School Counselor
Zoe Life, Bible and PE/Health
Renee is a pastor's wife and homeschooling mother of two boys. Her boys are two of her greatest treasures. Renee established a support group for moms of children with special needs. She founded Zoe Life, a Bible based social communications group for children with special needs. She leads the w
School Counselor
Zoe Life, Bible and PE/Health
Renee is a pastor's wife and homeschooling mother of two boys. Her boys are two of her greatest treasures. Renee established a support group for moms of children with special needs. She founded Zoe Life, a Bible based social communications group for children with special needs. She leads the women's ministry at her church. Her missionary adventures began 20 years ago. She has seen God do so many amazing things in Baltimore city, Ireland, Nicaragua, Cambodia, and India. Renee loves people and has a passion for sharing God’s word in an easy to understand way. Her deep desire is to help those with learning differences gain confidence and a “can do” attitude. Her greatest joy is to see children who love Jesus and want to tell the world about Him.
Pastor
Science and Soccer
Reverend Donegan is originally from Ireland. He graduated in 1998 from Pensacola Christian College with a BA in Bible. In 2001, he received his MA in biblical exposition and received his MA in biblical counseling in 2011 from Maranatha Theological Seminary
Tutorial Coordinator and Elementary Principal
Reading, Educational Therapy, Executive Function Class
Sarah Donegan has been a home school mom for the past 17 years, 13 years of homeschooling a student with extreme learning struggles. She has been a private piano teacher for the past 13 years. Teaching kids has been a life long adventure f
Tutorial Coordinator and Elementary Principal
Reading, Educational Therapy, Executive Function Class
Sarah Donegan has been a home school mom for the past 17 years, 13 years of homeschooling a student with extreme learning struggles. She has been a private piano teacher for the past 13 years. Teaching kids has been a life long adventure from Sunday School, Children’s Church, camp speaker, and Vacation Bible school. She has a BA from Pensacola Christian College in Youth Ministry, with a minor in Speech. Masters in Special Education and is a certified as an Orton-Gillingham, dyslexia reading specialist, and a NILD certified therapy (PCET).
She is lifelong crafter, addicted to Chocolate, loves old movies, and enjoys reading missionary biographies.
Her favorite Bible verse is Jude 1:22 "And of some have compassion, making a difference".
Middle School and High School Principal
Reading, Math, and Spanish
Heather is a teacher who truly cares about her students and their families. She has worked with people of all ages for over twenty years. Heather has a BA in Psychology with minors in Spanish and Music and a Masters Equivilant in Education. She is a certified Special
Middle School and High School Principal
Reading, Math, and Spanish
Heather is a teacher who truly cares about her students and their families. She has worked with people of all ages for over twenty years. Heather has a BA in Psychology with minors in Spanish and Music and a Masters Equivilant in Education. She is a certified Special Education teacher who has worked in public and private school. Heather is enjoying homeschooling her own children. Her daughter is in 10th grade and her son, who has autism and adhd, is in 7th grade. She also has taught private voice lessons and is a part of her church's worship team. Serving others, whether it's as a small group leader, Sunday school teacher, or life course instructor, brings Heather joy, especially if chocolate is involved. She and her husband returned to Maryland and settled in Pasadena in 2005, after traveling the west coast wtih the U.S. Marine Corp. Jesus and good books kept her company while her husband was fighting in Iraq and she hopes to inspire her students to love reading and Jesus, as well.
Farm Coordinator
Reading, Educational Therapy, and After School Theater
Kelly is thrilled to be teaching at Learning With Grace! She has a passion for excellence (not perfection), a drive to do better than yesterday and a desire to learn more. If you can’t find Mrs. Blackman in the classroom; then she’s probably out on the farm working on
Farm Coordinator
Reading, Educational Therapy, and After School Theater
Kelly is thrilled to be teaching at Learning With Grace! She has a passion for excellence (not perfection), a drive to do better than yesterday and a desire to learn more. If you can’t find Mrs. Blackman in the classroom; then she’s probably out on the farm working on writing a new play or script. She has a Masters in Teaching, BA in Behavioral Science, and she is a certified Educational Therapist through the National Institute for Learning Development (https://www.nild.org/families/how-can-nild-help-my-child/).
Nature
Estera has years of experience teaching students in a vast area of avenues, from church, homeschooling, tutorials, and private school. She has a student that has special needs and uses his testimony to what God can do. She has a strong belief that every child is able to learn, you just need to find the right key. Mrs. Contreras i
Nature
Estera has years of experience teaching students in a vast area of avenues, from church, homeschooling, tutorials, and private school. She has a student that has special needs and uses his testimony to what God can do. She has a strong belief that every child is able to learn, you just need to find the right key. Mrs. Contreras is German and also taught at the German School in Washington.
Middle School & High School English and Math
My love for learning became a part of me in second grade when the teacher encouraged me to think deeper about my ideas. I continued to dive deeper while studying creative writing in high school, English for my BA at Washington College, and Curriculum and Instruction for my MS from McDaniel Colle
Middle School & High School English and Math
My love for learning became a part of me in second grade when the teacher encouraged me to think deeper about my ideas. I continued to dive deeper while studying creative writing in high school, English for my BA at Washington College, and Curriculum and Instruction for my MS from McDaniel College. I have enjoyed encouraging my students to learn and grow throughout 22 years of teaching in both public and private schools. I learn so much from teaching them and absolutely love being a part of their self-discovery learning journey. God has made each of them with strengths and weaknesses, preferences, learning styles, and purposes - and it is exciting to help them learn to navigate life in their God-given way. I am certified for English Language Arts and Special Education. I hope to spur the same love of learning in my students here at Learning With Grace.
History
Thelma James is a wife and mother of three who has been in Christian Education for over 20 years. She is quite excited at the prospect of teaching history to your children in the following school year. Thelma enjoyed homeschooling for some years until she went back to work in Christian schools. Her last twelve years of teaching
History
Thelma James is a wife and mother of three who has been in Christian Education for over 20 years. She is quite excited at the prospect of teaching history to your children in the following school year. Thelma enjoyed homeschooling for some years until she went back to work in Christian schools. Her last twelve years of teaching was at Rockbridge Academy in Millersville from which all her children graduated; the youngest of whom just completed his sophomore year in college. Thelma has always enjoyed teaching and considers her work a ministry; thus, after she retired from full time teaching two years ago, she continued to teach at Rockbridge as a substitute teacher and now also tutors in history at her church tutorial. Thelma has a degree in Education and in Educational guidance and counseling. She and her family live in Hanover, Maryland.
Science 3/4 and Elementary Math Gretchen is a homeschool mom of five exceptional children, most of which have at least one learning difference including ADHD, Autism, High Intelligence, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalulia. She holds a BS in Elementary Education from Towson University, and has taught in both PG and Anne Arundel counti
Science 3/4 and Elementary Math Gretchen is a homeschool mom of five exceptional children, most of which have at least one learning difference including ADHD, Autism, High Intelligence, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalulia. She holds a BS in Elementary Education from Towson University, and has taught in both PG and Anne Arundel counties. She has worked as a classroom teacher, and a mentor teacher for new teachers, but her favorite position was working as a Math Resource Teacher. This provided her the opportunity to help children who struggled in Math classes, like she had as a kid, so they could learn the material while also building their confidence. Gretchen's teaching style stems from her two favorite quotes; "All good things are wild and free," and "If I can't learn how you teach, then teach how I learn." She joined LWG in the fall of 2023 while looking for the best homeschool placement for two of her children that have Dyslexia. She began teaching there for only a few classes and is now a full convert!
K5 Math, First Grade Math,
PE/Health K5-1
My name is Katie Kinch and I am a wife, a mother to four amazing children, and a child of the King. Our family moved to Maryland four years ago, making this our 12th home! My husband, who retired from the military one year ago, and I loved Maryland so much that we decided to make Maryland our perm
K5 Math, First Grade Math,
PE/Health K5-1
My name is Katie Kinch and I am a wife, a mother to four amazing children, and a child of the King. Our family moved to Maryland four years ago, making this our 12th home! My husband, who retired from the military one year ago, and I loved Maryland so much that we decided to make Maryland our permanent home. My love for teaching began when the Lord called me to homeschool our eldest son, 12 years ago and we continued with our other children. I so enjoyed teaching and watching our children grow in their love and curiosity for learning while fostering their little hearts to love our Lord. Over the years, I taught science, math, Bible and preschool across several tutorials. I strongly believe that the love and curiosity of learning is fostered at a young age. My desire as a teacher is to grow my students' excitement for learning while building confidence in who God says they are. In my classes, we have fun while we learn, incorporate lots of hands-on learning, inspire growth in our friendships, and pray with one another. Psalms 127:3 says "Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him" and I believe this strongly about my students - they are a gift!
Preschool
I received a love of learning from my Dad who fostered the joy of reading and trying new things. Beginning in 2011, I worked as a research assistant for the University of Maryland studying bilingual elementary school students. God provided a job opening working with a special needs student in 2012 and I went on to finish my car
Preschool
I received a love of learning from my Dad who fostered the joy of reading and trying new things. Beginning in 2011, I worked as a research assistant for the University of Maryland studying bilingual elementary school students. God provided a job opening working with a special needs student in 2012 and I went on to finish my career at Germantown Elementary with nearly five years in pre-kindergarten. For the past three years the Lord led me to teach the pre- k class at my church, Faith Community Church, once a month. I have one daughter, who also attends LWG. I began homeschooling her at the age of two and she has really taken off since attending LWG.
My teaching philosophy is to love every child who is made uniquely special by God. And to meet that child where he or she is at, to learn while having fun and to maintain that love of learning! When I'm not teaching, I enjoy history books, gardening, blogging, family time, traveling and gourmet rice Krispy treats. One of my favorite Bible verses is: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ROMANS 5:8
NILD Education TherapistGinger has been homeschooling her three daughters since 1999. She’s taught a variety of homeschool classes including dissection, writing, public speaking. She also had a year-long stint as a Classical Conversations Challenge III director. She is a licensed physical therapist and an educational therapist working
NILD Education TherapistGinger has been homeschooling her three daughters since 1999. She’s taught a variety of homeschool classes including dissection, writing, public speaking. She also had a year-long stint as a Classical Conversations Challenge III director. She is a licensed physical therapist and an educational therapist working with students with various learning disabilities from her home office.
Social Studies, Science, Unit Studies, Life Skills, Project Based Learning
Candice is a wife of a service member and a mother of 3 children that attend Learning With Grace. She has been on a homeschooling journey for nearly five years now because her oldest son was struggling in the typical learning environment. Watching him merely surviv
Social Studies, Science, Unit Studies, Life Skills, Project Based Learning
Candice is a wife of a service member and a mother of 3 children that attend Learning With Grace. She has been on a homeschooling journey for nearly five years now because her oldest son was struggling in the typical learning environment. Watching him merely surviving and not thriving because of his learning difference led her on the research study for alternative learning environments. Candice has witnessed the beauty which homeschooling provides as well as this change was a breath of fresh air.
Candice loves learning and adjusting her teaching style or environment to each individual student’s needs or learning style as best as possible. She loves incorporating movement, interactive games, and fun activities all the while still maintaining a structured curriculum is very important in her style.
Family and Consumer Science
Angi was raised in Bowie, MD; however, she has spent her married life in the Annapolis area. She went to Bowie State University and studied Elementary Education. She married her high school sweetheart in 1992. She has four adult children who are all active in music and ministry and one cute mini goldendoodle. Sh
Family and Consumer Science
Angi was raised in Bowie, MD; however, she has spent her married life in the Annapolis area. She went to Bowie State University and studied Elementary Education. She married her high school sweetheart in 1992. She has four adult children who are all active in music and ministry and one cute mini goldendoodle. She is a busy Pastor’s wife who has taught Sunday school, youth and young adult classes, marriage and family classes. Angi’s passion is helping families thrive and helping people to overcome hurts and failures. She is a certified facilitator in Prepare Enrich, a marriage building program. She also teams up with her husband to teach Made to be Pure -- a seminar for young people on maintaining a pure lifestyle. She enjoys singing and worshiping God with her church’s praise team, decorating, and fabulous finds at the thrift store.
Spanish and Art
Alejandra is a native Peruvian and mother of two, a girl and a boy. She graduated from St. Augustine University in Peru with a degree in Business Administration. Upon her arrival in the U.S. in 2007 she worked in Early Childhood Development, attaining multiple certifications while working with pre-school and young school ag
Spanish and Art
Alejandra is a native Peruvian and mother of two, a girl and a boy. She graduated from St. Augustine University in Peru with a degree in Business Administration. Upon her arrival in the U.S. in 2007 she worked in Early Childhood Development, attaining multiple certifications while working with pre-school and young school age children. She understands what people go through when learning a new language, having arrived in the U.S. with little fluency in English. Alejandra and her husband Reid have homeschooled their two children their entire lives, which revealed to her a love for her language and culture she had previously taken for granted. Her work as a professional educator and experience as a home educator has further stoked a passion for education and the inherent experimentation needed to discover the best possible approach for each unique and individual child. She has also tutored privately as an au pair before starting her own business as a Spanish tutor, as well as leading classes at the co-ops her children have attended.
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