and resources related to living simply, gardening, nomadic furniture building, whole foods cookbooks, unschooling, “small is beautiful” economic theory, environmental issues, and special documents written by John Holt, including a “Constitutional Basis of Home Schooling,” which contained legal arguments, sample model proposals for parents to use with school districts, court decisions in homeschooling cases and transcripts of John Holt’s testimony before state legislative bodies considering changing homeschooling laws. The following year, in 1978, the Home Based Education Program (Clonlara School) in Michigan started with three students under the direction of Dr. Pat Montgomery. This early umbrella school was unique in that it provided services, materials, practical help and counsel to those known as “unschoolers,” a term coined by John Holt and meaning families who do not practice a rigid school-at-home approach with traditional classroom hours and curriculum, but in which children are helped by their parents to explore their worlds when and as they are ready, without pressure or coercion.