Wisconsin Homeschooling

Want to learn more about homeschooling in Wisconsin? Do you need information on the laws regulating home education in the state? Do you want to connect with other homeschoolers in your area? You've come to the right place! Your best source of information on homeschooling in Wisconsin, this website offers you the knowledge and ideas you need to successfully home educate your children.

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Henry Vilas Zoo
Adventures with animals from all over the world await you at Dane County's Henry Vilas Zoo, located in the heart of Madison. Highlights include the Discovery Center/Herpetarium, the Discovering Primates Complex, the Big Cat Complex, and the Tropical Rain Forest Aviary.
Wisconsinhomeschool
This is a mailing list for people who home school or are thinking of homeschooling in Wisconsin, kids and parents alike. Here you can exchange ideas, support each other, and share resources and information.
PI-1206 Home-Based Private Educational Program Registration Form
This version of the form is for informational purposes only. The home-based registration form is a 3-part carbonless form, and must be requested by calling 608-266-5761 or toll free 1-888-245-2732, extension 1.
Wisconsin Home School Laws from HSLDA
The Home School Legal Defense Association provides a brief summary of the homeschooling laws in Wisconsin. Includes a link to a legal analysis of laws relating to homeschooling in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Home-Based Private Educational Program Enrollment Trends by Grade
Contains data from the school year 1984-1985 through 2006-2007 of homeschooled students classified by grade level.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The website for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
Public Libraries Welcome Growing Homeschool Community
Public libraries around the country are finding new ways to serve the growing population of homeschoolers through physical spaces and creative programs catered to homeschooling families’ needs. This article takes a look at what libraries in Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee are doing to meet the diverse needs of homeschooling families. 
Milwaukee Public Museum
The Milwaukee Public Museum, one of the largest in the United States, is a museum of human and natural history providing a dynamic and stimulating environment for learning, with something to excite and challenge visitors with a diversity of interests. The Museum Center hosts over 700,000 visitors per year and is conveniently located in downtown Milwaukee, just minutes from the interstate.
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
The Marquette University Haggerty Museum of Art provides transformational learning opportunities through its exhibitions and programs. The museum enriches the intellectual and creative life of the students, faculty and community at large by collecting, displaying, interpreting and contextualizing art objects from a range of historical periods and media. As a forum for critical inquiry, the museum seeks to promote visual literacy and advance knowledge across the academic disciplines.
Catholic Homeschoolers of Wisconsin
This is a private list for leaders of Catholic homeschool support groups within the state of Wisconsin (or in border towns in Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, and UP Michigan). It is a place to exchange information that may be of interest to Catholic homeschoolers throughout the state. It is also a forum for the dissemination of statewide invitations to various Catholic homeschooling events, such as conferences, graduations, dances, etc.
Unschooling Families
Unschooling Families is a homeschool support group for families in east central Wisconsin interested in self-directed and/or interest-initiated learning. Offers tips and ideas, field trips, resource sharing, a newsletter, family events, and more.
Milwaukee Area Christian Home Educators (MACHE)
MACHE is an association of over 100 home school families in the Milwaukee metropolitan area designed to support the home education activities of its members. MACHE provides its members with large and small group support meetings, special events, sports activities, field trips, legislative information and a newsletter published eight times a year.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Wisconsin DPI information on Home-Based Private Educational Program, including forms and a link to the state statutes governing home education in Wisconsin.
Richland County (WI) Home Educators
This e-mail list facilitates communication between home school parents in the Southwest Wisconsin area (including Richland, Vernon, Crawford, Grant, Iowa and Sauk counties).
Kinnickinnic Valley Home Educators
Kinnickinnic Valley Home Educators is a general homeschool support group composed of home educators from Pierce County and St. Croix County of Western Wisconsin, and neighboring Dakota County and Washington County of Minnesota. They meet on a regular basis, throughout the year, in centrally located River Falls, Wisconsin.
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The Homeschooling Revolution
A readable, scholarly overview of the modern day homeschooling movement. Includes vignettes from homeschooling families, war stories, research information, media reaction, footnotes, and statistics.
Habits: The Mother's Secret to Success (Charlotte Mason Topics - Volume 1)
This work contains a selection of the writings of Charlotte Mason, a British educator. Her writings from the 1880s are still relevant today and contain ideas that can be easily and successfully incorporated into homeschooling. This book focuses on th...
A Child's Story of America
This text reads like a story book more than a history textbook. This book has a decidedly Christian bent. Students are given a comprehensive overview of U.S. history from Columbus to the present. Review questions are included throughout, as well as h...
When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
Children want to learn and one of the best approaches to homeschooling is to meet their natural curiosity with support and understanding. Charlotte Mason's educational philosophy does just that. This book offers explanations of how to incorporate Mas...