Homeschool Yo Kids with Jae Carter

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Homeschool Yo Kids with Jae Carter.

One of we 7Sisters’ favorite things is to make new friends. In this episode, we are so excited to introduce our friends to Jae Carter from Homeschool Yo Kids. We have been following Homeschool Yo Kids for a while and love how they are serving the homeschool community in so many unique ways.

Jae Carter’s story

Jae’s experience with education began with over fourteen years in the public school system. However, even before she had kids, she would always say, “I’m gonna homeschool my kids!”

A teacher’s influence

Jae grew up with two competing desires: to teach and inspire students in a traditional school setting, and to teach and inspire her own kids through homeschooling. She had wanted to be a teacher since fifth grade because of her teacher, Ms. Crawford (“shout out to her”). Mrs. Crawford was inspiring and impactful. Her relationship with the fifth graders awakened in Jae the love of teaching.

An influential teacher

Jae loved teaching her students. She ignited their love of learning. Many of her students had parents who were only marginally involved with their education, so what they experienced at school was not reinforced at home. In contrast, Jae was able to excite her seventh through twelfth graders about school and to believe in their ability to succeed at learning.

“I tell you, the kids used to look forward to coming into my classroom. They would see me in the hallway and tell me, ‘Oh, Ms. Carter, I’m gonna have your class next year!'”

But then 2020 happened

We all remember the world health crisis in 2020. Jae’s classes were moved to Zoom. At the same time, she was automatically homeschooling her own kids. In truth, Jae had always been “homeschooling”. From the time that her kids were two years old, she was talking to them like she did with her middle and high school students.

Jae’s children learned to listen and think well from an early age. This was such a contrast with many of her high school students. She worked with some students who were teens, but without parent involvement, were years behind in their reading and writing skills.

Jae felt guilty about leaving the high school students. However, the pandemic and the frustrations of teaching on Zoom while teaching her own kids solidified her desire to officially homeschool her kids.

Jae and her husband moved the family from Virginia to Arizona, and she started homeschooling her kids full-time. Her oldest child was in second grade, and the second was getting ready to start school. They have been homeschooling ever since. It is the perfect fit for the family.

Starting Homeschool Yo Kids

As Jae says, “Teaching and loving on kids is my issue.” She loved inspiring her students. Also, she loved teaching and inspiring her own kids. So, being in a new location and restricted from other activities because the world was shut down due to the pa

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Homeschool Yo Kids with Jae Carter