Your Own Homeschool Coach – Ian
$85.00
Schedule a one-on-one session with Ian and tackle your home network and device challenges together. Purchase the number of hours you want to schedule, and book the appointment through your confirmation email.
Description
Our coaching team is staffed by experienced homeschool parents who love the Lord and have successfully homeschooled with a variety of methods and curricula. They can do much more than answer questions—they can help you plan, evaluate, and make the adjustments you need to see your family succeed in homeschooling this season. Pick a coach with the expertise you need, and book a session to try things out! There are no long-term commitments or strings attached.
About Ian
Ian Kern has been a Compass Classroom founder and supporter from the begining. He works at Compass Cinema and filmed Dwane’s Visual Latin some years ago. Ian has helped manage the technology and equipment at Compass and is keen on using these tools rightly. He has helped and supported the homeschooling of his 4 children, who love art, making things, and good books.
Over the years, Ian has helped numerous individuals, familys, and small businesses in networking, device management, and digital software solutions. He now joins our new Coaching service, and is ready to educate and train you on practical ways to manage and protect your children as they’re navigate computers and the world online.
Ian’s Help for Families
- Managing home networks – how to protect your home internet users
- Managing user accounts – how to protect areas of access
- Managing devices – how to protect your children
- Please see a more complete list on the Coaching Outline tab above
How Coaching Works
- Choose the amount of coaching time to purchase using the drop-down menu above and Add to Cart.
- After check out, you will receive an immediate email with a link to schedule the appointment(s) on the coach’s calendar.
- Your coach may be in touch with additional information ahead of the appointment.
How Much Time Do I Need?
The short answer is “It depends.” When you book your appointment, you will also be given a short form where you can specify the areas you’d like to focus on, as well as anything else you want to tell us about your circumstances, context, or needs your family or students might have.
It should be pretty straight forward, but if you have any questions about this, please contact our program director.
What Makes Our Program Unique?
- Staffed by veteran homeschool parents with experience across all stages of education.
- Principles flexible enough to assist families with a wide variety of curriculum and methods.
- Grounded in a biblical worldview, the educational framework our coaches provide for their own families.
- Intended to give you practical takeaways and not just add more to your “to do” list.
Coaching Outline
Here is a more thorough outline of areas you might want to cover when Coaching with Ian.
- Choosing technology based on principle and not price
- Technology management in the home
- Network level management
- Understanding how networks work
- Secureing routers with passwords and encryption (never use defaults)
- Setting up and using Guest networks
- Firmware and device updating
- Account level management
- Setting up separate accounts for children with limited privileges
- Strong password useage and management for your family
- Monitoring activity and seting up alerts for things
- Device level management
- Setting up parental controls
- User and family friendly operating systems
- Buying technology based on principles and not price
- Software, security, and using antivirus software
- Parent friendly web browser options
- Setting screen time limits
- Setting content restrictions
- How to setup and use content filtering (Net Nanny, Mobicip, Kaspersky Safe Kids, OpenDNS, etc.)
- Setting up and understanding Smart TVs
- Understanding The Internet of Things (IoT)
- Alexa and other web connected devices
- Data, usage, advertising, and privacy
- Establishing house rules/physical control (no bedroom use)
- Network level management
- Access
- How to whitelist/blacklist websites
- Parental controls
- Apple Screen Time
- Google Family Link
- Amazon Kids
- Using usage and reporting services
- Monitoring and Educating
- How to monitor childrens devices (manually, Bark, Qustodio)
- Educating children about online safety, citizenship, permanent digital footprints etc.
- Discuss regularly online behavior and setting expectations.
- How to communicate with children about anything seen, heard of, or done online
- Parental Responsibilities
- How should we think of these powerful (and and potentially harmful) tools
- Age, maturity, and responsibility. What we think and what the world/corporations think
- Fostering the right type of loves and affections in our children. Appetites for what is good, true and beautiful. Philippians 4:8-9
- Encouraging “talk about anything” relationships with our children. And what that looks like at different ages.
- Privacy and Protection
- Who might your kids meet online and where. Lock it down
- Things said in public, private, and forever… on the internet
- Right thinking about advertising, usage tracking, and why it’s their business, but none of their business!
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