The Huntington Way - Episode 16 with Guest Marsha Brower - Home Schooling

Originally Aired: March 4, 2023
Guest: Marsha Brower
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Yvonne Strachan
Author and Blogger
www.inspirationalhomeschooling.com
http://inspirationalhomeschooling.com/
http://www.facebook.com/InspirationalHomeschooling
https://www.instagram.com/inspirationalhomeschooling/
https://www.youtube.com/@inspirationalhomeschooling3823 
Marsha Brower
Marsha Brower started playing instruments at age three and has never stopped. Though teaching music was not her career goal, her interest in and enjoyment of music guided her passion to teach music to others. She taught music classes in school and offered private lessons, growing in knowledge as she prepared for and taught each class. She began teaching music to students in homeschool co-ops and enrichment programs. As an assistant for two homeschool band programs her understanding of music instruction grew. When the instructors for these programs could no longer teach, she picked up the baton and carried on. Hence, Colorado Homeschool Music was born.
Marsha BrowerColorado Homeschool MusicCoHomeschoolMusic@protonmail.comhttps://www.cohomeschoolmusic.org
Facebook pages :Colorado Homeschool Music: https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoHomeschoolMusicHomeschool Music Fest Days: https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoHomeschoolArtsHomeschool Music Fest Days (registration pages): Solo & Ensemblehttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/homeschool-solo-and-ensemble-music-festival-registration-502880638527?aff=ebdshpsearchautocompleteConcert Festival https://www.eventbrite.com/e/homeschool-concert-festival-tickets-510225778037?aff=ebdssbdestsearchReferenced during interview:How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng
Music in Our Homeschool https://musicinourhomeschool.com

The Huntington Way - Episode 15 with Guest Yvonne Strachan - Home Schooling

Originally Aired: February 18, 2023
Guest: Yvonne Strachan
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Yvonne Strachan
Author and Blogger
www.inspirationalhomeschooling.com
http://inspirationalhomeschooling.com/
http://www.facebook.com/InspirationalHomeschooling
https://www.instagram.com/inspirationalhomeschooling/
https://www.youtube.com/@inspirationalhomeschooling3823 
While homeschooling five children over the past thirteen years, Yvonne has overcome many challenges; she teaches multiple children, a special needs child, and highschool students while dealing with chronic illness, providing care for a parent, and working. Being uniquely equipped through her experiences, Yvonne guides and encourages homeschool parents by consulting with homeschool families and speaking at homeschool conventions and for homeschool groups nationwide. Yvonneis the author of Inspirational Homeschooling. Her work has been published In Christian Home Educators of Colorado’s Update Magazine and the book, "Just Like You: A Collection of Homeschool Journeys" from HomeWorks by Precept. She also writes blog posts for HomeschoolHelp.com, the Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) blog, MyHomeschoolHub.com. and InspirationalHomeschooling.com. Yvonne resides in Colorado Springs with her five children and husband of twenty-five years.
 
Resources:www.inspirationalhomeschooling.comhttps://linktr.ee/Yvonnestrachan?utm_source=qr_code
 
CHEC advertisers and Homeschool Update magazine article2022 V2 issue (April) - page 24:  https://chec.org/subscribe/the-homeschool-update/
Interview with The Edvantage Podcast: https://youtu.be/ZtPp5F4z10g 

The Huntington Way - Episode 14 with Guests Abbie Kohlman & Theresa Klinitski

Originally Aired: August 27, 2022
Guest: Abbie Kohlman and Theresa Klinitski
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
About: Abbie Kohlman
Abbie Kohlman currently serves as the Program Support Specialist for the Pikes Peak Business and Education Alliance (PPBEA). I have 10 years of experience in a customer service and reporting role. My role with the PPBEA is to assist K-12 students throughout their career exploration process on the PPBEA MAKETPLACE website. In addition, I compile all PPBEA related reports and oversee many of our marketing and communications operations.
PPBEA is a public-private K-12 talent development partnership. PPBEA serves as a career-connected learning accelerator and intermediary - developing and managing relationships and interactions between El Paso and Teller County classrooms, students and host business representatives. PPBEA is starting its fourth year of operation in 2022 and is being increasingly mentioned locally and statewide as a best practice in career-connected learning by working its mission of “connecting students’ talents, interests & aptitudes to the world of work.” 
 
About: Theresa Klinitski
Theresa Klinitski, Operations Manager and Education Coordinator with the Pikes Peak Business and Education Alliance (PPBEA).  I was part of the PPBEA's initial launch team. I have over 20 years of experience in various aspects of education from teaching, advising, and consulting.   My role with PPBEA is to train and support our education partners as they design personalized career-connected learning programs that will be integrated into their unique school structure. I am constantly on the lookout for new ideas to encourage our K-12 students to own their futures!
PPBEA's mission is to connect students' talents, interests, and aptitudes to the world of work. To achieve this mission, the PPBEA serves as a productive and organized career-connected learning and training intermediary, helping align the world of work with high school curriculum, career exploration activities, and student post-secondary decision-making. We focus on high demand industries in the Pikes Peak region that are in need of a community talent development solution. Our goal is to modernize high school student's career decision-making process and its relation to their post-secondary plans. We utilize the MARKETPLACE web tool to make the connections between business and education partners easy, sustainable, and scalable. Ultimately, we want everyone to love their job!
 

The Huntington Way - Episode 13 with Guest Dr. Margaret B. Wright

Originally Aired: June 18, 2022
Guest: Dr. Margaret B. Wright
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
About: Margaret Wright, PhD
Dr. Margaret B. Wright, President/CEO of Collaborative Educational Supportive Services, LLC (CESS, LLC) in Pueblo, is an author, an education advocate/consultant/; a Formational Prayer Counselor; a Colorado Certified Addiction Specialist; a Competency Restoration Education Provider; an ordained minister of the gospel; and a professional performing artist. She holds a PhD in educational research and policy analysis with a concentration in curriculum and instruction; a MSA in School Administration and a BA and MFA in Theatre Arts. She is a graduate of the certificate program in formational prayer (Terry Wardle’s) from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio and the certificate program in theology from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently serves as the CEO of CESS, LLC; Exec. Dir/Consultant with Pueblo Empowerment Community Development Corporation; and co-founder/apostle of Pueblo Center of Worship and Empowerment.
Education: As an educator (credited with over 40 years) and an enthusiast for the arts as a conduit for learning, she has served in a myriad of roles: college and community college instructor; education director/principal; teacher (high, middle and elementary schools) and as an education consultant. She has provided professional development for teachers, paraprofessionals and school administrators. During her tenure as a school administrator, she served in several alternative educational settings: three juvenile prisons, a mental health hospital, medical hospital and a specialized Children’s Hospital for students with multiple disabilities. She was trained as an AdvancED (SACS CASI) Chair-National Certification as an AdvancED Quality Assurance Review Chair: certified chair for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Council on Accreditation and School Improvement; trained to lead a quality assurance review team visit into any SACS CASI / AdvancED-member school. Dr. Margaret B. Wright has been advocating for the educational rights of children for decades and in Pueblo since she moved there in 2013.
Counseling: Her approach in counseling is founded in her earlier work while serving as a rehabilitation therapist in a music therapy program in a residential mental health hospital in NC. She created and implemented a drama and dance therapeutic approach to treatment of patients with mental health and intellectual disabilities. As a result of her patients' responses to treatment, she was invited to present her techniques at their psychiatrists and medical doctors’ staff meeting, the North Carolina State Music Therapy Association conference, the South East Regional Music Therapy Association conference, and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s “Very Special Arts Festival.”
Ministry: She provides training for Christian faith-based ministries, nationally and internationally, in using the arts for ministerial outreach and education, assisting numerous churches in establishing creative arts ministries and evangelistic outreach using dance, theatre, puppetry, Spoken Word, etc.
Books:
I Receive Your Love: A chronicle of her healing journey
I Receive Your Love: Healing of Trauma through Drama (Theatre) Leaders Guide and Participant Workbook (releasing ©2022)
Dancing In His Presence: A Guide to Establishing and Maintaining a Dance Ministry©2015, ©1999
Dancing In His Presence: A Guide to Establishing a Maintaining a Dance Ministry Instructor’s Manual and Student Workbook ©2019
What Does It Mean to Know God? ©2017
What Does It Mean to Know God? Teaching Guide and Workbook (releasing ©2022)
How to Say No and Feel Good About It (releasing © 2022
 
About the Business: Collaborative Educational Supportive Services, LLC “A Holistic Approach to Education and Healing Through the Arts” Website: drmargaretbwright.com
Dr. Margaret B. Wright, an education consultant, formational prayer counselor and a Colorado Certified Addiction Specialist, uses an integrative therapeutic approach in educational consultancy and counseling that uses the arts (inclusive of dance and drama) experientials to promote a holistic approach to advance the health and wellbeing of the client.
Services:
1) offers arts-based seminars for children and adults using dance and theater to stimulate emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills.
2) Provides transitional services, testing, educational advocacy and supportive services for students struggling in educational settings; provides educational support and seminars for families teaching skills to support child/ren in school.
3) Provides individual counseling and small group sessions for adults and children using Formational Prayer Counseling to clients requesting this venue.
4) Designs, develops and evaluates arts-based programs and/or curriculum and professional development for educational programs, school systems, governmental, agencies, community, and faith-based organizations serving children and youth.
5) Provides Competency Restoration Educational Services to clients referred by the Office of Behavioral Health.
 

The Huntington Way - Episode 12 with Guest Sarah Knox

Originally Aired: June 11, 2022
Guest: Sarah Knox
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Sarah Knox
Sarah has a career spanning more than 20 years and a variety of educational roles including classroom teacher, early childhood education, paraeducator, and STEM instructor. She has a bachelor's degree in History, and Elementary Teaching post-grad certification, and a Master's in Education Curriculum and Instruction. Sarah is passionate about bringing the love of STEM to youth of all ages and backgrounds.
After moving back and forth between the USA and Europe several times as an Air Force spouse, her family settled in Colorado Springs in 2014. She taught 5th grade for two years in D11, bringing her students to STARBASE both years before joining the STARBASE team as a full time instructor in 2017. In October 2021 Sarah moved into the role of Director where she continues to share the "hands-on/minds-on" STARBASE program with students throughout the Colorado Springs area.
Social media links:local site is www.starbasepeterson.com
national site is www.dodstarbase.org

The Huntington Way - Episode 11 with Guest David Hamby

Originally Aired: Jun 4, 2022
Guest: David Hamby
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
David Hamby
Mr. Hamby holds a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Troy State University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy. He spent over 22 years as a Combat Search and Rescue Helicopter Pilot serving all over the world to include living in Iceland and Japan (Okinawa), as well as deployments to South Korea, Turkey, Qatar and combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mr. Hamby retired from the Air Force in 2013 with over 2,300 flying hours in nine different aircraft and received many military awards and decorations to include the Meritorious Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon and Bronze Star Medal. He completed his certification to teach both middle and high school math classes in 2016 and has taught Algebra 1, Algebra II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Probability & Statistics, and AP Probability & Statistics. Mr. Hamby currently works at the Huntington Learning Center in Colorado Springs as a tutor for ACT/SAT math test preparation and help with homework in different math subjects. He enjoys sports (he has coached recreational soccer and middle school track & field and soccer), reading, movies, music, flying, and spending time with his family.

The Huntington Way - Episode 10 with Guest Yvonne Strachan

Originally Aired: May 28, 2022
Guest: Yvonne Strachan
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Yvonne Strachan
Author and Blogger
www.inspirationalhomeschooling.com
While homeschooling five children over the past thirteen years, Yvonne has overcome many challenges; she teaches multiple children, a special needs child, and highschool students while dealing with chronic illness, providing care for a parent, and working. Being uniquely equipped through her experiences, Yvonne guides and encourages homeschool parents by consulting with homeschool families and speaking at homeschool conventions and for homeschool groups nationwide. Yvonneis the author of Inspirational Homeschooling. Her work has been published In Christian Home Educators of Colorado’s Update Magazine and the book, "Just Like You: A Collection of Homeschool Journeys" from HomeWorks by Precept. She also writes blog posts for HomeschoolHelp.com, the Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) blog, MyHomeschoolHub.com. and InspirationalHomeschooling.com. Yvonne resides in Colorado Springs with her five children and husband of twenty-five years.
 
Resources:www.inspirationalhomeschooling.comhttps://linktr.ee/Yvonnestrachan?utm_source=qr_code
 
CHEC advertisers and Homeschool Update magazine article2022 V2 issue (April) - page 24:  https://chec.org/subscribe/the-homeschool-update/
Interview with The Edvantage Podcast: https://youtu.be/ZtPp5F4z10g 

The Huntington Way - Episode 09 with Guest Jennifer Matyas

Originally Aired: May 21, 2022
Guest: Jennifer Matyas
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Jennifer Matyas (pronounced Mattis)
I am a mother of three kids and a military spouse. Before having kids, I spent 8 years working in the field of Human Resources. I have been a stay at home mom for 17 years.As far as any opportunities for community members to promote: Each school is unique to their specific needs but parents and caregivers can volunteer as much or as little as they would like - whether it be helping in a classroom, shelving books in the library, serving on the PTO or PTA or choosing one event at the school you are passionate about and help with the event. If a community member doesn't have school age children but would like to be involved in D20,they can join a School Accountability Committee as a neighborhood representative. 

The Huntington Way - Episode 08 with Guest Jenna Hinkle

Originally Aired: May 14, 2022
Guest: Jenna Hinkle
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
 
Assistant Director of Development:
A Colorado Springs native, Jenna began playing the cello at the age of 10. She holds a Bachelor of Innovation from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with Highest Distinction. She was an active member of the UCCS Arts Community, participating in Theatre Works’ Lysistrata, the UCCS String Quartet, Professor Jon Forshee’s Telequartet, the UCCS Honors Ensemble, and several student recitals. She has performed original compositions by several of her fellow students, including works by Conor Bourgal, Noel Armendariz, Amanda Dillon, and Kitty Robinson. She performed in “Romancing the Strings” at Broadmoor Community Church in February 2020. Her primary mentors both musically and academically are Paul Rule, Jane Chan, Leah Hansen, and Colleen Stiles.
Alpenglow Music Program is an organization of small ensembles providing affordable and flexible music education to students of all ages and skill levels. Top-tier coaches facilitate growth and connection while our opportunity-driven model relieves excessive academic pressures in order to maximize the growth of each student.
https://www. alpenglowmusicprogram.org/ staff
Facebook: Alpenglow Music ProgramInstagram: @alpenglow_mp
Information about our summer program can be found on our website atwww.alpenglowmusicprogram.org/summerOur summer program is June 25-30, 2022. The application is FREE and is due on June 1st at 11:59pm!

The Huntington Way - Episode 07 with Guest Steve Schuck

Originally Aired: May 7, 2022
Guest: Steve Schuck
Huntington Learning Center Website: https://huntingtonhelps.com/center/colorado-springs
Huntington Learning Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingtonColoradoSpringsCO/
Huntington Learning Center YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCur1jYqh8vCL2IwjYzpULcg
Steve Schuck’s career resume reads more like an adventure, a mission to succeed and to lead. It began with an economics degree from the Wharton School of the Universityof Pennsylvania. Following graduation, he became a math teacher and head football coach at Manlius, prep school for WestPoint. After two years in New York City, he and his wife, Joyce, a published author, headed west. They have three children, six granddaughters, two grandsons and three great granddaughters.
 
The business Steve founded is wholly owned by the Schuck family. In the more than 50 years since its beginnings, the company has grown from a small real estatebrokerage enterprise to a major developer of commercial, residential, industrial and mixed-use projects in multiple markets.
The Schucks have, or had, more than 50 joint ventures and partnerships, creating and developing more than 5,000 residential home sites and 10,000 acres of commercialprojects in the Denver, Colorado Springs, Portland, and Phoenix markets, valued in the billions of dollars.
Steve Schuck’s leadership has also extended to many community and civic challenges, including being or having been a trustee of the Daniels Fund and Alliance forSchool Choice, Life Skills Center, Rocky Mountain Community Foundation, Step 13, the Bighorn Center, the Colorado Alliance for Reform in Education, Independence Institute (past Chairman), CACI, Kids Voting, The Career Building Academy, Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, Pikes Peak Y-USO, Junior Achievement, Boy Scouts, Western National Bank, Penrose Hospital, National Jewish Hospital, and the UCCS and CU Foundations.
As a founder or co-founder of both the state and the Colorado Springs private economic development programs, the Greater Denver Corporation, the Colorado Leadership Forum, and the Republican Leadership Program (now the Leadership Program of the Rockies), his entrepreneurial accomplishments reach far beyond business. 
 
Presently his focus is on improving public policy, both in Colorado and nationally, so that all parents, regardless of their circumstances, are empowered to choose the education they think is best for their children.  In early 2003, his efforts contributed to the passage of Colorado’s HB 1160,then the country’s newest and strongest school choice legislation.  And he and Joyce have backed up their commitment to education by creating and funding Parents Challenge, which has provided scholarships and grants to more than 1700 disadvantaged kids in both public and private schools.
 
He has been named “Citizen of the Year” by the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Association of Homebuilders, the Urban League, the Board of Realtors, the El Paso County Republican Party, and has received a medal of merit from the University of Colorado Board of Regents, Step 13’s first award of leadership, the David S. D’Evelyn Award for Inspired Leadership from the Independence Institute, the YMCA’s Woodgate Award and the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise’s Achievement Against the Odds “Pharaoh” Award and, with Joyce, was chairperson of the Easter Seals Telethon, the March of Dimes Mothers March, and received the Lions Heart Award from CSCS. 
Gov. Owens proclaimed Oct. 15, 2004 as Steve Schuck Day.  Steve also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award, was named Honorary Dean of Real Estate by the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, received the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper’s Freedom of Spirit Award, was honored by the Red Cross with its Humanitarian Award, and by the mayor of Colorado Springs with his “Spirit of the Springs” award.
 
Steve Schuck believes passionately that “Everyone will benefit when business entrepreneurs bring their real world experience and talent, developed in the competitivemarketplace, to society’s challenges.”
 
So he took his thoughts on improving government even a step further. He ran for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado in 1986, hoping to apply hiscommunity and business leadership to the challenges facing his state. He lost by fewer than 3,000 votes, but made, and still makes, important contributions to the political landscape. As a candidate, he was endorsed by the Denver Post, which praised his “restless energy, driving intelligence, infectious humor and contagious need to do something.”