This expository is to remind future me: I started Scholarforge to help kids (and mamas). 

 When God was handing out brains and personalities, he gave me the one that gets very distracted by shiny things (in this case, shiny new ideas). I would totally have gotten lost if I were Hansel and Gretel. There would have been no trail of crumbs, or “scarlet thread” going through the Labyrinth. I probably would have gone all Swiss Robinson family and built a treehouse next to the witch’s candy hut and turned the minotaur into a pet (or more realistically perished in the process, but who’s counting?). Consider this me staking a flag in the ground to remind myself why I’m doing this.

I came up with the idea for Scholarforge because I really do love teaching and firmly believe every kid is just one step away from a breakthrough. Trying to build those bridges across rocky terrain is what gets me up in the morning.  Whether it’s reading, writing, or executive function, I’m here for the front-row seat. I know it’s hard to watch kids struggle, and get frustrated…lash out in anger, and feel defeated, discouraged or dumb, but I can’t help but immediately start brainstorming ways to work through it all.  

Sure I have lots of lofty aspirations. My goal someday is to have a reading program that is as simple to use as 100 Easy Lessons, as colorful as The Good And The Beautiful, and as in-depth as Spell To Write And Read/Writing Road To Reading.  I’d love to make Latin accessible to everyone, churn out all kinds of helpful things to create solid spellers…oh and create a formal logic curriculum that treats anxiety and depression with truth tables, but I may need several lifetimes for all that. In the meantime, I still have four kids who can’t do half those things, but in umbra igitur pugnabimus (we struggle on regardless). 

BUT… Even if I don’t have all the fancy glossy books published yet, I always have a sympathetic and listening ear available. And somewhere in the depths of my Canva and Google drives I also have spelling songs, countries and capital songs, fun mnemonic ways of remembering the Ten Commandments, and a whole host of other things, so feel free to hit me up if you need something. You can find YouTube geography tutorials here and how to remember the Latin Declensions here. Andria and I wrote a Latin Curriculum you can buy here that can be used by anyone anywhere but is especially helpful for Challenge A kids. I also drew blackline maps for the whole world so kids could trace/draw and color the world in peace without struggling with curved projections and bubbly confusing graphics (you can find those here). 

I know it’s all a small drop in the bucket, and I totally understand that not everything will work for everyone.

But we all have to start somewhere right?