Wouldn’t it feel amazing if you could approach the high school years with your out of the box teen with confidence?

Homeschooling with a focus on critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity prepares our out-of-the-box, differently wired, and gifted teens well for their future, whether or not your teen is college bound.

In fact, 93% of employers say these skills are more important than your college major. *

Happy moms

“Who knew high school could be so much fun?!”

Who knew high school could be so much fun? I love Heather’s approach to planning an academically sound and inspiring high school education for my teens.​

sarah mackenzie, read aloud revival

“I learned more from this course than a weekend at convention.”

I learned more from this course than I did from spending a weekend at a national homeschool convention attending every high school session.

I highly recommend this class for planning your high school years.

ticia M. – Homeschooling mom of 3

Listen, I get it.

I’ve been in your shoes.. and there is a better way!

My name is Heather Woodie and I’ve been blogging at BlogSheWrote.org for 17 years. I have a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a M.S.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction Secondary Education, and I’m on a mission to help families with out of the box, sick, and neurodiverse teens homeschool high school with purpose and peace. I’ve been homeschooling high school for the last 13 years and have graduated 4 teens.

Our four kids have always been out of the box and throughout high school and into college, we learned that their “out of the box-ness” has names.

We’ve homeschooled teens with severe chronic illnesses, ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression and guided them through the high school years and successfully launched them to college with scholarships, an Ivy League admission, and part time community college. Our youngest is the most out of the box of them all and is heading into the world of freelance without going to college.

Our two oldest finished college well and graduated with honors and distinction. Now they are both thriving, one as a technical writer and the other as an entrepreneur.

My mission is to help you to navigate the challenges you have with your teen, whether they have a diagnosis or not, so that your teen can have a personalized high school experience that meets their needs, along with all the tools and knowledge to apply to and have a successful college admission to a school which will help them to thrive.

Join me, so you can get your questions answered and learn how to guide your teen to success now and in the future!

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Introducing

Homeschooling High School by Design

Plan a customized, interest led, and project based high school experience for your teen, so they can enjoy high school and thrive at what makes their heart sing .

Let’s get down to details

Here is what this course is all about…

Getting started

Sustainable Scheduling for High School Credit

Learn how to gauge hours for high school credits and learn strategies for building a sustainable high school schedule with your teen. Answer the question how much is too much and what is too little when it comes to time spent on high school work!

planning unique courses

Project Based Course Planners

Use the planning forms for each lesson, so you can build customized courses as you go. The project based course planner is a template for you and your teen to create project oriented courses in high school. Use the forms over and over to build as many courses as you need!

teaching sick & neurodiverse teens

Methods & Approaches Teaching Out of the Box, Neurodiverse, Sick, & Creative Teens

Learn how to mentor your creative teens through a personalized approach to high school that addresses their need to be creative and do high school differently while still checking all the high school boxes.

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Meet Our Out of the Box Teens

Our oldest attended Purdue University with the highest merit scholarship and honors school designation.

He was admitted to the School of Liberal Arts for a degree in Professional Writing and he’s thriving with a minor in Anthropology. He dreams of being a technical writer post college.

He also had a chronic illness which provided a plot twist to his story and gave us a lot of experience tapping established protocols for unique students.

Our second oldest, was accepted early admission to Cornell University and graduated with honors and distinction with Bachelor of Science in Fiber Science and Apparel Design and a minor in art.

From many years of a project based course of study to an Ivy League design program, her story is an exciting one.

Our third teen attends our local community college online. He’s a history major and will transfer to SUNY Empire to continue online school. For the longest time he was aiming for a graduate degree in Library Science to work as an archivist. But he’s recently fallen in love with law.

Finally, our youngest graduated from our homeschool in 2024 and is the first of our crew to delay college indefinitely. They’ve struck out to freelance in writing computer programs and digital music composition.

All four of our teens required a different approach to their high school work and we embraced the opportunity to mentor our students in their strengths for the most positive outcome.

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Course FAQ

Click on the question to find out the answer to some of the things students ask the most, like how do I access my course?

Still Not Sure If This Course Is for You?

Let me tell you our daughter, Rebecca’s Story.

Rebecca started machine sewing when she was 8.

It’s the only activity she ever wanted to do more than once. She was a dabbler!

We found ways to explore sewing with her, always pressing into new skills.

As her skills grew, we provided opportunities for her through low and no cost community efforts, websites, and books.

At 10 she began drafting. At 13 she was entering design contests and she started her sewing school.

Her design was featured in a curated collection with known adult designers and design students.

She taught 10 students in 4 sewing classes from age 13-18. The income from her sewing school allowed her to buy new equipment like a serger.

Throughout high school, she took a course we created called Sewing & Design. She had five credits of this course on her transcript when she applied to design school.

She took on the portfolio with research and designs to help children with sensory disorders.

Rebecca’s experiences and accomplishments were rewarded with one of roughly 8 slots that year in the Fashion Design major at Cornell University.

In design school, she thrived! Rebecca won art contests, made the dean’s list, designed head turners for the annual runway show, secured a research assistant job in the world renowned textile collection, worked for a Fiber Science researcher constructing garments, accepted an honors research opportunity to study professional clothing for adults with sensory processing disorder, and graduated with honors and distinction with a B.S. in Fashion Design and a minor in art.

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Homeschool Your Out of the Box Teen with Peace & Confidence

Here’s the thing, Friends, we can homeschool Out of the Box teens differently! Each one of our teens has a story to tell and you get to mentor them and cheer them on! And I want to cheer YOU on!

You can have both a customized homeschool high school with project based courses

and

an admission to a competitive university

or any college.

It’s time to homeschool high school with peace & confidence!

* from Creative Know How: Competencies for Student Success in a World of Change

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