Homeschool Podcasts: The Ultimate List
Homeschool podcasts offer a fantastic blend of education and entertainment, perfect for homeschooling parents and educators. Whether you’re tidying up, gardening, or engaged in other activities that don’t demand your full attention, homeschool podcasts can be a great companion, enriching your day with insightful discussions and tips.
With such a vast array of homeschool podcasts, finding one that suits your interests and needs can be challenging. To help you navigate this landscape, we’ve compiled a list that covers a variety of topics and perspectives relevant to the homeschooling community.
This list represents a selection of current and engaging homeschool podcasts. However, we understand that there are many more out there. If you know of a homeschool podcast not featured on our list, please share a link in the comments section. Your contributions will help us keep this resource comprehensive and up-to-date, ensuring that everyone in the homeschooling community has access to the best possible content.
Here is the ultimate list of homeschool podcasts broken down by category:
Educational Techniques and Curriculum Support
Inspirational and Philosophical Discussions
Practical Homeschool Tips and Strategies
Creative and Alternative Homeschooling Approaches
Parenting and Family Life
Special Focus on Educational Challenges
Cultural and Literary Focus
Educational Techniques and Curriculum Support
The Arts of Language Podcast
“The Arts of Language Podcast, with Institute for Excellence in Writing’s founder Andrew Pudewa, is a weekly podcast to support teachers of writing composition. Our goal is to equip teachers and teaching parents with methods and materials which will aid them in training their students to become confident and competent communicators and thinkers.”
Simply Charlotte Mason
This podcast gives parents the option to listen to their weekly blog. Each week, author and speaker Sonya Shafer gives encouragement and teaching tips to help parents homeschool with the Charlotte Mason method.
The Demme Learning Show
Join us for The Demme Learning Show, where the goal is to help families build lifelong learners.
Inspirational and Philosophical Discussions
At Home with Sally and Friends
Sally Clarkson shares her beliefs, advice, and stories in order to connect with other Christian mothers. Sally hopes to give mothers the inspiration and resources to cultivate a home with God’s love by giving her listeners inspiration and encouragement in each episode, varying from developing growth in discipleship, motherhood, education, home, and leadership.
Called to Homeschool
“Feeling called to homeschool, but struggling to make it happen? Listen with me each week to help calm your fears and learn how to create peace in your home and in your homeschool.”
Let’s Talk Homeschool
“Let’s Talk Homeschool is a podcast hosted by Davis and Rachael Carman. They have been homeschooling their seven kids since 1996. Currently, five have graduated from their family homeschool and are in college or have already graduated.”
Make Joy Normal
“Join us for some honest discussion about how to make home education cozy. Just like you imagined.”
Raising Arrows
“Find inspiration for the everyday management of your home and homeschool with practical, simple, guilt-free ideas from a mom who knows exactly where you are.”
Schoolhouse Rocked
“The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast brings encouragement and resources from the top home education experts in the nation to homeschool families and families considering homeschooling around the world.”
Sonlight Connections: A Homeschool Podcast
“Connect with other homeschoolers for encouragement, tips, and fellowship. Like Sonlight’s curriculum offerings, we will explore homeschooling through the lens of literature-based, Christ-centered education. Join us for everything you might be interested in from organizing your homeschool and details on literature-based learning.”
Practical Homeschooling Tips and Strategies
All in a Homeschool Day
“The All in a Homeschool Day Podcast is not about finding the right curriculum or doing all the right things. It is about helping you focus on the best for your homeschool and your family so you can homeschool with confidence and joy!”
The Busy Mom by Heidi St. John
“Author and speaker Heidi St. John brings encouraging, relevant, Biblical truth to women.”
Capturing the Charmed Life
Capturing the Charmed Life is focused on tackling homeschool challenges and providing homeschool moms with self-care strategies.
Homeschooling IRL
“Discussing the topics that you might not find covered at your local homeschooling convention, veteran homeschooling parents and bloggers, Andy and Kendra Fletcher, use humor and honesty to pull the veil back on Christian homeschooling.”
Homeschool Conversations
“Join me in a series of Homeschool Conversations: interviews with real-life homeschool moms, dads, and other educators on all sorts of topics that affect our lives as homeschool parents.”
The Homeschool Sisters Podcast
“Cait and Kara are two homeschooling moms doing this homeschooling thing right beside you. On this podcast, we talk about real-life homeschooling, books, caffeine addiction, and surviving and thriving through these wonderful years.”
The Homeschool Solutions Show
“You will get to listen in on some great conversations with wonderful guests all designed to equip us as homeschooling moms. It is our hope as we gather together in this space, we will encourage one another.”
Homeschool Talks Podcast
“Homeschool Talks is an informative podcast about all things homeschooling. We feature exciting interviews with homeschoolers from all walks of life. Each episode is packed with practical tips, inspiring stories, and more.”
Homeschool Your Way
“Wouldn’t you love to have experienced homeschoolers, cheering you along with insider secrets? Yes? Then you’ll love this podcast! The hosts know homeschooling is not one-size-fits-all. So in each episode, they’ll bring you the coolest methods and the most fascinating guests to help you find your way—the best way—to homeschool.”
Homeschool with Moxie Podcast
“On the Homeschool with Moxie Podcast, our goal is to inspire and encourage you with actionable strategies to take you from overwhelmed to confident in your homeschool adventure. Listen to interviews with amazing influencers in the homeschool world and beyond.”
Peaceful Homeschool Podcast
“We’re Emma and Beth, two mom friends who have been homeschooling our kids together for about fifteen years in super-flexible, fun ways. Our oldest kids have graduated and are successful adults, and we are still homeschooling the rest of our kiddos. On our podcast and blog, we’ll be sharing our experiences along with tips and tricks for creating a peaceful homeschool life. Peaceful Homeschool: You can do it, and it can change your family’s life.”
Simple Homeschool
“The Simple Homeschool podcast brings a quick dose of homeschooling inspiration, confidence, and freedom your way, helping you discover the unique style of home education that fits your unique family.”
Simply Convivial Audio Blog
“Every week a new audio blog post will publish on Mondays—no seasons, no themes, just another 10-ish minute short but meaty focus session to help you keep your head in the game as a homeschool mom who is juggling many plates while wearing many hats.”
The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast
“You’ll laugh, be renewed, and know that you’re not alone in your struggle to homeschool your kids. So pour a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and join us each week.”
Creative and Alternative Homeschooling Approaches
Homeschooling Outside the Box
“I love to inspire other moms on their homeschool journey and share in the joys and challenges of homeschooling an outside-the-box child.”
Stories of an Unschooling Family
“Join me as I share ideas, stories, homeschool record-keeping tips, and resources for living an unschooling life of unconditional love.”
Your Morning Basket
Pam Barnhill offers another quality podcast. With new episodes airing every other Tuesday, Your Morning Basket answers all of your morning-time questions. Listen to moms discuss everything from choosing the right book for your child, to figuring out the best time to introduce Shakespeare into the lesson plan, to how to get your child to sit still. Chances are if you’ve thought it, she’s discussed it.
Parenting and Family Life
Mom to Mom
“We’re three generations of moms who have experienced nearly every season of motherhood. We don’t have all the answers, but you can be sure that we’ll always point you to the One who does.”
Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
“Through our many travels, one thing became very clear to our family: the need for community. The need to exchange information and ideas, the need to learn from others, the need to be inspired, the need to connect.”
Special Focus on Educational Challenges
Empowering Homeschool Conversations
“Join us each week as we host a special guest and have conversations that will empower your homeschool journey.”
Raising Lifelong Learners
“Want to raise your kids to love learning? To become lifelong learners—children who know that they can find the answers to anything they’re curious about? This is the podcast about all of that and more! Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and listen to how others help inspire kids to view their world with play and passion and fascination.”
Cultural and Literary Focus
Read-Aloud Revival
Get motivated and encouraged with Sarah Mackenzie’s Read-Aloud Revival. This podcast equips you with the resources you need to build a family culture around reading. Parents, homeschoolers, and instructors are inspired through interviews to make reading aloud a focal point of family life.
Scholé Sisters
Scholé Sisters [skoh-lay] exists to help mothers in their homeschooling journey, both for their families and for themselves. “We’re friends who believe that teaching is the art of being imitated and who desire to bring scholé into our homes. Each of us draws on the classical tradition in different ways; our practices look different, but our commitment to the principles is the same.”
Now that you have the list, why not start your podcast journey off with The Demme Learning Show, where we provide insights into homeschooling and educational topics every week?
This blog post was originally published on August 19, 2021, and updated on December 18, 2023.