Teachers have a huge responsibility on their hands when it comes to shaping tomorrow’s generations — and this includes parents who are home-schooling. These home-school influencers share their tips and tricks of the trade with a massive community looking for teaching support and solutions.
13 home-school influencers offering tips
Becky Spence aka ThisReadingMama
Becky is a home-schooling mom and a passionate advocate of helping struggling learners. In addition to posting resources for helping learners with dyslexia, Becky is a micro influencer on Instagram who gives a peek into real-life skills taught through food prep lessons, her home learning setup, and positive pointers for those thinking about tackling home-schooling.
Michelle
Michelle, aka “Mama Michelle,” is a busy, creative mom with four kids. Michelle posts plenty of activities, toys and games for her 913K Instagram followers, which includes her helpful home-schooling hacks. Whether Michelle is dishing on how to create your own sand art as a reading activity extension, strengthening your child’s speech skills with a homemade bunny balloon, or sharing digital device safety suggestions, Michelle’s got you covered.
Anya aka MontessoriFromTheHeart
Anya does it all as a wife, mom, attorney, author, and Montessori coach. There’s never a dull day in her schedule. Anya’s 323K Instagram followers are treated to tons of art and play-based educational activities and ideas. Just a sampling of her creative content includes DIY smelling jars to provide children with a multi-sensory experience, 3D solar system project, and a fizzing cauldron STEM experiment designed to foster a love of science in students.
Angela Braniff
Angela’s days are filled with raising seven kids and a menagerie of animals on their intimate family farm. As if animal caretaking and being an author weren’t enough to keep her busy, this mid-tier influencer also shares her home-schooling tips and favorite products with her Instagram followers. From introducing her kids to the basics of learning a second language with puzzle cards to an Independence Day-themed lesson pack, Angela’s got the family farm life and home-schooling down to a science.
Andrea Scalzo Yi
Andrea is a home-schooling mom of four boys or, as she affectionately refers to them, her dragons. Andrea focuses on sharing the STEAM and educational activities she uses with her own children with other homeschoolers, like using sidewalk chalk to tell time, staying active with “hula hoop lasso,” and reinforcing fine motor skills, color recognition, and counting with a DIY fishing game. Andrea has 97.3K followers on Instagram.
Sarah aka northcountrylittles
Social media influencer Sarah is a wife, author, and home-schooling mom to four children. She promotes the positivity of “joyful parenting” and exploring “raw motherhood” with her uplifting content. Sarah shares home-schooling hacks like making giant paper snowflakes, her go-to educational toys, and budget-friendly tips for shopping for multiple kids.
Sole
Sole is a blogger and mom of three whose IG handle, coffeeandspitup, sums up motherhood in a nutshell. As a home-school influencer, Sole blogs about the Montessori way: learning through play-based experiences and activities. You can find Sole posting her schoolroom cleanup routine, creatively themed sensory bins, and cleverly crafted sorting activities that keep her kids learning and growing in the home-school setting.
Jamerrill Stewart
Jamerrill is a shining example of a multitasking mama. With nine children, home-schooling, and cooking “mega meals” for her sizable brood, she still manages to showcase how she juggles it all with her 88.3K Instagram followers. Jamerill shares her strategies for organizing a home-school field trip, giving her kids hands-on lessons like incubating chicken eggs, and how she prepares 28 freezer meals in one evening. Jamerrill also shares her thrift store finds and how she scores grocery discounts when she’s shopping for her big family.
Tara Rondinelli
From her woodsy Wisconsin home, mom Tara encourages a nature-based, sunshine-filled home-school learning experience. Tara shares book giveaways, DIY hiking stick ideas, and nature-themed DIY crayon crafts with her 112K Instagram followers.
Elsie
Elsie is a homesteader, blogger, writer, and speaker who categorizes herself as a “classical homeschooler.” From her family’s “farmhouse schoolhouse,” Elsie educates her children and shares her (beautifully written) experiences with her 64.6K Instagram followers. From studying human anatomy through drawing and sharing book giveaways to showcasing her family’s stunning natural surroundings, Elsie’s page is full of interesting content.
Taina Licciardo-Toivola
Taina is a mother of ten who has been homeschooling for 22 years. On her YouTube channel of over 970K subscribers, Taina shares her experiences being a mother with such a large family. She also provides insight for her subscribers about the best ways to home-school.
Crystal Iliana Torres
Crystal is a home educator and mother of five who shares her Charlotte Mason homeschool with over 58K Instagram followers. Most of her content consists of her children and how they are being educated in a home-school environment.
Taina Licciardo-Toivola
Taina is a mother of ten who has been homeschooling for 22 years. On her YouTube channel of over 970K subscribers, Taina shares her experiences being a mother with such a large family. She also provides insight for her subscribers about the best ways to home-school.
Home-school influencers not only provide expert advice and resources for home-schooling parents, but they can also be very helpful in promoting family and educational brands. To increase your brand’s exposure and bottom line, turn to influencer marketing. Marketers can find more home-teaching and other influencers like these at IZEA.
