HSC Board of Directors
We encourage anyone with an interest in HSC to join us at our quarterly board meetings. Contact HSC for specific scheduling information and directions if you would like to attend any meeting. Contacting the HSC BoardPlease contact the entire board only if the entire board needs to read your comments or questions. Questions sent to the entire board go through a process to determine the responsibility for replying. You will get a quicker response if you can direct your question to a specific board member or committee chair. If you're not sure which individual to send your question to, use HSC's general email address . All Board of Directors email addresses are listed below. Board Terms and Election ProcedureBoard members serve three year terms. Read about how to become a board member. | ||
Sarah SamplePresident- contactI live in the Central Valley of California, between orange groves, olive trees, and the Sierra Nevada foothills. My husband, Dave and I have two children, Tyler (14) and Erin (11) and we share our 5 acres with dogs, cats, pygmy goats and honey bees. My involvement with HSC began when we were just starting to homeschool Tyler, and I found out about an upcoming camping trip to Refugio State Beach. While I joined HSC for the camping, I have come to appreciate ALL the work the this organization does for homeschooling families and I have volunteered at conferences, helped with campouts, answered the 888-phone line, and have been a county contact for Tulare County for many years. I believe that true learning takes place when you are actively involved in things that interest you, and since we all know that children pay more attention to what we do than what we say, I have tried to set a good example! Over the years I have held several positions for LLL, ran my own business, learned to snowboard, was one of the founders and am the business manager of a homeschool charter, and on occasion I still stay up all night to finish a good book. I struggle to make sense of the physical and mental disabilities that challenge my children and just as often I am awestruck by their beauty and strength.
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Katheryn Cullwell Treasurer - contact My husband, Mike, and I live in the foothills of the Cleveland National forest in our own little rural pocket of Southern California. We are the proud parents of 4 beautiful children. We were first introduced to homeschooling through our La Leche League group and knew from the beginning that we would homeschool. We "officially" became homeschoolers in 1998 when our first child was five years old.I was first introduced to HSC in 2000, at an outreach event. After talking with them and reading several back issues of the California HomeSchooler, I promptly joined the organization. My family became regular campers and conference attendees. I later went on to volunteer at the conference and as a campout organizer for several years. |  | |
Meghan Anderson-CoatesI started homeschooling my daughter in 1998 in the UK. I didn’t know it then, but we were unschooling (at the time, I had never heard the term in the UK). We were an attachment parenting (extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, etc.) family and homeschooling/unschooling seemed like a natural progression for us. We were part of a local homeschooling group that met on a weekly basis. We also got involved with a homeschooling resource center near our home. There were many different classes offered for kids to participate in, or kids could just go and hang out and play (in the computer room, library, dress-up room, art room, etc.). I started volunteering at the center shortly after we discovered it. I would help in the free play rooms, assist other instructors in their classes as needed, make snacks and lunches in the kitchen, and do office work as needed.
In October of 2000 I moved back to the US with my daughter. We continued to homeschool, although it was very challenging as a single parent. I attended my first HSC Conference in 2001. It was amazing! Up until then, I had no idea just how many other homeschoolers there were, and that was just in California! We also attended the 2002 conference, but then in 2003 I had to put Tamzin in school while I went to work. Granted it was a very small (22 students) art based school, but it was still school, so sadly we were no longer homeschoolers. By the summer of 2006 I had remarried and was able to cut back on my work hours and resume homeschooling again, oh joy!! At once, I made plans to attend the HSC Conference again in 2007! I not only attended, but volunteered, had a wonderful time, and met so many new people.
When we started homeschooling again, I went in search of a local homeschool group here in Chico. I found one and we started to make our connections with the other local homeschoolers. Over the next year, the woman who had started our local Chico group moved to Oroville and handed over the reins to me. I started a yahoo group for us (called chicohomeschoolers) and continue to run our fully inclusive group.
In 2008 I was presented with an opportunity to be the Art Deck Coordinator for the conference. I jumped at the chance! I had a wonderful experience running the art deck. I re-organized, re-labeled and re-packaged all of the art deck supplies to make it easy for anyone coming in after me. I have also been the Butte county contact since early 2008, and I have been a moderator on the HSC e-list since mid 2008. I am now, as a board member, in charge of maintaining the e-list and working with the volunteers. And btw, we are always looking for people to help with moderator duties J
I have conscientiously and continuously promoted HSC from the time I first discovered the organization at the 2001 conference because I believe it’s crucial to many people’s homeschooling experience. A statewide, fully inclusive support network like HSC can make all the difference in a family’s homeschooling lifestyle. I can honestly say that without HSC, and the connections I’ve made through it, our homeschooling life would look very different, and possibly not even exist.
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David Englecontact
I have been homeschooling with my wife, Katzi, and our four sons, Anselm, Josh, Wayland and Wolfram, for the past 27 years. We didn’t – well I didn’t – realize it until Katzi came home from a "National Coalition of Alternative Education" Conference about 1986, but I did soon get on the boat. And the longer I am in that boat, the more I have paddled it — and the more I have enjoyed the exploration our boat has brought us. Anselm, Josh, and Wayland are now grown men and graduated from various universities; Wolfram is currently applying. I am still a professor of German and Folklore at California State University, Fresno; and I am still applying the things I learned in “homeschool” to my “job” in “education.” And I still come home to the proverbial kitchen table piled high with (also) educational projects. I trust in our body politic, and I am a firm believer in openness and transparency in the Board of Director’s efforts to keep the Homeschool Association of California thriving and responsive. |  | |
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