The Potter's School is committed to helping families achieve academic excellence in home education. However, excellence in academics is best achieved within the larger context of training children to do all things—school, chores, service, outreach, and all other labor, considered as an integrated process rather than as competing items—in excellence as unto the Lord. Furthermore, home education is not fundamentally about taking classes at home instead of in a school building—the value of homeschooling is actually its role in the greater process of discipleship. Therefore, The Potter's School partners with families to provide a wide range of training and resources for family discipleship and home education.

The foundational mission of The Potter's School is to turn the hearts of kids to their parents, the hearts of parents to their kids, and the hearts of both to the Lord, that families may be strengthened for sacrificial service in excellence. We offer many services, events and activities, all of which support this overall mission. Please review our web site to understand all the interrelated ways we work to further this purpose. For more information about our approach to education as part of family discipleship, please review this page.

Internet conferencing technology has made it possible for students to take live on-line courses from their homes. Such classes afford home educated students wonderful opportunities for external instruction in a variety of topics, expanding academic options while supporting home education ideals. The Potter's School provides globally accessible on-line courses in which the ideals we value as home educators—a biblical worldview, high academic standards, and timely personal feedback—are honored by a dedicated group of teachers who share these values. We offer a full range of core and elective courses for students in grades 7 through 12. These are predominately independent study classes in which the teacher determines the curriculum, evaluates the students' exams and essays by providing objective scores with constructive feedback, and serves as a resource when students require outside assistance. The class meets with the teacher in a live session via the Internet for 90 minutes each week. The interactive class sessions use audio (everyone can talk to everyone!), text chat, video, slide show presentations, and a whiteboard to enhance the students' educational experience. Also, in our classrooms the students have classmates from all over the world!

Our courses are biblically-based and academically rigorous. They are equivalent to those found in a top Christian preparatory academy, but they are less expensive and you can access them from your home. They are academically superior to what you will get from a community college or even most local small colleges, and they are presented from a biblical worldview. Students who complete their junior and senior year classes at The Potter's School and go on to top universities and military academies consistently report back to us how much better prepared they are than their university classmates. We have a proven consistent track record of outstanding success after high school because our courses not only teach to high academic standards from a biblical worldview, they also help instill initiative, diligence, and godly purpose-rare qualities which are essential to success in college and beyond.

The Potter's School currently serves over 1800 students from throughout the United States and about forty other countries. Because of our global reach, we provide a unique resource to faith workers serving overseas in challenging locations without good educational resources, helping keep these dedicated families together on the field through the high school years. Though we specialize in synchronous distance education, we work to build relationships that de-emphasize the "distance" element. Our teachers are well qualified within their fields of expertise, and they are also mentors who get to know their students so they can provide the timely meaningful feedback that is essential to effective education. Furthermore, all members of The Potter's School staff have formally pledged to support a biblical statement of faith, home education values, and high standards of customer service.

Since home education is more than just an alternate classroom setting, The Potter's School offers more than just on-line classes. Our Jericho International Honor Society actively promotes biblical leadership and Godly character through service, then formally recognizes that service through letters and awards that can be listed on transcripts and resumés. Also, we regularly take students and parents on U.S. and overseas trips that integrate faith, service, and education (and pleasure!) to build each participant's leadership and character while expanding his biblical worldview.

We also use the Internet to connect the home education community. We've established private meeting rooms in which our students around the globe can study together, have group meetings, or just video chat for fun. We have an on-line school yearbook that students can maintain dynamically updated with their own information and pictures—they can even customize the look of the entire page if they want! We feature open-topic discussion forums in which our students can share their ideas and sharpen one another in their understanding and application of Bible doctrine. We even publish a school newspaper, an e-zine staffed by our students. The Potter's School is continually seeking ways to use the Internet to broaden and enhance the home education community experience.

As our global reach has increased we have become increasingly aware of the additional challenges involved in home educating children in a biblical worldview while living outside the United States. We understand that overseas families often do not have access to the academic and faith resources we in the U.S. take for granted. We have committed ourselves to helping these families in a number of ways. We devote considerable effort to making our courses technically and financially accessible to overseas families, and we offer an increasing number of class sessions at times that are more convenient for families in non-U.S. time zones. In our registration process we ensure that overseas families have priority access to class sections that work best for their schedules. We are also often asked to travel overseas to provide training and resources for overseas families. Prior to these visits we assess the needs of the families we have been invited to serve, so we can assemble from our staff the best team to meet those needs. In addition to academic topics, all of our conferences include practical seminars on integrating home education into the greater context of family discipleship.

As a non-profit organization, The Potter's School appreciates those who make our work possible. We are pleased to partner with Apologia Ministries for our science classes. We are pleased to partner with Belhaven College for various academic, ministry and discipleship opportunities. We are pleased to work with GatherWorks as a technology partner. We are also grateful to the individuals who support us with prayer, time and money. If you share our goals, please pray for us and please consider contributing to our ministry.