Ryan is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and a homeschool dad. He has been working for over 11 years with children of all ages and their families in a variety of settings including home, clinic and school. He works with children with developmental delays and disabilities including autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. He specializes in the treatment of sensory processing difficulties and is also trained in techniques to help with motor coordination, feeding and oral-motor, focus and attention, handwriting, and social/relationship based issues. Ryan currently works for Utah State University at the Center for Persons With Disabilities. He contributes to several multidisciplinary teams including the Up-to-Three Early Intervention Program, Clinical Services, and the Autism Diagnostic Clinic.

Ryan loves learning and playing with his wife and 5 children. He enjoys hiking, snowboarding, playing guitar, ballroom dancing, and spontaneous sword fights with his kids. He has also been known to double as a mad science professor at the local Winn Academy.
 

When asked by a business coach what she does, Angela Baker responded, “I do people.” Her passion is human genius and creating an environment where the genius of her children and those she mentors is discovered and developed. This life-long passion led her to seek alternative education for her children and leadership education for herself. She is an authentic, down-to-earth homeschool mom with 16 years of experience who knows the ups and downs of her “business.” As a speaker, Angela is known for her use of story to instruct, inspire, and create a memorable and applicable experience for audiences across the country. Through her teaching, people see new ways of connecting with their children and discover principles of education that really work in the context of family and a parent/child relationship.

Angela is a leadership mentor and the “parent coach” at Williamsburg Academy, an online high school that emphasizes classical works, mentors and leadership. As parent coach, Angela is highly praised for her insightful and practical trainings that help hundreds of parents inspire and motivate their high school students.

Angela and her husband Roger live on a 1 acre farm in rural Erda, Utah where their main crop is children—seven to be exact. Her formal education includes a Bachelors in Family Science from Brigham Young University and a Masters in Education from George Wythe University. She speaks regularly to adults and youth and has been mentoring individual parents and youth for seven years. In order to create an inspiring scholar environment for her own children, she founded Erda Leadership Academy. Now in its third year, this academy prepares younger scholars ages 11-16 for the rigors of a full scholar phase.

For Angela, a favorite part of each day is reading to her children. She delights in clean bathrooms she didn’t clean; delicious food she didn’t cook; hearing the words “Can I help?” and spontaneous fun and laughter. She enjoys quiet study, fiery sunsets, climbing mountains, running, practicing the art of Taekwondo with her children, and refreshing moments of just sitting. Essentially, she is a human being who embraces the fullness of life and strives to respond in kindness to the people around her.

Cyndi enjoys spending lots and lots of time with her family, reading books aloud, constantly making connections between seemingly unrelated topics and learning how her new phone works from her techno savvy 10 year old.

Three of her seven children have launched off to college while she continues to educate and inspire the rest. They have made great use of the early college program at Weber State University in preparation for transferring away from home.

Nine years ago, she founded a commonwealth school, Polar Star in North Ogden and she continues to teach the Shakespeare classes and direct the plays.

The past couple of years she has been very involved in helping Harmony Educational Solutions develop a distance program for charter schools that is designed to fit the needs of homeschoolers.

In her previous life, she went to college herself, earning a degree in Mathematics and English Literature at the University of Utah in 1988.

Scott Bradley holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Westminster College and a Masters in Public Administration from Brigham Young University.

He has worked tirelessly to serve his state, his community, and his country. From earliest years he possessed an abiding love of America and her Constitution, which has led him to a close study of that document and the writings of the Founding Fathers.

Scott is Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation, a non-profit educational organization which seeks to foster increased understanding of the U. S. Constitution and encourages a return to proper government as understood and practiced at the time of America’s Founding. He is also the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series “To Preserve the Nation.” In addition, Scott hosts a weekly talk radio show devoted to constitutional principles and their application to current political issues.

Scott has been active in Utah politics for over 40 years, formerly serving as a County Central Committee member, a Precinct Chairman, County Delegate, State Delegate, and State Central Committee member of the Republican Party of Utah.

Kami Huntzinger has 4 children and has been homeschooling for over 13 years.

She has a degree in Biology and Chemistry. She worked in a bacterial genetics lab at the University of Utah, and at an Economics and Education research center at California State University, Hayward.

She is the owner of Bees Brothers, a small business that she runs with her family.

Tamsyn Spackman is a musician by training. She graduated from Utah State University in Vocal Performance in 2007 and loves singing, playing the piano, and teaching.

She is a pre-affidavit second generation homeschool mom, with 3 children that rock her world and a tall and handsome prince who supports her.

Tamsyn has created several musical educational products for teaching children and writes the blog Teaching Children Music. http://www.teaching-children-music.com.

Dan Hunter and his wife Janice have been married for thirty-two years, have 5 children and 7 grandchildren. They have homeschooled since 1993.

Dan is the author of nine history books which are used across the nation in private schools and homeschools. He is a graduate of George Wythe University in Business and Biblical Studies, and was a private school teacher for 10 years.

Dan started Living History in 1999 when he started writing his history books. In 2004 Dan and Jan bought Archive Publishers and Wholesome Books which they run with a lot of help from their children.

Cara Dansie is a graduate of Utah State University and has a degree in secondary education with a major in German and minors in Russian and Spanish. She served a mission for the LDS Church in the San Diego, California (Spanish speaking), Samara, Russia, and Rostov-na-Donu, Russia missions. She then taught at Carbon High School for 3 years: German, Russian, and Spanish. She "retired" from teaching in the traditional school system when she became pregnant with her oldest child. She continued to be involved in education whenever possible and has also taught English as a Second Language and assisted in teaching Japanese both at the college level.

Cara is the mother of ten children: five boys, five girls; of which five are adopted. She has been schooling them at home officially after the oldest one spent a half year in Kindergarten; unofficially since he was born. She became involved in online schools in 2005 as a parent and then came out of “retirement” in 2008 and began teaching part-time for Utah Virtual Academy (UTVA) and Washington Online School Utah (WOSU) for K-8. She is now a full-time teacher for WOSU and loves working with the families in the northern part of Utah.

Cara has been around education her whole life. She is the daughter of two teachers and remembers playing “school” and teaching her younger siblings in the garage. She loves being able to teach her own children with the help of her husband, Martell.

At the age of 17, Audrey Frazier announced that she would homeschool her future children. Although educated traditionally in public and private schools, she helped homeschool her younger brothers and sisters and experienced the joy and light of watching them learn. Looking ahead, Audrey began making learning materials and manipulatives for the children she would someday have.

At age 19, Audrey discovered Montessori education. She worked in the Avenues Montessori School on “R” Street in Salt Lake City. Embarking on the Montessori certification process, she attended workshop classes in San Luis Obispo, California, a neighboring city of her hometown. Audrey completed the home study portion four years later, married and with a toddler and infant, and received a Montessori diploma through Montessori World Educational Institute (MWEI).

Additionally, Audrey completed the Child Development Program from Salt Lake Community College and has a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. This is the training required for teachers in the HeadStart program, which uses many complementary learning manipulatives.

With very little money but plenty of determination and resourcefulness, Audrey made humble learning materials for her young children for use in their Montessori home environment. Eventually able to purchase two classrooms full of Montessori materials, the homemade ones nevertheless are still being used and evidence that homemade can work just fine.

Audrey and her husband, Joshua, have lived in Nibley for 4 years and are the parents of 7 children, age infant to 16 years old, where schooling at home is a way of life. She considers herself an eclectic homeschooler combining LDS doctrine, constitutional freedom studies, classic literature, unit studies, lots of music and of course, Montessori.

Sasha Takis loves teaching and writing. In addition to speaking at various homeschool conferences around the country, she has helped put conferences together for others. Sasha served for 5 years as a board member for the Washington State Latter-day Saint Family Educators, and for 2 years on the board of the National LDS Homeschool Association. She was an assistant editor for a year for the Utah Home Education Association’s newsletter, Right at Home, and the Editor-in-Chief for a year of LDS-NHA’s publications, The Sentinel, The Quarterly Bulletin, and The Leaders’ Post. Sasha is a graduate of The Institute of Children’s Literature. She has authored nearly a hundred articles on homeschooling and currently has a monthly column, Joy, Journey, and Juxtaposition with the Latter-day Saint National Home Educators.

Sasha’s homeschooling specialties are creating unit studies and infusing her religious beliefs into every school subject. She hosts two online forums for other like-minded parents: Units in Utah and Scriptureschool.

Sasha lives in Nibley, Utah with her husband and 5 children who have always homeschooled. Her hobbies include baseball, running, hiking, tennis, gardening, canning, photography, piano, writing and arranging music, and laundry.