Private consulting · by application
Your family’s education, designed by a former principal.
Some families want a resource. Some want the architect. If you are building something serious for your children — and you want it done right the first time — Mandy works directly with a small number of families each season.
Why families hire Mandy
She has sat on every side of this decision.
The principal
Years inside classrooms and the principal’s office — hiring teachers, writing curriculum, watching which children thrived and which were quietly lost.
The mother
She left to homeschool her own three — and built a home education that works, every day, with real children and a real calendar.
The architect
Four books, national press, and conference stages — and a handful of families each season who get her full attention.
The principal in your corner
What Mandy can do that others can’t.
The toolkit of a school principal, applied to one family at a time. What she draws on depends on what your children need:
- Educational reviewYour child’s curriculum, work samples, assessments, records, and history — read closely.
- Strengths, gaps, and prioritiesWhat is working, what is repeating unnecessarily, and the skills that need attention next.
- Curriculum audit and selectionWhat to keep, what to change, and what to use instead.
- An individualised planSubjects, goals, pacing, instruction, and independent work, set to your child.
- Structure and recordsHow the plan runs across your children and your week — and the documentation, credits, grades, and transcripts, organised before you need them.
- Written next stepsDecisions made, recommendations documented, a plan you can start.
Every child can learn. And every parent can homeschool.
Three ways to work together · all by application
Built around your children, your calendar, and the way your family actually works.
The Blueprint
One conversation
Whether you are just starting, stuck on one decision, or watching a year go sideways — ninety minutes together, then written answers you can act on this week.
Investment · $500–$750
The Principal’s Office
Mandy, on call
Everything above, all year long. Curriculum calls, a child who is stuck, transcripts, the hard conversation with a spouse or a grandparent — Mandy in your speed dial for ten months.
Investment · $650 per month
The Cap and Gown
Let’s graduate
Credits, transcripts, graduation requirements, and the college conversation, planned together from the start. Mandy is your family’s advisor through all of it, and she will get your child over the line.
Investment · $2,000–$3,000
Final investment is based on family size, grade levels, and scope of support and is confirmed before you begin.
Is this for your family?
It is, if you…
- Value one trusted voice over a hundred forum opinions
- Would rather get it right once than spend years correcting it
- Are standing at a real decision — a child who is not thriving, a school you are leaving, a high schooler whose transcript has to be right — and you want it handled by someone who has sat on both sides of the desk
It isn’t, if you…
- Are looking for printables or a ready-made curriculum — start here instead
- Want someone to teach your children for you
- Are choosing on price — the books and free guides are genuinely good and cost little or nothing. This is different: it’s Mandy’s own time, one family at a time.
Request a private conversation
Tell Mandy about your family. She reads every request herself. The first conversation is about whether this is the right fit — there’s no obligation on either side.
Please read: Consulting is education guidance, not legal, medical, or psychological advice.