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Dawn Smith
President of Brave Writer, the homeschooling and language-arts curriculum company, and a recurring guest on the Brave Writer podcast.
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Aug 26, 2026
354. Working Parents and Homeschooling
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6:49Dawn SmithGUEST
I've had a lot of people reach out to me about email or on the back end of some social media platform.
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6:56Dawn SmithGUEST
And one of the questions I get a lot is, how do you balance work and school? And then the other part of that is, is even how do you balance homeschooling and parenting? And both of those feel like very similar questions in the light that the answer is, I don't really like the word balance.
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7:19Dawn SmithGUEST
And Balance indicates that there's like some equal weight on both sides of the scale.
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343. Partnership Writing with Dawn Smith
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28:43Dawn SmithGUEST
So over time, I've been testing the waters on this idea that – so partnership writing projects, formats, writing formats – they are at the same level in the emerging writers level as the DART.
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28:58Dawn SmithGUEST
And so last year, I started doing more planning sessions for people who were planning their DART and then pulling in partnership writing, pulling in growing Brave Writers practices.
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29:12Dawn SmithGUEST
And as I was going through these planning jam sessions, we called them, I was giving examples and I was walking people through how to plan a month with Brave Writer.
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29:23Dawn SmithGUEST
And I always picked a partnership project that went really well with the book we were doing that month.
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29:30Dawn SmithGUEST
And I taught people, I was showing people how to take the theme of the book and use the partnership project and use that same theme with the partnership project in order to really integrate everything over the course of the month.
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