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. She is also an artist and a web designer. 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. (Angie’s Posts on HSC)

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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. (Kris’ Posts on HSC)

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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. (Tonya’s Posts on HSC)

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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. (Cheryl’s Posts on HSC)

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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. (Roan’s Posts on HSC)

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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. (Sarah’s Posts on HSC)

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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. (Honey’s Posts on HSC)

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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 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. (Sheri’s Posts on HSC)

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Michelle is a wife, mother of two, writer, and Cajun who prefers everything (including homeschooling) extra spicy. After a wild ride of a first year homeschooling her second grader, Michelle is finding their rhythm and sprinkling some Waldorf, Charlotte Mason, Montessori, and unschooling into their learning. She writes about her journey to add a little lagniappe (a little something extra) to their days at Lagniappe Academy. (Michelle’s Posts on HSC)

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Dianna is the 2010 Catholic version of the Well-Brought-Up Southern Girl. She is the mother of four, including a teenager, a preschooler, and identical twin toddler tornadoes. When she’s not performing corporal works of mercy as an Emergency Room nurse, she loves researching ways to teach her Kennedy Kaboodle at home, trying to instill her intense love for reading into her favorite students. (Dianna’s Posts on HSC)

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Amanda is a former church communications director turned homeschooling mom. She’s now using her BA in Bible and MA in Old Testament Studies to nurture and disciple her two boys with the help and support of her high school sweetheart and husband, Josh. She’s venturing into the world of Kindergarten with her oldest son this year using Sonlight as her base curriculum. She blogs about life, motherhood, homeschooling, technology, faith, books, and more at ThePelsers.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @apelser. (Amanda’s Posts on HSC)

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When not circled ‘round the little brown table with her four children, willing them to learn their fractions and diagram their sentences, Julianna Lawson is most often seen zipping by in a black mini-van, carting kids from one lesson to the next (and hitting every garage sale on the way). In the rare quiet moments that sneak into her life, she is eager to grab a cup of cream-laced tea and curl up with a book or enjoy a charming British drama with her very obliging husband. Julianna writes about family, faith and the fullness of joy over at Petunia June. (Julianna’s Posts on HSC)

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Devon is a Catholic wife and mother living in the Bible-Belt of Alabama. She is married to the man of her dreams, Gregg, and they have three beautiful children. Devon has jumped onto the homeschooling train this year with three of her closest friends. She describes herself as being an all or nothing kind of gal, which is why her homeschooling classroom is more organized than any other room in the house! You can find her blogging regularly at Heart of the Home. (Devon’s Posts on HSC)

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Jen is a wife to one amazing husband and mom to six energetic kids. Visit Forever, For Always, No Matter What where she blogs about their Catholic faith, homeschooling and adoption.  (Jen’s Posts on HSC)

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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!