About The
Homeschool Project
We are building a community where homeschoolers thrive through leadership, curiosity, and real-world experiences.
What If You Could
Our Mission
The Homeschool Project is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2025 by Jonathan and Adriana Prescott. We provide middle school and high school aged homeschoolers with a place of belonging and achievement through passion projects, entrepreneurial endeavors, clubs, teams, honor societies, scholarships, volunteering, fundraising, community involvement, and professional development with local business owners.
We offer classes tailored to fit students’ interests, extracurricular goals, and skill development—both for personal growth and community benefit. Homeschooling parents also benefit from our Washington State Parent Qualifying course and other homeschooling and parenting classes.
The Homeschool Project maximizes the potential that homeschooled children bring by facilitating, developing, and supporting their long-term endeavors with student-led clubs, competitions, entrepreneurial ventures, community service projects, passion pursuits, field trips, etiquette training, internships, apprenticeships, mentoring, educational classes, and workshops. These “Projects” tap into the natural agency that drives the developing mind and spirit to transform barriers into breakthroughs—making dream-driven education and skill acquisition a reality that fulfills physical, intellectual, emotional, and social growth.
Our Motto
Our motto is, “What if You Could” which embodies the freedom of what homeschooling means – We don’t place boundaries on ourselves to keep our children from learning what interests them, what makes them passionate, inspires them, provides self-discovery, helps them achieve, and keeps them motivated to learn more. We don’t need permission to teach our children anything we desire and to provide for them the values and virtues of our own family – be it education, opportunities, fulfillment, or goals for their lives. In other words, you can just do anything that comes to mind or that your heart desires. We at The Homeschool Project want to facilitate in making your homeschooling dream become a reality for you.
Our Vision
We envision a vibrant ecosystem where every homeschooler emerges as a confident and resilient leader—empowered to shape their world through meaningful experiences, lifelong connections, and unbridled curiosity. We’re cultivating a generation of innovators, empathic collaborators, and purpose-driven changemakers who thrive beyond traditional boundaries.
Our
Core
Values
1.
Leadership & Agency
We foster independence, decision-making, and initiative, enabling youth to lead with confidence and internalize their power to influence tomorrow’s world.
2.
Curiosity & Exploration
We champion freedom to experiment, discover, and pursue passions, providing diverse opportunities for skill-building, self-knowledge, and personal growth.
3.
Empathy & Community
We cultivate passion, connection, and belonging through teamwork, volunteering, and relationship-building, ensuring every young person feels needed and valued.
4.
Resilience & Character
We encourage overcoming fears, honing etiquette, and embracing challenges to build unbreakable ambition, maturity, and ethical strength.
5.
Professional Readiness
We equip students with networking, marketing, and real-world skills to navigate society with poise, purpose, and professional savvy.
14 Tenets Guiding Our Work
Our philosophy is to further the healthy development of children and teens by satisfying their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social needs. We do this successfully by abiding by the following 14 tenets:
- Leadership Development – Facilitating the development of the leadership skills necessary to prepare children to become the leaders of tomorrow.
- Freedom to Discover – Nurturing the freedom to experiment and discover to satisfy children’s natural curiosity and educational endeavors.
- Passion & Purpose – Encouraging the development of a sense of passion, empathy, and community so children feel needed and valued.
- Agency & Initiative – Encouraging young minds to internalize a sense of agency to gain leadership potential.
- Growth & Maturity – Offering opportunities to explore and contemplate the world around them to attain growth and maturity.
- Team Building – Facilitating experiences to work together with others to develop a sense of community.
- Skill Mastery – Presenting many opportunities to practice skills and hone children’s talents to help reveal their purpose and place in society.
- Self-Knowledge – Promoting the acquirement of self-knowledge to ascertain children’s potential so they can advance with high confidence.
- Network Building – Demonstrating how to connect positively with peers, local communities, and the world to develop their own networks.
- Resilience – Teaching how to overcome fear or lack of confidence to become resilient, ambitious, and unstoppable.
- Authenticity – Providing freedom and encouragement for children to become the best version of themselves.
- Professional Etiquette – Demonstrating the personal, social, and professional etiquette required for children to be welcomed and accepted in society.
- Self-Marketing – Encouraging the stacking of skills and achievements for children to gain value and be able to promote themselves.
- Meaningful Relationships – Providing opportunities to be exposed to environments and experiences where children can meet other people and learn to develop lifelong meaningful relationships.
OUR STORY
Why We Started The Homeschool Project
Jonathan and Adriana started homeschooling over 16 years ago and have been coaching homeschool families professionally for the last 6 years with their sister company, Homeschool Life LLC. They also wrote one of the best homeschooling books titled, ‘Kids Don’t Need School: A Radical New Homeschool Plan to Teach Anything, Promote Independent Learning, and Prepare Children for an Uncertain Future’. From that success of international acclaim, Jonathan and Adriana built a social media presence on X reaching millions and with more than 26,000 followers connecting to many like-minded homeschoolers.
Through their experience with Homeschool Life LCC and social media presence, Jonathan and Adriana noticed that many homeschool families still faced many challenges in their homeschooling and that in order to solve them it would require a different type of solution than what their current company could provide. They came to the realization that a non-profit organization could not only allow them to provide the right solution to these challenges, but also allow them to reach out to even more homeschool families in desperate need of their homeschooling expertise.
Due to the nature of homeschoolers being underserved in their local communities, some of the challenges that homeschool families face are the lack of extracurricular resources available to them that fully support homeschoolers and their family values, the financial burden that exists on homeschool families’ budgets that limits what they can or cannot afford, especially if they have high-achieving teenagers with ambitious goals, and the lack of resources that help parents aid their homeschooled teens who are suffering from their loss of confidence, heart, and motivation.
With their engineering background and business expertise, Jonathan and Adriana knew exactly how to provide the right solutions to those challenges, hence was the beginning of the founding of The Homeschool Project. With the success that Jonathan and Adriana achieved in homeschooling their teenage daughter now in college combined with what they helped and witnessed other homeschool families achieve, they developed the perfect plans that will allow many homeschool families achieve success stories of their own. The Homeschool Project will provide a myriad of programs that support the homeschool families with ambitious teenagers who have big dreams to those with struggling teenagers that will inspire them to dream again. As the name suggests, The Homeschool Project is a project in itself, always changing to meet the needs of homeschool families.
The startup of The Homeschool Project’s journey was made possible by the receipt of the very first donation from Mr. Walter W. Prescott, Jonathan’s father who tragically passed away in 2024. Despite this personal loss, Jonathan and Adriana felt called to use the inheritance to create The Homeschool Project in Jonathan’s father’s honor and name the first scholarship after him. Thanks to Mr. Walter W. Prescott, The Homeschool Project was able to get a jump start in 2026 with providing services to homeschool families in Eastern and Western Washington State.
Our Governance
The Homeschool Project is governed by a dedicated board of directors who bring diverse expertise and deep commitment to our mission.
MEET OUR FOUNDERS/BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Adriana Prescott
President and Chairman
Biography
Adriana Prescott is a retired engineer, homeschool expert, Montessori expert, baker, academic tutor, entrepreneur, and co-author of the internationally selling book Kids Don’t Need School. Adriana spent eleven years of her childhood overseas in South America attending private schools, where she gained extensive personal and social etiquette knowledge, training, and experience. She later immigrated to the United States with her family, attending high school and university in Houston, Texas. During her education, she became fluent in four languages, and is currently in the process of learning two more.
Adriana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology in Controls and Instrumentation Electronics Design. She worked for various engineering and construction companies in both the oil industry and the government sector, including the Hanford Site in Washington State
Adriana has also raised and homeschooled her daughter, Annabel, for more than sixteen years, and continues to support her daughter in her college endeavors. Adriana is the Chief Operations Officer of Extracts by Annabel, a business her daughter created as a passion project. In addition to being in charge of marketing strategies for the business’s products, Adriana has also been teaching her daughter how to run a successful business. Together, they have been selling their vanilla extract at the Prosser Farmer’s Market in Prosser, Washington for several years. Adriana continues to support her daughter’s passions and endeavors to this day, no matter how challenging or ambitious they seem.
In 2019, Adriana started Homeschool Life LLC with her husband, Jonathan, to help parents transition into homeschooling. She has coached many families, both worldwide and across the United States. Under her guidance they are thriving in homeschooling their children, regardless of their circumstances. This business also has led her to join various social media platforms as a content creator and podcast participant to promote homeschooling, eventually leading to her writing and publishing Kids Don’t Need School.
In 2024, Adriana entertained the idea of starting a nonprofit business in order to connect with more homeschool families and support them in their homeschool endeavors. Adriana believes that learning should be a process that brings joy to children, and aims to instill in them a love of learning. Her methods allow children the freedom to develop their agency, teach themselves, and feel empowered to pursue their success and happiness. This belief is what led Adriana to build The Homeschool Project in 2025.
Adriana has retired from more than twenty years of Engineering and Project Engineering in order to dedicate her time and efforts to The Homeschool Project. Her goal is to fully support the homeschool and business communities in Eastern Washington. With her professional etiquette gained from her business, professional experience, and her Etiquette Consultant Certification, Adriana plans to train preteens and teens in the arts of etiquette. Adriana is also currently pursuing a Master’s Degree and Doctorate in Business in order to complement her entrepreneurial endeavors. It is Adriana’s dream to make all her knowledge, skills, experiences, creativity, and wisdom accessible to all homeschoolers.
Jonathan Prescott
Vice-President and Treasurer
Biography
Jonathan Prescott is a retired engineer, BS in Psychology, entrepreneur, and co-author of the internationally selling book Kids Don’t Need School. Jonathan, being a son of an engineer, grew up in Houston, Texas and in Saudi Arabia.
He is an alumnus of Oral Roberts University (Theology), Colorado Tech (project management), and Excelsior University (Psychology). He spent his early career in the ministry as a missionary in the Philippines in 1988, a youth pastor, and an ordained minister in Houston, TX. Later, he was a college instructor at ITT Technical Institute teaching engineering design (1998-2000). During his 30 years as an electrical designer in engineering, he worked on some of the largest engineering projects in the world – from petrochemical, pipeline, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Energy, and power generation.
Jonathan has been an active homeschool dad for 16+ years. His mission, inspired by his love of lifelong learning, is dedicated to helping homeschooling families thrive, and revolutionize home-based education into a superpower for you and your children.
In 2019 Jonathan started Homeschool Life LLC with his wife Adriana, with the goal of helping parents begin homeschooling. They have coached many different families, who now can homeschool in a way that supports their children’s best interests. This business also led him to his current success in various social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter) to promote homeschooling. In 2023, he and his wife wrote the book Kids Don’t Need School, in order to guide parents both new to and familiar with homeschooling.
Since 2020, Jonathan has been a social media influencer on X, reaching millions of people and a follower count of over 23,000 under the account @homeschool_LLC. Homeschool Life LLC’s priority and mission is in promoting homeschooling and the improvement of the parent/child relationship, as well as to build close bonds through a peaceful environment that promotes trust, agency, and mentoring.
Being [in part] homeschooled himself, Jonathan has always seen the homeschooling movement as an important societal, cultural, and philosophical touchstone as it provides the Family as the best solution to promote freedom and education excellence in the best possible environment – a loving home.
Tragedy happened in 2024 when Jonathan lost both parents within a 6-month period. Jonathan’s father, Walter Prescott, being an electrical engineer himself, was a significant figure in Jonathan’s life and influenced him to pursue a career in engineering. Because of this, Jonathan made the decision to use his inheritance and savings to launch The Homeschool Project, offering scholarships in Engineering and STEM named after his father, Walter Prescott. As the scope of The Homeschool Project evolved with the input of his wife Adriana, the scholarships have remained a core element to honor his father’s legacy.
Joy Gjersvold
Secretary
Biography
Joy Gjersvold is a devoted mother, proud retired military spouse, former high school teacher, and homeschool mom whose lifelong mission is championing children, parents, and families. Her advocacy ignited at 18 through a nonprofit founded by her uncle, evolving into pivotal roles as a Navy Family Ombudsman, Ombudsman Trainer, and Group 9 Assembly Chair at Sub Base Bangor, WA.
In August 2023, Joy joined the Conservative Ladies of Washington as Lead for Parental Rights on the Legislative Action Team. In January 2024, she joined the executive team as Programs Director for both Conservative Ladies of Washington and Conservative Ladies of America.
In Kitsap County WA, Joy is a powerhouse homeschool advocate, empowering parents in any situation to prioritize their children’s education. She has personally guided dozens of families as they navigate the change from public education to home-based education and co-hosted numerous community workshops for families interested in homeschooling. Joy is an enthusiastic and constant champion for children and families working to support and advocate for homeschool freedom and success.
Joy is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies concentrating on Non-Profit Organization Management and U.S. Government, sharpening her expertise as a homeschool and family advocate to protect the rights of parents to educate their children and preserve their families.
Courtney Allison
Member at Large
Biography
Courtney Allison is a lifelong educator and wellness advocate, whose passion lies in helping others learn, grow, and thrive. Courtney holds a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction and spent over 25 years in education—first as a teacher with experience across grades PreK through 8, and later as an elementary and middle school administrator. Her career has been devoted to supporting children, families, and educators in creating nurturing and effective learning environments.
In 2022, Courtney stepped away from public education to focus on holistic health and wellness. She is a certified Health and Wellness Coach and Menopause Coach and earned a certification in Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan from Harvard Medical School’s Executive Education program. She also holds a 200-hour yoga certification with specialties in Yin Yoga, Yoga for Aging, Children’s and Teens Yoga, and Yoga for Menopause. In addition, she is a certified Senior Fitness Specialist, Children’s Fitness Specialist, and a Yang 24 Basic Tai Chi Instructor. Her training also includes certifications in breath work, meditation, and mindfulness.
Through her business, Bloom Health and Wellness, Courtney empowers women to embrace health and happiness at every stage of life. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education in Educational Administration and Leadership, with a focus on leadership, program development, and learning models that empower students to drive their own learning and take ownership of their educational paths.
Courtney has two grown children and loves spending time outdoors. Her heart belongs to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, where she finds peace, reflection, and inspiration.
STAFF & VOLUNTEERS
Yoko Moromizato
Exec. Assistant and Japanese Instructor
Biography
Yoko Moromizato is an experienced paraprofessional educator specializing in special needs education for elementary aged children. She has worked over ten years in elementary schools fostering a positive and meaningful learning environment for students with special needs who deserve a higher quality of educational experience. Yoko is currently working with special needs children in grades K-2. She continues to develop initiatives integrating hands-on learning experiences that enhance student engagement and achievement. By being passionate about creating inclusive classrooms, Yoko strives to cultivate a supportive classroom environment among both her students and their parents, colleagues, and administrators. She is known for her creative approach in teaching students, and for her ability to effectively work as a team with teachers and specialists when meeting students’ diverse learning needs.
Yoko grew up in Okinawa, Japan and holds an Associate’s degree in English from Okinawa Christian Junior College. As a Japanese person living in Eastern Washington State, Yoko received requests from residents wanting or needing to learn Japanese, and thus began offering private Japanese tutoring sessions. She has successfully taught beginner and intermediate levels of the Japanese language to both teenage and adult students. Yoko deeply admires and supports homeschooling, and plans to contribute to the homeschool community by sharing the language and culture of Japan. Yoko’s dream is to be able to travel to Japan with her students as both an educational and memorable experience.
Yoko has an energetic personality and is a big fan of sports, particularly baseball. She also enjoys playing pickleball and tennis. Yoko has experience in the restaurant business and hospitality industry, thus making her an expert in professional etiquette. As an executive assistant to The Homeschool Project, she ensures the organization is consistently offering enjoyable experiences to the preteens and teens attending the various programs, especially the Japanese group classes.
Annabel Prescott
Part-Time Staff and Art Instructor
Biography Coming Soon
IMPACTING PARTNERSHIP
Building Community Together
The Homeschool Project’s success depends on strong partnerships with local businesses, educational institutions, and community organizations who share our commitment to youth development.
Teach The Children
Teach The Children has partnered with The Homeschool Project to provide homeschooling families in Eastern Washington State with the best resources available to successfully homeschool their children.
Interested in partnering with us?
We’re actively seeking businesses and organizations to provide workshops, internships, apprenticeships, and mentorship opportunities.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Our Roadmap to Impact (2025-2030)
Short-Term Goals (1-2 Years)
Launch & Engagement
Launch 15+ facilitated programs (clubs, teams, workshops) across at least 5 regions, engaging 2,000 homeschool children and teens and achieving 80% participation in leadership or passion projects via post-event surveys and other metrics.
Mentorship Network
Develop a mentorship and apprenticeship network partnering with 10 local businesses, organizations, or educators, matching 20 participants annually and tracking 80% reported gains in self-confidence and skills.
Long-Term Goals (3-5 Years)
National Expansion
Expand nationally to serve 2,000 homeschoolers through virtual and in-person experiences (e.g., international field trips and cross-cultural teams), measuring success by 70% of participants reporting enhanced resilience and community impact.
Policy Advocacy
Advocate for homeschool-friendly policies, influencing 10 state-level reforms for high school including the Running Start program (WA) and funding, while building a self-sustaining alumni network of 2,000 advocates who mentor future leaders.
Impact Measurement
Conduct annual impact assessments showing 75% improvement in development metrics (e.g., emotional well-being, social skills, and purpose alignment) using participant stories and data to refine programs.
WASHINGTON STATE PARENT QUALIFYING COURSE (Coming Soon)
Supporting Homeschool Parents
In addition to serving students directly, The Homeschool Project offers the Washington State Parent Qualifying course—helping parents meet state requirements for homeschooling while gaining valuable skills and knowledge.
Course includes:
- Washington State homeschool law and regulations
- Curriculum planning and record-keeping
- Child development and learning styles
- Community resources and support
Recognition & Milestones
Our Journey
2025
- The Homeschool Project founded by Jonathan and Adriana Prescott
- Achieved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
2026
- Launching the first 6 classes and programs
- Participating in the 2026 Homeschool Convention in Tri-Cities, WA hosted by Teach The Children
- Launching the first Parent Qualifying Course
- Launching the Membership Site for members of The Homeschool Project
- Launching membership requirements to become a member of the Homeschool Honor Society
- Launching scholarship requirements for the first 2 scholarships to be awarded in 2026
Join Our Mission
Whether you are a homeschool family, potential partner, sponsor, volunteer, or supporter—there’s a place for you in The Homeschool Project community.