Village Home is governed by a voluntary committee elected by parents of currently enrolled students. Members of the Board serve for two years, with half the board up for election in the Spring. Those serving on the board elect officers. Parents are encouraged to contact Board members with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.

• Melanie Davis

  
  Melanie Davis has been traveling the homeschooling path with her husband and three boys for the past 7 years. Her passion is to be present in the moment, waking up to, and loving, what is. She has a B.A. in Religious Studies from Humboldt State University, has trained and interned as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, and is currently learning and working through YogaFit's 200-hour teacher training program.
  
  

• David Dennison

  
  David is a homeschooling father, and discovered Village Home in 2005. Since that time, David has become increasingly interested in Village Home’s management and operations, and became the IT Coordinator in 2006, then joined the board in 2007. David’s background is in computers, and he has a wide range of experience including training, consulting, systems management, web design, and software engineering. David has also served on several non-profit boards.
  
  

• Amy Grant

  
  Amy Grant earned a B.A. Economics and a J.D. She has been a member of the California and Oregon Bar Associations and practiced law for more than a 20 years. She began homeschooling ten years ago as a stop-gap measure to avoid bussing her daughter away from her neighborhood school. In the process, her family discovered that they enjoy the adventure of parent-child cooperative learning and exploration. She has a daughter at Portland State, and a son who takes classes at Village Home and studies independently. Amy has served on the board of OHEN, Oregon Home Education Network, and Greater Portland Homeschoolers. Amy can be reached at amy.grant@villagehome.org.
  
  

• Barbara Hammond

  
  Barbara Hammond is a transplant from Canada where she worked as a Recreation Therapist with children and adults in a neighborhood non-profit. Her focus was with seniors, many with Alzheimer’s. She designed and implemented adult recreational, inter-generational and pet therapy programs and after-school sports programs for children. Finding a new passion with computers, she worked in retail management, corporate sales, training and human resources with Egghead Software. She traveled nationwide, opening stores and training new employees. Barbara and her husband have home educated their three children since birth.
  
  

• Carol Linderman

  
  Carol Linderman brings experience as a board member of an established co-op, and a wealth of talent as a writer and designer. Carol Linderman is a homeschooling mother of two. She has a degree in Visual Design and was self employed as a graphic designer for twenty years. She has taught a variety of classes at Village Home and elsewhere, and co-manages two Destination Imagination teams.
  
  

• Jim Miner

  
  Jim Miner is the proud father of two daughters, husband of a La Leche League Leader and the co-founder of the La Leche League National Helpline. He and his wife have been parent participation preschool community members, and have now chosen homeschooling. In his professional life, Jim has been a business banker, an insurance broker, and is now a practicing attorney. As a member of the Multnomah Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Jim is a committee member for the YOUthFILM PROJECT. He has served on the Board of Directors of OPTIC, and chaired the Tracy Environmental Oversight Committee. Jim is dedicated to the idea that children should be free to grow and learn according to their natural inclinations, with adult guidance and supervision.
  
  

• Rosalyn Newhouse

  
  Rosalyn Newhouse has served for over five years on the Village Home Parent Executive Board. Rosalyn has many years experience in business management, logistics, volunteer work, volunteer management and administration, computer technologies and graphic design, financial planning and consultation, education at grade levels K through adult, training of trainers, curriculum development, and human resources. She homeschooled her son, who is now working professionally in computer services, and is currently homeschooling her middle-school daughter. In addition to her current work in computer services, publications, and web design, Rosalyn is a Certified Nutritional Therapist and a graduate of the Melton School for Adult Jewish Education. Her degree is in Business Administration, and she has started, owned, and operated a number of companies over the years. Rosalyn is a professional member of USA Gymnastics and serves as a rhythmic gymnastics judge for Region II and meet director for her daughter's rhythmic gymnastics team.Rosalyn is committed to fostering a homeschool community that serves the needs and desires of the community at large, and embraces the many diverse philosophies and needs of each member family. Rosalyn can be reached at rosalyn.newhouse@villagehome.org.
  
  

• Renee Poindexter

  
  Renee is an advisor to the Parent Executive Board. She is the founder of Living the Potential Network. She is an accomplished teacher, seminar leader, and consultant. Renee has a BS in Education. Her desire to teach and facilitate continues now as she works with individuals to align the needs for natural health with natural learning. Combining her business experience with her knowledge of education, she has developed a learning model, which engages the business and educational stakeholders into the design of projects, which inspire learners of all ages into real-world problem solving. Her vision of creating learning communities has been forged directly from her association with the Wondertree Foundation for Natural Learning and has been on the cutting edge of pursuing mutually beneficial partnerships between business and education. Renee's experience with the uses of technology to improve learning and work flow has resulted in consulting in the software industry by assisting schools with the integration of technology as an interdisciplinary tool and with businesses desiring to re-invent their management systems.
  
  

• Lori Walker

  
  Lori is the founder and Executive Director of Village Home and serves as an ex-officio non-voting member of the Board. Lori is happily homeschooling two daughters, Claren and Natalie. Prior to becoming a mom, Lori was the Director of Training and Curriculum at Learning Forum, a cutting-edge educational consulting company, and is a trained facilitator. She also brings to the table five years experience in non-profit management as Director of the SMU Alumni Association, and has experience teaching adults and children in a variety of subjects. Lori’s vision for Village is to provide a resource center where any home-educated child can enjoy a large variety of group learning experiences in a family-friendly community setting that honors and supports the parent as the primary educator. She earned BA degrees with honors from SMU in Business Management and Psychology, with an emphasis in child development.
  
  

• Connor Willemsen

  
  Connor Willemsen is an appointed student representative for the Parent Executive Board.
  
  

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Village Home follows the delayed opening and school closure policies of the Beaverton School District. If they are closed, so are we. If they are opening late, so are we.

Village Home is a learning community providing academic and social enrichment and resources for families who choose to home educate.

The vision of Village Home is to be a community model for family centered, home-based education that inspires and supports self-directed, lifelong learning.

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