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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.

Aug 26, 2026

6:46
Do you
6:47
want to speak to that a little bit? It's been interesting over the years.
6:49
I've had a lot of people reach out to me about email or on the back end of some social media platform.
6:56
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.
7:19
And Balance indicates that there's like some equal weight on both sides of the scale.
7:25
That's such a good point.
7:26
It's never actually that way, is it? Right.

10 MINS LATER

17:32
Yeah, so
28:38
So
28:39
if you were at the book reveals, you will know.
28:43
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.
28:58
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.
29:12
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.
29:23
And I always picked a partnership project that went really well with the book we were doing that month.
29:30
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.

21 MINS LATER

50:45
Right.

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