Hybrid Homeschooling: A Guide to the Future of Education

by Michael Q McShane

All across the country, in traditional public, public charter, and private schools, entrepreneurial educators are experimenting with the school day and school week. Hybrid Homeschools have students attend traditional classes in a brick-and-mortar school for some part of the week and homeschool for the rest of the week. Some do two days at home and three days at school, others the inverse, and still others split between four days at home or school and one day at the other.



This book dives deep into hybrid homeschooling. It describes the history of hybrid homeschooling, the different types of hybrid homeschools operating around the country, and the policies that can both promote and thwart it. At the heart of the book are the stories of hybrid homeschoolers themselves. Based on numerous in-depth interviews, the book tells the story of hybrid homeschooling from both the family and educator perspective.

139 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2021

Reviews

[Katie Rybakova · Rating 4 out of 5]

I get to write the first review for this book on Goodreads, yay! I found this book to be interesting. I would have never thought to consider educational innovation through the lens of hybrid homeschooling and design thinking, since most communities view homeschooling as the renegade, but this argument makes sense. This book is very much a bird's eye view on the system and what a hybrid homeschool system can potentially do. There isn't much practical application, but I don't think that was what the book was meant to do. I wish it were a bit more robust, hence the 4 stars, because this topic is fascinating to me. Ultimately I found it a great starting point but am craving more.