HEED Naples

HEED Instructors:

The goal of Home Education Enrichment Day is to serve God by assisting families in their call to home educate their children. HEED helps equip home educating parents to fulfill their responsibility by connecting them with instructors that will enrich their home education. (Please note that not all HEED instructors hold a Florida Teaching certificate.) HEED provides community for middle and high school aged students in an environment where they are encouraged to seek God and to pursue academic excellence. The parent ultimately remains the teacher. The HEED instructor is a facilitator, instructing the student in class, while the parent oversees and leads the student during the week.

Lee Ann Thomas | Catie Frates | Gena Smith
Amy (Scofield) Rigall | Aimee Line

Lee Ann Thomas (write.now.lat@gmail.com)
Writing I: Logic Level / Writing II: Rhetoric Level

Having taught her children since birth, Lee Ann Thomas believes with her whole heart that there's no place like home when it comes to education. With the Lord's urging, a Bachelor's degree in teaching and very little confidence, she and her husband set out to train up their own children. She soon learned that her confidence and ability were hanging by a thread and she was beginning to wonder about the Lord's "urging" as well. The love and encouragement of other families in the same predicament was the spark which ignited her passion for group teaching. Lee Ann believes all children are "full to overflowing" with God given creativity. Training children to effectively express and present this gift is the challenge that she loves and the talent she has been given.

Catie Frates (catiefrates@embarqmail.com)
Physical Science / Biology / Chemistry / General Science

Catie Frates is a dedicated bondservant of Jesus Christ, wife and mother of three. She is an author, Biblical Scientific Creationist, Creation Science Speaker and a High School Science Teacher. She has a BSA in Microbiology and Cell Biology from the University of Florida. Catie and her husband Steve make their home in Naples, FL where they pursue God in the raising of their daughters as well as the management of their ministry. Catie's primary goal is to share the scientific evidence of the Biblical Genesis Account - that, in fact, the scriptures can be taken completely at their word. She is dedicated to the training of God's people in this arena of such important issues. Catie enthusiastically shares this gift of joy and freedom found for her in the scientific evidence that substantiates the inerrancy of God's Word in an entertaining and understandable fashion. It is Catie's particular desire to reach teachers, parents and young people with this information. For more information, visit her website www.catiefrates.com.

Gena Smith ( genasmith4@gmail.com )
Mixed Media Art

Gena Smith has been an Art Educator for ten years, working with children frades K-12. She is also a homeschool ,other to 4 children. Mrs. Smith designs her own lesson plans for each class, incorporating the elements of art and the principals of design along with teaching a variety of techniques. Projects are chosen so that students will have success and become confident with the God-given creative abilities no matter what their skill level. Her excitement and support for the arts is contagious and inspiring to her students. Please visit "Art To Go",www.arttogo-gsmith.blogspot.com.

Amy (Scofield) Rigall (aslanstears@gmail.com)
Communications & Public Speaking / World History /
Worldview/Literature (Starting Points) / Creative Communications / Science

A homegrown member of the homeschooling community, Amy lives in Naples with her husband Stephen, and looks forward to becoming involved as an instructor. During high school, she enjoyed taking HEED classes, completing a 4 year Great Books course, and participating in 3 years of competitive speech and debate in N.C.F.C.A. In 2007, Amy spent several months as an Intern for the Institute for Cultural Communicators and returned in summer 2010 as an Alumni Staff member. She continued to refine her communication abilities through 3 years of collegiate debate at Biola University and 2 years coaching a high school debate club in California. Amy graduates from Biola this May with a B.S. in Studio Arts having also completed the Torrey Honors Institute program. After taking multiple courses in Art History, Classic Literature and Philosophy, Amy continues to pursue her interest in the integration of faith, ideas and culture while celebrating the Lordship of Christ throughout each aspect of life.

Aimee Renee Line (aimeeline@gmail.com)
Writing/Language Arts I & II / World History

Aimee Renee Line loves to learn. Her passion is contagious in the classroom where she believes that students learn by doing and that everyone is a writer. A member of the International English Honor Society and The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar, Aimee graduated with an honors degree in English and Secondary Education. Taking her passion for words to international schools in South America, Aimee conducted middle school reading and writing workshops as well as high school English classes. Serving alongside her husband, Brent, as a church-planting missionary in Colombia, South America, Aimee became fluent in Spanish. Through the years Aimee has also enjoyed opportunities to teach history, science and Bible in various international settings. In Naples, Brent and Aimee continue to use their language skills www.language-lines.com. while serving in Hispanic ministry and homeschooling their three children. Aimee is delighted to return to the formal classroom setting where she can transmit her love for Christ, language and learning to HEED students.

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