We are thrilled to introduce you to an extraordinary lineup of speakers who are passionate about education, innovation, and the future of homeschooling. Each of our esteemed speakers brings a unique perspective, expertise, and experience to the table, offering invaluable insights and practical strategies to support homeschooling families on their journey.

From seasoned educators to homeschooling pioneers, our speakers embody a commitment to excellence in education and a dedication to empowering families to thrive in their homeschooling endeavors. Whether you're seeking inspiration, guidance, or practical tips, our diverse group of speakers has something transformative to offer.

Get ready to be inspired, informed, and empowered to create a homeschooling experience that truly enriches the lives of your children.

We invite you to dive into the wealth of knowledge and expertise our speakers have to offer, and we can't wait to embark on this enlightening journey with you.

Welcome to the Homeschool Summit!

Meet Your Expert Speakers!

Michelle Osborn- Yellow House Book Rental & Homeschooling Teens Successfully

Michelle Osborn is the owner and founder of Homeschooling Teens Successfully and Yellow House Book Rental, specializing in providing homeschool curriculum for rent or purchase, as well as coaching and guidance for homeschool families. She is a wife and a 22-year homeschool veteran. Her four children have graduated from homeschool high school and have successful careers. Michelle’s passions include serving by leading worship at her church and encouraging homeschool moms through one-on-one coaching, creating courses and resources, social media and speaking engagements.

Session Title: Essentials to Starting Out Right & Checking off All the Boxes

Abby Banks, Homeschool with Moxie

Abby Banks is a former classroom teacher turned homeschooling mom of five (3 graduates!). She in a homeschool evaluator and consultant for Pennsylvania homeschoolers. On her blog at 4onemore.com and the Homeschool with Moxie Podcast you will find actionable strategies that take you from overwhelmed to confident in your homeschool adventure.

Session Title: Can I Really Homeschool High School?

Britton LaTulippe, Blue Manor Academy

No one understands education like Britton LaTulippe. This homeschooling father of ten is the author of more than 70 children’s books and The Art of Raising Children for Greatness series, creator of several early-learning curriculum sets, and the founder and president of Blue Manor’s Online Academy. After attending an elite prep school in Virginia, he realized that the greatest disparity between the rich and poor was not their wealth, but their quality of education. Now, it is LaTulippe’s mission to bring elite education into the world of homeschooling.

Session Title: A Path to Wealth for Teens

Dachelle McVey, Literary Adventures for Kids

As an experienced educator and homeschool mom, Dachelle understands the challenges parents face when guiding their children through the complex world of classic literature. Her solution is Literary Adventures for Kids, a comprehensive language arts curriculum that spans from preschool to high school and involves incorporating "rabbit trails" and a touch of magic dust to inspire students to read and engage with the material. With over 20 years of experience as an educator in the traditional system, Dachelle creates courses that encourage critical thinking and meaningful conversations. Join us at the conference to learn from Dachelle's knowledge and experience and discover new ways to make the homeschooling journey during the high school years an enriching and fulfilling experience for both you and your children.

Session Title: Choosing and Tailoring the Right High School Language Arts Curriculum for Your Teen

Gena Mayo, Music In Our Homeschool

Gena Mayo, homeschooling mom of 8, has a Bachelor's degree in Music Education and a Master's degree in Vocal Pedagogy. She has been teaching music for over 30 years and has taught in various settings, including public schools, private schools, and homeschool co-ops. She is the founder of Music in Our Homeschool, a website dedicated to providing tips and resources for homeschooling families who want to easily incorporate music into their curriculum. Gena offers online courses, free resources, a fine arts membership, and more.

Session Title: How to Use Music Lessons to Grow in Poise and Other Skills for Public Speaking

Jean Burk, College Prep Genius

Jean Burk is the author of the award-winning College Prep Genius program and has written numerous articles about the SAT and PSAT tests, high school prep, college prep, and how to get free college. She currently travels and speaks about the importance of college preparation at conventions, book fairs, schools, libraries, etc. She has taught her revolutionary, award-winning “Master the SAT” Prep Class all over the

Session Titles: Free College at Your Finger Tips and How to Ace the ACT

Kerry Beck, How to Homeschool My Child

Kerry Beck helps you get past the perfect Instagram image & move on to real life ways to homeschool and encourage your kids to love learning, think critically & Biblically, as well as influence those around them as adults. Kerry wants to help homeschoolers raise their children to lead for Jesus, instead of follow the crowd. She also inspires moms with her personal & spiritual stories of moving from overwhelmed to peace & resting in God. Kerry has a free homeschooling ebook for you here: https://HowToHomeschoolMyChild.com

Session Title: 3 Steps to Raising Teens who Think for Themselves & Lead in Their Own Education

Lisa Garrison, Vibrant Home Life

Lisa is mom of 4 boys and married to her childhood sweetheart. Together her, her husband and their brother in Christ Christian found it in their hearts to help Christian families with growing in their faith. Hence, Vibrant Home Life was created. Providing testimony, advice, and resources they work to help Christian families grow in their relationship with God.

Session Title: Preparing for Life After Homeschooling: Transition Planning for Teens and Their Families

Melanie Wilson, Fun to Learn Books

Dr. Melanie Wilson is a Christian psychologist turned homeschooling mother of six graduates. She hosts The Homeschool Sanity Show podcast and is the author of The Organized Homeschool Life and Training Aliens social and emotional skills curriculum.

Session Title: How to Help Your Teen Make & Keep Friends

Melissa Brander, Pocket Homeschool

Melissa Brander is the founder of Pocket Homeschool and the SMART Homeschool Society. She focuses on supporting and encouraging homeschool parents by providing SMART resources that are simple to implement, meaningful family experiences, academically oriented, reasonably priced, tools for explorative learning. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and their two boys who have been homeschooled their entire lives.

Session Title: Unlocking Potential: The Benefits of Volunteering for Homeschooled Teens

Meredith Curtis, Powerline Productions

Meredith Curtis, homeschooling mom of five amazing children and Grand-Merey to five angels, leads worship, writes, speaks, and loves to encourage families in their homeschooling adventure. With gratefulness to the Lord, she is a curriculum creator and loves teaching high school online at True North Homeschool Academy. She believes that homeschooling is an adventure made even better with living books and hands-on learning from a Christian worldview.

Session Title: Wacky Wild Wonderful Teens, Teens Can Write a Cozy Mystery for High School English

Michelle Brownell, Homeschool Essentials

Michelle Brownell is a home educator, parent coach, consultant, and speaker - supporting parents for more than 15 years in the learning, social, and emotional areas of development. She is the founder of Homeschool Essentials, an online support community for parents home educating their children - bringing in the latest info on parenting, education, and mental health. She is also the homeschool specialist for Bright & Quirky, an international online community for parents with kids who are twice-exceptional (2e) and the community coordinator for Big Life Journal. Michelle is passionate about helping homeschool parents build emotionally healthy connections with their kids while taking care of their own mental health journey as they learn, grow and thrive together!

Session Title: Light Them Up! Reaching Your Resistant Learner

Michelle Huddleston, With the Huddlestons

Michelle Huddleston is a veteran homeschooling mama. She and her husband Bryan homeschool 6 children ranging from 1.5 to 16 years old. They are avid believers in lifeschooling and allowing children to blossom in their own time. When Michelle isn't mommying, she can be found commentating news on Instagram, blogging, and helping lead one of the largest conservative moms teams in the network marketing industry.

Session Title: Homeschooling a Teen AND Littles: How the Huddlestons Do It with 6!, Homeschooling Teens Myth Busters

Michelle Koles, Ignite for Impact

I founded Ignite4impact during COVID while my teenager and I created and ran projects to help our community. As a long time teacher, with a masters in leadership in teaching, I realized the need to teach young people soft skills, team building and leadership paired with serve to create and run projects that make an impact for themselves and their community. Ignite4impact is based on the biblical principle of being a light on a hill - to teach people to IGNITE their skills 4 and IMPACT on the world!

Session Title: Soft Skills - The Keys to Success, Discovering Your Hidden Skills Workshop

Molly Christensen, Building Heroes at Home

Molly Christensen is a joyful mother of 7 amazing children, ages 13+ (5 graduated!) She earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering and then engineered her homeschool for the past 24 years. She is the owner of Building Heroes at Home, which helps support you in creating the homeschool you love while raising amazing kids. She is the author of “How to Get Everything (Important) Done” and podcasts at The Building Heroes Podcast. She is passionate about sharing her love of learning and encouraging others on their journeys to greatness!

Session Title: Motivating Your Teen: Insights for Homeschool Moms, How to Create a Customized Homeschool High School Plan

Sarah Collins, HomeschoolOT

Sarah Collins, MSOT, OTR/L is an occupational therapist with a background in both pediatrics and home health, and a homeschooling parent. She currently serves families as an occupational therapist through HomeschoolOT. She focuses on helping parents make the match between the homeschool and their children’s current skill set all while working towards what their children specifically need and want to do to occupy their time (hello occupation!). She does this by consulting with parents around the world, teaching month long classes on specific topics, building community in an online membership, and communicating nationally at conferences.

Session Title: What should we expect with executive functioning and teenagers?, The Sensory Balanced Teen

Sarah McCubbin, Ten Minute Momentum

At Ten Minute Momentum, Sarah McCubbin helps parents teach their kids valuable life skills, social skills and leadership skills to prepare them to step confidently into adulthood. She and her husband have 9 kids ages 5 to 20 in live in Northeast Ohio.

Session Title: Strategies for Success When High School Isn't Going Well, How to write a transcript for non traditional learning

Shanda Smith, Your Travel Secret & Your Travel Secret

Shanda is passionate about helping your family take the Epic Vacations you crave and plan drool worthy field trips for your family. Travel provides so many amazing opportunities, let her show you how to make travel planning stress free and fun for the whole family.

Session Title: Impactful Travel for Your Teen

Suzanne Gose, Flip Flop Spanish & Spanish Geniuses

Suzanne Gose is a certified Texas Public School Teacher turned homeschooler. For more than 20 years, Señora Gose has been teaching Spanish and public speaking to homeschool students weekly in a classroom setting, most recently at the Community Homeschool Center in Bryan, Texas she founded in 2009. A happily married mother of five children, creator of Flip Flop Spanish and Spanish Geniuses, they have just two teens left to graduate!

Session Title: Learning a Foreign Language - So much more than "just Spanish."

Theresa Peters, Discern to Learn

Theresa is a language arts mentor with a passion to change the world through your students. She offers training in executive functioning skills taught through the writing process so that your student can gain self-motivation, self-discipline and self-confidence to succeed not just in academics but in life... all while you take a break from LA!

Session Title: Fail Forward: Empower Teens to Learn from Failure and Unlock Potential Through Teen Self-Motivation

Denise Thomas- Get Ahead of the Class

TEDx speaker, international best-selling author, and Creator of Cracking the Code to College, From bankruptcy to finding a way for her 2 homeschooled children to attend college on 17 scholarships totaling more than $199,000, she’s on a mission to change lives and leave legacies, and ‘flip’ the student debt statistic in the U.S.

Session Title: Middle School is the Key to College Acceptance and Scholarships &
Myths That Keep Your Kids in College Debt & Raid Your Retirement

Vicki Tillman- 7 Sisters Homeschool

Vicki Tillman is part of 7SistersHomeschool.com. As a speaker, podcaster, blogger, curriculum developer, counselor and life/career coach, Vicki shares her expertise in homeschooling, prayer, healthy life and career topics, and mental health topics through her coaching at Vicki Tillman Coaching. podcasts at Homeschool Highschool Podcast, posts at 7 Sisters, and Pike Creek Psychological Center. Vicki served as advisor to her local homeschool community and her own kids for 20-plus years. Now all five of her children graduated from homeschool high school and have completed various degrees at college and graduate levels. Hundreds of her local homeschool high school advisees have gone on to fruitful adulthoods with career, college, military or ministry positions.

Session Title: How do I Help my Teen Choose the Right College? &
Finding and Choosing Curriculum for Homeschool High School

Kimberly Bennett- It's Only Homeschooling

Kimberly Bennett is a homeschooling mom and Licensed Professional Counselor with over twenty years experience in a variety of settings including juvenile justice, psychiatric hospitals, public education, and private practice. She is a blogger, podcaster, digital content creator, YouTuber, and founder of two free advocacy and resource websites supporting homeschooling families, It's Only Homeschooling and The Homeschool Counseling Network.

Session Title: Movement Matters: How Movement Can Help Your Teen Regulate Emotions

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