WORKSHOPS that Debra will be doing at the Fair:

Keynote: Raising an Independent Learner

Determining Your Child’s Learning Style
Developing Creative and Critical Thinking Skills
Getting Started Homeschooling
Homeschooling Teens
How Children Learn
How Teens Learn
Motivating the Reluctant Learner

Who is Debra Bell?

• Author of the best-selling Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling (Thomas Nelson, 1997, 2001, 2005).
• Forthcoming: The Homeschooler's Guide to High School and College and Ultimate Guide, 10th Anniversary Edition.
• Keynote speaker at numerous state and regional conventions and High School @ Home seminars.
• English teacher, Creative Home Educators Support Services and PA Homeschooler's Online Advanced Placement English.
• Director of Debra Bell's Home School Resource Center.
• Founder of Susquehanna Valley Pregnancy Services; co-founder CHESS (Creative Home Educators Support Services) family school, Learning Center home school co-op and Encore! Home School Productions.
• Doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, Temple University; M.A. in English; B.S. in Communications Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
• Columnist on home school topics for Crosswalk.com. See some of her columns here.

Debra says: "I used to teach high school and college English in traditional settings - from that you can figure I have a few degrees and professional credentials. About twenty years ago, though, friends of mine without degrees or teaching experience started to homeschool and got better results than I did in the classroom, so I paddled my boat into their stream."

Debra lives in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, just downwind from the Hersheys' chocolate factory! (One of the advantages of marrying the right man, Kermit, in 1981!) All four of their children have now graduated from homeschooling. (Their twin sons have graduated from college, and one is married; their two daughters are in college.)

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