S5: Betsy Ray - On your toes: Homeschooling with Toddlers Underfoot

Watch your step! Those wee ones are learning from everything you do. Betsy will offer encouragement and ideas for mothers of toddlers, especially those balancing their older and younger children’s education.

Biography: Betsy is a warm, compassionate, and fun-hearted teacher. She and Brian have been married 33 years and have 8 children and four grandchildren. All were/are homeschooled through their secondary years. Betsy home educates her children, helps manage a six-acre farm, grows and preserves large amounts of food, is a part of local and state-wide homeschool leadership, and is active in her community exercising her gifts of hospitality, teaching, and counselling other women. Betsy earned her B.S. in elementary education. Betsy is also a key support to her husband, Dr. Brian Ray, in his international work as president of the National Home Education Research Institute.