MEET THE
SPED HOMESCHOOL TEAM
Peggy Ployhar
Founder/CEO
Peggy has held leadership positions in the special education homeschooling community for 17 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.
Terrie McKee
COO
Terrie McKee is married with four children, all of whom have special needs (her husband is also a paraplegic), and a homeschooler of her youngest daughter. She’s a homeschool blogger, writer, and speaker, and understands the complexities that special needs add to life, so her mission is to encourage parents homeschooling children with varying abilities.
Amy Vickrey
Training 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.
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.
Justin Holt
Video Production Manager
Justin is a husband to wife Kelly and father of 4, 3 who he is homeschooling, who came to the Lord in 2016 along with his wife. He has been editing the audio and video production at his church Mount Zion – Church of the Firstborn since 2019, and continues assisting their online ministry. He is also currently the worship leader and alongside his family, sings praises to the Lord each week.
Noah Paul
ViDEO Intern
Noah, a proud techie, has been homeschooled his entire life. He has devoted countless hours to learning audio visual equipment and computers from online videos, later teaching himself how to operate a wide range of technical equipment. Since 2016, Noah has maintained his own YouTube channel with gaming and hosts a weekly talk show, “The Nman Show.” Additionally, he manages his own Twitch page and several other social media sites. His passion for multimedia is evident in everything he does.
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.
Cammie Arn
Events Team
Cammie is a “veteran” homeschool mama, still in the trenches teaching 5 of her 8 kids at home. Her children range in age from 2-23, and she has graduated 3 from her homeschool.
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Past Team Members
Meet all the great volunteers who have contributed their time and energy into SPED Homeschool.
