Black Homeschooling Community of Athens

08/20/2026

📚 What We’re Learning This Week: Prince & Askia the Great 👑🏾🎶🌍

This week, we’re bringing together the living legacy of Prince with the powerful history of Askia the Great—two remarkable Black figures from very different times and places, connected through creativity, leadership, and the ability to shape culture.

For our African history study, we’re using The ABCs of African Kings and Queens to learn about Askia the Great, the renowned ruler of the Songhai Empire. We’re also using a Black history literacy book to help us explore Prince, his artistry, influence, and lasting impact on American culture.

And we’re not just reading about them!

The kids are learning through videos, photographs, crafts, discussion, and hands-on activities that help bring these historical figures to life. 📖🎨🎥

I love being able to put African history and Black American history into conversation with one another and show our children that Black history isn’t a collection of isolated names and dates.

It is a living, connected story of people creating, leading, building, resisting, imagining, and leaving something behind for the generations that come after them. 🖤🏾

This is what home education makes possible: slowing down enough to follow the connections, go deeper, get creative, and let our children’s curiosity lead the way.

What are YOU learning about this week? 👀📚

08/20/2026

Our children deserve more than an education. They deserve an environment where they can fully become themselves.

Home education gives families an incredible amount of freedom to ask:

What does my child actually need?

What are they curious about?

What kind of learner are they?

What stories should they know?

What skills will help them become capable, confident adults?

And for Black families, there can be something especially meaningful about having the freedom to intentionally center our children’s history, culture, identity, creativity, and brilliance—not as an occasional addition to their education, but as part of the foundation.

Imagine Black children growing up surrounded by books, nature, art, science, history, entrepreneurship, craftsmanship, music, and community—and seeing themselves reflected throughout it all.

That’s one of the possibilities of home education.

And I’d love for more Black families in the Athens area to discover those possibilities together. ❤️🏾

If you’re homeschooling—or seriously considering it—I’d love to hear from you.

08/20/2026

What if home education wasn’t just an alternative to school—but an opportunity to build something better?

For Black families, homeschooling can give us room to be intentional about what our children learn, how they see themselves, whose stories they hear, and what kind of community surrounds them.

It can look like reading Black authors together.
Studying African history beyond a single month.
Spending a Tuesday afternoon outside because the weather is beautiful.
Learning through cooking, gardening, building, creating, traveling, asking questions, and simply having time to be children.

And one of the things I love most is that we don’t have to do it alone.

There are Black homeschooling families in and around Athens who are creating a different kind of educational experience for their children—and I would love to see more of us find each other.

What would you want a Black homeschool community in Athens to look like?

Drop an idea below. 👇🏾

07/19/2026

One of the strongest influences on the American porch came from West Africa.

Across many parts of West Africa, homes commonly featured verandas or shaded outdoor living areas. Enslaved Africans brought building knowledge and woodworking skills to the Americas. In the hot, humid South, these shaded spaces made perfect sense. Historians widely recognize African building traditions as an important influence on the development of the Southern porch.

The porch wasn’t simply decorative—it was a place to:

* Escape the indoor heat
* Prepare food
* Weave, repair tools, and shell peas
* Tell stories
* Visit with neighbors
* Watch children play

06/30/2026

For generations, Black families have understood that education is more than academics; it’s identity, resilience, and possibility. Whether in a one-room schoolhouse, around a kitchen table, or on a nature trail, teaching our children has always been an investment in a future we may never fully see. Every lesson today becomes someone else’s foundation tomorrow.

06/30/2026

There is something deeply powerful about a community investing in its own children. Every lesson shared, every story preserved, every skill passed from one generation to the next is an act of legacy. Home education isn’t about replacing the village; it’s about strengthening it, ensuring our children know who they are, where they come from, and that they were always worthy of being taught with excellence, love, and high expectations.

06/28/2026

For any nature-loving homeschooled kids in Athens, these are my TOP 3 local spaces for nature exploration! We do science lessons, habitat identification, animal classification, plant identification, and so much more at these places all throughout the month. there are so many creative ways to pair various spaces in these locations with your science lessons or nature, exploration, and there are so many different ways to accommodate children of all ages from the very little to the wisdom ages!

06/28/2026

Once you make the leap to be a home educator, know that the possibilities are endless. Black children are not just another kid. Any Black person familiar with their historical context can tell you that the Black experience is unique and thus educating the next generation of Black youth requires a unique approach. Home education gives parents the opportunity to implement this. ❤️

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

Black male home education outcomes are consistently positive, frequently demonstrating higher academic achievement and psychological well-being. Families turn to homeschooling to provide individualized learning environments, impart culturally rich histories, and protect boys from institutional biases, disproportionate discipline, and low expectations present in traditional systems.