Katharyn HavensFounder, Kairos Rise · Educational Innovator

Focusing on your family compass is a pivotal way to establish your homeschooling ecosystem.

Name: Focusing on your family compass is a pivotal way to establish your homeschooling ecosystem.
Uploaded: 2025-07-31T10:18:20+00:00
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Channel: Katharyn Havens
Description: In this video excerpt, Katharyn Havens explains that homeschooling should be approached as an integrated ecosystem rather than simply replicating a…

31 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this video excerpt, Katharyn Havens explains that homeschooling should be approached as an integrated ecosystem rather than simply replicating a school at home. She emphasizes the importance of a "family compass"—the core values and priorities that guide the family's educational choices. To illustrate, she shares a real‑world example of worldschooling in the Maasai Mara, Kenya, where her son is immersed in local culture by playing football with camp staff and community members instead of going on a typical game drive. This cultural, hands‑on experience reflects her belief that children thrive when learning aligns with family values and includes authentic, lived experiences.

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I know it's tempting to set up your homeschool as school at home, but as I've talked about in other videos, I want to remind you about how you create an ecosystem where all the pieces work together, where you set the stage for your children to really thrive and to do things they love and to enjoy learning. So we happen to be out here worldschooling in the middle of the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and I'm standing here filming because what's happening behind me— when I think about the type of learning environment I want to set up, I truly value culture, and I just value my son being able to get, to get real-life experiences. So there you go, he's getting to play football with the local people and the guards and the workers at the camp were staying at, and he just jumped right in. And I couldn't be more proud of him and more excited for him to be able to really understand what it's like to live here in Kenya. So that's part of my family compass. I know what's important to our family, and today it wasn't going on the game drive as usual. It was giving him an opportunity to really get involved and experience the culture. I hope he's having fun.