Hi, I’m Amy!

Here’s what we believe:

  • homeschooling middle and high school should be as fun as homeschooling the early grades

  • it’s time (it’s past time!) to decolonize the curriculum

  • learning is a lifelong project 

  • secular homeschoolers can make the world a better place

Homeschooling high school is the fun part.

True story: Homeschool grads get into college with their regular, unaccredited homeschool diplomas and mom-made transcripts.

(But it feels like a big deal, and having a little support makes it all a lot less stressful).

I’m a secular homeschool nerd.

You DO NOT need multiple degrees, an obsession with shipping students and colleges, a passion for academic intersectionality, and a reading list for every imaginable topic to homeschool high school…

… but I DO have all of those things, so you can totally borrow my brain when you need a little homeschool hand-hold.

If you’re going to homeschool high school,
you should get to do the fun stuff.

After all, that’s the whole reason you’re homeschooling. Right?

And here’s the thing: I hear from homeschoolers all the time who can’t stop worrying that they’re about to blow it — they’re going to teach the wrong classes, read the wrong books, write the wrong transcript, miss some vital must-do, and ruin their kid’s life because they decided to homeschool high school.

It’s my mission to help keep the homeschool magic going through the homeschool home stretch — you CAN homeschool high school so that your teen has all the tools to do whatever they decide they want to do next. And I’m here to help you do it.

Amy Sharony

FOUNDER + CEO

I’m a secular homeschool nerd — and my favorite thing is putting all that nerdiness to work helping homeschoolers navigate the best part of homeschooling: the high school homestretch.

I think you can have it all: an engaging, academic homeschool that challenges kids to think deeper and get ready for advanced academics AND a creative, student-led homeschool that’s as one-of-a-kind as your kid. You can learn big stuff and have big fun.

When people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I always said I wanted to go to school forever. And that’s what I get to do: I write high school curriculum that reflects my current nerdy obsessions, run a groovy little hybrid high school in Atlanta that I started back in 2016, and talk nonstop about homeschooling at homeschool conferences and on my secular homeschool podcast. In my downtime, you can find me making weird playlists with my teen homeschooler, texting cute bat pictures to my college kid, squeezing in weekend lunch dates with my husband, or walking the neighborhood with the world’s most adorable Yorkie mix.

Favorite family readaloud: The Wee Free Men

Most-played driving song: Punk Rock Girl

Coffee order: Chai latte

Book I read over and over: Possession

Comfort television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Erin F.

“Finding secular, progressive resources for high school is definitely the biggest challenge as secular homeschoolers. We love Amy’s classes. ”

Michelle R.

“I was overwhelmed by the idea of homeschooling high school, but Amy made it so easy. Her classes were so fun, and she was so helpful with transcripts and recommendations during the college application process. We love Deep Thought.”

Homeschooling high school is where you get to do the fun stuff.

My core values…

  • Secular homeschoolers can save the world. I’m totally serious.

  • There is no rush. There is no prize for who homeschools the fastest.

  • Decolonizing the curriculum is a process, not a destination.

  • Good questions are better than easy answers.

  • You don’t have to be a great teacher to homeschool high school. You just have to be a curious learner.

About Amy

Amy Sharony is the founder of home/school/life and the author of The Ultimate Homeschool Calendar, The A+ Homeschool Planner, The Homeschool Recharge Workbook, and The Happier Homeschool Day Book. She launched home/school/life in 2014, a couple of years after she started homeschooling her then-in-2nd-grade daughter and became fascinated (some might say obsessed) with all the places where home, school, and life intersect. When she was younger, she said she wanted to spend the rest of her life in school, and between homeschooling, teaching at the Academy hybrid homeschool, and going back to college multiple times, she has pretty much managed to do that. She believes in secular homeschooling, decolonizing the curriculum, the Oxford comma, and changing her mind.