National Leadership Conference Continuing Education Asda
Andrew Pudewa
Institute for Excellence in Writing, Founder
Andrew Pudewa is the founder and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing and a father of seven. Traveling and speaking around the world, he addresses issues related to teaching, writing, thinking, spelling, and music with clarity, insight, practical experience, and humor. His seminars for parents, students, and teachers have helped transform many a reluctant writer and have equipped educators with powerful tools to dramatically improve students' skills.
Although he is a graduate of the Talent Education Institute in Japan and holds a Certificate of Child Brain Development from the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his best endorsement is from a young Alaskan boy who called him "the funny man with the wonderful words." He and his heroic wife, Robin, have homeschooled their seven children and are now proud grandparents of 15, making their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Dr. Roger Smith
Parenting Matters Now
Dr. Roger Smith, author of Parenting with Influence, is a primary care physician in rural Louisiana, where he oversees the medical care delivered in four small-town clinics. He is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics, and he has a special interest in relationships in the home and community. His vlog, Parenting Matters Now, can be found on Facebook and at RogerSmithMD.com. Dr. Smith serves on the boards of his state and national homeschool organizations (Homeschool Louisiana and the National Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership). Over the last 25 years, he has served in leadership roles in numerous organizations, including 4-H, Boy Scouts, NCFCA Christian Speech and Debate, and the chamber of commerce, and has been a mentor at a local faith-based substance abuse program. Dr. Smith seeks to share a perspective that brings together his scientific education, spiritual teachings, psychosocial research, and personal experience, buffered by his Southern-gentleman upbringing and commonsense application.
Darren Jones
HSLDA, Director of Group Services
Darren Jones has worked at HSLDA since 1996, first as a legal assistant and then as an attorney in various capacities. As senior counsel, much of his focus is on helping member families in legal difficulties. As HSLDA's director of group services, he advises homeschool group leaders about everything from crafting statements of faith to designing policies to protect children at co-ops. Darren and his wife Sara homeschool as a team and have graduated the oldest of their four children. He enjoys board games, teaching Sunday school, and speaking at homeschool conferences around the country.
Natalie Mack
HSLDA, High School Consultant and Outreach Coordinator
Natalie Mack is a mom of five, Navy chaplain's wife, military home educator since 2001, president of Belvoir Home Educators, and business owner. She received her BA in political science and Spanish from her beloved alma mater, Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia, and her MEd with a concentration in community counseling from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Hanging up her therapist shingle, she followed God's leading to home educate her children in 2001. She has launched four of her five children to college, and then on to graduate school or professional careers.
Mike Donnelly
HSLDA, Director of Global Outreach
As an HSLDA senior counsel, Mike Donnelly serves HSLDA members in six states and the District of Columbia. As director of global outreach, he coordinates HSLDA's support of homeschooling freedom around the world. Mike is a member of six federal and state bars and holds an LLM with merit in constitutional and human rights law from the London School of Economics. He is also an internationally published writer and frequent speaker on homeschooling, educational freedom, parental rights, and human rights. Mike and his wife, Patricia, are homeschooling parents of seven children.
Karim Morato
HSLDA, Bilingual Educational Consultant and Outreach Coordinator
Karim Morato supports homeschooling parents by serving in HSLDA's educational consulting department. In addition, she reaches out to and collaborates with both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking leaders who are advancing the homeschooling movement. Karim is originally from Guatemala and emigrated to the United States in 1992. She and her husband have been homeschooling their three children for the last 14 years. Their oldest daughter graduated in 2020 and is currently studying industrial engineering; their son graduated this year and is pursuing a finance degree. Karim holds a master's degree in curriculum and online learning from George Mason University in Virginia. For more than 25 years she has been teaching and serving the Hispanic community through educational advice, mentoring, and counseling. Through her outreach work, she offers homeschool leaders strategic advice and networking to help them reach and serve the Hispanic community.
LaNissir James
HSLDA, High School Consultant and Outreach Coordinator
A homeschooling mom and leader, LaNissir James has a passion to serve the home-educating community. She provides social, spiritual, academic, and supervisory support for families in local groups and encourages and equips homeschool graduates to transition into colleges, careers, and vocational schools. As an HSLDA High School Consultant, LaNissir loves speaking to parents to encourage and support their homeschooling. She earned her BS in journalism from the University of Maryland College Park and is pursuing a master's degree in biblical studies. LaNissir is wife to Lorenzo and the mother of seven beautiful homeschooled children with ages ranging from toddler to young adult.
Dr. Brian Ray
National Home Education Research Institute, President
Dr. Brian Ray is a leading international expert in research on homeschooling and president of the National Home Education Research Institute. He has published numerous articles and books, been repeatedly interviewed by major media, served as an expert witness in court cases across the US and in Canada, and testified to legislatures regarding educational issues. He is a former university professor and public and private school classroom teacher, and is an elder in a local church. Brian and Betsy have eight children, all of whom were homeschooled, and a growing number of grandchildren.
Dr. Dany Shakeel
Centre for Educational Entrepreneurship, Director
Dr. M. Danish Shakeel is the director of the University of Buckingham's Centre for Educational Entrepreneurship. He is also affiliated with the Program on Education Policy and Governance located at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He holds a PhD from the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and has published numerous articles on the subject.
Source: https://hslda.org/nationalconference/
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