The Parent Executive Board consists of 3 to 15 Board Members, who are appointed by the Board, and who serve 1-year renewable terms. The Board seeks to have a number of skill sets at the table, among them: Accounting, Legal, Business, Education, and Fundraising. The Board also seeks to have a variety of voices represented at the table and we welcome current and past families, teachers and/or facilitators, and community leaders. The Parent Executive Board meets approximately five times annually, and some meetings are open to the public. See the google calendar for the schedule. The President of the Board can be emailed at president@villagehome.org. Interested in being nominated for board service? See details here.
Bobbi Burton (President)
Bobbi Burton earned an engineering degree from Cal Poly SLO, but her life took her in other directions. Prior to having a family, Bobbi was a preschool and kindergarten teacher, and has been teaching at Village Home since 2010. Bobbi’s gentle, nurturing guidance with the Discoverers students helps them learn to successfully navigate group dynamics. Bobbi’s adult children grew up at Village Home, and her extra time these days is spent with her husband and them.
Karl Graul
Karl Graul earned a Bachelors of Science in Business when computer screens were black and green and cell phones were a thing of dreams. For the past twenty-plus years he and his wife Kathy have owned and operated their business in the media and telecom fields. Karl has four children, all of whom attended Village Home. His youngest, Ezria, is still an attending student and heavily involved in the drama and Mock Trial programs. Karl’s passions include camping, movies, books, and road trips. He is a life-long learner, and hopes to serve as proof that old dogs really can learn new tricks. Email Karl at karl.graul@villagehome.org
Lauren Iscoff
If crafting was a super power, Lauren Iscoff would be saving the world one metropolis at a time. Often times she can be spotted toting around her brood of boys with a cup of coffee in hand and a smile on her face. She is passionate about history and art, having completed her BA in History at UCLA. Redirecting her energies into her family, she has channeled her interests into a designer education for her three boys. In 2013, she and her family moved to Oregon and shortly after that began attending classes at Village. She has been an active member of the community and loves being able to be apart of such a vivacious learning environment.
Deborah Mueller
Deborah Mueller obtained her B.A. and M.A. in French Language and Literature, and then her J.D., from the University of Hawaii. She taught French at the university level and later practiced commercial litigation in Honolulu before deciding to educate her four children full-time. After two years in Northern Virginia, her family moved to Oregon and she began teaching at Village Home in 2010. In addition to teaching social studies, language arts, and French, Deborah manages Destination Imagination teams, leads the Beaverton Learner Council, and coaches the VH Mock Trial team. She is also the resident Harry Potter nerd. Deborah cherishes every day she gets to learn along with the amazing learners at Village Home.
Molly Mulvaney
Molly loves homeschooling her 14 year old son and was delighted to find Village Home three years ago. Currently, she splits her time between Portland and Cordova, Alaska. Village Home is the reason she, her husband and their son winter in Oregon. Born and raised in western New York, Molly graduated from the University of Virginia and attended law school at Lewis and Clark in Portland. She maintains a small, part-time practice in Cordova. In another life, she commercially fished for halibut, cod and salmon in Kodiak and Dutch Harbor for eleven summer seasons. An enthusiastic life learner, she is excited to be on the board supporting Village Home and homeschooling in general. “It means so much to me and my family to be in a setting where our choices are normalized, validated, supported and celebrated. I want to do what I can so that anyone who makes this choice can feel this way too.”
Gretchen Weaver
In her 20+ years of teaching, Gretchen’s favorite teaching experience was the 6 years she taught at Village Home. Village made her feel like I could bring her whole self to the job. Gretchen loved teaching classics, but also teaching through exploration and games. After leaving Village and Oregon, Gretchen left teaching and moved into the non-profit sector to find new ways to help. She is currently the Executive Director of Open Door Multilingual Preschool in Dallas, Texas, where she applies lessons she learned at Village Home. She has a librarian husband, a brave and dopey pit bull, and three demanding cats. They share their home with their friend Val. One of the things she never tells people is how crazy music drives her and how rarely she actually listens to it, but if she had to pick, she would probably listen to something by Johnny Cash. Gretchen is the daughter of a Texas High School football coach, but she no longer worships Friday nights.
Connor Willemsen
Connor was a learner at Village Home from 2006 to 2012 after which he studied chemistry with an emphasis on physical chemistry and spectroscopy at the University of Oregon Honors College. During his time at UO he helped teach chemistry courses and did spectroscopy research on a DAAD RISE scholarship in Germany. After college Connor followed his passion into the high-performance audio industry and together with his partner also runs a forestry management and roadbuilding company. He volunteers as a State of Oregon Long-Term Care Ombudsman advocating for the residents of a memory care facility and a long-term mental healthcare facility. He loves cooking, reading about 20th century history, scuba diving, and riding motorcycles and snowmobiles. Connor looks back on his time at Village as the most valuable in his education due to the extraordinary learning environment that inspires intrinsically-motivated and interest-driven learning which he believes is the best way to teach academic skills and develop life-long learners. Email Connor at connor.willemsen@villagehome.org