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Empowered Learning: How Homeschooling Through High School Helped Me Thrive

Unconventional education is becoming an even bigger part of our future.
Empowered Learning: How Homeschooling Through High School Helped Me Thrive
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Nasiyah Isra-Ul
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I was eight years old when I first asked my mom about why some kids had to ride the bus to school every day and I didn’t. “Not everyone goes to school from home like you,” she smiled. “A lot of kids go to traditional school, learning with teachers for hours out of the day, and that’s how they learn.” I was curious. I remember my next question being, “Do they like it?”

Nasiyah Isra-Ul
Nasiyah Isra-Ul
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Nasiyah Isra-Ul is a LiberatED Education Associate at FEE. She is a passionate educator, author, public speaker, and policy professional working at the intersection of education reform and disability justice. Homeschooled K–12, Nasiyah earned her undergraduate degree from Liberty University. As a teen, she founded Homeschool EmpowerED Inc., a nonprofit empowering homeschooling families with digital resources and community learning opportunities. Nasiyah has served as a fellow and advisor for various organizations and is an avid coach and community leader. Passionate about digital storytelling, Nasiyah creates content on education reform, entrepreneurship, and her lived experience as a multiply-disabled policy professional. Nasiyah also aspires to become an ordained rabbi and continue to grow as a Jewish leader, remaining true to her commitment to building inclusive and empowering learning spaces in her community and beyond. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing poetry, songwriting, multicultural cooking, travel, and spending time with her family and her leopard gecko.