Our Teachers: -
ALL of our teachers must pass a background check prior to teaching the children.
Sharon Bazzell is a homeschool mom of 4. She will be teaching our Preschool class. She has attended hometeam for 3 years. She makes preschool FUN! They do crafts, gym time, snack time and so much more. Your little ones will be blessed in her class.
Sarah Lukitsch - Sarah joined us last year and has jumped in helping in the Nursery and Toddler rooms ever since. She loves kids and has done an amazing job in keeping the kids calm and happy during our hometeam hours. We are thankful for stability in our nursery/toddler area.
Melanie Lintz - Melanie is new to our teaching roster. She is willing to help out in any area and has taken on the task of our toddlers department this semester. She is a calm presence and we are excited to have her help us in this area. Welcome aboard, Melanie.
Holly Cheyne - I graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BS in Elementary Education with minors in English, Science, and Fine Arts. After spending few years substitute teaching, working at the Oakland Yard and Barton Malow, I obtained a job at Holly Academy teaching computers, science, and special education. I received a Masters Degree in Special Education with a focus in the emotionally impaired. Now, I am a stay-at-home mom who is married to Tim, teaches our 4 children, is a MHSAA certified volleyball referee, plans field trips for homeschool kids, is very involved with AWANA at church and various other activities. We enjoy camping, animals, volleyball, bike riding, and spending time together as a family.
Kate Phillips - Kate is a mother of six and will be teaching our Preschool 3 class this next semester. She is a new addition to our teaching roster, and just joined Hometeam last semester. She has a huge heart for little kids and we are so happy to have her help us out this semester. Welcome aboard, Kate.
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Janel Deaver - Janel Deaver has been homeschooling since 2006. She has a degree in English and Math, and enjoys teaching those subjects as well as beginning Spanish. She has been married to Todd for 20 years, and they have 4 children. They moved to Michigan in 2017 to work in ministry in Lake Orion. This semester she is teaching our Black Beauty Book Club and Yearbook class. She hopes to continue teaching various types of fun, interactive English classes with our co-op.
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Amanda Bendixon - Amanda Bendixen grew up in a family with nine kids and was homeschooled her entire life. She studied Biblical counseling in college, and now spends her time raising and teaching her own four children. She loves the Bible, music, health sciences, art, literature, language, and all kinds of learning! She loves kids and is looking forward to having fun teaching in a group setting!
Erin Brewster - Our Beginning Acrylics, and watercolors teacher a homeschooling mom to two kids. She is very active in her church nursery and loves researching and learning on youtube. She is teaching herself how to paint with acrylics.
Aimee Hansen is a homeschool mom to 5, but has a total of 12 kids. She has only homeschooled for three years, but she LOVES the flexibility. She has a ton of energy and is going to teach our STEM class, Young American History and our American Girl classes. Aimee has a gentle demeanor and is great with kids. We are excited she is teaching for Hometeam.
Becky Walters - I am Becky Walters, pastor's wife, mom of five and a Jersey girl. I graduated from Northeast Baptist School of Theology in Downingtown, PA with a degree in Church Ministries.
Two of the things I said I would never do- teach and homeschool! But God changed my heart and now I love doing both. I love to learn and I pray that with the Lord's help I can instill in my students a love for learning.
Two of the things I said I would never do- teach and homeschool! But God changed my heart and now I love doing both. I love to learn and I pray that with the Lord's help I can instill in my students a love for learning.
Meghan Kurdziel - Meghan is joining us in co-teaching the coding class this semester. She helped immensely last semester and is jumping in with both feet this time.
Kim Donovan - Homeschool mom of nearly 20 years to 6 children. I learned to crochet several years ago in a co-op homeschool class. I am excited to teach this skill to your children so they will have a lifelong love of yarn!
Amanda Van De Venter - Amanda and Kathy both joined us for their first year 2 years ago. They both were such great helpers and decided to team up and co-teach our Astronaut Academy this year. They taught Engineer Academy last year and it was a huge success. They are looking forward to presenting this awesome book to our kids.
Amy Sajtos has been married for almost 30 years and is the mother of six and grandmother of two has been homeschooling for 14 years. Her children are 29, 26, 22,19,15 and 10. Amy has taught in a church for approximately 27 years and at homeschool groups in the community since she started homeschooling. She has taught sign language, phonics and reading, and for the past five years she worked with teens developing student leadership and planning social events such as prom, other formal dances and murder mystery parties and camping trips. I have been interpreting for the Deaf and teaching sign language for 19 years. My son (age 22) was born Deaf and only uses American Sign Language to communicate. In addition to homeschooling Amy works at home
Kathy Ratliff - She started her homeschool journey 2 years ago. She has two children and loves to help wherever she is needed. This year she is starting her teaching journey at Hometeam. She has co-taught the last few semesters but this time, is going solo with our Big Life Journals -Growth Mindset Challenge class. We are looking forward to having this class and helping our kids excel.
Mrs. Becky Harless is a mom to 8 children. She has a bachelors in education from PCC. She has homeschooled for 14 years and manages to do so with one daughter and 7 boys. She is a wealth of wisdom and knowledge. She will be teaching our Stories, Snacks & Crafts and our young kids games class.
Theresa Jaworski
Our Watercolor and Army Base teacher. She has six children and has homeschooled for many years. She is actively involved in the River church and their children's ministries. She created the Army Base game that has been one of our most popular classes for several years running now. She is very creative and makes her classes as blast.
Our Watercolor and Army Base teacher. She has six children and has homeschooled for many years. She is actively involved in the River church and their children's ministries. She created the Army Base game that has been one of our most popular classes for several years running now. She is very creative and makes her classes as blast.
Sara Beth Bonjour - Sara Beth is a homeschool graduate that is now in the other side home educating her theee daughters. She has a degree in Elementray education with an English major. (This meant writing an abundance of papers in college) She loves anything literature based, and enjoys teaching all ages and stages. She will be teaching our Essay writing course for 7th-12th graders.
Linda McKinney - Linda is another one of our grandmas with great skills to offer our kids. She will be co-teaching the Acrylics class and the Watercolor class with her daughter Erin Brewster. She is now retired after working in the Waterford Schools latchkey program director for many years. We are excited and honored to have her.
Arlene Bramblett - She is new to homeschooling her grandson, Christian. She has a love for music and History. She will be teaching our History and Voice lessons. She is excited to teach children new skills. Her voice is beautiful so she will be able to share many skills.
Jason Carlson-Mocny - Jason joined us last semester and quickly jumped in and helped wherever he could. This semester he has offered to teach Weird Science classes and a games class. Jason is a board game enthusiast and looks forward to sharing his games with the kids at hometeam. He is also a baby whisperer and loves helping in the nursery or toddler room whenever he can. What a gift, right? Welcome aboard, Jason!
Kristina Phelps - Our high school cooking and our intro to cooking teacher this semester. She has three young daughters. Her husband and her are also small business owners.
Laura Chapman - is the mother of 5 young kids (the picture doesn't have Amira in it) and has been teaching at hometeam for a few years now. Laura spent four years in the private school sector teaching high school biology and chemistry as well as the middle school sciences ,Bible ,and history. My favorite part about science is being hands-on and doing something or having experiences that the kids can remember. I love to be outside and in nature and My goal for the spring is to start raising chickens!
Jo Anne Kroll
Jo Anne Kroll, homeschool mother of four, has been teaching in the church for over 25 years and in the local homeschool community for 13 years. Jo Anne has a BA in Religious Studies from Alma College and a degree in youth ministry from Nazarene Bible College. She has done elective college work in music, dance, theater, literature, history, psychology and sociology in addition to her major area of focus, but she admits most of her learning has been through having children. "Being a parent teaches you more about life and more about yourself than any degree." Her on the job training is continuous now that she has three teenagers living under one roof. Outside the home she teaches four to five days a week at churches and homeschool groups, volunteers at the county fair and spends a lot of time visiting local libraries. Other than church classes, Jo Anne primarily teaches classes within the performing arts field and classes that involve a lot of reading.
Jo Anne Kroll, homeschool mother of four, has been teaching in the church for over 25 years and in the local homeschool community for 13 years. Jo Anne has a BA in Religious Studies from Alma College and a degree in youth ministry from Nazarene Bible College. She has done elective college work in music, dance, theater, literature, history, psychology and sociology in addition to her major area of focus, but she admits most of her learning has been through having children. "Being a parent teaches you more about life and more about yourself than any degree." Her on the job training is continuous now that she has three teenagers living under one roof. Outside the home she teaches four to five days a week at churches and homeschool groups, volunteers at the county fair and spends a lot of time visiting local libraries. Other than church classes, Jo Anne primarily teaches classes within the performing arts field and classes that involve a lot of reading.
Tammy Foster joined us as a new family last year. She has a daughter and a son whom she independently homeschools. She is an self employed editor. She will be teaching our historical conquest class this semester.
Kolin Theede - Coach Kolin is our Crossfit teacher. He is one of the youngest Crossfit experts in the country and we are lucky to have him. He has taught for Hometeam going on his third year. He keeps all the kids engaged and working hard but in a fun way. He is a real asset to our Hometeam teachers.
Janet Brooks - Janet is a grandmother to some of the kids that attend Hometeam. She volunteered to come teach the kids about their ancestry. We are excited to have her join us, and love when the entire family gets involved at Hometeam.
Kelli Tocco - Kelli and children have been attending Hometeam for two years. She is making the leap into teaching this semester. She has always been an amazing helper and back up to teachers in there classes. She is teaching our minute to win it class and our You are Beautiful class. She is a cosmotelogist and is looking forward to showing the girls how to do their hair and play games.
Anna Campbell has homeschooled for four years to three boys. She has been a teacher in our career planning class and Auto Upkeep. This year she will be leading our Don't be Bored with Board Games class and our Foundation of Finance class and also our Debate and Career class options. She loves all these classes so much we are offering them all and waiting on the students to pick which ones they want more. She is so excited to present this material and never thought she would love to teach teens, but found her niche. She is also our Crossfit helper and assistant to Coach Kolin.
Diana Higuchi - She will be teaching our Tea Party, Character Training and Co-Teaching Meet the American Girl. She has two young children and is excited about teaching classes this year.
Shannon Dove - Shannon joined us last year and this year will be teaching our younger kids Escape Room classes. She is a mom to two boys and we are looking forward to her joining us in a teaching capacity.
Angie Radofski - Angie has two boys and has homeschooled for 2 years now. She will be joining us as our K-3 Gym teacher, and our Poetry Adventures.
Deb Saul - She is a recently retired mom of Bob Saul. She is the grandmother of six homeschooling children ranging in age from 17-8. She will be teaching our craft classes and cupcake decorating classes. She was a Kindergarten teacher and Sunday School Teacher for many years. She also has been a reading tutor in the past.
Bob Saul Jr. - A grandpa who helps Deb and is a teacher for our study hall. This year he will independently teach our Auto Upkeep class.
Bob Saul Jr. - A grandpa who helps Deb and is a teacher for our study hall. This year he will independently teach our Auto Upkeep class.
Lora Saul - Hometeam Coordinator and mom of four. I have been homeschooling for 14 years.
Bob Saul - Our woodworking, backyard ballistics teacher and husband to coordinator Lora Saul
Bob Saul - Our woodworking, backyard ballistics teacher and husband to coordinator Lora Saul