2022 Homeschool Idaho
Convention Schedule

Online Pre-registration: $55

At-the-Door Registration: $65.

Registration check-in will be held in the foyer of Treasure Valley Baptist Church.

Greta shares a variety of practical tips for successful homeschooling. These tips come from her own experience as a homeschooled student, her early years as a novice homeschool mom, to her current position as a happy homeschooling mom of 10 years. This talk will be an encouragement to the new and veteran homeschool mom alike.

View the current list of Exhibitors here.

View the current list of Silent Auction Fundraiser donations here. The Silent Auction Fundraiser will close at 1:20 PM on Saturday.

Oftentimes homeschool parents put their marriage on the back burner due to the hectic life of a homeschool family. This session will focus on why a healthy marriage is the most important element of an effective education. It will offer practical advice on how to maintain a healthy marriage in the midst of the organized chaos of homeschooling. 

Do you love to plan? Do you like organizers, rows, columns and checklists? Do you love to label and color code everything into neat little boxes? Planning is essential to what we do; it helps our days and years run smoothly; but could it be that some of us become bound and chained to our ideas and plans? Is it possible that we are planning God right out of our homeschool? Come and hear how we can put God back in the driver seat of our home and school and how to use planning to help us rather than control us.

If you are looking for ideas on how to organize your homeschool then this workshop is for you. I will be sharing numerous ideas for lesson planning, organizing your student’s work and grades, creating ways for your child to work independently and setting up your homeschool. There are plenty of ideas to choose from. Pick the ones that work best for you and your family.

Maybe you struggled with math, so how do you choose a curriculum to avoid the same fate for your child? Maybe you are really good at math but are unsure how to teach it now? Should you include manipulatives or not? What DOES it take to be the best teacher for your child? Find out the science and the art of teaching math. It is a science because

much research has been done on how children learn, especially in math. It

is an art because each child is different and lessons need to be tweaked. Come

learn and be encouraged to become a great math teacher.

Consider purchasing lunch and snacks from the Homeschool Idaho Concession Booth. Every purchase helps support our year-round efforts to inspire, promote, and protect home education in Idaho.

You are welcome to pack a picnic to enjoy on the TVBCC campus. Numerous restaurants are within a short drive of the convention site.

If you have students enrolled in the Children’s Program, please pick them up for lunch at 12:00 PM. Return your children for the afternoon portion of their program at 1:15 PM.

Students enrolled in the Teen Program will meet their parents at noon. Return at 1:15 PM for the afternoon portion of the Teen Program.

All winnings from the Silent Auction Fundraiser should be collected by 5:00 PM on Saturday.

So often, parents of passionate children feel alone in their parenting journey. It can be very lonely when you are struggling with your child.  You wonder what you are doing wrong, or what’s wrong with your child, if you are the only parent who has ever struggled to like their kid, and if you are a terrible parent. It’s hard! In this talk Greta encourages every parent of passionate

children and tells them they are not alone.  She shares real honest parts of her own journey parenting two very passionate children, and all the positive things God has brought about in their lives and my own through the journey. Greta also offers practical tips to help you help your passionate child grow and blossom. Her goal in this talk is not to tell parents how to fix their children, but rather to see the gift that passion is to our children and how it can be used for good.

How is each dad uniquely equipped as the spiritual leader of his family? What are the unique roles that God has given parents to fulfill as they bring up children “in the way they should go?” How does this work for single parents? Practical advice for discipling children at all stages will be given. This seminar will seek to answer the question: “how can I disciple my children when I don’t have a Bible degree?”

How is each dad uniquely equipped as the spiritual leader of his family? What are the unique roles that God has given parents to fulfill as they bring up children “in the way they should go?” How does this work for single parents? Practical advice for discipling children at all stages will be given. This seminar will seek to answer the question: “how can I disciple my children when I don’t have a Bible degree?”

This conversational workshop is being moderated by Aby Rinella. Please come prepared to share about what’s working in your support group. Likewise, be prepared to ask questions about issues that your group is struggling with. Iron sharpens iron!

Greta shares personal stories from her own journey as a homeschool mom of a child who has dyslexia and has struggled to learn to read. Greta also addresses the role of marriage in homeschooling and shares what things have seen her through when she was full of doubts about homeschooling successfully.

This session will explicate the essential roles that dads can play in homeschooling. It will focus on the essential diversity that two parents working together can bring to their child’s education. It will encourage dads to take part and not sit back. It will offer practical advice for how a dad can insert himself effectively into the homeschool environment.

How is it possible to homeschool your older children with a baby, toddler or preschooler around? Come be encouraged and gain practical tips as a mom of seven shares how homeschooling is not only possible but beneficial for the whole family when you have little ones underfoot.

This conversational workshop is being moderated by Homeschool Idaho board member Audra Talley. Please come prepared with questions about homeschooling! Audra will do her best to answer them, and will also ask her attendees to share their own insight.

How to use homeschooling to prepare your children for a culture that wants to cancel them. In a world where deconstruction is the norm, how do we construct a model of discipleship that helps our children not make a shipwreck of their faith? Our children will face a tidal wave of opposition to their Christian worldview, how do we prepare them to stand in the gap unwavering in their faith.