Your Voice, Our Stories: What Our Community is Saying
We’re incredibly proud of what this school, its students, and parents have achieved, and it’s catching the community’s attention. Check out some of the articles below!
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As home-schooling grows, new hybrid model offers ag-based approach
For Sarah VanDerVliet, opening a home-school academy near Humboldt is a calling to serve. To serve her family, her faith and her community.
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Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy attends Homeschool Day in Pierre
Students from Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy pose in front of their school’s display in the capitol. Buffalo Christian was one of several homeschools…
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South Dakota Farm Bureau Honors Buffalo Christian Academy
Buffalo Christian Academy of Humboldt was recently honored as a Friend of Agriculture winner by South Dakota Farm Bureau. Hear their story in this video.
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Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy continues to grow
The Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy is a school that creates an agriculture learning environment which gives students the opportunity to learn with hands-on projects.
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Alternative school teachers tout new approaches, but oversight concerns linger
But VanDerVliet didn’t leave the profession. She started a hybrid school called Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy. The school combines in-person teaching in a classroom setting twice a week and at-home learning the rest of the week.
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Rising Alternatives
A South Dakota Searchlight series examining the impact, causes and concerns surrounding the rapid growth of alternative instruction options in the state, such as homeschooling, microschools, online instruction and hybrid schools.
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Homeschool advocates work to protect hard-won freedoms as U.S. educational landscape shifts
Sarah VanDerVliet, a former public-school teacher in South Dakota, offers a different vision from the establishment: partnering with, instead of fighting, parents to provide hybrid options.
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Hybrid homeschool model fosters ‘generational learning,’ farming lifestyle in South Dakota
As a former public-school teacher of 17 years in South Dakota, Sarah VanDerVliet never thought she would leave to start a hybrid homeschool program.
“If you would have asked me even five years ago, I never, ever would have thought this is what I would be doing,” she says. “But God obviously had different plans for me.”
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Friday Feature: Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy
After a 17-year career as a public school teacher, Sarah VanDerVliet wanted something different. She was an ag teacher, so she ran the Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter along with the school’s farming and agricultural programs. Sarah and her husband have a farm, and they were trying to figure out a way for her to be home more and working on the farm.
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Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy models a one-room schoolhouse with a hybrid twist.
Buffalo Christian Homeschool Academy was started three years ago and provides students with hybrid, homeschool learning on a working farming operation in Colton, South Dakota.
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Skip navigation Search Create Avatar image AgweekTV: Taking Schooling Back to The Roots
Long ago, many farm kids were taught in one room schoolhouses on the prairie, with all grades being taught together. In this week's agweek cover story, Ariana Schumacher takes us to a modern school that is going back to those old-fashioned roots.