About Us
Renee Ellison offers ideas and strategies on a broad gamut of topics of special interest to Bible-believing homeschoolers.
Mrs. Ellison has more than 30 years of experience in the field of education — in Christian, private, secular, and home school settings. She home educated for nearly 20 years. Renee taught nearly all grade levels, was an elementary principal, head of a high school English department, was awarded Teacher of the Year, developed and ran gifted and talented programs, has conducted numerous teacher training workshops, and offers one-on-one mentoring of younger moms. Check out her Homeschool How-Tos YouTube channel.
Watch: Welcome to Renee Ellison’s Channel
Get a quick overview of who Renee is and what Homeschool How-Tos is all about.
- Welcome to Renee Ellison’s Homeschool How-Tos Channel — a warm introduction to our mission and resources
Renee has invented a system for learning how to touch-type that has been sold worldwide, as has her similar system for learning how to play the piano and a phonics program that helps a child get on the reading bus much earlier and way easier. As a Bible-believing home-schooling mom, she delights in using her professional academic background to help others teach and train more effectively at home. Renee and her husband are the parents of a grown child here (more in heaven), and work together to create homeschool how-tos and make them available to you.
What is distinctive about our products?
(1.) Our products help you to cross over from inability to ability, from a slow way to accomplish something to a fast way, from inefficiency to efficiency, from sluggish left brain techniques to hyper-drive right-brain freeways — and from inferior products to superior ones for your health and exercise.
(2.) We are impelled and enabled by the power of what Messiah accomplished by His death and resurrection. (Read our statement of beliefs.)
(3.) Renee always has you, the person who is facing a challenge in some area of homeschooling, in her sights when she is using her inquisitive mind to develop materials and teach other moms. What thrills us most is to find that our materials have helped you to not reinvent the wheel. (Read what our customers have told us.)
Our objective at Homeschool How-Tos is to make a homeschooler’s life easier, more productive, and happier, through tying in with the way the Creator designed us and the purposes for which He set us here. This is attained by combining theory and application so that we all can produce good works — for the glory of God.
Workshops Offered by Renee Ellison
1. Teach Phonics Faster
A look at WHY we sit 24th in the world in reading test scores. A look into a child’s perspective on the job of decoding. And a look at how to employ some powerful learning hooks to initially get a child up and on the “reading bus” faster than we have ever done it before.
2. Twelve Optimal Ways to Trigger the Brain — with any subject matter
Discover the fastest route and the shortest distance for mastering new information. Innovative, jaw-dropping methods useful for any home educator. Tips that even teachers wish they had learned in their education majors, but didn’t.
3. Top-Notch Home Management Strategies
Super tips you wish a whole string of grandmothers had passed down to you. Scores of techniques to make getting through your school day and home life easier, more productive, and happier. Save time — save energy — reduce stress.
4. Conquer Academics Faster
Shave months and years off from academic sludge by using these clever strategies to “cut to the chase.” Cut corners, cut cluelessness, cut confusion — replace them all with awesome “aha’s” in subject area after subject area. Teach Phonics Faster — Teach Math Faster — Teach Grammar Faster.
5. How to TRAIN Your Children, Not Just DISCIPLINE Them
Mom, here are practical, loving, nurturing discipline strategies that work. How to run ahead of your children in training them for the next time, not just getting rid of your current irritation.
6. Homeschooling Burnout: Its causes and cures
Are you bogged down? Burned out? We will identify the warning signs, and then consider strategies for pulling you and your children out and up.
7. Homeschooling a Resistant Child: Diagnosis and strategies
Are daily battles with one or more resistant children over academics wearing you out? There are basically nine reasons for academic resistance. If you can successfully target which one you’re dealing with, you’ll be able to achieve some pretty wonderful results.
8. The Two Most Common Homeschooling Academic Pitfalls — and How to Avoid Them
A growing number of homeschoolers are facing one or the other of two extremes. The objective of this workshop is to help you find your balance.
9. Just Starting to Homeschool? Spiritual, social, academic and personal advantages
Mom, let’s take a look at the fundamental reasons why you want to homeschool. This workshop will buttress your personal resolve to either start homeschooling or to continue homeschooling with deeper conviction.
10. The Power of a Focused Mother
You can spot the difference in the children of a focused mother a mile off! Today’s mothers are distracted by many “noble” uses of their time. But while she is preoccupied, her children are the silent losers.
11. Wise Womanly Secrets to Growing Your Marriage
Women, learn how your godly ways can make a world of difference in any home. Discover the secret tools God gave to a woman to promote harmony and achieve good conflict resolution.
12. How to Raise a Holy Child
Moms, learn these tips for how to cultivate a lasting love of the Bible in your children. Six ways to pour the love of God’s Word into your children, and have them still want more.
13. No Nonsense Nutrition and Health: Turbo-charged practical helps
How would your car perform with ice cream in its gas tank? Give your loved ones the best fuel possible. Optimum nutrition can correct misfiring in the brain that leads to hyperactivity or sluggish mental response.
14. The Story of J. S. Bach
This inspiring workshop includes little known facts and musical samples of J. S. Bach — one of the godliest heroes of all time. The father of twenty children, Bach was a devoted family man, teaching his children and composing music for them which millions of classical music lovers enjoy today.
15. Sure Financial Steps for Beginners
Tips for mending the holes and filling your wallet! The fastest route to getting out of debt – even house mortgage debt! Powerful and do-able strategies to start gaining money instead of losing it.
16. Emergency Preparedness for Homeschooling Families
Practical and prudent details of preparations for difficult times. How to plan physically, spiritually and intellectually to put your family in a posture to profoundly help people.