Cheryl Bastian, author, speaker, homeschool mom, attended Illinois State University majoring in Early Childhood Education. In addition to teaching two-, three- and four-year-olds at a developmental preschool in Central Florida, she inspired parents through continuing education seminars, and built upon own her teaching skills at national and local conferences. After leaving the classroom, Cheryl became a full-time, stay-at-home-mom, where she received the most valuable, hands-on training available. It was during this time that she began her home education journey which spans sixteen years.
Cheryl co-founded and led a large Central Florida homeschool support group for nine years, creating the organizational framework and operating policy, working with a board to plan monthly support meetings, leading monthly meetings, scheduling educational opportunities for parents and children, writing and editing a monthly newsletter, developing an enrichment cooperative for upper elementary through high school, offering parent workshops, and mentoring new leaders. For the past three years Cheryl has coordinated vendors and workshops for Books & Beyond, a mid-year conference intended to encourage parents in their efforts to raise contagious, generational readers.
Cheryl, and her husband, Mike, spend their summers evaluating the educational progress of home educated students, desiring to equip and to motivate families on their home education journeys. At home, Cheryl delights in training, teaching, and affirming her six children (from preschool to college-age adult). Cheryl is the author of four books: You HAVE to Read This One: Raising a Contagious Reader, Check These Out (a multi-level unit study about books and libraries), Flip Three Pancakes with One Spatula, and Celebrate High School: Finish with Excellence, as well as Taking Math on the Road, a thematic math activity folder. She contributes to and writes for state and national publications.
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