We are frequently asked the following questions about the Lifetime Family Package and Lifetime Family Package for Schools. If you have questions that are not listed below please e-mail us at: CustomerService@TheBEarthInstitute.com.
General Program Overview & Information
You can see a description of what is included in each grade HERE. This page also includes samples of most of the curriculum packages.
You can view information about Earthschooling HERE (this page includes a video, charts and other information). You can also download and print a brochure from this page.
View Our Slide Show
This slide show gives you an overview of some of the main benefits of the Lifetime Family Curriculum Package…
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General FAQs
1. Lifetime Package School members receive all the same benefits as individual members.
2. Earthschooling is a complete curriculum. There is no need to buy any supplements. Every lesson is complete, all the teaching materials and books are included and the lessons are even planned out for you each day.
3. There is a series called “Kids Can Heal” that is included in the Lifetime Family Curriculum Package. It includes herbal studies, reflexology, iridology, nutrition, and studies in the temperaments for kids.
4. The Lifetime Family Package includes all curricula from preschool to eighth grade. It also includes all the Teacher Support Materials, Videos, E-books, Webinars, Kids Can Heal classes, Cultural Enrichment Lessons and more. There are even videos, e-books and lessons that are not for sale on the website included in the package.
5. Upgrade credits are not available for school purchases.
School FAQs: How Can I Find Members to Join My School?
If you are inviting people to join your school without mentioning Earthschooling, of course you can use any methods you need to for recruitment.
If you are mentioning Earthschooling in your recruitment posts then you can only invite people to a school using any of the following methods:
1. Ask people in person in your community
2. Ask people locally through e-mail, Facebook or newsletters (not on international, national forums, or websites)
3. Respond personally (not on a public forum or website) to requests made to you on Facebook or by e-mail
4. Ask family members or friends to join you
School Guidelines
Our responsibility as Earthschooling is to provide your school with the curriculum you purchased as well as provide the opportunity to order official documents for the students in your school (diplomas and transcripts). We also offer Letters of Attendance and other letters. Your responsibility as a school is listed below:
- Your purchase allows all teachers at your school access to the school curriculum you purchased. It does not allow access to students. Student access can be purchased HERE.
- Your school needs to be a physical school. It cannot be a remote school.
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Each teacher should have their own login. Logins cannot be shared.
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Your access is for the life of your school. If you start a second school or someone leaves your school to start a new school the curriculum does not travel with them.
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There is no limit on the number of teachers your school can give access to as long as they are teachers currently employed by your school and running a classroom.
- Each year an administrator should let us know which teachers are leaving the school and which new teachers are joining so we can create accounts for them.
- All students in the school can be provided with official documents as long as they are studying at your school and your school uses Earthschooling materials full or part-time.
- Earthschooling curriculum materials cannot be shared with anyone outside the school.
- Earthschooling curriculum materials can only be printed for use inside the school (or for a teacher taking them home to work with).
- Earthschooling curriculum materials cannot be translated and then sold as a new curriculum.
- No parts of the Earthschooling curriculum can be used to create a “new” curriculum for your school in another language or other format.
- Earthschooling materials can be translated as long as the copyright guidelines are followed for usage (see 1-9).
What Does “Lifetime” Mean?
We offer the Family Curriculum Package to our customers as a way for them to save money when they want to purchase curriculum for more than one student. By purchasing all the curriculum together instead of individually they save over 50%. Since Earthschooling does not hold curriculum sales this is helpful to many parents/schools/teachers. People purchase the package and then immediately receive all their materials. At this point the transaction is done. There is no future financial commitment from the teacher/parent/school.
We add the word “Lifetime” to the package to indicate that they do not need to purchase the materials again for another student. They may use the materials for their family/class/school as long as they need them. Those materials now belong to them for their own personal use. If they lose any of the downloads we will even send them again.
Some curriculum providers require that customers purchase new curriculum each year and for each student. We make it clear that we do not have that requirement by putting the word “Lifetime” with the package name.
This package is not a membership. However, anyone who purchases any Earthschooling curriculum is referred to as an “Earthschooling Member”.
Co-ops Prior to 2022
The information below was posted on the website when we offered co-ops. We no longer offer co-ops and will not be able to do so in the future. However, we have retained the information below just in case an old member needs to reference it.
Members can only be recruited from your local community. If you want to post an invitation to a group you can post to a local homeschool group or to an e-mail list of friends you have locally. Posting invitations or sale notices on non-local groups, a website, or online is not permitted. Re-sale of memberships is illegal, re-sale of co-op spaces (already assigned) is illegal. Once a co-op space was purchased (prior to 2022) it belongs to the original person and cannot be re-sold or shared. Co-op spaces were limited to ten members. We no longer offer co-ops and will not be able to offer them in the future.
If you’ve made a previous purchase with Earthschooling you will not be able to receive a credit if you upgrade your purchase to become a member in a curriculum co-op. This is because the curriculum co-op cost is already discounted more than 75%.
We offered co-op memberships previously to 2022. If you still have spaces you paid for left to fill in your co-op the rules remain the same as they always were (see below). However, we have not been forming new co-ops since January 2022. According to our records only six co-ops still have pending members. We have these on record and we know how many members your co-op has pending so you can be confident in retaining those memberships.
Purchase curriculum as a group (of 2-10 people) = 50% discount (this option is no longer open for new groups since 2021)
