The Learning Center wants to make homeschooling more enjoyable and more rewarding by offering student-centered, active classes that supplement your homeschool.

We are grounded in a Christian foundation and seek to foster an environment shaped by Christian virtues: respect for others, obedience to rightful authority, modesty, kindness, and charity. At the same time, our classes emphasize the subject matter itself, except where faith integration is specifically noted in a class description. We believe parents are the first and best teachers of their children, especially in matters of values, and we strive to honor that while offering the opportunity to overcome the challenges of group learning.

Our classes can only work if students are able to meet basic behavioral expectations that allow group learning to flourish. We are always glad to work with parents on strategies that may support participation, but in some cases a class may not be the right setting. (See details.)

PARTNERING WITH FAMILIES

We look like a real business, but actually we are just a husband and wife team, the only full-time employees, who were called by God to help homeschool families, who we believe He holds especially close to His heart.

The Learning Center is better understood as a partnership with families, not a traditional customer-service business. Most of the time, that partnership asks very little: families register, classes run smoothly, and the experience is joyful and straightforward. Occasionally, however, the limits of a small program become more visible.

We work hard to build good systems and clear processes, but we are not always able to absorb every complication or create perfect solutions for every one of the 500+ students we serve each semester. Given our limited capabilities, problems are inevitable, and we rely on patience, goodwill, grace, and forgiveness as we work through them together.

We hope The Learning Center will be a place where learning is strengthened by community, and where Christian charity governs even our inevitable imperfections.