet Math, The Multiple Choice Test—available free on PDF for all attendees)
  • VIDEO: An Introduction to the Love of Math with Euclid

• Section 4: YOU, Mentored – in Three Seminars

• • SEMINAR 1 – MIC: A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe

• • • • INTRO AUDIO: A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe
      • STUDY GUIDE: A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe
      • DEBRIEFING AUDIO & UPDATED STUDY GUIDE: A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe

• • SEMINAR 2 – MIC: A Mind for Numbers

• • • • INTRO AUDIO: A Mind for Numbers
      • STUDY GUIDE: A Mind for Numbers
      • DEBRIEFING AUDIO: A Mind for Numbers

• • SEMINAR 3 – MIC: The Rithmatist and Euclid’s Elements

• • • • INTRO AUDIO: The Rithmatist and Euclid’s Elements
      • STUDY GUIDE: The Rithmatist and Euclid’s Elements
      • DEBRIEFING AUDIO: The Rithmatist and Euclid’s Elements

• What’s Next? Advanced Math Mentoring with “How to Mentor”

• • What is “How to Mentor?” and how can you access it?
  • Our acclaimed “Math from the Classics” seminar – one of the most re-requested events Oliver ever presented in his 20 years of mentoring college age and continuing education students! Watch for it!

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Section IX: Four Leadership Topics & Skills That Are Missing in Most Schools – and How to Effectively Teach Them

SEMINAR, by Oliver DeMille:

There are certain leadership skills that every young person should learn, and great mentors make sure these are taught–and taught effectively. Parents who address these topics are, sadly, too rare in our modern society. Part of this is the natural result of the widespread influence of conveyor belt education, which doesn’t include some of the most important topics/skills in its curriculum. 

And worse: in some cases it teaches falsehoods connected with these needed skills. 

As a consequence, parents often forget to ensure that these subjects are taught, or that their youth understand the key principles in these areas and also develop, practice, and master the vital skills associated with each. The following Workshops address four of these too-often-overlooked and neglected topics and skill sets–helping parents and other mentors understand what they need to teach each youth, the easiest and most effective ways and resources to teach them, and how to do so in ways that effectively inspire each youth. Don’t miss out on these crucial elements of any successful education!

• WORKSHOP 1: How to Help Your Youth Find Their Life Mission
• WORKSHOP 2: Teaching Your Youth the Vital and Powerful Skills of Money and Finances
• WORKSHOP 3: Teaching Your Youth How to be Innovators! (this changes everything for them)
• WORKSHOP 4: Teaching Your Youth the Skills to Get Out of Any Slump or Rut, and How to Actually Turn Any Setback or Problem Into an Opportunity

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Testimonials regarding previous years’ conventions:

I just wanted to share my initial experience with the Online Convention so far. Firstly, being in Australia, I am grateful it is online! I’ve started watching a few of the bonus videos before the “real” event starts.

What I’ve watched already has been valuable. I’ve watched the one on Family Work, the one on Scholar Contract and most recently I watched Oliver Jnr.’s one on Mentoring Science.

They have all been worth the time taken to watch and listen. I’d never heard anything from Oliver Jnr. before and found his peaceful manner really calming and easy to listen to. I found the insights into the world of science beneficial and that book list! wow! Thank you. I found this presentation worthwhile – even as a student of psychological science myself!

Well done, thank you and I’m looking forward to the rest of the convention. ~Heidi Lianne

The TJEd Online Convention is everything! I truly enjoy feasting upon it all each year.

I love, love, love what Rachel DeMille shared in her talk “I will know, I will do” over in the Mentoring Moments section!

“If you want a better ability to apply TJEd to your family then you need to daily refresh your knowledge daily of TJEd. It’s not enough to remember what it’s about, or what you read when read it. That doesn’t move the needle on your motivation. That is just head knowledge, not heart knowledge. Heart knowledge comes from the daily stuff.”

I loved how she simply put this into words because over the years I have seen so many times where it has been shared that a person had read the TJEd books before but that’s it. They read it one time and then often are ready to pass it on to another family (which is great), but if you truly want to experience and have that heart knowledge of TJEd, I personally feel that Oliver & Rachel DeMille poured so much into the books that for me it’s something I make a point to read all the time. Whether it’s certain ingredients, or in it’s entirety. They have a blog with wonderful blog posts, annual online conventions and more in which we are able to truly gain our heart knowledge in TJEd!

Thank you! Thank you! Always!! ~Madeleine S.

What a gift the Online Convention has been to me! I am torn- sad to think it will be over soon, and so excited to implement the next right thing for me and my family. I have grown in confidence so much in these past few weeks. Some of my favorite parts: the Moms Panel, TJEstimonials, “How to Lead Discussion” series, and the New to Homeschool section. I so appreciate the encouraging and fun spirit! Thank you!! ~Rae F.

I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying the TJEd online convention this year! It seems like everything relates to something I have been thinking about, conversations I just had, or lessons I am teaching soon in school. Thank you for putting this together! I am loving it! ~Andrea E.

Just listened to “How to Lead a Discussion for an Adult Group” in the TJEd Convention, and it was EXACTLY what I needed right now.  We have an Adult Scholar TJEd Discussion group on Facebook called Liber Academy. We read and discuss a classic each week using Facebook video chat, and our discussions are almost always amazing.

Sometimes I haven’t really known how to lead these discussions effectively though, and I’ve fumbled my way through it. But this talk really hit the nail on the head in helping me think through what the key factors are in having a successful discussion. I highly recommend it! ~Shauna S.

Just wanted to say thank you Rachel DeMille for including “Homeschooling the Exceptional Child: Gifted, Unschooled, Disabled, Dyslexic, etc.” in the bonus content for the conference again this year!!

Equally…. oh my!! What a powerful and moving discussion on Family Work between you and Donna Goff! I have always loved family work but life stress has almost pushed me back into bad habits of forcing the kids to just get tasks done on their own and recently they have been practically begging me to help again.

Today my youngest was asked to pick up all the books that he had emptied from his cupboard onto the floor. He requested help and I replied with “No, you made the mess now clean it up. You got the books out you can put them back. I’ve got other things to do.” Well boy how stupid I felt when he replied, “But we are supposed to help other people. It’s good. That’s what the prophets did!” Complete heart-melt moment and of course he was right, I wasn’t leading by example, following the values I wanted to instill in us all and if course I could not deny his request for help any longer.

Takeaways:

Family work isn’t just about getting the house clean. It instill values, it builds relationships and it reduces emotional overwhelm for us all! I also in this moment saw how powerful daily reading and conversations around the families core book sets such a beautiful foundation for not only our personal lives but our families lives too.

Thank you to you both for solidifying that lesson for me today! ~Ambah M.