Faithfulness in Your Homeschool Journey: Cultivating a Charlotte Mason Education
October 26th, 2019, Laguna Niguel, California
All speakers are local to the SoCalCM community. We hope these talks will encourage, inspire and help you in your Charlotte Mason homeschooling journey.
Bundle includes:
- 9 Sessions in mp3 format:
- A Revival of Learning, Naomi Goegan
- CM Co-ops: Cultivating Community, Amy Johnson
- Commonplacing: Sami Brandon
- Atmosphere, Discipline, and Life for High School and Beyond, Glenna Heustis
- Following with Confidence, Sami Brandon
- Habits & The Will, Naomi Goegan
- Hearing God’s Call to Homeschool: An Intellectual Journey, Andrea Grandstedt
- Facing Chained Lions: We All Have Courage, Amy Johnson
- Navigating High School, Glenna Heustis
- Accompanying slides in pdf format
- Conference handout with Poems, Hymns, Speaker Bios, 20 Principles & Resources in pdf format
Speaker Bios:
Sami Brandon was homeschooled under the oak trees on the Central Coast of California (from 2nd grade through high school). She’s been married to her hero, Kevin, for 15 years and together they are the (bio-,adoptive- and foster-) parents of 6 girls, aged 11 to 2 years old. Finding Charlotte Mason when her first daughter was in preschool felt like coming home, and she loves to keep learning more about her principles. She just started her 7th year of Charlotte Mason homeschooling, and she’s so thankful for the many ways it has brought life to her family. Charlotte Mason’s principles have changed the way that she thinks in so many areas of her life and she’s never going back.
Naomi Goegan has been married to her husband Chris for 20 years and lives in Southern California with their four children ages 17, 16, 11, & 8, and has been Charlotte Mason homeschooling since 2007. She has facilitated meetings, groups, and
conferences in the SoCal area to help moms learn about the Charlotte Mason method and has been a speaker for AmblesideOnline, SoCalCM,
CMWest, CHEA, and CMI. Naomi has also served as an AmblesideOnline Auxiliary member since 2011. You can find her website at www.CharlotteMasonEducation.org. She also blogs at www.LivingCMinCA.com and runs the Facebook group SoCalCM. When she is not homeschooling she can be found hiking trails with her black lab, photographing plants and bugs, or at the beach picking through giant kelp holdfasts determined to find a new and undiscovered species.
Andrea Granstedt married her husband Erik 14 years ago right after completing undergraduate studies at Caltech, where they met. After a year of discipleship training and cross-cultural ministry with YWAM, they both went on to receive their PhDs from Princeton University in the sciences. They have 5 children, ages 9, 8, 6, and 1. Though Andrea never thought she would homeschool, as
she began having children and thinking about education, she explored the idea while her oldest was in preschool and saw it as God’s call for her. Discovering Charlotte Mason’s principles further multiplied her enthusiasm, and continues to reshape her approach to education. In her spare time, she listens to audiobooks and works out at a CrossFit gym. As a family they enjoy outdoor activities together, especially camping.
Glenna Heustis has been married to her college sweetheart for 20 years and has three daughters whom she has homeschooled from the beginning. She was a public school science teacher prior to homeschooling and always had a CM approach to education without having a name for it. She began reading Charlotte Mason and was ecstatic to find so much truth, wisdom, and guidance. She continues to study and learn alongside other CM homeschooling mothers and feels blessed to co-lead a CM book study group called the “Corner Book Club.” Her weekly nature group outings bring inspiration, exploration, and peace to her and her family as they immerse in God’s awesome creation. She has a special heart for serving families with high school students and currently supports K-12 homeschool families as a teacher for a charter school. When she is not reading, exploring nature, or shuttling kids to soccer or theater, you might catch her dreaming about
her next travel adventure.
Amy Johnson has been married to her husband for 15 years and they have two daughters (5th and 9th grade). She first learned of Charlotte Mason 13 years ago and was hooked. By the grace of God, this is her 10th year home schooling and she attributes a paradigm shift in her adult life because of Charlotte Mason’s philosophies. She always had a love for reading, but her homeschool
journey has grown a deeper appreciation for great books, the outdoors and the fine arts. For seven years her family participated in a weekly nature group and that group spent four of those years incorporating a monthly Fine Arts Day. This school year her family has joined a new Charlotte Mason inspired co-op that meets weekly for core subjects and fine arts and has nearly 100 students. It is there that she teaches Shakespeare and Plutarch for grades 7-12 and History for grades 7-9. She currently lives “half country” in the rural town of Norco on a half acre property where she has a garden, two dogs, a flock of chickens and 3 horses (one quarter horse and two mini-horses). She spends a great deal of time outside hiking, exploring, admiring and inquiring over the vast areas of nature that she is surrounded by.
