Authors
Our authors come from a variety of backgrounds, use just about every schooling style under the sun, and have come to home educating for a myriad of reasons. But, one thing that unites us is our passion for home educating and sharing that passion with our readers.
Take some time to read about our authors to get to know them each better. You just might find someone who you not only want to read more about here at The Homeschool Classroom, but also on their own personal blogs.
Our Talented Group of Writers:
Angie writes at her own blog, Many Little Blessings, about faith, family, and a variety of household management topics. She is also the founder of The Homeschool Classroom, Catholic Mothers Online, and Catholic Gadget. Angie holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in special education, though she likes to call the degrees “very expensive pieces of paper that are in a filing cabinet now.” She began homeschooling her three children (two with special needs) during the summer of 2008, after her two oldest children had spent a few years in the public school system. Angie is an eclectic homeschooler, trying to find her way to being more of a hands on homeschooler.
Kris is a Christian wife and mom who lives in the southern U.S. with her awesome husband, three beautiful children, and three dogs, two cats, two snakes and two toads at last count. She is the sweet-tea-loving, classically eclectic, slightly Charlotte Mason, mostly socialized homeschooling mom to her three Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Kris enjoys reading (mostly historical romance and the Twilight saga) and blogging and is currently obsessed with her weight-loss journey (which you can read about at Eclipsed), hoping to be down 95 pounds by the end of 2010.
Michelle is a Catholic homeschooling mom to 9 children. She is works to balance homeschooling with the demands of her husbands job, the illnesses she and her children face as well as with the roadblocks that life throws in front of her. She has been homeschooling for 12 years and has schooled her children from preschool to high school. In addition to writing at the Homeschool Classroom you can find her writing about her life at Pass The Flu Bug Please.
Angela can be found writing at her personal blog, Homegrown Mom, about being truly present to life and her family, as well as her love of Jesus. Angela joined the writing staff of the Homeschool Classroom shortly after Angie discovered her blog piece about Things NOT to Do Next Year and asked permission to reprint it. Angela can often be found writing on The Homeschool Classroom with encouraging posts that minister to the heart of the home educating Mom.
Melissa can be found writing on her blog HopeSprouts Homeschool about her homeschooling adventures, homemaking ideas, and her relationship with Christ Jesus. She began writing at The Homeschool Classroom after a very well received guest posting about keeping toddlers busy while homeschooling. Melissa can be found writing about a variety of topics on The Homeschool Classroom, including ways to help alleviate stress in the home (and school).
Tonya and her husband have homeschooled their three children ages 16, 14 and 13 for the past eleven years using every homeschool method ever invented before settling on what seems to resemble the Charlotte Mason philosophy with an unschooling flair. After traveling for the past four years with her husband’s job, they finally took a huge step of faith and became a Full-time-RV-Living-Roadschooling-Family. You can read about the day to day happenings of their journey at Live the Adventure.
Samantha writes at tobebusyathome. She and her husband have been married for 16 years and have three precious children. She has been homeschooling since her youngest child was in first grade. Currently, she has a 3rd grade son, 5th grade son, and a 7th grade daughter. Samantha is an eclectic homeschooler with an emphasis on unit studies, lapbooking, and hands-on-projects. All three of her children swim competitively on a USA swim team so she spends a lot of time at the pool! When Samantha is not at the pool or teaching her children, she enjoy reading, blogging, and scrapbooking.
Amy is the homeschooling mother of 6 children. She strives to offer a candid and honest look at homeschooling and daily life in a larger-than-average family. You can read more of her struggles and successes in bringing blunt-edged babes to finely sharpened arrows on her blog Raising Arrows.
Cara is the mom to a peanut allergic, smart, crazy 8 year old boy and an adorable, crazy 1 yr old girl. Cara and her family live in New Orleans. She started homeschooling her 8 year old when he was 4 after they had to relocate to Central Florida thanks to Hurricane Katrina. Cara’s approach is eclectic, relaxed, loosely classical and mostly secular. Cara also formed and created a local inclusive homeschool group after not being able to find one that fit their needs as homeschoolers. You can find Cara on her blog Peanuts are Evil.
Dana Dana’s homeschooling crew is down to two, since her oldest started college in 2010. She has an eclectic style of homeschooling – believing that the “best curriculum” will be unique to each family. Her special needs crew have thrived through homeschooing and she considers it the best therapy around. They enjoy lapbooking, notebooking and reading their way through History and any subject for that matter. Visit us at Noggins and Nonsense.
Cheryl is happily married to her high school sweetheart and the homeschooling mom of two boys. She uses Sonlight curriculum but enjoys implementing unschooling techniques. She loves to travel, read and write. Cheryl also attempts to go green, but doesn’t always succeed. This is why she refers to herself as crispy, not crunchy. You can learn more about Cheryl and her adventures in homeschooling, going green and becoming a better Christian on her blog Adventures of a Somewhat Crunchy Mama, or follow her in Twitter at @SomewhatCrunchy.
Holly is a mother to a pre-teen boy, a 10 year old girl who believes she is older than she is, and a feisty five year old! Her husband owns and operates a local residential real estate firm.They live in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and just made the leap into homeschooling in September 2009! Their children were adopted internationally in 2007 and they’ve have had a number of academic challenges due to delayed education in their birth country. The kids are also learning English as their second language. Holly is an avid writer and enjoys writing for several blogs. Holly’s homeschool blog is Dressel Academy.
Amida is the mom of three darn kids. She used to stress about state standards and test scores but has since come to her senses and enjoys blogging about their journey into unschooling.
Tanya is a happy homeschooling mother of a first grader, middle schooler, and high schooler. They have been homeschooling for over a decade, and try to do most things together. You can find Tanya writing about homeschool tips & ideas, easy snacks & lunches, and their own adventures in multi-level homeschooling at Homeschooling x3. Tanya is also the food writer at the Knoxville Examiner, where you can find delicious recipes, holiday ideas, and food news.
Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in school psychology which she puts to good use each and every day while educating her two boys at home, the irony of which is not lost on her. She and her husband have been heard to say with a grin that they are raising two little farm boys in a townhome in Northern Virginia, and that makes for quite an adventure. She blogs about living and learning with two active, inquisitive boys, a dog, three cats, fish, and the occasional caterpillar, insect, frog, or turtle at Adventures in McQuill-land.
Amanda is a homesteading wife and mother to three children ages 9, 11, and 14. She chose to embark on a powerful, enlightening and enriching experience to homeschool four years ago. Amanda can be found over at All American Family trying to live out her version of the American Dream alongside the rest of her family.
Roan is a Christian wife and mother to 5 precious blessings. She writes regularly at her personal blog, Joyful Always, about homeschooling, running, organizing, homemaking, and living life out in the country in Mississippi. Roan has been homeschooling for 9 years. She used unit studies for several years, and now uses Sonlight and other literature based curricula. Roan enjoys reading, running, scrapbooking, planning, and cooking.
Sarah is sending her first homeschooled graduate off to college but fortunately has many years left to teach her younger two children. She and her husband, a genetics and botany professor, and their children live near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where they enjoy hiking and camping as often as possible. She holds a master’s degree in English/creative writing and loves writing and teaching writing. She is on the leadership team of a large homeschooling support group and is co-coordinator of the first American Heritage Girls troop in Tennessee. She blogs about homeschooling, family, and random topics at SmallWorld and writes about her voracious reading life at SmallWorld Reads. Check out her ongoing free creative writing lessons at her WordSmithery.
Lisa Stauber is a mother of eight teaching kindergarten through 5th grade in Houston, TX. Her eclectic approach compliments and exacerbates her disorganized life. When she’s not trying to dig pencil sharpeners out of the toy box and rescuing Cuisenaire rods from the baby’s nose, she’s addicted to the internet. You can find her on her blog Mama Says or drop her a line at mommyjo2@yahoo.com
Honey is a homeschooling mom of five. She is married to an amazing techie husband who keeps her blog Sunflower Schoolhouse afloat. Her children have varying degrees of special needs ranging from autism and ADHD to allergies and severe eczema. She enjoys educating at home and learning new ways to creatively deal with her sensory sensitive kids and their issues. She also enjoys designing her own homeschool materials to meet the needs of her children and she often shares these on her blog.
Michele is the enthusiastic and exhausted homeschooling mother to a tiara wearing 7 year old girl and a Mohawk sporting 5 year old boy. She has concluded that while her background in education is definitely an asset, it didn’t prepare her for the wealth of challenges that teaching in your dining room demands. Over the course of the last year she has found that her approach to homeschooling is like a good pot of soup – a little bit of everything included! She chronicles her journey into preparing her children for the real world just in case they don’t become famous rock stars at http://rockstarthing.blogspot.com.
Sheri has a variety of life and work experience mostly related to the educational field but is currently helping at her family’s roadside “Ma-Pa” fruit and vegetable stand. Normally she resides in east TN with her husband, daughter, granddaughter and 3 dogs. Spending time in nature, making crafts, and playing with the grand baby are just some of the activities she enjoys. You may find her at Learning Pavilion http://learningpavilion.blogspot.com where she recently began blogging or at her Workbox Littles Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workboxlittles/ where she has some of her favorite early childhood links and activities.
Michelle is a freelance and fiction writer, a former English and music teacher and a self-proclaimed “bag lady” (Jazzy Mama Designs). She and her family recently began their homeschooling journey when they decided not to re-enroll their second grader in public school for a variety of reasons. Michelle tackles homeschooling, toddler taming and a gluten-free, casein-free life at her newest blog, Lagniappe Academy.
Nicole is a wife of 11 years to her wonderful husband Dan. After 6 years of fertility problems and several miscarriages, they were blessed with their own little miracle, Matthew, who is now 3 years old. While life is not looking the way she had planned, she is finding that there is more than enough to keep her busy with what God has given her. Join her at her blog, Tired, Need Sleep, where she is enjoying motherhood and striving for a peace-filled life.
The Homeschool Classroom staff is currently full (although we might be able to make room for just a couple more writers!). However, if you feel that you are being called to write for the Homeschool Classroom, especially if you feel that you have a unique situation that is not currently being covered, please don’t hesitate to contact Angie with how you think you can fit into our unique team of writers!
