MEET THE
SPED HOMESCHOOL TEAM
Peggy Ployhar
Founder/CEO
Peggy has held leadership positions in the special education homeschooling community for a 15 years. Her vision for SPED Homeschool is to create an organization that unites the special education homeschooling community to provide parents a consistent and trustworthy base of support, encouragement and resources.
Cammie Arn
Office Manager
Cammie Arn is a “veteran” homeschooler, still teaching 5 of her 8 kids who range in ages from 3-23. Cammie and her family enjoy country living near Bryan, TX. In her Facebook group Homespun Homeschool, she offers encouragement on homeschooling children from a life-schooling, Christian perspective.
Dawn Spence
Teaching Manager
Dawn is a homeschooling mother of three who left her special education teaching career to stay home and teach her own children. She is a gifted instructor who has the ability to bring out the teacher in everyone, especially showing parents how to modify curriculum to meet the specific learning needs of their child.
Amy Vickrey
Groups Manager
Amy knows special education inside and out from her extensive work as a classroom teacher before homeschooling and through her master’s degree work in the field. She now homeschools her two sons as well as runs a homeschool business that offers special needs homeschool classes and consulting.
Nakisha Blain
Social Media Manager
Nakisha is a multi-tasking mama of one, homeschooling while assisting other homeschool entrepreneurs as virtual assistant. Kentucky is her home-base when she and her family aren’t traveling to races around the country.
Melissa Schumacher
Editing & SEO Manager
Melissa recently transitioned to homeschooling her two adventurous boys. Because of her prior work teaching English as a second language and working in international development, she has adapted quickly to special needs homeschooling. Melissa, her two boys and husband, an active-duty Airman, live in Texas.
Ashly Barta
Publications Manager
Ashly is a homeschooling mother of two and military spouse who has seen the ins and outs of many different state educational programs and has a broad view of the supports and programming that is available to the special education community.
Lara Lee
Graphic Design Manager
Lara is a homeschooling mom of two special needs sons, a writer, a graphic designer, a blogger, and a Sunday School teacher. She’s working on a master’s degree in special education because, apparently, she isn’t busy enough. She looks forward to sharing her discoveries with other families like hers.
Shannon Ramiro
Training Assistant
Shannon has more training and experience in the special education realm than most parents could ever fathom gaining in a lifetime. Amidst all of life’s circumstances that have led to gaining this mountain of knowledge she homeschools her own son plus helps educate other parents about special education homeschooling.
Make a Difference – Join Our Team
If you are interested in making a difference in the special education homeschooling community, consider becoming a member of our team.
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Past Team Members
Meet all the great volunteers who have contributed their time and energy into SPED Homeschool.
