Tina Hollenbeck is a researcher and freelance writer specializing in topics related to parenting and home education.
She owns The Homeschool Resource Roadmap, which provides current and prospective home-educating parents with summative information about more than 5,000 homeschool-oriented resource companies in over 300 different content areas. She also owns The N.E.W. Scoop, a free database of resources available to home educators in and around the community in which she lives, and The Homeschool Loft, a homeschool resource center serving her local community.
From November 2008 through June 2018, Tina blogged at Being Made New. And from August 2006 into September 2021, served as the volunteer staff writer for Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Texas-based ministry founded by Dr. Kathy Koch. She wrote articles for the ministry's free email newsletter and blog and also co-authored a booklet entitled Celebrating Children's 12 Genius Qualities.
She owns The Homeschool Resource Roadmap, which provides current and prospective home-educating parents with summative information about more than 5,000 homeschool-oriented resource companies in over 300 different content areas. She also owns The N.E.W. Scoop, a free database of resources available to home educators in and around the community in which she lives, and The Homeschool Loft, a homeschool resource center serving her local community.
From November 2008 through June 2018, Tina blogged at Being Made New. And from August 2006 into September 2021, served as the volunteer staff writer for Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Texas-based ministry founded by Dr. Kathy Koch. She wrote articles for the ministry's free email newsletter and blog and also co-authored a booklet entitled Celebrating Children's 12 Genius Qualities.
Additionally, she was a regular contributor to Learning Tangent Magazine, a quarterly publication for home-educating parents that ran from 2014 through 2019. And, though she no longer guest-posts as a matter of policy, she contributed occasional pieces to several other publications, including Annie and Everything; Jill Savage's blog (with links to the Hearts at Home website); Hip Homeschool Moms; and email newsletters published by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.
She is a past contributor to the now-defunct women's ministry newsletter at her former church, where she served as its Mothering Moments columnist; the {Hope for the Home} series at Worthy of the Prize; and The Chatterbee, the original website for those who use All About Spelling and other All About Learning Press products.
In August 2021, Moody Publishers published Tina's first book, 8 Great Smarts for Homeschoolers: A Guide to Teaching Based on Your Child's Unique Strengths.
Pieces she has written for the above-mentioned venues are archived here on Tina's Take on Things using the following abbreviations located in the bottom right corner of each post:
- All About Learning Press = AALP
- Annie and Everything = AE
- Being Made New = BMN
- Celebrate Kids = CK
- Hearts at Home (and Jill Savage's blog) = HAH
- Hip Homeschool Moms = HHM
- Learning Tangent Magazine = LT
- The Old Schoolhouse Magazine = TOS
- Spring Lake Church = SLC
- Worthy of the Prize = WOP
To view Tina's LinkedIn profile, click here.
To read Tina's current personal blog, Views from the Road Home, click here.
