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Our Speakers

HSLDA’s @home e•vents program showcases speakers who are experts in their fields and often leaders in the homeschool community. They’ve been in your shoes and want to come alongside you in your journey to enhance your family’s homeschooling experience! Our speakers possess the breadth of experience, talent, and enthusiasm suited for encouraging you and equipping you with relevant tools.

Past e•vents have included presentations by well-known authors and speakers, such as Andrew Pudewa, Lou Priolo, Dr. Jay Wile, Jeff Myers, and Hal and Melanie Young, as well as experienced homeschooling parents and homeschool graduates. HSLDA staff speakers have included President J. Michael Smith, Chairman Michael P. Farris, many other attorneys, and some of our Special Needs, High School, and Early Years coordinators, such as Dianne Craft, Vicki Bentley, Becky Cooke, and Diane Kummer.

Carol Barnier

Carol Barnier is author of three books, mother to three children, and wife to one husband. She is a popular speaker and radio guest across the country. You may have heard her on Focus on the Family’s Weekend Magazine or Moody Radio. She has written for Proverbs 31 Woman, The Old Schoolhouse, Club House Magazine and others. She strives to provide practical and usable ideas in each and every talk. And while she can be quite serious, probably the best description of her is what you find on her business cards: Delightful Speaker, Entertaining Author, Adequate Wife, Pitiful Housekeeper.

As the author of three books about working with non-traditional minds (which includes her own), you will leave her workshops laughing and excited about the many ideas you've taken away. Her first book entitled How To Get Your Child Off the Refrigerator and On To Learning addresses the fun, thrills and challenges of homeschooling highly distractible children. Her second book, entitled, If I’m Diapering a Watermelon, Then Where’d I Leave The Baby? tackles the truths to be addressed and strategies to be adopted in order to survive membership in the Highly Distractible Mom Club (of which Carol is a lifetime member). Her newest book, The Big WHAT NOW Book of Learning Styles goes beyond the “What should we call him?” to “What do we do now?” How do I teach spelling? Math? History? This book is all about answering those questions. Carol homeschools her three children in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Connecticut when she’s not busy searching for her lost keys.

“Carol Barnier was absolutely amazing. I'm still homeschooling because of her. Thank you so much for having her.” — Julie, CA

E•vents

11/19/2009 (10:15 PM EST): What Are You Thinking--Learning Styles and Beyond

So often, learning style materials pour all their time and energy into finding the right label for your child's learning style. While there are many different tools for assessment, too often these same materials are light on just what you should do after you find a "label" for your child. How do you teach history so it sticks? What if she can't understand fractions? What if he loves language but hates to write? Self-acclaimed “Delightful Speaker, Entertaining Author, Adequate Wife, Pitiful Housekeeper” Carol Barnier goes beyond learning styles to answer "What do we do now?" Come away from Carol’s refreshing session with lots of ideas you can use Monday morning!

Member Price: $5.95
Non-Member Price: $10.95

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