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Unlocking Learning Potential


Personal Reflections - 26
What have our graduates done beyond high school? Many of our graduates have gone to college or have gone into a trade. We will feature...
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Mar 17, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 25
How did the online part of Family Academy Online and Unlocking Learning Potential begin? Prior to 2004, the Jiles family lived in...
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Mar 17, 20212 min read


Personal Reflections - 24
WHO Convention 2000 and 2013 Through the years we had booths at the different homeschool conventions, most often the Washington...
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Mar 10, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 23
Who controls our time on this earth? “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” Psalm 116:15 Often when a younger...
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Mar 10, 20212 min read


Personal Reflections - 22
Another Graduation - Achievements Recognized During Academy Northwest graduations, graduates give speeches and perform musically. This...
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Mar 3, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 21
What about World Languages? Today, homeschoolers have many opportunities to learn a world language. First, a number of excellent...
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Mar 3, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 20
How did Academy Northwest look after having its own graduation? Graduation, 2006 – Academy Northwest’s graduation program tells the...
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Feb 24, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 19
What happens when Monet, Capernicus, Newton, Bunyan, Boyle and Mozart come to visit? Our students learned about different historical...
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Feb 24, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 18
What about graduation? Yes, homeschoolers graduate. In Washington, many do it with the Washington Homeschool Organization or their coops...
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Feb 17, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 17
How did we adjust as our learning center grew? After a year of using our remodeled garage as our learning center, Master Enterprises...
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Feb 17, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 16
What can we learn from the past? One way students learn about the past is visiting museums – some within five miles from their learning...
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Feb 9, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 15
What can a small learning center do? From experience we know that small learning centers can do many things that larger learning centers...
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Feb 9, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 14
Psalm 116:15 “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” No, we do not sorrow as others do when a believer dies; our...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 13
As our group began to grow we branched out with more activities. One memorable trip was to Olympia to see the State Capital, meeting with...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 12
During my last year at Heritage Christian School, I began my first year with Academy Northwest / Family Academy. Master Enterprises...
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Jan 28, 20213 min read


Personal Reflections - 11
I took a break in my Personal Reflections journey, resuming in 2017. FAQ – “How did I get here? This may put fear into the heart of a...
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Jan 28, 20212 min read


Personal Reflections - 10
Before we began this Personal Reflections journey, we had just finished reading through and reviewing the Brain Rules by Dr. John Medina....
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Jan 20, 20211 min read


Personal Reflections - 9
As I write this, it has been close to four weeks since we left Lakewood and exactly three weeks since we arrived in Bartlesville. During...
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Jan 20, 20212 min read


Personal Reflections - 8
Moving In Day – July 26, 2014 To start the day we met at Grace Baptist Church where the young men of the church treated us with a hearty...
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Jan 13, 20212 min read


Personal Reflection - 7
Days 3-6 - Moving to Oklahoma Day 3: We left Burley, ID having eaten breakfast at Super 8 with a trace of protein. Ronnie’s highlight was...
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Jan 13, 20214 min read
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