After growing up in Connecticut, Christine graduated from Pensacola Christian College with a bachelor’s degree in Education and spent 10 years teaching in Christian schools before moving to Michigan with her husband, Keith, who also graduated from PCC and is a music teacher. Christine and Keith knew before having their first child over 25 years ago, that they would homeschool and she has enjoyed the journey. Besides teaching her own children for more than 20 years, Christine taught Apologia sciences to students in her home for 4 years and then began teaching classes at the Quest Tutorial. Founding REACH Tutorial in 2012, Christine has been teaching classes in a variety of areas and manages several teachers to meet the needs of local homeschoolers. She has also taught online for the past several years teaching science classes to students all over the world. She and Keith have served in leadership roles for over 15 years with two homeschool support groups. She feels that God has put her in this place and time to share her passion for excellence in home education with the homeschooling community in Lenawee county. Mrs. Filipek also teaches online through Big River Academy.

Mrs. Filipek can be reached at:
reachtutorial@hotmail.com
mrscfilipek@gmail.com

Mr. Kim teaches math at Cambridge High School in Fulton County, GA. He has extensive experience offering in-person or virtual classes (in MS Teams or Zoom) tutoring all levels of high school mathematics on an hourly or weekly basis.

678-787-9780
Genekim76@gmail.com

Rate: 60.00/hour

Ralph enjoys serving as associate pastor at a local church where he oversees the young adult and connections ministries. Ralph is credentialed through the Assemblies of God. He also has a heart for deaf missions and pastored a deaf church for fifteen years. Ralph was raised in a church with an active deaf community and, in hindsight, sees that’s where God planted a seed in his heart to work with the deaf someday. Ralph also has two deaf cousins. After graduating from high school in 1985, he took his first sign language class and was immediately hooked! Ralph went on to be trained as a professional Sign Language Interpreter and worked in the private and public sector operating his own interpreting business for over fifteen years interpreting in a variety of settings. Also, during this time, Ralph taught community education and middle school non-credit ASL courses and deaf awareness workshops. In 2008, God called Ralph to go back to school and become a certified teacher of ASL. He now teaches at the high school level for students seeking foreign language credit; both in private and public schools, oncampus and online. He thoroughly enjoys the roles of teacher and pastor

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After 26 years of homeschooling, the last of Marji’s six kids has graduated. Instead of being finished with learning and teaching, Marji McIlvaine has found herself more interested in the world and education than ever before. She has a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Florida, graduate hours from ECU, worked at UF as a bilingual administrative assistant to the tropical animal science programs, but her fiercest won endeavor is a well-worn degree from the University of Homeschooling.

Marji has been teaching locally in homeschool tutorials for 25 years and online for over ten to homeschoolers. She also administers the W-J Achievement test to her local homeschooling community. Marji has studied seven languages, went to school in France at the Université de Dijon, and has many years of science study in college (and homeschooling) since she had planned to be a veterinarian.

Growing up in Florida, Marji McIlvaine spent many hours at the beach, in the water – scuba diving, snorkeling, and cultivating her love and experience in the oceans. Homeschooling her own kids reversed her dislike of history and instead incited a love for it as she discovered that history is really compelling stories of people just like us who made important decisions and acted with courage – or the opposite.

Stoking the fire of the love of learning about every facet of God’s creation and His work in His people has been one of Marji’s guiding principles from the beginning, with her children and now her students. Students can well meet the rigor of various subjects when th

mrsmacclasses@gmail.com

Mrs. Anderson has a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State University and spent 15 years in radio broadcasting and national trade association public relations work before homeschooling her sons. She’s taught adults and teens how to be confident communicators and loves her current profession of teaching homeschool students online through The Academy at Bright Ideas Press. She is known for taking the fear out of public speaking, helping reluctant writers succeed, and guiding students toward a passion in journalism. She brings a great deal of energy to her online classes, so students stay engaged. She is married to a jetBlue pilot with whom she has three sons.

mrsanderson113@gmail.com
jamieanderson@excelsiorclasses.com

Amy Craven grew up in Southern California and continues to make her home there with her husband, five children, and large extended family. She earned her BA in English from UCLA, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After obtaining her teaching credential, she returned to her high school alma mater and taught freshman and sophomore English. While teaching, she also earned her MA in education with an emphasis in secondary curriculum and instruction. Her master’s project focused on using close reading techniques to improve student writing. She is an IEW-accredited writing instructor who loves teaching students to write with clarity and sophistication. Although Amy left her teaching position after the birth of her first child, her love of words was the catalyst for starting her own company that provides writing services in areas ranging from curriculum guides to deposition proofreading to novel editing. Amy and her husband also decided to homeschool their children and are beginning their second decade with students in elementary through high school. The primary goal of their homeschool is to seek truth, beauty, and goodness, all of which flow from God, the author of every good thing. Amy cherishes the fact that “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4) and agrees with William Nicholson that “we read to know we are not alone.” When Amy is not teaching, she supports her children in following their God-given passions in art, music, youth government, dance, and swimming. She also serves in the moms’ ministry at her church and volunteers with the local ballet company

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