Creating a Cooperative Learning Center: An Idea-Book for Homeschooling Families

Creating a Cooperative Learning Center is a practical, realistic, yet inspirational guide for homeschoolers desiring a gathering place designed specifically to enhance the home education experience. The guide tells the story of a center founded by a few dedicated parents where now over eighty home-educated children flourish. Within its pages are ideas for group activities, classes, workshops, field trips, community service, special projects, and more. In addition, there are actual copies of bylaws, incorporation papers, surveys, registration forms, parent and youth agreements, lists of helpful publications and resources - all reprinted so you can get a head start. If you build it, they will come!

Katharine Houk has been educating her children at home and in the world since 1983, and during this time has been an activist, speaker, writer, and organizer of educational events. She is co-founder of The Alternative Learning Center, a cooperative which offers classes, workshops, field trips and other adventures for families involved in home education. As executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education (ALLPIE), she has provided information about educational options and enrichment to thousands of parents. Katharine lives in New York State, where she is involved in art (design in fibers), writing, and community ministry (interfaith work).