Before you embark on this journey please contact your NCS Constitution Coach for an appointment.

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The Constitution writing process requires the following:

  • A Leadership Team of Three (that includes the Torchbearer or Chairman and two others).
  • A consistent workshop time that is the same day and time each week.  Minimum of two hours long.
  • 14-16 weeks of work if you are writing from scratch.  Longer if you are rewriting a document that was written previously by someone else.


Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Introduction to the Constitution Writing Process

    • Introduction to the Constitution Writing Process -audio

    • Making the Document Yours

    • Making the Document Yours - Audio

    • "How To" for the Details of Your Document

    • Constitution Writing Assignements
  • 2

    Week 1

    • A 1-5

    • A 1-5
  • 3

    Week 2

    • A6 Membership: S 1-4

    • A 6 Memberships: S 1-4
  • 4

    Week 3

    • A 6 Membership: S 5-7

    • A 6 Membership S 5-7
  • 5

    Week 4

    • A 8 video

    • A 8 Audio
  • 6

    Week 5

    • A7 Officers S:1-6, 14,15

    • A7 Officers: S 1-6, 14,15
  • 7

    Week 6

    • A7 Officers: Sections 7-9
  • 8

    Week 7

    • Secretary. Treasurer, and Junior Director links

    • Principal Mentor
  • 9

    Week 8

    • A-9 Board of Administration
  • 10

    Week 9

    • A 10 Committees Intro

    • Committee Procedure (not for Constitution, for your information and possibly for PP)

    • Section 1 Judicial Review Committee

    • Section 2 Executive Committee
  • 11

    Week 10

    • Section 3 Scholar Program Committee

    • Section 4 Nominations and Elections Committee

    • Auditor (I recommend that you put this information in your Policies and Procedures doc.)

    • Section 5 Permission to add
  • 12

    Week 11

    • A 11 Mentors/Teachers
  • 13

    Week 12

    • A12 Educational Outline, Class Approval

    • A13 Parliamentary Authority
  • 14

    Week 13

    • A14 Amendments

    • A15 Grandfather and Adoption

    • A16 Family Capacity

    • A16 Student Capacity

    • A17 Misc
  • 15

    Week 14

    • Editing

    • Ratification Schedule

About the instructor

Brenda Haws

Brenda Haws is a Homeschool Group Guru! I bet you didn’t even know that was a thing! Well, it is and she is it! She and a friend started her first tiny little homeschool group of 4 families in 1999 and then their first large group in 2000. As the owner and president of New Commonwealth Schools (NewCommonwealthSchools.com) Brenda works to create, develop and strengthen the growing number of Commonwealth Schools across the country. She has taught, trained, and mentored in the home-school arena for over 20 years and has formally coached homeschool groups since 2008. Her wisdom and insight into family and community education is sought repeatedly by others and she regularly presents to groups large and small about her vision and passion for enduring educational ideals and principles. Brenda uses her coaching to empower parents as they teach and lead. She loves witnessing the changes that happen, not just in the students, but in the parents as they learn and grow through this homeschooling journey. Married to Travis Haws for 34 years, she is the mother of 6 children, grandmother to five, and currently resides in St. George, Utah.

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