2009 CONVENTION SPEAKER

Jessica Hulcy
KONOS

Jessica Hulcy, co-author of KONOS Character Curriculum, the first homeschool curriculum written for homeschool by homeschoolers in 1984, will delight you with her sense of humor and refreshing openness about her home school experiences. She will encourage us to enjoy our children and to educate them in a way that builds love and togetherness in our families, while teaching to the head and heart of each child.

Jessica is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and has done post-graduate work at Texas A& M at Commerce.  She speaks nationally on a variety of public education and home school topics, writes curriculum for KONOS, and contributes articles to several homeschool magazines.  Jessica has taught for 31 years with 24 of those years spent homeschooling her four boys ages 32, 28, 25, and 20 and she lives with her husband Wade on 75 acres north of Dallas, TX.  Jessica has just started a new business called Homeschoolmentor.com which is designed to train the next generation of homeschoolers how to teach through her video instruction and online lesson planning.

Jessica will teach the following workshops:

• Hands-on:  Netting Retention Plus Creativity
• Teaching Everyone Together to Build Family
      and Stay Sane
• Writing 101 for Gifted AND Reluctant Writers