✨20+ years teaching ✨1,000s of students
✨Neuroscientist, Engineer, Tenured Professor, Homeschool Mom
✨Reclaim your child’s education with 1,000s of like-minded parents
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. ~Dr. John Trainer
✨Welcome to ClarifiEd
I'm Dr. Claire Honeycutt—a neuroscientist, former tenured professor, and now full-time homeschool mom. I left academia not because I stopped loving education, but because I wanted to reclaim it—for my own children and for families like yours.
At ClarifiEd, I write for parents who believe education should be more than worksheets, standardized tests, and surface-level facts. You want to raise thinkers. Leaders. Humans who understand the world deeply and have the courage to shape it.
What You'll Find Here👇
Mindset Shifts & Unconventional Wisdom that will change the way you teach forever
Practical Strategies that improve writing, critical thinking, and so much more
Resources I Actually Use with my own children (and how we adapt them)
Multidisciplinary Lesson Plans that connect history, science, literature, and art
A full Course on How to Homeschool with clarity, confidence, and purpose
The Tried & True Homeschooling Podcast, where I interview real parents—not influencers—who have walked the road, graduated their kids, and have hard-won wisdom to share
Whether I’m walking you through how to teach your 8 year Shakespeare or how to learn history without memorizing a single date, my goal is the same:
To equip you with the tools, insights, and confidence to become the kind of educator you dream of becoming.
Why Paid Membership?
ClarifiEd is 100% reader-supported—no ads, no sponsors, just a community of parents committed to something better. Paid members get access to my most detailed and actionable content, including:
You Can Homeschool Course: Quick, focused videos paired with expert-level articles to build confidence for new and seasoned homeschoolers.
Advanced Teaching Strategies: Science-backed tips to enhance writing, critical thinking, memory, and more, delivered monthly.
Masterpiece Lesson Plans: Exclusive, multidisciplinary studies with Socratic discussions spanning science, history, art, architecture, and more to forge formidable thinkers.
Resources from My Family’s Journey: Hand-picked tools, adaptations, and personal stories from our homeschooling experience, sharing the ups and downs of loving our kids in this crazy world.
If you’re ready to step beyond the surface of education—to nurture thinkers who question, creators who innovate, and humans who engage deeply with the world—ClarifiEd is here for you.
Join a community of parents who refuse to settle for easy answers and quick fixes. Together, we’ll reclaim education and empower the next generation to write their own stories with clarity, courage, and purpose.
Welcome to the journey. Let’s make it unforgettable.
Clarified is 100% supported by you - not ads, not grants - just you. By supporting me, you are also supporting 1,000s of other parents who receive this newsletter.
My Story - From Teaching 1,000s to Homeschooling Two
Before I discovered my calling in education, I began my studies with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory School of Medicine.
Yes, I have a PhD from two Universities.
I specialized in neuroscience, so I followed up my degree by working at the #1 Rehabilitation Hospital in the United States, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. There, I dedicated myself to understanding learning so I could develop therapies to assist individuals with stroke regain their lives.
During my time in Chicago, I was awarded a NIH grant that allowed me to devote my time to learning the best science-backed teaching techniques. Teaching at two unique universities (Northwestern University and Northeastern Illinois University) with vastly different student populations allowed me to learn how to adapt my teaching to meet the unique needs of students.
After the birth of my first child and growing weary of the Chicago winters, I moved across the country to begin an Assistant Professor job at Arizona State University in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.
At ASU, I taught 1,000s of students, perfected my skills in engagement, and developed brand-new psychology-driven education techniques to create learning environments adapted for students who have mental health challenges (clinical anxiety, depression, PTSD).
I was honored to receive multiple teaching awards including winning the school-wide Top 5% Faculty award twice (2021, 2023) as well as the Eric Guibeau Outstanding Teaching Award (2023).
On the outside, my life looked perfect. But at home, my kids were struggling in daycare, I was struggling without them, and none of us were thriving. When the world stopped in 2020 and my kids came home, I was healed by the presence of my children, and I know they were healed by being home. They were peaceful, happy, content. Words I would never use to describe them in the before times.
In the end, I didn’t find my calling, it found me.
I officially started homeschooling in 2021. It would take me another 3 years for our family to shift our lives around enough for me to quit my tenured job to full-time homeschool my children.
I resigned in May of 2024. Since then, I've started a science & history club for Elementary kids in my home and started ClarifiEd to help parents, like you, to become their children’s best teachers.
One of the most scary decisions I’ve ever made was leaving the job that I'd dedicated 20 years of my life to, but in the end there is nothing more important than educating our world’s future leaders.
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” ~Unknown
Together, let’s make a brighter future for your children👇
