The Potter's School (or "TPS," as we are commonly known) 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.

Alright, we know our web site is a bit hard to navigate right now. A new one is on our "to do" list. In the meantime, here is a good strategy for finding your way around.

First, get to know us a bit. Read our Mission Overview page to get the big picture of who we are and what we offer your family and your students. Then narrow your focus just a bit to understand the various academic tracks we offer in our Curriculum, Scope & Sequence page. From there you'll see that we offer the most comprehensive set of a la carte courses on the internet, and the most comprehensive integrated classical program on-line. Then get a feel for how a course is conducted by reading our Course Format page. When you've gone through the academic overview information, go to our Courses page and our Teachers page to get the details of our 170+ core and elective grade 6-12 courses.

After you get to know us and look over our academic offerings, read the details on the pages: 2009 - 2010 Calendar; Fees & Tuition; Payment Schedule; Technical Expectations; Software Requirements; Communication; and Withdrawals & Refunds. When you're done looking those over, look at our Commitments page to get the summary of what we commit to you and what we expect from you.

Registration for 2009-2010 is closed. We look forward to serving your family in 2010-2011! This is our 2009-2010 course list. Our 2010-2011 course list will be available in March. We will open registration to overseas families in mid-March, then to returning families at the end of March, then to new families in mid-April. Currently registered families will receive email notification of courses and registration dates. Other families can sign up for our newsletter to receive this information.

Remember that our foundational premise is that 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. This means that we offer families and students much more than classes. For example, check out the Jericho International Honor Society, a true "honor" society where academic excellence is a prerequisite and the focus is on service and character development. Take a look at our student-run ezine, The Cracked Pot. Then consider our annual international service trips to Thailand, Honduras and other locations, where we interact with families and students from these cultures, and work alongside and in support of the faith workers who serve them.

Does your church or local group want a series of family discipleship seminars? Do you want a fresh look at the topic that focuses on Scripture rather than just opinion and behavioral response? In a few hours, we'll lead you through more applied doctrine of discipling our families in excellence through grace than you've probably ever had before.

Before you go, don't forget to review our statement of faith (pretty important, right?) and consider how you can support TPS. We look forward to serving your family!