The Sonlight Community

Sonlight Curriculum is more than a company.

Sonlight more than a homeschool curriculum.

It is a community as well.

A Curriculum

Sonlight began as a Christian homeschool curriculum. Sarita and John Holzmann wanted to create Instructor's Guides and package the best books and materials to meet the needs of American homeschoolers living around the world.

You can read more about that part of our story here: "How did Sonlight Begin?"

A Company

Within a month of starting to create the homeschool curriculum, Sonlight became a company. We needed a way to deliver the homeschool materials. In fact, before we began delivering books, we needed a way to get them from publishers. And so the company was born.

That is part of our history as well.

It's easy to focus on those two aspects of our identity: our homeschool products and our services.

But in the late 90s, it became apparent that Sonlight Curriculum is something more than products and services, employees and customers. Sonlight is also...

A Community

Sonlight became a community almost by accident. And it happened online.

Sonlight has been online since early 1995 when we first created the Sonlight® Forums. Over the years, a strong community of Sonlighters has grown up. And what is so encouraging and exciting is the kind of community that is.

We—those of us who make up the Sonlight community—are interested in learning. We are not interested merely in teaching our children. We want to learn, too. For ourselves.

We realize that education isn't just for kids. It's for adults. It's for everyone. We all have more to learn. And we take pleasure in making new discoveries.

Sometimes learning new things can be challenging and painful. But when all is said and done, learning is fun. And we want to participate in the joy of learning.

We don't know it all. That's why we're open to learning more and to being challenged. That's why we strongly believe Sonlight is for families who love learning together.

Education is so much more than just meeting government mandates. We learn because we want to, because it's fun, because that's what our families do. Together.

And that's the Sonlight community: people who love learning together.

Please come join us! Enjoy a Christian homeschool curriculum. Explore the resources of the company. But beyond that, come be a part the Sonlight Curriculum community! You can find us on:

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