| Cynthia Young |
| Email: cynthia.young@whheprep.org |
| I’m a retired general practitioner who has been teaching math and science at New Covenant Christian Academy (1995 through 2000), HomeEdPlus ( Sept. 2000 – May 2008), The Lighthouse Education Center (Sept. 2001-2010), Extraordinary Education (June 2010 - present), and PREP (Sept. 2008 - present).
I received my BS and MS degrees in biochemistry from Mississippi State University and have a MD degree from U.T. Medical School in Houston. When my children became school age, I quit full time practice to become active in Christian education. Since my parents home schooled me and I do not have a high school diploma, MSU admitted me solely on my entrance level exam scores and the curriculum my parents used.
I accepted Christ into my life at the age of fourteen and believe that the Bible is a testimony of God and that it is the ultimate source of knowledge All my courses are taught from a Biblical perspective.
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| Deb Greco |
| Email: deb.greco@whheprep.org |
| Mrs. Greco has a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Systems from Grove City College. Following college she received her secondary math teaching credentials through courses at Buffalo State College. After teaching and tutoring in the public schools for three years, she became a stay at home mom. She now homeschools her four children and is actively involved at Christ Church in Katy where her husband is the senior pastor. This will be her fourth year teaching math at PREP. |
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| Gloria Smith |
| Email: gloria.smith@whheprep.org |
| I have taught Elementary Spanish at PREP for 11 years and Junior High for 7 years. I have also taught at Home Ed Plus for the past 10 years. Spanish is my first language. I have been an active member at Jersey Village Baptist Church for 15 years and have taught Mission Friends for 12 years. I am now a new member at Kingsland Baptist Church and have started teaching Team Kids. I have helped at an Apartment Ministry for about 13 years. Vacation Bible School has been the biggest highlight of my summers since 1995, where I am able to share God's Love with the Hispanic children in that area. Teaching others to speak Spanish is just one more way to teach them to tell others about Christ's Love. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 35 years and God blessed us with two great children. Jessica is 29 and Moses is 16. |
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| Grace Cooper |
| Email: grace.cooper@whheprep.org |
| Señora Cooper completed 17 years as a homeschool mom in May 2010 when her son, the younger of her two children, graduated from home. Her daughter also graduated from home in 1998. Grace has been teaching in the homeschool community since 1994 and for PREP in 1995. She grew up with Spanish as her first language, took it in high school and tested out of it at UT-Austin. She tries to teach Spanish with a missionary emphasis, because she knows first hand the difference a bilingual person can make in reaching the lost for Christ. She is pleased that a small percentage of her former students report they decided to minor in Spanish as well as many other students report gaining college credit through placement tests. She loves teaching the middle school and high school students the community has entrusted to her and hopes they develop a life long reason for using the language. Grace and her family are members of Kingsland Baptist Church in Katy, Texas.
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| Holly Berry |
| Email: holly.berry@whheprep.org |
| Holly Hunter Berry has been homeschooling for 16yrs. She attended the University of Houston and The Art Institute of Houston. She has also supplemented her learning by studying with numerous artists and has been influenced by many more.
She has been selling her art through galleries and other venues. Teaching has recently become part of her journey and teaching the basics and how to use the tools of design is very important to her as she strives to take the mystery out of creating. All can learn the skills to design/create art but it is a belief of hers that it is the passion to create that God instills in us. Holly has pursued the passion of creating for as long as she can remember.
She has worked as an artist since 1980. Her medium of choice is painting in oils, acrylics and mixed media.
Her art business is a full time endeavor and has been ongoing with the exception of some brief time off.
She and her family are active in their church, Second Baptist, West Campus. |
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| Jan Snow |
| Email: jan.snow@prepclasses.org |
| Jan Snow has a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Chemistry from Texas Tech University. This is the seventeenth year she will teach homeschool classes. Jan has four children, three married and one in college and 5 grandchildren. She home educated her children for 18 years. Jan lives with her husband in the Cypress area and attends Cypress Bible Church. For more information about Mrs. Snow’s science classes with PREP you may visit her website. http//:www.hsscience.com |
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| Jan Stonebraker |
| Email: jan.stonebraker@whheprep.org |
| Jan Stonebraker studied Business Administration at Oklahoma State University. She previously taught science and grammar/composition classes with PREP from 1998-2005. She home educated her own children for 14 years. Both children graduated college, are married, and beginning their own families blessing her with two grandchildren thus far. She has also been a part time employee of The Homeschool Store in Houston from 1999 to the present. She is delighted to return to her love of teaching and working with children after working in administrative positions for doctors and industrial corporations the last six years. Jan and Mike have been married since 1979 and live in Copperfield. They attend Westside Fellowship Church. |
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| Jeff Zeigler |
| Email: jeff.zeigler@whheprep.org |
| Jeff Zeigler has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling from Colorado Christian University. He has been teaching Microsoft Office classes for 17 years to age groups ranging from 12 to 89. Jeff and his family live in the Sealy area and attend Katy Bible Church. He and his wife have two children and have been homeschooling for 8 years. |
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| Jennifer Jones |
| Email: jennifer.jones@whheprep.org |
| Jennifer Jones began homeschooling in 1991 and started teaching Latin at PREP in the fall of 2005. Their first daughter graduated from Texas A&M and is working in her field in Austin, Texas, while their second child is enrolled in secondary education working towards Nursing. Latin is a self-taught language that Jen developed a passion for when teaching her own children. Through Texas Classical League conferences and continuing education classes, Jen has furthered her Latin and Classical education. The Joneses have a proclivity toward evangelism and missions and maintain a strong relationship with their home church, S.W. Bible Church, whose varied outreaches they support. |
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| Jill Burnside |
| Email: jill.burnside@whheprep.org |
| Jill Burnside has a Bachelors of Science degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University (whoop!). Her training and experience have developed in her a love for math and science and a desire to help students pursue them with excellence. She has been a homeschooling parent for fifteen years, and this will be her sixth year to teach mathematics with PREP. She and her husband have three children and are homeschooling the youngest. They live in Katy and are active members of Kingsland Baptist Church.
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| Juli Dalton |
| Email: juli.dalton@whheprep.org |
| Juli Dalton holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in English, from Texas A&M University. She also holds a Secondary Teacher's Certificate in the same two fields. During the 2005-2006 school year, Juli was fortunate to be able to spend a year apprenticing with Andrew Kern in The Lost Tools of Writing. For 20 years, Juli homeschooled her four children: one graduated from Texas A&M in 2009, and two are currently enrolled at Texas A&M. In addition, she taught Rhetoric history and Rhetoric literature in a Tapestry of Grace co-op for eight years, from 2003-2011. From 2004-2006, Juli also taught History and Language Arts part-time at Covenant Academy, a Classical Christian school, and in 2006-2007, taught writing and grammar there, while helping to develop Covenant's Language Arts program. Juli spent the last five years teaching PREP classes and other writing classes.
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| Karen Reynolds |
| Email: karen.reynolds@whheprep.org |
| Karen Reynolds holds a B.S. in History with a minor in Communications and a J.D. As a member of the Texas Bar, she practiced in the areas of criminal defense and family law. She also taught college classes in Government and Constitutional Law before retiring early to raise and home school her three boys. Reentering the world of forensics with her sons, she has coached mock trial, moot court, debate, and speech competitors at the state, regional, and national levels for nine years. Karen has also taught speech, improvisation, critical thinking challenge classes, debate, classical history and literature, government, and constitutional literacy to students in classes throughout the state and to students across the country during camps. A firm believer in the abilities of our youth, Karen seeks to help all young people unleash their voices and feel secure in the knowledge that they have something important to say. |
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| Luann Wheeler |
| Email: luannw_texas@yahoo.com |
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| Nancy Jones |
| Email: nancy.jones@whheprep.org |
Nancy Jones received an Early Childhood Education degree from California and an Interior Design degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Nancy home educated her two children for 14 years through high school. When the children were in their preteen years, Nancy and her husband, Sam Jones partnered with other teachers to create Home Ed Plus.
Sam Jones graduated from Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri in 1978. Several of his works have been exhibited in art festivals in Kansas City, Atlanta and Houston. Sam has created many award winning artcars with their art students in the past 13 years. Working as a team, they have taught art classes in the home school community including: Home Ed Plus (1998- present), Lighthouse Education Center (2007-2009), and PREP (2008 – present). When not teaching, Sam is a full time jeweler. They are member of the Houston Vineyard church since 1994. |
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| Nicole Dayton |
| Email: nicole.dayton@whheprep.org |
| Nicole Dayton has loved Speech ever since a wonderful Speech teacher nurtured and encouraged her to overcome her fears and venture out of her comfort zone. She considers it a God-given privilege to work with your children in helping them to find enjoyment and confidence in the public speaking and performance realm. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education- Communications, Theatre, and English. Nicole taught public school at the junior high and high school level for six years, with five of them teaching speech/theatre in the Cy-Fair School district. This is her ninth year to teach with PREP classes. Teaching your children at PREP has been a rewarding experience that she anticipates with great eagerness every year. She has two daughters and a wonderful husband and feels very blessed to be a home schooling mom. |
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| Peggy Clark |
| Email: peggy.clark@whheprep.org |
| Peggy has been homeschooling her three children since 1993. Her eldest is a graduate of Oral Roberts University pursuing his MBA. Her second student is attending ministry school, and the youngest plans to keep her company for the next few years. Although this will be her third year to teach at PREP, she has experience teaching homeschoolers in several writing and literature co-ops. She has enjoyed seeing her students graduate to college, using their writing skills to pursue their dreams. She hopes to inspire her PREP writing students to fulfill their potential in the same way. This year should be another exciting year of writing, literature, and grammar. She will offer a class for Fourth/Fifth graders and a separate class for Sixth Grade Writing and Literature. In college, Peggy’s love for science and art led her into the field of Medical Illustration—but the haunting smell of formaldehyde caused her to take a different route (she could handle most anything but that!) Therefore, she will use these skills (minus the smell) to offer a fun and exciting two-year (fourth/fifth grade) introductory science class as well as a sixth grade science class. As a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, she loves children’s literature, writing, science and art. Peggy and her family are members of Encourager Church. Feel free to contact her at clarkpeggy@sbcglobal.net. |
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| Renee Mathis |
| Email: renee.mathis@prepclasses.org |
| Renee Mathis has homeschooled for 24 years. She attended both University of Arizona and University of Houston and has a love for literature and learning. She works with the CIRCE Institute as a classical writing instructor and author. Writing in all its forms is a passion and she hopes to see her students experience the joy of authorship. This will be her 14th year to teach at PREP. Now that her five children have all graduated and are in various stages of work, college, and family life, Renee is enjoying the fruits of that labor: grandchildren! She and her husband Steve have served the local homeschooling community in WHHE and are on the parent board for HCYA Volleyball. Renee and her family are members of Christ Church (PCA) in Katy. Her website: www.mrsmathis.com |
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| Stephanie Frederick |
| Email: stephanie.frederick@whheprep.org |
| Stephanie Frederick has a B.S in Ed. Degree from Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University) with teaching credentials in mathematics and psychology. She taught in Klein ISD for 7 years, and then remained home to be a homemaker and a mom.
Stephanie has taught in the PREP program since 2002. She and her husband, Dale, a public school teacher, have 4 sons, one a graduate of LSU, two in college (A & M, and UNC), and one in high school. The Frederick family attends Cypress Bible Church.
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| Susan Money |
| Email: susan.money@whheprep.org |
| Susan Money B.S. earned her B.S. in Ed. from Northern Arizona University. She taught Language Arts and U.S. History in Cy-Fair I.S.D. for seven and one half years. Susan began home schooling in 1990. Both of her children are now home school graduates. In 1995, she began teaching a writing class in her home. Now she offers four different classes in two locations. Susan loves to read, travel, and play with her grandchildren. The Money family attends Metropolitan Baptist Church where Susan is the librarian. Contact her at rsmoney@sbcglobal.net.
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