Every year Well-Trained Mind Academy owner Susan Wise Bauer hosts a fiber festival on her farm. Academy students, parents, teachers, and administrators take advantage of the event and get together … Read More
In March 2023, our Well-Trained Mind Academy high school students had an engaging session with Carrie Cooper, Dean of University Libraries at William & Mary. This talk is part of … Read More
In our summer Digital Citizenship course at the Well-Trained Mind Academy, one of the topics we discuss is the appropriate and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Because the world of … Read More
Dr. Andrew Jordan, research scientist at the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and co-investigator on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission, has a … Read More
As we shared in our previous blog, Well-Trained Mind Academy students happen to go to a school founded by an incredible educator, entrepreneur, and farmer! Every year, that founder, Dr. … Read More
Susan Wise Bauer, founder of the Well-Trained Mind Academy, knows a lot about homeschooling. When Dr. Bauer was still a preschooler, her mother taught her older brother to read. She was … Read More
Susan Wise Bauer has been part of the homeschooling world for a long time. In fact, she was homeschooled herself as a child. Over the years she took her homeschooling … Read More
Many of our students show interest in careers in the arts. Fortunately for them, we had the opportunity to hear from Eric Hammesfahr, a museum specialist at the Smithsonian National … Read More
Our Math & Science department is growing! Department chair Heather Quintero is working hard to bring exciting options to our families. News from the Classroom We are once again able … Read More
Homeschooling families are no strangers to criticism. If you are reading this, perhaps you have some of your own stories of people questioning your decisions to homeschool or scoffing at … Read More