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About Us

About Our Store

Founded in 2000, the HEP Bookstore is a full service homeschool store located in SE Houston. The store sells traditional homeschool curriculum plus Driver Ed in a Box™, toys, games, Folkmanis™ and Gund™ puppets, t-shirts, Insect Lore™, many other fun and educational items. Owned and operated by Joanne Juren, the HEP Bookstore also offers consulting and transcripting services and custom designs high school diplomas. Standardized testing, including both the IOWA and Stanford Tests, is offered each spring (click the STANDARDIZED TESTING SERVICES button on the left side of this page). With the Home Education Partnership of Texas, Inc., group classes for homeschoolers and their parents are offered. For a complete listing of classes visit www.homeeducationpartnership.com. Because Joanne E. Juren, B.A., M.Ed., is the only homeschool store owner in the Houston area who has experience as both a teacher and as an administrator, the HEP Bookstore is able to offer services that other stores cannot. Mrs. Juren has also homeschooled her two sons and has been actively involved in homeschooling for 16 years.

These services include:

Special Education Consulting - As a former public school administrator, Mrs. Juren has ARD Committee and Special Education Administrative Experience. She has years of experience working with Test Results and I.E.P.'s. With this knowledge, she will gladly help the homeschool parent make curriculum choices and share ideas about how to present the materials within the homeschool environment.
Teaching Experience - With over 30 years of teaching experience, Mrs. Juren has knowledge about curriculum and how to tailor the materials to a special child's needs. Mrs. Juren has trained her staff to assist customers with this information. Mrs. Juren is usually available to help customers with special questions.
College Information - Mrs. Juren also has experience as a college administrator with San Jacinto College South. She is knowledgeable about dual credit/early admission programs as well as what colleges require from homeschooled students.
Consulting Services - Customers are welcome to schedule a private consultation with Mrs. Juren. The rate is $35 an hour. Four year plans, test scores, college planning, discipline issues, family matters, and curriculum questions are just a few of the topics that parents have brought to Mrs. Juren for consultation sessions.
Transcript Services - The HEP Bookstore sells a transcript kit ($19.99) what may be used to create a professional looking high school transcript. Mrs. Juren will develop a transcript for $35.
Diploma - The HEP Bookstore will custom make your student's high school diploma. Also available is a black or blue leather cover for the diploma. HEP of Texas, our group class provider, also provides a graduation ceremony in May exclusively for homeschooled students. Caps and gowns and other graduation supplies are available through HEP Bookstore.

About Our Staff

All of our bookstore employees have homeschooled their children or have been homeschooled students.

Store Manager: Sharon Powell

Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant: Desiree' Dillard

Clerks: Rebecca Sauer, Debbie Long, Linda Thorpe

Student Assistant: Kate McFall

About Joanne E. Juren - owner

Joanne Juren has over thirty years experience as an educator, with experience as both a teacher and administrator in public schools and college, and fourteen years as a home educator. Mrs. Juren has a B.A. in English/History Teacher Education, a M.Ed. in Educational Administration, and a Texas Professional Mid-Management Certificate. She is the founder and National Executive Director of Eta Sigma Alpha National Home School Honor Society, and owner of the HEP Bookstore and Home Education Partnership of Texas, Inc. She was the first winner of the "Home School Best Pioneer" Award by the Calvert School in 2002 and has been nominated many times as a member of "Who's Who of American High School Teachers." She is a popular speaker and has appeared on national television as an advocate of homeschooling. She has been an active member of Sagemont Church since 1975.

About our products - here is a quick overview of some of our product lines.

We sell Driver Ed in a Box

State Approved by the Texas Department of Public Safety as:
Parent Taught Driver Ed Course #103.

Driver Ed in a Box fulfills all of the licensing requirements in Texas, from obtaining a learner’s permit to the provisional license.

This DPS approved drivers education program can be completed on your schedule, saving you time and money. The easy-to-use instructions guide the parent and teen towards learning the essentials of safe driving.

We are the only homeschool store that sells Driver Ed in a Box!

Our Early Childhood Section

We carry many phonics programs including: EXPLODE THE CODE; SING, SPELL, READ AND WRITE; ALPHA PHONICS; PATHWAY READERS; SAXON PHONICS, HORIZONS PHONICS; EAGLES WINGS; USBORNE; CRITICAL THINKING ROCKET PHONICS, and many more! We also carry LEARNING RESOURCES PHONICS KITS, games, toys, and phonics phones.

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Our Science Area

Our Science area has a great assortment of Insect Lore products as well as many other fun activity oriented science projects. We also carry Apologia Science plus other great textbooks for science.

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Our Toy and Folkmanis Puppet Areas

We carry many fun and educational games and activity kits. These make great hands-on additions to the homeschool curriculum or great gifts for birthdays and holidays.

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Come see our complete line of Folkmanis Puppets!

They make great birthday gifts! We have animals, fairies, people puppets, and theme puppets such as the prince and princess as shown below.

Fairies Prince and Princess Eagle Golden Horse People

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HEP Bookstore is #1!

About Us

About Our Store