Copyright Policy

Our Duplicating/Copying Policy

Home use: You may freely copy our materials for use by multiple children within your immediate family, or purchase additional Student Books so all children have one of their own.

Small group or co-op classes: Each participating student or family is required to purchase his or her personal set of student materials.

Classroom teachers: Each teacher is required to have his or her own Teacher's Manual when applicable. You may copy student-related materials from the Teacher’s Manual for use in your class. Each participating student is required to have his or her own book or personal set of student materials.

Library use: Printed materials may be checked out of a lending library provided patrons agree not to make copies of student materials. DVDs may not be copied, but may be checked out as long as patrons are encouraged to purchase their own copies of corresponding teacher seminar workbooks and student materials/notebooks.

Specific details may vary: please see the copyright information for each product, viewable online at the bottom of each product page. Please note that some of our products integrate the Teacher’s Manual or instruction set within the Student Book.


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Clarifying Our Copyright Policy

Family is important! Without families like yours, home education would not exist, and neither could we. We at the Institute for Excellence in Writing exist to serve families. We do not offer curricula; rather, we offer a tested and proven methodology for teaching moms, dads, and other senior family members to teach writing and communication skills. We teach the teacher to teach!

The uniqueness of our approach dictates that the materials we publish be freely copied for use within the family unit. In fact, it has been and remains our formal policy that multiple children within a given family may receive copied notebook materials, handouts, source stories, theme-based lessons, e-book print outs, zoo cards, poems, and whatever else we offer. We understand that families may not be able to afford the purchase of complete and separate sets for each individual family member.

Recently, we have noticed more and more families participating in cooperative educational settings together with other families, or within specialized classroom environments where multiple families gather under the guidance and direction of one teacher or, perhaps, a small group of teachers/ facilitators. Given this trend, it is important that we further clarify our copyright policy:

Families may freely duplicate our materials for use within their own immediate family. However, this does not include DVDs or CDs. If DVDs or CDs become damaged or lost, we happily provide replacement discs to any owner of a given set at $5 per disc.

A co-op teacher or schoolteacher may NOT
make copies of any materials with the following exceptions:

1. Fix-it! e-book may be freely duplicated for students by anyone who has purchased the Fix-it! book.
2. Those parts of the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar workbook which are clearly for the student may be duplicated and given freely to students. (This includes the elephant mini-book, which is a part of the seminar workbook.)

The Institute for Excellence in Writing does not recommend any teachers who have not themselves been trained via the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar either live or by viewing the seminar DVDs and completing all corresponding exercises. You might want to ask your cooperative or classroom teachers if the Institute has accredited them for Excellence in Writing.

When a Student Writing Intensive is viewed in a co-op or classroom setting, each participating family should have purchased at least one master set of student materials. Ideally, each family should own the entire presentation for corresponding home use. Any co-op or school wishing to charge a fee for the collective viewing (by multiple families) of a product having no corresponding student texts, such as our Student Intensive Continuation Course, High School Essay Intensive, or Speech Boot Camp, should contact IEW for details on our terms and conditions for a licensing agreement.