Mater Amabilis is a free online homeschool curriculum, which takes the methods of Charlotte Mason and applies them for the 21st century Catholic family. Offering a detailed and flexible syllabus for each age level, Mater Amabilis can be used as a complete curriculum or simply as a springboard for learning. This online teacher training forum provides support in implementing the methods of Charlotte Mason and tips for adapting these methods to today's family.

F.H.C.H.E. is a local support group for Fountain Hills, Arizona, homeschool families. This group is a Christian-rooted organization, although families need not be Christian to join or participate in group activities. Offers support meetings, field trips, science fair, graduation, and more.

Eastside Explorers is a co-operative support group for the northeast Valley of The Sun (northeast region of Phoenix, AZ metro area), open to families who educate their children at home. Offers educational opportunities and activities, including parent support meetings, monthly park days with workshops, field trips, special events, and a monthly newsletter. This co-op operates within a framework of Judeo-Christian values.

YahooGroup for parents home educating in Arizona. Discussions center around homeschooling laws and requirements in the state, resources, lesson plans, field trip ideas, where to find support groups -- in short, anything and everything to do with homeschooling.

This site is for Jewish Homeschoolers to share lessons, thoughts and ideas in integrating all levels of Judaism into homeschooling their child(ren).

Membership in the Veritas Homeschoolers support group is open to all homeschooling families who live in or around the Ahwatukee Foothills, south Tempe, and Chandler, Arizona areas. Veritas Homeschoolers is an evangelical Christian support group for those who are educating their children at home, including preschool age children. Although this is a Christian organization with Christian leadership, membership in Veritas Homeschoolers is open to all those wishing to homeschool their children. Offers park days, youth group, field trips, Mom's night out, and more.

This is a secular parent-run homeschool cooperative that spans the entire Phoenix metropolitan area. Offers field trips, co-op classes, park days, and more. Summit View Homeschool Cooperative includes families from the East Side of the Valley in Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Apache Junction, Ahwatukee, and Gold Canyon. Ages of the children in the group range from toddlers to high school. The main function of Summit View is to provide support, as well as a social outlet for homeschooling families. In addition to many field trips, theater performances, and other activities, we also have subgroups which include a book club, science club, teen club, geography club, drama club, preschool playgroups, games club, hiking club, and a parent support group. Also offered are several park days per month.

Christians can and do unschool. Here you'll find support and more.

The Bookroom is for homeschooling families using "living books" and other educational materials designed to delight the interested learner. Members vary in educational style, including classical educators, unschoolers, and Charlotte Mason teachers as well as members who borrow from a variety of educational philosophies.

This group is a branch of Summit View Homeschool Cooperative and serves the West Valley cities of Phoenix, Glendale, Avondale, Litchfield, Tonopah and other westside communities.

This forum at vegsource.com focuses on parents with adopted children who choose to home educate.

Support group for homeschoolers who apprciate attachment parenting and alternative methods of living. Offers co-op type activities, child interest field trips, and lots of playtime.

Rainbow Explorers is a Christian homeschool support group that serves African-American families in the Greater Phoenix area. They welcome all families homeschooling African-American children including those families of any religion and families with parents of diverse races. Rainbow Explorers strives to provide opportunities for African-American homeschoolers in Arizona to meet and get to know one another. They provide resources, help and encouragement to African-American homeschoolers and the homeschool community at large. Offers park days, field trips, and other activities.

This group is a branch of Summit View Homeschool Cooperative andserves the North Valley cities of North Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Paradise Valley, and other northern Valley communities.

Support group for Arizona homeschool families using Sonlight Curriculum. Offers discussions, monthly field trips, activities, and more.

New Hope Homeschoolers is a group of Christian families in the Northwest Phoenix area who have chosen to homeschool their children. Members reside in Glendale, Goodyear, Phoenix, Peoria, and Surprise. Offers information on homeschooling and legal issues, teaching ideas, curriculum information, family socials, educational field trips, and group activities for children.

A home school support group for Tempe, Arizona and the surrounding community. Offers monthly meetings, lending library, monthly newsletter, children's activities, testing, and more.

Online email support group that provides free curriculum ideas, activities, resources, humor, support and discussion. Also offering free virtual homeschool conferences.

The Desert Homeschoolers of D-M is an inclusive support group for homeschooling families assigned to Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ. All homeschoolers, of all ages, religious backgrounds and schooling methods are welcome. Offers park days, field trips, and other activities.

Mi C.A.S.A. Homeschoolers is a homeschool support group serving the Casa Grande Valley and surrounding communities in Arizona.

A place for Christian single-parent homeschoolers to find encouragement and support.

This list is for persons who are using or are interested in using the Charlotte Mason Philosophy for education (including homeschooling), or to enrich their own lives. Thislist espouses a Christian philosophy and is also a prayer list. It is also a very active discussion list, often 100 posts per day.

West Side Home Educators supports homeschooling families in Peoria, Glendale, North Phoenix, Surprise and other West Valley communities. This is a mostly Christian group, but is not affiliated with a particular denomination. Offers educational and social activities, field trips, sports, weekly activities, and more.

Support group serving the Yuma area. Offers support, information, and activities including park days, field trips, Mom's night out, and more.

BETT places an emphasis on cooperative teaching, strong family values, and the importance of education. BETT has a Tucson-wide membership base. Monthly field trips and cooperative teaching are offered to facilitate a lifelong enjoyment of learning.

Surprise Home Schoolers welcomes all home school families throughout the West Valley to join their fast growing support group.

A list for unschoolers who are interested in moving towards a sustainable lifestyle. Topics for discussion may include how sustainability and unschooling complement each other, and how we resolve conflicting values.

The Western Region Unschoolers is a group for unschoolers who live in the Western U.S. covering: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and California. This is a forum to announce and organize conferences, travel, camping, and other places to get together.

Learning Expedition is a secular home schooling social support group serving metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Most members live in NE Phoenix and in Scottsdale, but all are welcome. Offers weekly meetings and other activities.

This support group, inclusive and non-profit, fosters a rich social life amongst homeschool and small school students by organizing sports leagues, dances, games, Karaoke, bowling, pizza or movie nights. Teens take responsibility to pick the events, decide upon the participants, set rules and select volunteers on this site, even to set up and clean up. Parents of teens then supervise and advise to make this group beneficial to all.

Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE) is the statewide organization that serves the needs and protects the rights of all Arizona homeschool families. Offers information and support, including facts on Arizona's homeschooling laws.

This is a list for all who are pregnant for the third or more time and are having a large family by choice. Discussions include the difficulties of having several at home when dealing with sickness and fatigue, homeschooling, and more. This is a supportive list where people believe that large families are wonderful.

This is a non-denominational support group for homeschooling families in the West/Southwest/Central Phoenix area. Offers support and activities.

Life’s Encouragement Group Affirming Christ in You (LEGACY) is a Christian homeschool group for families in the Phoenix area. Offers park days, holiday activities, clubs, playgroups, field trips, and more.

Central AZ Life Learners is a support group for Life Learners and Unschoolers in both the East and West Valley.

SDH is a secular home education network serving homeschoolers throughout Tucson and Southern Arizona. Offers park days, Mom's night out, clubs, activities, and support.

Support group for Christian homeschoolers in Cochise County. Offers classes, information, support, newsletter, spelling bee, and more.

Literature Alive! is an email group list for the literary website of the same name. This list seeks to encourage and support parents who have a love for literature and a desire to share good wholesome books with their children. Its purpose is to develop the art and excitment of using great living literature in a learning lifestyle. This group will share information on how to turn a living book into a cherished book within the home. Different literature study methods enhanced by Charlotte Mason's writing will be discussed: lapbooks, notebooks, journals, book clubs, reading settings, etc.

Arizona Jewish Homeschoolers is a discussion forum and information exchange for homeschooling and unschooling Jewish educators/parents (or those just thinking about it), living in Arizona. It should serve as a means to discuss issues unique to the Arizona Jewish homeschool environment, and a means by which friendships may be formed, events will be planned, and joint homeschool activities may be held. Most of the members are in the Greater Phoenix area, but welcome those from surrounding areas.

The Well is an e-mail list for members of Arizona’s Rainbow Explorers, a Christian homeschool support group for African-American families in the Greater Phoenix area.

Denver Catholic Homeschoolers (DCH) is a homeschooling support group for Catholic home educating families in the Denver metro area (and surrounding areas of Colorado). This groups.io site is our online communication network. Our focus is on topics and discussions related to homeschooling and our Catholic faith and the promotion of educational and faith formation activities for Catholic homeschool families in our local community.  

This is a Christian support group serving the Northeast Valley and Phoenix area. Offers field trips, service projects, park days, monthly newsletter, family camp outs, P.E. classes, and more.

Arizona Christian Homeschoolers is a Christian based homeschool support group that serves homeschooling families in the NW valley. They offer park days, a monthly newsletter, multiple social activities for every member of the family, field trips, support for the new homeschool family with newcomer meetings, and a yearbook for those who want one.

Homeschooling families with singletons have issues that are very unique. Join in to offer support and encouragement to other single child homeschooling families.

East Valley Homeschool is a secular homeschool support group for families in the East Valley area of Phoenix, AZ (Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa or Tempe), with an emphasis on unschooling.

This is the Southern California Homeschool Teen Connection Announcement board. This group is strictly for promoting Teen Only activities around southern California and connecting teen homeschoolers to groups in their locality.

Support group for Christian homeschoolers in northwest Tucson. Offers field trips, activites, events, support, information, and more.

This is an online support group for families who are pursuing an eclectic style of homeschooling. Although many members of the group are religious-minded, the list itself is secular.

Email list designed to discuss the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling for children, ages birth through 6 years. While this list is not primarily religious in nature, there are often discussions of Christian topics.

Southern Arizona Home Schoolers is a list open to anyone interested in homeschooling in Southern Arizona.

Red Mountain Life Learners is an East Valley network of unschooling families focused on life learning. Members are expected to support the group by sharing their passions i.e. organizing group activities such as field trips, park days, foreign language classes, chess club, camping trips, drama, yoga, art and cooking classes, etc.

Holy Family Home Educators (HFHE) is a gathering of Catholic families who homeschool or who support the principles of homeschooling from Tucson and the surrounding communities. This is also the local chapter of the national group Traditions of Roman Catholic Homes (TORCH). Offers park days, Daughters of Mary and Blue Knights clubs, field trips, and more.

A Phoenix-based network of independent home-educating families supporting each other by sharing experiences, information, ideas, and playtimes. Dedicated to the importance of our right to educate our children in the way we feel is best. The structure is informal. Offers field trips and a park day once a month.

This is a Christ-centered homeschooling support group serving the needs of families with children of preschool age to grade 12 in the Greater Phoenix area. Offers activities and get-togethers, along with field trips, clubs, classes, holiday events, and support.

Do you unschool your children and live in the North Phoenix, Arizona area (Paradise Valley, North Scottsdale, Cave Creek, Anthem, New River, Black Canyon City, Desert Hills)? North Phoenix Unschoolers is a Yahoo group that offers support and opportunities to connect with other unschoolers in your area.

This e-mail group offers support for Homeschooling Families in the Greater Phoenix Arizona Area. Includes discussions, encouragement, curriculum ads for either buying or selling, sales event notification, web site links for educational purposes, info on laws, freebies for educators, and more.

North Scottsdale Homeschoolers (NSHS) is a secular home school support group. Offers monthly activities, play dates, field trips, support, and information.

The mission of Surprise Home Schoolers is to provide organization, support and fellowship to all home educators in the Surprise area.

This is a safe place for Christian families to share their hopes, joys, concerns and prayer requests as they homeschool an only child

Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a homeschool support group for families in the Northern Arizona region. Offers support, information, and meetings. Based in Flagstaff, Eclectic Homeschoolers of Northern Arizona is a Homeschool Support Group offering friendship and support to homeschooling families of all types, with children of all ages.

The HomeSchool HeartBeat provides a monthly newsletter to keep Arizona homeschoolers informed of events, classes, workshops, resources, support group news, informational meetings, and more.

A curriculum buy, sell, and swap group for those using a Catholic Charlotte Mason/Living Books/Classical method of home education.

This group is an announcement list for the print magazine Live Free Learn Free, a forum for unschoolers and relaxed homeschoolers in which to share ideas and experiences.

Colorado River Homeschoolers an inclusive homeschool group, open to all homeschoolers, regardless of style of homeschooling or religion. Located in the Bullhead City/Fort Mohave, AZ, Laughlin, NV, and Needles, CA area.

Christian support group for homeschoolers in southeast Tucson. Offers moms' support, family activities, resource library, field trips, and kids' activities.

You are invited to spend a year in the home of a homeschooling mother who uses the Charlotte Mason method of education, combining this "gentle art of learning" with Montessori centers, living literature studies, and observation of the Roman Catholic liturgical year within the framework of real life learning. This list will serves only as a journal in the life of a family who uses the CM method. It is not a discussion medium.

Desert Hills Christian Homeschoolers is one of the oldest homeschool support groups in Arizona. Members come from New River, Desert Hills, Black Canyon City, Cave Creek, Anthem, and the surrounding areas. Offers monthly Mentor Mom meetings, weekly P.E. class, co-ops, field trips, used curriculum sales, Field Day, and more.

Northside Home Educators is a co-operative support group, open to homeschooling families who are looking for a wide variety of educational opportunities and activities. It is designed to provide support and practical assistance to home educators within a framework of Judeo-Christian values . This support includes field trips, co-op classes, PE, workshops, and other opportunities.

Large traffic email list whose stated purpose is to move out of comfort zones and critically examine beliefs, ideas, and viewpoints about learning, and seek a deeper understanding of unschooling and more respectful relationships with one's children.

H.E.R.O. is a Christian support group network for homeschooling families in Arizona's East Valley and beyond (Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, Queen Creek, Phoenix, etc.), as well as families from the West Valley. Offers e-mail updates sharing information sent in by and for homeschoolers, information on field trips, activities, classes, park days, and more.

This is a secular homeschool group for the Central Arizona Area. Offers meetings, homeschool ideas, filed trips, and other activities for children.

Support group for homeschoolers who follow a child-led method of education. Meeting spots alternate between the East, West, North, and South Valley, and members live in North Scottsdale, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix, Goodyear, and other surrounding communities. Meetings are primarily for socialization and support.

Ruth Beechick Style Homeschooling is an Eclectic approach which focuses on natural learning through Real Books and Real Life. Basically Beechick is a Christian homeschool support group to discuss the methods and ideas of Dr. Ruth Beechick. Other authors whose ideas mesh well with Beechick's are discussed as well. These authors include (but are not limited to) Susan C. Anthony, Rebecca Rupp, Jean Soyke, E.D. Hirsch, Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer, Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn, Laura Berquist, Robin Scarlata, Jane Claire Lambert, Valerie Bendt, Clay and Sally Clarkson, Cindy Rushton, Mary Hood, Marilyn Howshall, and Charlotte Mason.

This group list is for families who wish to find support while following the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. The purpose is to help/support parents and students in Arizona, organize outings, study groups, and more.

This is an online secular community for Arizona parents with inquisitive and imaginative children. Offers information on local events, outings, and discussions.

This group is for support, advice, friendship and educational helps for single parents who are homeschooling.