Date: 2027

Treasures of Knowledge are literally at our fingertips.  A whole world of wealth that we are striving as parents to introduce to our children.  This years conference will focus on how we can unlock such treasures.

We are excited to welcome the Well Educated Heart community to our conference this year!  Our conference will have a similar schedule to past years, classes each hour to choose from, only this time there will be a 4th class option where the speakers will be entirely focused on the Well Educated Heart philosophy and how it works.  

Past and present homeschoolers will perform Friday night at a music and family dance extravaganza.

Idaho State University Student Union Building, Pocatello Idaho

Adult Conference Price:

 

$52 * 2027 Early Bird tickets *

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Complimentary conference tickets available to:

  • Grandparents of home-schooled children
  • Parents of preschool children (eldest child not over 5 years old) and a first time attendee at one of our conferences
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2026

Speakers & Schedule

This years speaker line up will not disappoint!  We are very excited about those who are coming to share their experience and knowledge with us.

 

 

Tim Hall

Tim Hall

Belle Ame Campus (Well-Educated Heart)

Hello, friend. By way of introduction, I’m a board member and the Campus Director of Belle Ame Center for Artful Living – home of the Well-Educated Heart philosophy of learning. My wife, Irene, and I are the grateful parents of five children. 

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Nephi Zufelt

Nephi Zufelt

entrepreneur

Nephi is a servant of Christ; Elizabeth’s devoted husband; Zoe, Ainsley, Keller, Melina, and Stratton’s homeschooling father; world traveler; and a wannabe church basketball star. 

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Kami Harris

Kami Harris

Mentor

Kami is a dynamic educator and coach with 20 years of homeschool experience, a teaching certification, and life coach certifications–currently being trained in advanced Nervous System Resilience.

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Tracy Ward

Tracy Ward

Mentor

I’m Miss Tracy, a spontaneous, ardent believer in possibilities! I LOVE my mission of strengthening families and building a community of people who want to be the good in the world. I’m a wife to my best friend,…

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Jessica Ziel

Jessica Ziel

Educator

Jessica Ziel is a reading coach in Idaho, contracted to support the state’s Striving to Meet Achievement in Reading Together (SMART) project. This initiative focuses on equipping in-service K–3 teachers with Science of Reading practices.

Learn more...
Rosie Christman

Rosie Christman

Homesteader

A homeschool mother of 8 with a degree in social work, Rosie worked with infants, toddlers, and adult mental health until she received a promotion and became a full time stay-at-home-mom, which is the hardest, yet most rewarding work she’s ever done. She loves to mentor youth and adults, help heal hearts…

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Keri Tibbets

Keri Tibbets

Mentor

Keri is a mother of six, homeschooler of 20 years, and a private math tutor. With a special interest in how children learn, Keri has spent two decades researching, discussing, and discovering how to help students fall in love with learning and drive their own life-long education.

Learn more...
William and RaNae McKee

William and RaNae McKee

Home Educators

William McKee is a licensed professional counselor and has been in private practice for over 30years. He began his career as an entrepreneur at 21 years old when he created what is now known as McKee’s Garden and Pet Centers. Later, he and his wife RaNae created Center Counseling where 29 therapist work together in assisting families…
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Steve Dewey

Steve Dewey

Linsey Jensen

Linsey Jensen

Creator

Linsey Jensen is a physics educator, game designer, homeschooling mom of four, and a STEM advocate with a passion for hands-on, problem-solving learning. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in Science Education.

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Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson doesn’t remember a time in her life when she hasn’t loved planting things and helping them grow. As a young adult that passion led her down a 20+ year journey in the horticulture industry. Her career exercised her skills in adaptability as she gardened in five states….
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Heather Farrell

Heather Farrell

Heather Farrell’s love for the scriptures began early, when at the age of eleven she hid a flashlight under her pillow so she could read the Old Testament late at night. Her love for women in the scriptures began when her oldest son was born around Christmas and she felt a kinship with Mary.

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Heather Linchenko

Heather Linchenko

At her core, Heather’s mission has always been to help parents build stronger relationships with their children throughout the journey of raising and teaching them. MathHacked emerged as a natural extension of this passion, addressing one of the most common sources of tension between parents and children: mathematics education.
Learn more...
Fifi Clayton

Fifi Clayton

Fifi Clayton has a passion for understanding how people think, learn, and process information. With a natural ability to recognize learning challenges and connect with individuals of all ages, she has dedicated much of her professional life to helping others discover their potential.
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Marissa Rice

Marissa Rice

Marissa Rice is a wife, mother of eight, homeschooler, author, speaker, and the voice behind The Heritage Household. Together with her husband, Darren, she is raising their family on a small farm in East Idaho, where faith, family, education, and hard work are woven into everyday life.
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Schedule

Idaho State University Student Union Building, Pocatello Idaho

See a map of the student union building

Friday – January 30th

TimeMain Auditorium Classroom AClassroom B
8:00am - 8:45amRegistration
8:45am - 9:00amWelcome and Conference theme
9:00am - 9:45am
10:00am - 10:45am
11:00am - 11:45am
12:00 - 1:00pmLunch
1:00 - 1:45pm
2:00 - 2:45pm
3:00 - 3:45pm
4:00 - 4:45pm
7:00 - 10:00pmDance and Concert

Saturday – January 31st

Main AuditoriumClassroom AClassroom B
8:30 - 9:00 amVisit Vendors and Find Seating
9:00 - 10:00 am
10:00am-10:45am
11:00am-11:45am
11:45-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-1:45pm
2:00pm-2:45pm
3:00pm-3:45pm
4:00pm-4:15pmRaffle Drawings* and Youth Essay Scholarship Award*
4:15pm-5:00pm
Tim Hall
Hello, friend. By way of introduction, I’m a board member and the Campus Director of Belle Ame Center for Artful Living – home of the Well-Educated Heart philosophy of learning. My wife, Irene, and I are the grateful parents of five children. I’m a native of the Idaho Falls area, though we now live full time at the Belle Ame Center Campus in Northwest Missouri. We hope you’ll come visit us sometime.

My inclination toward education sprouted in a childhood of books and conversation, survived a BA in teacher education, ripened in a MA in second-language acquisition, and now thrives in practice. I have taught English and Spanish at private and public schools, managed a team of instructional designers at a nuclear energy lab, and overseen curriculum and learning at American Heritage School Worldwide. I am most interested in what I term “production-based learning”, where students learn in the context of creating something of genuine value to others. In practice, this production-based approach brings education together with my other great interest: regenerative agriculture. I’m grateful we’ll get to meet and learn from each other.

Title: Nourishing Hearts First: A Living Approach to Home and Home Education
Description:
Do you sometimes feel your homeschool is missing its spark—amid busy days, sometimes-interested kids, and the fear you’re not reaching their souls deeply enough?
In this interactive class, we’ll learn and experience principles and practices that put the heart in its rightful place, where it enlivens all our other efforts. These principles and practices come from our family’s 8-year journey in the Well-Educated Heart philosophy, and especially from my last two years as the Campus Director for Belle Ame Center for Artful Living. In that role I’ve learned together with hundreds of families, youth, and young adults in programs inspired by the Danish Folk High School model, aimed at re-enlightening and beautifying the soul.
I’ll share simple, joyful practices that revive spirits and inspire powerful, natural growth: morning song, poetry, and engaging with beauty through the arts and nature. We’ll experience a taste of these together, hear real stories of transformed families (including my own), and discover how nourishing hearts first creates the living education your family longs for—one filled with light, joy, and lasting purpose.

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NEPHI ZUFELT
Nephi is a servant of Christ; Elizabeth’s devoted husband; Zoe, Ainsley, Keller, Melina, and Stratton’s homeschooling father; world traveler; and a wannabe church basketball star. In his free time from these important roles, he is the CEO of NexTek Innovations (a medical device incubator), entrepreneur, founder and president of Wealth Mentality Families, author of 2 best-selling books (Katie Bell and the Wishing Well; A Story of Finding True Wealth and The Big Startup Guidebook for Kids), and keynote speaker.
Nephi grew up in the beautiful landscape of Moab, Utah and graduated from Utah State with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and MBA from the University of Tennessee. He has spent 10 years working his way into the C-Suite at a medical device manufacturing company only to turn around and leave it all for the uncertainty of startups and entrepreneurship so he could spend time doing what was most important to him; raising his family.
Nephi still enjoys the process of innovation and creation in the world of medical devices but finds his true passion in teaching and helping families to find their true purpose and create the life they desire. He teaches parents and youth how to avoid falling into the traps of worldliness and consumption while also pursuing true wealth in the correct way to be used in the service of others.
The boy crisis – Helping our young men find their way in a world that has left them behind. The data is clear; our young men are falling behind at an alarming rate. Worldwide the problem is even more serious. Young men are failing on nearly every metric we use to measure progress, but why? In this class we will discuss some of the problems we are seeing and what we can do to help our boys (our own and those around us) turn the tide and find success.
How to conquer a civilization – What would you do if you wanted to destroy a civilization? In this class we will look back at history to see what led to the fall of some of the greatest civilizations on Earth and draw parallels to what we are now seeing in Western society. You will leave this class with either a plan to conquer the world, or one to help your families change and try to save it.

Youth Class – Take Charge of Your Brain, Take Charge of Your Life
Have you ever wondered why you do something even when you don’t want to? Why do you pick up your phone and open your messenger app, even though you know that no one has texted? In this class we’ll discuss how our brain reacts to everyday activities and how companies have figured out how to hijack that process to get us to do things that make them money. Then, we will cover ways that you can take back control.

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Kami Harris
Mentor

Kami is a dynamic educator and coach with 20 years of homeschool experience, a teaching certification, and life coach certifications–currently being trained in advanced Nervous System Resilience. Her journey began with a deep desire to rekindle her children’s love for learning, and it has blossomed into a mission to inspire others. In 2010, Kami co-founded iFamily Leadership Academy, serving as President and mentoring hundreds of youth. She now trains mentors with the Leadership Education Mentoring Institute (LEMI).

Kami specializes in blending timeless educational principles with powerful mindset tools to help overwhelmed and exhausted moms create joyful, intentional homeschools. Drawing from her own triumphs and challenges, Kami teaches Christ-centered strategies to help families thrive. She empowers parents to master their thoughts, emotions, and systems, fostering deeper connections with their children. Kami is passionate about helping families turn frustrations into fulfillment and finding lasting joy in their homeschooling journey.

When Mama Thrives, Homeschool Flourishes
isn’t another “do more” homeschool class—it’s a heart-deep reset for the mom behind the lessons. If you feel stuck in guilt, comparison, or snapping under pressure, this message will feel like relief. You’ll learn why many homeschool struggles are really self-concept struggles—and how seeing yourself the way God sees you breaks shame cycles and changes the emotional climate of your home. You’ll leave with a simple self-love assessment and practical tools to move from burnout to wholeness, confidence, and Christ-centered connection—because your wholeness isn’t selfish… it’s the best gift you can give your children.

Beyond Nagging: Inspiring Teens to Own Their Homeschool Journey
s for every parent who’s tired of reminders, resistance, and feeling like school is always on your shoulders. You’ll learn a research-backed, faith-centered approach to shift from Enforcer or burned-out Protector into Mentor—high respect, clear expectations, and support that builds real responsibility. You’ll walk away with simple tools like a weekly Mentor Meeting and reality-based “natural consequences” that help teens grow ownership through respect, autonomy, competence, and purpose. Come ready to feel seen, reset the tone in your home, and leave with a practical plan that reduces power struggles and raises capable, confident young adults.

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Tracy Ward

I’m Miss Tracy, a spontaneous, ardent believer in possibilities! I LOVE my mission of strengthening families and building a community of people who want to be the good in the world. I’m a wife to my best friend, Richard, and long-time homeschooling mama to six kiddos and Nana to five grandbabies. I’m passionate about learning, liberty, and laughter. I love kayaking, camping, reading, writing, mentoring youth, and creating events that bless families. Everyday I try to connect with heaven, cultivate joy in myself, and spread joy to others. Deep discussions of powerful ideas fill my soul. Sometimes I remember to make dinner and take out my contacts, but don’t count on it. You can find classes, coaching, and articles at my website, raisethetidecoaching.com.

Title: Greek vs. Hebrew Views of Truth and Why It Matters

We are swimming in the waters of a Greek world we inherited from Plato, Socrates, and the great thinkers of the Western World. That perspective views truth as an idea, while the Hebrew perspective views truth as a person. “This is why many of the questions we ask—however simple and honest they may seem—simply do not have immediate answers. It is because our questions implicitly assume a Greek world, and we are dealing with a Hebrew faith. The idea view of truth (and its Greek assumptions) has made the Hebrew tradition and belief look like nonsense” (Thayne & Grant). Come and learn the differences between these two ways of thinking! In doing so, you will deepen your search for truth, embolden your faith, and increase the power of Jesus Christ in your life.

Youth Class – Perspectacles: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

Class Description: The world is full of data, and our brain decides what to see. Our eyes see pixelated images, and our brains have to make sense of what we are seeing and finish the pictures. What our brain is thinking about is more likely to be what our eyes focus on. We are the air traffic controllers of our mind. We may not be able to control what thoughts fly overhead, but we do control which
ones land. Air traffic controllers go through lots of training to do their jobs. You can train your mind to do your job! Come and learn ten tools – ten training modules – to help YOU change your thoughts, which will change your vision, and those two things put together will help you create a new YOU!

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Jessica Ziel

Jessica Ziel is a reading coach in Idaho, contracted to support the state’s Striving to Meet Achievement in Reading Together (SMART) project. This initiative focuses on equipping in-service K–3 teachers with Science of Reading practices.
A former classroom teacher, Jessica has taught grades 1 through 5 and still misses being with students. She has tutored children of all ages. She serves as a founding board member of the Idaho Reading League, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing literacy. Her career started because her second child struggled to learn to read, sparking a passion for supporting children, parents, and educators alike. Jessica is currently pursuing a doctorate in Reading Science at Mount St. Joseph University

Certifications/Degrees:
K-8 Idaho Teacher Certification
K-12 Idaho Literacy Certification
Certified at the Interventionist level from the Center for Effective Reading Instruction
MSE from the University of Central Arkansas (Certified by the International Dyslexia Association)

Language is the Seed
This session explains how language comprehension supports literacy and what it means when children have trouble expressing themselves. We’ll look at challenges such as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and share practical ways families can help children grow in their language and reading skills.

Dyslexia 101
In this session, parents will be provided a general overview of what dyslexia is, how it affects children, and how to help. We’ll talk about signs to watch for, some myths, and supports at home.

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Rosie Christman

A homeschool mother of 8 with a degree in social work, Rosie worked with infants, toddlers, and adult mental health until she received a promotion and became a full time stay-at-home-mom, which is the hardest, yet most rewarding work she’s ever done. She loves to mentor youth and adults, help heal hearts and families, and use her gifts and talents to bless others and further the Lord’s work here on earth. She comes from a yours-mine-and-ours family with 21 kids. She has lived in poverty-stricken Bolivia, helping people learn to read, garden, build adobe huts, and embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ. As a family, they have raised pigs, dairy goats, chickens, Guinea hens, rabbits, turkeys, ducks, geese, sheep, an orphaned cow, dogs, and cats. They have also raised all sorts of crops for personal use and also to sell at farmer’s markets. They love hunting and processing their own meat, canning food, making cheese, fermenting foods, making home-made vinegar, and more! They have a business called the Homestead Institute where they teach people to be self-reliant, improve their emotional and physical health, and live off the land. Rosie loves people, life, and learning and her love for the Lord motivates her in all she does.

Remembering Your Worth

Have you ever felt like you weren’t “enough?” Good enough, smart enough, strong enough… One of Satan’s biggest tools is to get us to doubt our worth and man, is he good at it! We cannot achieve our full potential or help others as successfully in that state of mind. Through interactive games, examples, and stories we will explore values, worth, and how it all relates to people and self-esteem. The goal is that at the end of our time together, everyone will leave not just knowing, but understanding and ultimately FEELING the eternal truth that we all have great value and worth, allowing us to achieve our full potential and bless our lives and the lives of others.

More Jesus In Our Homeschool.

There are so many good things we can be teaching our kids. So many good programs we can use. Such good curriculum we can purchase. All these good things can sometimes feel overwhelming and even distract us from what’s most important. When we fix our focus on Christ, the storms around us seem to calm and our confidence and strength increases. Join me to discuss the importance of fixing our focus on Jesus, how we can bring more of Him into our homeschooling, and how He can heal whatever feels broken right now.

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Keri Tibbets

Keri is a mother of six, homeschooler of 20 years, and a private math tutor. With a special interest in how children learn, Keri has spent two decades researching, discussing, and discovering how to help students fall in love with learning and drive their own life-long education. She loves to see a child caught up in a great book, their heart aglow, and their mind engaged without effort because of the natural joy of learning. For the last two years she and her daughter Grace have been teaching parent courses on the how to’s of successful classical education for children, showing parents how to take their children from Little House on the Prairie to Shakespeare.

EUCLID! The key to learning how to think!

Euclid is an ancient geometry textbook containing the propositions that make up the study
of geometry as we know it today. Historically, geometry was known as the language of
philosophy and it was always a pre-requisite to higher education because the process of
learning to understand its principles was known to equip students with the ability to think
and communicate clearly, reasonably and soundly.
But isn’t geometry math? What does it have to do with philosophy?
As a sort of arming against sophistry and rhetoric, a thorough study of Euclid will enable
students to see through the smooth-tongued and emotionally charged as they practice
anchoring themselves in plain and simple logic by forming proofs based on common notions
and prior proofs.
Often we hear arguments that “feel off”or rub us the wrong way, yet we do not always know
how to identify nor articulate the error we sense. A study of Euclid is an intense training in
logic and will produce in the student not only a keen awareness of flimsy, false, or circular
logic, but also the ability to name it, call it out, and clearly communicate their own views.
Join us as we explore the how’s and why’s behind this powerful resource for thinking!

ADHD: a Challenge and a Superpower!
Navigating a quality education is challenging enough, but adding ADHD into the mix can
sometimes make it feel insurmountable!
Come find out some practical tips for dealing with ADHD in education while we explore not only
the challenges but the great gifts that come with this superpower and the opportunities that they
provide!

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William and RaNae McKee

William McKee is a licensed professional counselor and has been in private practice for over 30years. He began his career as an entrepreneur at 21 years old when he created what is now known as McKee’s Garden and Pet Centers. Later, he and his wife RaNae created Center Counseling where 29 therapist work together in assisting families throughout the Southeastern Idaho area. Bill’s emphasis is in marriage counseling and adults dealing with childhood trauma. He has taught as an adjunct professor in the Social Work Department at Idaho State University and has also taught Marriage and Family Classes at the LDS Institute at Idaho State University. He received the Counselor of the year award for the State of Idaho in 2004. Bill has been active in the community and church throughout his life and has served in many interfaith capacities..

RaNae Petersen McKee and William are the parents of 10 children and 32 grandchildren. They have been foster parents for over 25 years to more than 45 foster children. RaNae is a certified PRIDE trainer for Health and Welfare Child Protective Services and a certified Love and Logic Instructor. RaNae is a musician, and has taught piano and organ for over 40 years. She is a former Miss Idaho and won one of the 8 talent awards in the Miss America Pageant . For the past 20 years, Bill and RaNae have taught community classes dealing with Lifeskills, Self Esteem, Parenting, Marriage and Family Relationships. They are sought out often as public speakers and have presented programs for Firesides, Youth Conferences and other trainings for over 30 years.

(This is a more detailed bio of Bill and RaNae. You are welcome to use any part of this if there is a need in the classes.)

Bill McKee was born and raised in Inkom Idaho (just outside of Pocatello) with 9 brothers and sisters. He served a 2 year mission in Sweden and has served in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in many capacities, including bishop, stake president and was President of the Tennessee Nashville Mission. He has been active in the community and church throughout his life. He is a licensed, professional counselor has worked with sexual offenders groups, a very successful interfaith group in Pocatello. His emphasis is in marriage counseling and adults dealing with childhood trauma. RaNae is from Preston. She attended BYU, ISU, and her greatest calling in life is that of being a wife, a mother and grandmother .

As you see today, RaNae is a walking miracle. While they were in Nashville, after serving for about 1 1/2 years, RaNae suffered 2 strokes, a heart attack, heart surgery, cardiac arrest, brain surgery all within 4 days. She was in a coma for 4 weeks, in the ICU for 6 weeks. and in the hospital for 3months. The doctors came in almost every day for the first month, and said to Bill: “You know she is going to pass away today.” Bill said, ” Well, Let’s just see what the Lord has to say.”

After about 2 months, she regained consciousness, and had to re-learn everything again in her life. With her husband by her side and a determination to live, she relearned to walk and talk and play musical instruments again. She left the hospital being able to walk with much dizziness. When she had the brain surgery the doctor cut her head open from the top to the back of her neck and told Bill that her brain was so saturated with blood, that some of her cerebellum actually fell out! That was the part of the brain that controls our balance. She also had one eye that was stuck against her nose which caused her to see double. Other than that, she is doing well. She has re-learned to play the piano again, had surgery on her eye and now just sees normally. RaNae is now teaching piano lessons again. She is so grateful for a loving husband and family who stood by her side the entire way.

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Linsey Jensen

Linsey Jensen is a physics educator, game designer, homeschooling mom of four, and a STEM advocate with a passion for hands-on, problem-solving learning. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in Science Education. Linsey is the creator of the innovative CircuitWhiz Science kit that enables students to discover scientific principles through problem-solving rather than rote instructions. She has hosted several summer science camps, participated in hundreds of science outreach events, and has been contracted to make custom escape room games. Her work focuses on transforming STEM education by applying principles from game design to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Title:  Problem Solvers in the Making: Rethinking Science Learning at Home
Blurb: Science isn’t just memorizing facts—it’s about figuring things out. We’ll explore the three most common pitfalls in science learning and practical ways to shift from step-by-step lessons to hands-on problem-solving activities that will help your kids think critically, create boldly, and tackle challenges with confidence and resilience.
Title: Don’t Forget to Play: Using Games, Challenges, and Exploration to Teach Science at Any Age
Blurb: Play isn’t just for little kids—exploration, tinkering, and experimentation are how humans learn about the world at any age. In this session, we’ll explore the learning benefits of play, including how it builds curiosity, problem-solving skills, creativity, and scientific thinking. You’ll also discover practical ways to use games, challenges, and guided discovery to foster a lifelong love of science.
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Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson doesn’t remember a time in her life when she hasn’t loved planting things and helping them grow. As a young adult that passion led her down a 20+ year journey in the horticulture industry. Her career exercised her skills in adaptability as she gardened in five states throughout the Mountain West, Mid-West and the Deep South. She continued adapting as she had the joy of becoming the mother to four wonderful children. With her husband’s encouragement she embraced the idea of home educating her family, continuing the pattern of planting seeds and helping them grow.

Some of Elizabeth’s greatest joys have come from learning the principles of The Well-Educated Heart and raising their four children in a story and nature rich home environment. Well-Educated heart principles invite us to truly connect with God and work in a way which creates abundance in our lives, our relationships and the community we live in. Her husband is her hero who has moved more loads of mulch than you can count.

Class Title

An unconventional journey – One woman’s experience embracing a Well-Educated Heart lifestyle

Class description

What do you do when conventional systems feel broken and headed in a direction you don’t wish your family to go? You go on a journey.

Join me as I share our family’s experiences with implementing a Well-educated Heart lifestyle. We learned that a “true education is between a child’s soul and God,” as expressed by Charlotte Mason, a great “heart educator” of the twentieth century. As we chose a different path we opened our minds and hearts to the idea that education is really about creating beautiful souls. It is a beauty-first, heart-centered approach to learning that transforms not just how we teach, but how we live. The heart of education is not information, but transformation.

We will be discussing what makes a Well-Educated Heart lifestyle and education different? How do you know when you are “doing it right?” What do you do when you hit new seasons and need to pivot? Most importantly, we will discuss how to connect our hearts to things which inspire us to grow the gifts and talents God has given us. Then we learn how to use them to beautify our lives, our families and our communities.

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Heather Farrell

Heather Farrell’s love for the scriptures began early, when at the age of eleven she hid a flashlight under her pillow so she could read the Old Testament late at night. Her love for women in the scriptures began when her oldest son was born around Christmas and she felt a kinship with Mary. She began researching Mary and realized there were hundreds of women in the scriptures but that very little had been written on them. Excited by all she discovered she began sharing what she learned on her website, Women in the Scriptures.com 

Heather is the author of the Walking with the Women in the Scriptures series, God Comes to Women and a co-author of The Gift of Giving Life: Rediscovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth. She has a bachelor’s degree from BYU and Masters Degree in the Bible and the Ancient Near East from Hebrew University of Jerusualem. While getting her degree Heather, her husband and six kids lived in Jerusalem for two years. They had an amazing experience but are now back home in Pocatello, Idaho. 

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Heather Linchenko

At her core, Heather’s mission has always been to help parents build stronger relationships with their children throughout the journey of raising and teaching them. MathHacked emerged as a natural extension of this passion, addressing one of the most common sources of tension between parents and children: mathematics education. Through her work alongside Stephen R. Covey, helping to type and edit the best-selling book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Heather gained valuable insights into effective relationships and personal development. She recognized that math instruction often creates unnecessary wedges between parents and children, not only damaging their relationship but also eroding children’s self-confidence.

Her diverse experiences — from serving as a missionary in France to marrying a native Russian — have shaped her unique perspective on education and human connection. As the author of “I Meant Well” and Other Words that Kill Relationships and If Kids Were Cookies: Creating a Resistance-Free Homeschool Experience, Heather continues to focus on transforming challenging educational moments into opportunities for relationship-building and personal growth.

The Missing First Step in Every Math Curriculum
It’s never too late to give your child a math-ready brain.

Most math programs begin by teaching one concept, then another, then another, without first ensuring that this knowledge is being built on a solid foundation—or any foundation at all!

In this practical class, MathHacked creator Heather Linchenko will explain what this first step should be, why it matters, and how MathHacked was designed to provide it. You’ll see how simple, targeted practice can strengthen number sense, confidence, enthusiasm, and mathematical flexibility and agility—giving children an advantage that can make whatever comes next easier, from everyday math homework to standardized testing and higher-level math. Best of all, this foundation can be built before or alongside any math curriculum, so it’s never too late to begin.

What I Wish I’d Known From the Beginning
This session turns the usual conference format around: rather than listening to a presentation and hoping it addresses what you need, you bring the questions and we build the class around them. Drawing from years of successfully homeschooling five children through some remarkably chaotic circumstances—including 30 addresses in 17 years—and plenty she wishes she’d understood sooner, Heather Linchenko will use your questions as the starting point for practical teaching, discussion, and problem-solving.

Curriculum, reluctant learners, motivation, math, parent-child conflict, burnout, when to push, when to back off, or simply “Am I doing this right?”—nothing is off the table. Come with the question that matters to you, and leave with ideas you can actually use.

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Fifi Clayton

Fifi Clayton has a passion for understanding how people think, learn, and process information. With a natural ability to recognize learning challenges and connect with individuals of all ages, she has dedicated much of her professional life to helping others discover their potential.

After receiving extensive, specialized training directly from the founders of Learning Technics, Fifi took ownership of the company in 2020. Since then, she has helped children and adults strengthen foundational cognitive skills through engaging, multi-sensory activities designed to support focus, memory, visual processing, spatial awareness, coordination, and overall cognitive development.

Beyond Learning Technics, Fifi has gained extensive hands-on experience supporting children and adolescents in special education, academic intervention, and educational leadership settings, serving currently as the Dean of Students at Salt Lake Academy. Her work with students of varying ages, abilities, and learning challenges has given her a unique understanding of how differently individuals think, process information, and learn. These experiences have strengthened her belief that meaningful progress begins with recognizing each person’s individual needs and building upon their strengths.

Fifi’s passion is also deeply personal. As a mother who has navigated learning challenges with her own daughter, she understands firsthand the frustration of watching a bright, capable child struggle with things that seem to come naturally to others. That experience has given her a special appreciation for the importance of looking beyond traditional teaching methods, recognizing individual strengths, and helping children discover that struggling with learning doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of succeeding.

What Fifi loves most is watching individuals recognize abilities they didn’t know they had. She believes that learning isn’t one-size-fits-all and that, with the right tools, encouragement, and opportunities for growth, every individual can make meaningful progress.

*Her philosophy is simple: Learning should build confidence, create opportunities, and empower individuals to reach their full potential.

Beyond the Books: Building the Brain for Learning
What if the key to helping your child learn isn’t changing “what” you teach, but strengthening “how” they learn?

Join Fifi Clayton, owner of Learning Technics, for a fun, interactive workshop exploring the science of learning and the foundational skills that support academic success. Discover how neuroplasticity, cognitive development, and multi-sensory learning play important roles in strengthening attention, memory, processing, coordination, and overall learning readiness.

Through engaging, hands-on activities, you’ll experience how the brain and body work together to support learning and explore practical ways to incorporate movement, sensory engagement, and cognitive skill-building into your homeschool routine.

Whether your child struggles with focus, retention, or processing information—or you simply want to enhance their learning potential—this workshop will give you a fresh perspective on building stronger, more confident, and capable learners.

Come ready to move, think, laugh, and experience learning in a whole new way!

Visit learningtechnics.com for more information

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Marissa Rice

Marissa Rice is a wife, mother of eight, homeschooler, author, speaker, and the voice behind The Heritage Household. Together with her husband, Darren, she is raising their family on a small farm in East Idaho, where faith, family, education, and hard work are woven into everyday life.
Marissa is passionate about helping families build strong, purposeful homes with a long-term vision. Through homeschooling, motherhood, writing, and teaching, she encourages parents to look beyond simply raising children and instead intentionally prepare them for capable, responsible, and faithful adulthood. Her heart is to equip families to embrace the everyday opportunities found in home education, meaningful work, family rhythms, and life together to build a heritage that lasts.

Raising Adults, Not Children
Shifting from short-term parenting to preparing children for faithful adulthood through discipleship, responsibility, and intentional training.

Hard Work Is Good Work
Helping children (and ourselves!) develop a healthy view of work, diligence, stewardship, and joyful service.

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