Christian Homeschool Speaker Jeannie Fulbright

Why do children lose interest in learning? What extinguishes their natural curiosity? Why do studies show a steady decline in children’s self-motivation? Our modern culture and educational models are to blame. Yet, we have everything we need to reverse this trend in our homeschool. Drawing on modern research and wisdom from the greatest thinkers, philosophers, and educators from history, Jeannie will equip you with the tools to awaken or restore your child’s love for learning.

Who decides a nation’s history? At the start of the twentieth century, wealthy industrialists funded a grand scheme to change what children would be taught about American history. Within a generation, schoolchildren were being indoctrinated with skewed facts, made-up stories, and a new ideology. The reformers stripped out the narratives that promoted individual liberty, self-government, and the true stories of American heroes. Truth was replaced with an agenda for social reform. Even the word history was discarded. Social studies took its place, because social change was the goal.

In this talk, Jeannie exposes the corruption of American history and the agenda behind it. Then she shows how to restore what was lost: how to give your children the true history of our country and grow a patriotic love for it in your whole family.

Many parents come to Charlotte Mason looking for a better way to homeschool, but her deepest wisdom is not found in a checklist of methods. It is found in a philosophy that teaches parents how to see and understand the importance of childhood, discern what truly nourishes the mind and soul, and build an education shaped by wisdom instead of pressure.

In this inspiring session, Jeannie invites parents to see the heart beneath Charlotte Mason’s practices: a vision of the child as a person, education as a life, and God Himself as the supreme Educator. Parents will leave with a richer understanding of how a living education can awaken curiosity, honor each child’s unique design, and help families create a homeschool rooted in purpose, peace, and faithful dependence on the Lord.

The abundance of homeschool curriculum choices can leave parents confused, overspending, and afraid of making the wrong choice. From her years of experience, Jeannie shares the key principles for choosing curriculum that works well for your unique family, is joy to teach, develops a love for learning, and uses proven and effective methodologies of education.

Worksheets are not designed to educate, but to evaluate and measure. The fact is, children can fill in the blanks and circle correct answers without ever truly knowing the material. Making knowledge their own is the purpose for learning. Yet, how do we instill this? Through an age-old recording technique we call now notebooking. And notebooking is much simpler than you think.

In this session, Jeannie introduces a timeless method that helps children think, create, and retain what they learn. You’ll discover how notebooking draws on each child’s gifts and interests to infuse any subject with delight. Learn how easy it is to replace dull, dry worksheets with a practice that has been used by great minds for centuries.

Modern research and the Bible concur: your child was born with unique gifts and talents. Yet the modern model of education is not designed to discover nor develop them. As homeschoolers, we have a beautiful opportunity to both identify and grow our child’s God-given genius so they can pursue the purposes He has for them.

In this talk, we’ll explore the research on the different kinds of genius and learn how to recognize them in your children. You’ll discover what their strengths can look like in everyday life, which kinds of lessons and experiences can draw those strengths out, and which future pursuits and careers may fit the way God has designed them.

You’ll leave equipped to shape an education that develops your children’s gifts, builds on their strengths, and helps set them on a path toward purpose, confidence, and success.

Most of us came out of school with only a cursory understanding of science and even less interest in it. It doesn’t have to be that way for your children. Five simple practices can make science the subject your whole family looks forward to.

Jeannie Fulbright, author of Apologia’s Exploring Creation series, shares the five steps that ensure your children receive a superior science education. These methods have been proven for more than twenty years. They have grown a love for science in thousands of children and launched many homeschoolers into science careers.

What happened to childhood? Instead of hours spent in outdoor discovery, learning new skills, developing hobbies, or free play (all the experiences necessary for emotional development) children are growing up in a digital world that dominates their time and attention. The pressure to perform is greater now than ever. It leaves children feeling overwhelmed, unmotivated, and confused. In this talk, Jeannie shares how we can protect our children from the negative effects of our modern culture and reclaim the childhood that will enable them to become God created them to be.

American schoolchildren do not learn how to write.

Studies show that 20% of college graduates cannot write cohesively. We must abandon the failing writing procedures used in schools and employ the methods that work. These are the methods that were implemented for hundreds of years before our modern education system interfered.

Jeannie shares tools you can easily implement to ensure your children systematically and naturally develop strong writing skills.

You love the idea of a Charlotte Mason education. You agree with the premise, the ideology, the beauty. But how do you actually implement it in real life? In this session, Jeannie shows you how the Charlotte Mason model works in a real home. From choosing living books and building habits and atmosphere, to making nature study happen and setting a workable weekly schedule. You’ll leave feeling equipped to give your children a living education.

Nothing matters more than ushering your children into a real relationship with the Lord. It can also feel like the most daunting job you have, especially on the days your own walk falters. Charlotte Mason called it the divine task of the parent. The good news is that your children were made with a hunger for God. He is their chief Instructor, and your job is to cooperate with Him.

Drawing on Charlotte Mason and Scripture, Jeannie shares seven ways to build a home atmosphere that nurtures the Divine Life in a child: reading the Word without burying it under our comments, cultivating gratitude instead of grumbling, pointing children to their Savior rather than condemning their sin, teaching the indwelling of Christ, making time alone with God a daily habit, and protecting the divine curiosity He placed in them. You’ll leave encouraged that you have everything you need, and that God is doing the real work.

Most parents know something is wrong, but few know how we got here. Why do bright, curious children begin to lose their love of learning? Why do original thinkers learn to wait for instructions? Why does education so often produce passive students instead of courageous, creative, self-motivated learners?

In this eye-opening session, Jeannie reveals the hidden history behind the modern school system and shows parents how to reclaim a truer vision for education. Parents will leave with renewed confidence, practical direction, and a clear path for raising children who think deeply, ask good questions, pursue excellence, and love learning.

With two of four children diagnosed with ADHD, Jeannie discovered several methodologies that smooth the way and create the ideal learning environment for the whole family.

Both her ADHD children went to UGA on scholarship, were on the Dean’s List, and graduated with Computer Science degrees. In this talk, Jeannie shares the most effective methods for successfully homeschooling your ADHD children to ensure a lifetime of confidence and accomplishment.

In this hurried, harried world filled with endless technology, gaming, screens, and scrolling, it’s time to give our children an intimate familiarity with the outdoor world.

Nature study is the foundation for scientific observation and thinking, and its benefits on the human body are well documented with proven research. Yet, implementing nature study can feel overwhelming and complicated.

In this talk, Jeannie shares tips that will equip you with everything you need to make nature study effortless and fruitful for your family.

Jesus said, “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” As homeschoolers, we often carry heavy burdens that wear us down. We don’t live or homeschool from a place of rest. We walk in fear instead of faith. We live with exhaustion, guilt, and the constant sense of being behind. We anxiously believe it all depends on us. That is not the abundant life Jesus came to give us. But how do we enter His rest? How do we cast our cares on Him?

In this talk, Jeannie helps us recognize the lies, mindsets, habits, and methods that keep us under a heavy yoke. Then she shows us how to lay it down and walk in faith—knowing and believing the promises God has given us in Christ.

Everyone tells you what you should be doing. Almost no one tells you what they did wrong. After nearly thirty years with four top college scholarship graduates, and a lot of hindsight, Jeannie candidly shares her foibles, failures, and fears. You’ll learn what she would change if she could do it over again. However, the things she would never change might surprise you. Come hear the honest version of a homeschool that worked and discover what matters most in the end.