Debbie
Customer Care and Conventions
Debbie, who started teaching her children at home in 1993, has six children and currently three grandchildren. In school Debbie did well in math so thought teaching it would be easy. Wrong! What she realized is that while she could do math, she didn’t understand it enough to help her children when they didn’t understand. She tried multiple math curriculum in her search for understanding. After attending a RightStart presentation at a local home school book fair, Debbie made one of the best decisions in her homeschool journey and transitioned three of her children into Level E and started her two youngest in Level B.
As she taught her children with RightStart, she too found herself understanding and being able to apply concepts which opened up a love for math that she didn’t know she had. She has taught all the RightStart Levels and currently attends conferences so she can share her love for RightStart with others looking for a math curriculum. She assists RightStart with their Facebook pages and teaches classes for the online Level G and Level H classes. Debbie also teaches American History and Civics to middle-school students at a homeschooling outsource school in Texas, works with the youth at her church as well as mentoring some of the ladies too. In her free time she loves photography, reading, researching and doing puzzles. She can be reached at [email protected].
Allison
Customer Care and Conventions
She can be reached at [email protected].
Rebecca
Customer Care and Conventions
Robin
Customer Care and Conventions
Robin is a homeschool mom who, prior to using RightStart Math with her two boys, struggled with math. Like so many people, she knew enough to “get by” but didn’t really understand math. Many “Eureka!” moments happened as she taught using RightStart. She loved RightStart so much she began working at their booth at homeschool conventions and even joined their customer care team! In addition to homeschooling, she works part time at her church in the children’s ministry. When Robin is not tending to her many responsibilities, you can find her in some cozy spot reading a good book and sipping a cup of tea! Robin may be reached at [email protected].
Suzanne
Customer Care and Conventions
Rachel
Customer Care and Conventions
Rachel Anderson has been homeschooling for 15 years. She has been married to Steve for 25 years and has been blessed with four children: Brady – 20, Logan -18, Parker -16, and Makenna – 12. Prior to homeschooling she graduated from Cincinnati Christian University (formerly known as Cincinnati Bible College) with degrees in Music and Business. She worked in Human Resources, Information Technology Department and as a Music Minister at her local church. Once she had children and started to homeschool, she realized that one of her children has significant learning struggles. As a result, she has done considerable research learning how to teach the ‘Struggling Learner’ in her family and loves to pass on her knowledge and experience to other parents looking for help.
Rachel has used RightStart Math from Kindergarten on. In fact she has “graduated” three children from RightStart Math and had been thrilled with her kids’ understanding of math concepts. She currently responds to emails sent to RightStart Math regarding questions about the curriculum or simply parents needing some guidance in their homeschool situations. She also enjoys working at homeschool conventions and sharing information about RightStart Math at the booth or in workshops. You can reach her at [email protected].
Teresa
School Liaison and Conventions
Teresa has a B.A. in English Literature and an M.S. in Student Affairs in Higher Education. Previously the Director of Student Activities at an American university in Germany, she is now a homeschooling mom of five and has been using RightStart™ since 2005. She is interested in adoption, travel, horses, gardening and reading. She can be reached at [email protected].
Beth
Customer Care and Conventions
Beth never thought she would work for a math company. Although she was reasonably good at math in school, her first love was literature. She completed just the bare minimum of required math courses in secondary school; she chose the arts route for post-secondary, gathering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in literature and languages; and then she went on to work at a library. Once she had children, Beth decided to homeschool. Her first child proved to be a solidly left-brained learner and a natural at math. A friend recommended RightStart Mathematics for him, and right away they were hooked; she loved the way that the curriculum matched up with how her son was already thinking about math.
Beth’s next child proved to be a solidly right-brained learner who didn’t think about math much at all! Yet RightStart turned out to be an excellent fit for her as well, because it trained her to think mathematically, and to have fun while doing it. Two more children followed, one a typical learner and another with significant delays and learning differences. Beth’s children now range in age from 6-12 years old and she is loving using RightStart with all of them.
She can be reached at [email protected].
Rhonda
Customer Care
Rhonda homeschooled her daughter from pre-school through high school. In the early years, she enjoyed researching homeschool models and curricula, but choosing a math program left her in a quandary until a friend highly recommended RightStart Math. Soon after, she and her daughter jumped into Level B and began a wonderful adventure of learning, understanding and applying mathematics.
Math was challenging for her daughter, but RightStart gave her little girl freedom within boundaries. She was free to succeed at her own pace and free to think outside of a box all while learning the RightStart way of doing math. This laid the foundation for “understanding” the math required in high school science classes.
Rhonda studied Elementary Education at St. Vincent College, Music Education at West Chester University and Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is trained in Musikgarten, a Montessori based early childhood music and movement program. She and her family live in Texas where she teaches piano.
She can be reached at [email protected].
Leana
Conventions
Leana and her husband started homeschooling nine years ago. When they first decided to homeschool, they attended a local homeschool conference with a goal of finding a math curriculum that they liked. After much research they settled on RightStart and haven’t looked back. One of the greatest parts of teaching with RightStart for Leana was that, even though she did fairly well in math herself, she was learning things with her kids and is really understanding math. She has also been able to watch how each of her four daughters has benefited from RightStart even with their different personalities and learning styles. With her oldest just finishing level G, she loves watching the critical thinking that has come from RightStart show itself in higher level maths and even other subjects.
Leana and her family live in Calgary, Alberta Canada. When she’s not teaching her girls she can be found outside somewhere shooting archery, camping, gardening, snowshoeing… whatever the weather allows.
Eve
Conventions
Eve has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from N.C. State. She has been using RightStart Math since 2005. After briefly trying another curriculum, she ran across RightStart Math. After looking into the program, she knew RSM was the way she wanted to pass on her love for mathematics to her children. She and her husband have three children. The youngest will begin Level G this coming school year, the middle child is the maker of the Place Value Card Holders and Base Ten Card Holders, and the oldest is in college. Eve can be reached at [email protected].
