2018-2019 Year-end portfolio review & Evaluations
ELN Portfolio Review and Evaluations
A secular service for homeschool and unschooling families in Philadelphia.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT YOUR COMPLETED EVALUATION TO THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT IS JUNE 30TH
NOTE: Evaluations through Eclectic Learning Network have been filled. Click here for a list a evaluator options in PA.
OVERVIEW
A welcoming and friendly conversational style evaluation process with your child to discuss their overall homeschooling, unschooling, or self-directed learning experience over the past year, review of the portfolio (a few selections from core subjects: Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies along with any additional materials you would like to provide), testing assessments (grades 3, 5, and 8), if applicable, and attendance record. At the conclusion of the evaluation, parents will receive a signed copy of the evaluation form to submit to Philadelphia School District.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Portfolio reviews and evaluations run up to 60 minutes. Each young person will meet separately with the Evaluator to review their portfolio while the parent(s) meet with the owner of ELN to review your experience and address areas where additional support is desired. At the conclusion of the portfolio review, both young people and parents will re-connect to review the experience as well as providing additional suggestions, if needed. Once the portfolio has been a approved, you will receive a signed evaluation form to be submitted to the school district and ELN.
WHY DO PARENTS MEET SEPARATELY FROM THEIR CHILDREN?
Through Unschooling and other Self-Directed educational approaches, engaging young people where they are underpins this journey. What can often be overlooked are the parents. The learning process is as vital for parents as it is for our children. Many times, we (parents) do not include ourselves in the process of learning. Not allowing ourselves the opportunity to experience learning outside of our conditioned ideas of what learning is or acknowledging the deeper challenges and insights we experience when guiding our children through this process. Just reading this may present feelings of heaviness- wondering what should actually be included in the portfolio, if you've done enough, and much more. This process is an opportunity to meet and include parents where they are while supporting young people as they explore their natural curiosities, interests, and passions.
COST
Portfolio review and evaluations are $50 per young person and free for ELN members. All payments are non-refundable and must be paid at the time of scheduling to guarantee your evaluation date and time block. Invoices will be sent via PayPal to be paid upon receipt.
OVERVIEW
A welcoming and friendly conversational style evaluation process with your child to discuss their overall homeschooling, unschooling, or self-directed learning experience over the past year, review of the portfolio (a few selections from core subjects: Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies along with any additional materials you would like to provide), testing assessments (grades 3, 5, and 8), if applicable, and attendance record. At the conclusion of the evaluation, parents will receive a signed copy of the evaluation form to submit to Philadelphia School District.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Portfolio reviews and evaluations run up to 60 minutes. Each young person will meet separately with the Evaluator to review their portfolio while the parent(s) meet with the owner of ELN to review your experience and address areas where additional support is desired. At the conclusion of the portfolio review, both young people and parents will re-connect to review the experience as well as providing additional suggestions, if needed. Once the portfolio has been a approved, you will receive a signed evaluation form to be submitted to the school district and ELN.
WHY DO PARENTS MEET SEPARATELY FROM THEIR CHILDREN?
Through Unschooling and other Self-Directed educational approaches, engaging young people where they are underpins this journey. What can often be overlooked are the parents. The learning process is as vital for parents as it is for our children. Many times, we (parents) do not include ourselves in the process of learning. Not allowing ourselves the opportunity to experience learning outside of our conditioned ideas of what learning is or acknowledging the deeper challenges and insights we experience when guiding our children through this process. Just reading this may present feelings of heaviness- wondering what should actually be included in the portfolio, if you've done enough, and much more. This process is an opportunity to meet and include parents where they are while supporting young people as they explore their natural curiosities, interests, and passions.
COST
Portfolio review and evaluations are $50 per young person and free for ELN members. All payments are non-refundable and must be paid at the time of scheduling to guarantee your evaluation date and time block. Invoices will be sent via PayPal to be paid upon receipt.
Meet the evaluators
Dr. Christina jacksonDr. Christina Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stockton University. Dr. Jackson is also a member of the Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs at Stockton. Her predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship was in Africana Studies at Gettysburg College and her PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in Sociology. Her research and teaching areas include urban sociology, inequality, intersectionality, redevelopment and gentrification. Most of her work and interests are rooted in community relationships that seek to be decolonial and intersectional. She builds bridges between students and the wider community through service-learning and community-engaged research in Atlantic City. Dr. Jackson considers herself a scholar-activist, community arts facilitator, educational advocate, meditator, and is a twin mom. She is also a Philadelphia-based community board member of Camp Sojourner, a girls’ leadership camp.
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Lisa PugaLisa Puga is a Ph.D. Candidate in the field of Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. As a former English teacher at Delaware Valley Charter High School. Lisa developed her passion for student-centered learning practices, culturally-responsive curricula, and youth activism. While familiar with the state requirements for concrete knowledge standards, Lisa also embraces flexible homeschooling practices that are less structured and more interest-led. Her doctoral studies involved a comparative analysis of various alternative learning theories including the Sudbury democratic model, the Waldorf approach, the Montessori method, homeschooling, and unschooling. Lisa and her husband Martin live in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia and they plan to homeschool/unschool their two young children.
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