A Look Back at 2005

Highlights of 2005
A trip down memory lane, or an opportunity to catch up on events and info you may have missed the first time around:
In 2005, we enjoyed connecting with a cross section of Massachusetts homeschoolers in a variety of ways:
• Home Education Day at the State House in April, including a family contra dance and side trips to The Concord Museum, the National Heritage Museum, and the Paul Revere House.
• Field trips to the DeCordova Museum in January; the New Bedford Whaling Museum in March; the Museum of Science in Boston in May and October; the Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary in September; and Hancock Shaker Village in September.

Throughout the year, we reported on a variety of issues important to Massachusetts homeschoolers:
• National Merit® Scholarship Program
• Handling It Ourselves
• Privacy, the Military, and Your Education Plan
• Legislation

We were pleased to be able to offer:
• New web pages on Making the Decision and Getting Started Homeschooling: A Walkthrough; Recommended Books, including books about homeschooling and books featuring homeschoolers; Beyond Homeschooling: College, Alternatives to College, Grown up Homeschoolers; Libraries and Homeschoolers: Especially for Librarians.
• AHEM membership cards
• AHEM trifolds, with info on homeschooling in Massachusetts - perfect for handing out at gatherings or leaving at your local library
• Not-Back-to-School events listing

We were pleased to be able to announce:
• 501(c)(3) Charitable Status Approved
• Virtual Volunteering Opportunities at AHEM

Ongoing efforts include:
• Legislative watch
• The Library Mailing Project, mailing brochures with info on homeschooling in MA along with an easy way for them to reorder, to 350+ Massachusetts libraries
• Policy & Practice Database about homeschooling in Massachusetts
• Communicating with our Friends (find archived newsletters at http://www.ahem.info/Newsletters.htm)
• Support group listings (36 statewide now listed; do you know of any in Nantucket or Dukes counties?)
• Events page
• County Contacts, available for phone or email help anytime.

Thank you
As we bid goodbye to 2005, we want to be sure to thank all of you for your support over the past year, whether it came in the form of reading our emails or newsletter, filling out the questionnaire, joining us on a field trip, attending Home Education Day at the State House, handing out a trifold brochure, accessing Amazon.com through AHEM, or sending us a cash donation. Any level of interest and participation is greatly appreciated and is what fuels our efforts.

We look forward to meeting more of you in 2006, and continuing to grow the number of informed and active homeschoolers in Massachusetts. We always appreciate feedback on how we are doing and ideas about how we can serve you better.

Looking ahead to 2006
• AHEM as featured speaker at South Shore Home Learners January meeting
• AHEM social in May
• State House visits and field trips to Peabody Essex Museum, Black Heritage Trail, and more

A Look Back at 2004

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