I am not in the same state as you, so what I know about charter schools and home schools in my state won't necessarily apply to you. But it might help, so I thought I'd share.
I served on a charter school board for a few years. This website was extremely helpful: https://www.sccharterschools.org/ Perhaps there is a similar organization in your state that has policy templates, training, etc., that would meet your state's requirements.
I currently work for a school district, running a science center. Out-of-district groups can visit our center and we get quite a few home school groups. https://www.carolinahomeschooler.com/ is probably the largest. They have a pretty detailed website and you could probably get some good ideas about different types of activities you could offer at your co-op.
Another idea for your library is to get some science 'lab materials'. Many of the home school groups that visit our center do so because their families are either uncomfortable teaching some science concepts or they don't have the materials to do it properly. Perhaps you could get donations locally (when I was in the classroom, one of the local medical labs upgraded their microscopes and gave us all there old ones) or, once you are established, you could get grants through places like https://www.donorschoose.org/.
Regarding curriculum, I do not think I am qualified to help develop a curriculum on discursive meditation. I don't think I have been doing it long enough to try to teach others. But, when you get to the point of needing science resources, I'll be happy to help!
On a slightly different note, I finished (my first reading of :-) ) CosDoc today. Had one fabulous "click! OMG! That makes SO MUCH SENSE!" moment (which was nice) and one "click! OMG! That potentially would make something else make so much sense, but now I have to go find that chapter and read it again and make sure it really fits like I think it does" (which is good, but now I really feel I need to reread the whole thing again). But I really want to read The Mystical Quabalah, because it seems like that was referenced many times in CosDoc. Have you read MQ yet? Would you be willing to do a book club on that?
I am not sure your policy on posting links, so if this doesn't get published in the comments, I completely understand.
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Date: 2021-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)I am not in the same state as you, so what I know about charter schools and home schools in my state won't necessarily apply to you. But it might help, so I thought I'd share.
I served on a charter school board for a few years. This website was extremely helpful: https://www.sccharterschools.org/ Perhaps there is a similar organization in your state that has policy templates, training, etc., that would meet your state's requirements.
I currently work for a school district, running a science center. Out-of-district groups can visit our center and we get quite a few home school groups. https://www.carolinahomeschooler.com/ is probably the largest. They have a pretty detailed website and you could probably get some good ideas about different types of activities you could offer at your co-op.
Another idea for your library is to get some science 'lab materials'. Many of the home school groups that visit our center do so because their families are either uncomfortable teaching some science concepts or they don't have the materials to do it properly. Perhaps you could get donations locally (when I was in the classroom, one of the local medical labs upgraded their microscopes and gave us all there old ones) or, once you are established, you could get grants through places like https://www.donorschoose.org/.
Regarding curriculum, I do not think I am qualified to help develop a curriculum on discursive meditation. I don't think I have been doing it long enough to try to teach others. But, when you get to the point of needing science resources, I'll be happy to help!
On a slightly different note, I finished (my first reading of :-) ) CosDoc today. Had one fabulous "click! OMG! That makes SO MUCH SENSE!" moment (which was nice) and one "click! OMG! That potentially would make something else make so much sense, but now I have to go find that chapter and read it again and make sure it really fits like I think it does" (which is good, but now I really feel I need to reread the whole thing again). But I really want to read The Mystical Quabalah, because it seems like that was referenced many times in CosDoc. Have you read MQ yet? Would you be willing to do a book club on that?
I am not sure your policy on posting links, so if this doesn't get published in the comments, I completely understand.
Have a great weekend!