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.

Our web site is a bit hard to navigate right now. A new one is in the works. 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 pages 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: 2010-2011 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.

We are excited about the great courses we offer your family! If you haven't been there yet, please take some time to look over the Courses pages. Do you need help picking courses or planning your curriculum? Our academic staff members have years of diverse experience homeschooling their kids to top performance in top universities, and we are here to help TPS families with curriculum planning.

Registration and schedule information, plus a lot of other great information, is on our TPS News site. If you want to stay in the loop with key announcements and dates, including registration information, please subscribe to our newsletter updates. When you're ready to register, go to our Registration page.

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!