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BACKGROUND and CHHS STAFF
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NOTE!!: THIS PAGE NOT YET UPDATED FOR HOMELINK!
This page provides information on:
THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHHS
THE CHHS ADMINISTRATION STAFF
MEET THE FACULTY
BACKGROUND OF THE CHHS
The Christian Homeschoolers' Hybrid School was born out of the passion and desire from the Cesa and Perry families to "keep homeschoolers at home", while maintaining "excellence in home education". Both families saw a trend of homeschoolers leaving the homeschool world and enrolling in local private or public schools by default. These families' hearts were desiring to stay in homeschooling, but due to parents feeling either inadequate to do the job at the upper grade levels or being simply exhausted from prior years of homeschooling, they were enrolling their students in schools as they themselves were unable to continue to juggle home, life and High School homeschool commitments any longer. It then became the Cesa and Perry goal to create a "Hybrid School": a cross between a private school and a homeschool whereby professionally trained or extensively experienced educators would partner along with homeschool parents to provide an alternative to either homeschooling alone or abandoning homeschool altogether. In providing this opportunity to partnership, these families hoped to enable homeschoolers to continue to homeschool, yet at the same time, maintain a level of excellence in their education.
CHHS ADMINISTRATION STAFF
Program Director of Academic Administration
Position Includes: Oversee all academic aspects of the CHHS; manage schedules; lead meetings; monitor Arrival/Dismissal and/or Study Hall during the CHHS day.
Position held by: Karen Koehler-Cesa, M.Sc. CCC-SLP
Karen holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master's Degree from the Pennsylvania State University; both in the field of Speech Pathology. She also holds a minor degree in the field of Linguistics. Prior to homeschooling, Karen gravitated within her field toward working exclusively with the deaf and hard-of-hearing. She designed a curriculum, authored a text and established a small publishing company to help rectify some of the issues associated with poor speech skills and lower literacy rates among the deaf population. She and her husband, Glenn Cesa, have always homeschooled their four children, currently ranging from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Once entering the homeschool world, Karen became involved in orchestrating many programs for homeschoolers including a gymnastics program, ice-skating programs, and various and numerous ongoing field trip activities. She and her husband have both served several years on local support group councils, and continue to provide workshops and seminars on various topics within the local homeschool community. In the early years of her homeschooling, Karen provided a small-scale co-operative in her home in which she taught various subjects for four years. As her family and homeschool needs grew, she helped develop, establish and run a larger scale Classical Co-op in a church facility, here teaching primarily Latin and Critical Thinking Skills at various grade levels. It was partly due to the success of this co-op that the notion evolved to extend that parent-teacher co-operative into the present professional-teacher Hybrid School.
Program Director of Business Administration
Position Includes: Handle legal and financial aspects; liason with CHCC/S and NJHSA; Student Council advisor; monitor either the Arrival/Dismissal or Study Hall during the CHHS day.
Position held by: Dawn Perry, A.A. Computer Science
Dawn holds an Associates Degree from Berkeley College and attended New York University. She has a professional background as an Oil Commodities Trader, however, she left that career path to pursue the higher calling of motherhood/homeschool mom. Dawn and her husband, Glenn, have always homeschooled their four children, currently ranging in ages from 6-12. Dawn has served in the homeschool community in a variety of ways. For the past four years, she has assisted in developing, establishing and governing the Christian Homeschooers' Classical Cooperative/School. All throughout her past 8 years of homeschooling , she has provided countless homeschooling seminars designed to strengthen and encourage the homeschool mom. She also has led and organized a variety of homeschool activities and field trips. Dawn is actively involved in her church, and as a former Women's Ministry leader, she continues to teach Women's Sunday School Class. When the rare spare time comes to Dawn, she enjoys many culinary skills and talents with her family and recipients of her gracious hospitality.
Program Secretary
Position Includes: Handle all minutes of meetings; keep/file all paperwork; moderate email loop; maintain Website; Handbook maintenance and copies.
Position held by: Karen Koehler-Cesa, M.Sc. CCC-SLP
(See above biographical information under Director)
Personnel Officer
Position Includes: Advertise for CHHS teaching positions as well as courses offered and student placement openings. Interview, hire, supervise all teachers of the CHHS; handle conflicts and disputes; perform public speaking regarding CHHS.
Position held by: Glenn J. Cesa, M.A. Edu/Admin
[Glenn's blurb]
Registrar
Position Includes: Receive and process student applications; maintain student and teacher attendance records. Schedule teachers and classes.
Position held by: Karen Koehler-Cesa and Dawn Perry (See above biographical information under both Director positions)
Treasurer
Position Includes: assist all financial, accounting and legal aspects of the CHHS.
Position held by: Glenn Perry
Glenn comes to the position of Treasurer of the CHHS well prepared. He has owned and operated his own businesses in the transportation industry for the past 24 years. Within his church, he has been involved as a leader in Boy's Brigade for many years. Glenn contributes to the homeschool cause via coaching soccer, basketball and baseball for teams of the Perry kids. He and his wife Dawn currently reside in rural Warren County with their four homeschooled children, one dog, two cats and plentiful beautiful surroundings.
Curriculum Coordinator
Position Includes: Determine and maintain all curriculum choices for CHHS classes; oversee all submitted Scope and Sequences as well as Course Descriptions.
Position held by: Cory Hook (see Biography below).
General Administrative Assistant
Position Includes: Organize Social Activities; rotations of responsibilities; Facility Management; Miscellaneous.
Position held by: Pam Pena
MEET THE FACULTY:
Faculty members are listed here in alphabetical order of their last name.
Dr. F.J.X. Bain, M.D., BS (Professional)
Dr. Frank Bain will be teaching the Latin 1 and 2 courses. He has been studying and translating Latin since 1965, when he took Latin as part of his studies for the priesthood. Leaving the Seminary and four intense years of Latin study, he then attended Georgetown University in 1969 where he continued a keen interest not only in Latin but in language study in general. Graduating with a Bachelor's in Science, he attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and currently holds a degree in Family Medicine, with added qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. Although Latin has been a lifelong passion, he has studied a variety of other languages over the years and continues to do so. Because of his love for language and his zeal to share his Latin enthusiasm, Dr. Bain has offered himself as a Latin teacher to the Christian Homeschoolers' Classical Co-op in 2001. Here he has taught High School level Latin to students in 5th - 12th grades, using a variety of materials, including supplemental games and materials he designed himself. Dr. Bain graciously offered to extend himself even further to homeschoolers, starting in the 2003-2004 school year, by accepting the position to teach Latin in the Hybrid school. We are thrilled and extremely fortunate to have access to his talents and expertise! And when not spending his spare time teaching Latin to homeschoolers, or translating Latin passages at home, you might find Dr. Bain scouring book stores, building computers, or heading out for the Jersey shore where he enjoys spending time with his wife and two school-aged children.
Barrie Beaver, BA Math, MA Adm, MA CS (Professional)
Mr. Beaver will be teaching Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 this fall at the Hybrid School. He comes to the Hybrid with much experience in the education field. Mr. Beaver graduated from Montclair State (then) College and took his first teaching position in Nutley High School. After 13 years teaching math, coaching wrestling and earning his Masters in Administration, Mr. Beaver moved to the then newly opened Vernon Township High School where he taught math and also served as the head of the math department. After a few years in that capacity, and continuing to accumulate graduate level credits, Mr. Beaver moved toward total administration where he served as the Vice Principal for 5 years. However, the classroom beckoned to Barrie. He returned to teaching as he finished up his near 40-year academic career instructing in Vernon High School, Montclair State, Sussex Community College and Sussex Vo-Tech. Mr. Beaver and his wife of 40 years, also an educator, have raised two children, now successful in corporate and scientific research fields. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver reside in the McAfee area of Vernon Township and attend the Vernon Methodist Church, where Barrie participates in the Men's Ministries. In his recent retirement, Mr. Beaver has busied himself in many areas, including learning woodworking, recaning and making chairs, and he has a side-business devoted to relocating unwanted wildlife. Mr. Beaver is described to "love teaching" and be "excellent with his students" and he's said to be a "rock-solid, energetic, spiritual leader". We are truly grateful that Mr. Beaver's teaching experiences have lead him to tutor a homeschooled student, who made him aware of our Hybrid School.
Stephanie Breur, BS, English and Education (Professional)
Born into a great family of Christians, at an early age Mrs. Breur knew the importance of serving God. Her father’s family started the Hawthorne Gospel Church with his uncle Pastor Herman Braulin holding Sunday church services in a tent on Lafayette Avenue in Hawthorne, NJ. Mrs. Breur attended Wyckoff public schools then the Hawthorne Christian Academy for High School, graduating in 1992. She then attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and then Ramapo College of New Jersey, earning her Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and Education. After graduating, Mrs. Breur taught in Wayne public schools and Eastern Christian High School, then in Jefferson Township schools, teaching English to grades 6-12. In 1996, Mrs. Stephanie Breur was married to her husband, Tim, who graduated from Eastern Christian and now works as a manager for Universal Supply Group. Since marrying, they have resided in Hewitt, New Jersey, on the shore of Greenwood Lake. Stephanie stays home with their three young daughters, attending to the needs of her growing family. Mrs. Breur began networking with the homeschoolers through a fellow English teacher who had been providing private English instruction to the homeschool community. It was through this connection that Mrs. Breur was referred to the Hybrid School. During the Hybrid’s first year, we were blessed to have Mrs. Breur teaching Composition for a short time, unfortunately however being interrupted by complications in her pregnancy. Thankfully, baby and mother were greatly blessed through their trials and she returned back on staff at the Hybrid School our second year, teaching Grammar and Study Skills. In year three, Mrs. Breur will be teaching Grammar once again, along with Literature Fundamentals.
Diane Campbell, BA Philosophy; Minor in Theology (Professional)
Diane Campbell received her BA in Philosophy and her minor in Theology along with a Paralegal Certification from Upsala College in East Orange. She is also a graduate of Katharine Gibbs Business School. Diane is licensed Real Estate Agent with Weichert Realtors. Mrs. Campbell has tutored students in philosophy and theology, and she has also taught on the pre-school level. In addition, her teaching experience extends to teens via vocal coaching. In the CHHS, Diane served as a Study Hall monitor and in many parent-assistant capacities our first year; in the second year she began teaching Logic 1, and will continue into 2005-2006. Diane came to know Jesus while attending a Billy Graham Crusade on September 9, 1991; as a Christian, she says she loves to “witness to motocross kids, musicians, equestrians, gas station attendants, friends, and family.” She and her family attend the Morristown Vineyard Church. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have home schooled their daughter for 5 years from 4th-8th grades, and are former members of the Morris County Christian Home Educators Association. They both have been actively involved with CHHS for two years; Mr. Campbell’s contributions to the Hybrid have described him as a “jack of all trades”, and Mrs. Campbell then is a “Jacqueline” of all trades. She continues to readily jump in to help in multiple ways, and even though their daughter will be pursuing other educational avenues next year, the Campbells continue to support and teach at CHHS. We are fortunate to have the Campbell’s serving at the Hybrid!
James Campbell (Professional)
Mr. Campbell studied at William Paterson University with a focus on Computer Science, Mathematics, and Chemistry. His career path includes pharmaceutical research (resulting in two successful FDA approvals); software development (automating many of the tasks in the pharmaceutical research); and the development of an international database which aids in the study of molecular structures. Mr. Campbell‘s interest in financial markets drew him to Wall St. to architect, oversee and then continue to implement the world’s first 24-hour global trading system with sub-second response time. As technology advanced in computer languages and web development, Mr. Campbell was well poised to change course to Human Resources. His most significant contribution in this arena was the development of a compensation system for over 90,000 employees. In addition, Mr. Campbell received a prestigious “Crown of Excellence” award for this achievement. Currently, Mr. Campbell dwells at home as a musician and recording hobbyist, assisting teenagers develop musical skills and launch performing opportunities. His faith in the Lord Jesus Christ underlies all of his undertakings, and his life mission is evidenced in the following quote: “I believe the study of science and mathematics provides a reflection of the glory and wonder of God. At times, I am awed by it. I would never pretend to know the depth of love God has for each of us. Whatever I do know of His glory, I strive to emulate Him in ways I understand.” The Campbell’s have home-schooled their daughter now for four years. They strongly support the Hybrid school and Mr. Campbell has come to be known as “the jack of all trades”. He has willingly and successfully performed a variety of tasks. In our first year, his contributions to the Hybrid included teaching Chemistry, substituting for several Math levels and Logic class. Along with Mrs. Campbell, he provided study hall monitoring throughout the entire year. The Hybrid School is truly blessed with the participation of the Campbell family!
Doug Estes, BS Management Systems; (Experiential)
Mr. Doug Estes acquired his degree from the Rennselaer Polytechic Institute (RPI) in 1985 for Management Systems, with a minor degree in Computer Science and Economics. Doug is currently the President of his family’s 157 year old business, Clifford W. Estes Co., Inc. which produces colored sand and gravel for aquariums, arts & crafts, and flooring. The business is committed to being a witness to its employees as well as its customers. It is also committed to tithing the profits. Mr. Estes was able to draw real-life applications from his business experience to his Math course during Hybrid's second year . The Estes family has four children, aged 26, 18, 14 and 9; all are serving the Lord in their church and in mission trips. Doug is currently a deacon at Lamb of God Fellowship in West Orange, and he is the director of the Sunday School Program. He also has been an active Sunday School teacher, teaching ages from 3 years old through the High School level; he is currently rotating between teaching High School aged boys and K-4th grade Children’s Church. The Estes’ have homeschooled since 1987, with their three youngest children being exclusively homeschooled. They have been part of NJHSA for many years, and are part of the HE (homeschoolers of Essex) LSG. Mr. Estes has taught math to his three sons, from Saxon 65 up through Saxon Advanced Math. Doug has been married to his wife Jean for 19 years He is currently training for several triathalons this summer, and organizing the ESTESCO Triathalon team, which is made up of himself, two of his sons, and some friends. Mr. Estes also likes to play his Euphonium, especially at Christmas and Easter time. The Hybrid School is very pleased to add Mr. Estes to the Hybrid School staff team!
Debbie Grob, BS Math, ME Secondary Ed (Professional)
Mrs. Debbie Grob will be teaching Saxon Algebra 1/2 and Geometry this fall in the Hybrid School. Debbie graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in Math. After a year working in industry, she stayed home for several years to raise her two daughters. She returned to school part time and graduated from Arcadia University with a Masters Degree in Education. Debbie substituted for school districts for several years before teaching middle school math full time at Washington Crossing Christian School in PA. After moving to New Jersey, Debbie taught Math at Mahwah High School for a year. The past two years she has returned to substitute teaching, has taught homebound students, and has tutored several home schooled students in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and General Math. Debbie and her husband Bill reside in Mahwah, where Bill is pastor of the Ramapo Reformed Church. They have always been active in church ministry leading youth groups, singing, and teaching Sunday school. Bill has been an ordained pastor for three years. Debbie and Bill now have two adult daughters. One is an educator and the other is an engineer. The CHHS is blessed to have found Mrs. Grob and we look forward to her joining our staff in 2005-2006!
Corinne Hook, BA Elementary and Special Ed; MA Deaf Education (Professional)
Mrs. Hook earned her BA at Michigan State and her MA at New York University. After graduating, she taught Special Ed for three years at ECCR, and as well taught Language Arts and provided Education for the Deaf in Douglas, Wyoming. In addition, she taught Special Education in Paterson, NJ for three years. Mr. and Mrs. Hook have been homeschooling their six children since 1997, and Corinne has been quite active in the homeschool community teaching homeschool moms how to effectively provide classical writing to their children. She has also participated in the Classical Co-op, which meets at Green Pond on Mondays, now entering their sixth year, and she and served on their council for two years as well. Mrs. Hook is a tremendously well-read individual and she never stops self-educating all the while making her contributions to the homeschool community! She sums up her salvation experience so eloquently by quoting John Newton: "I am not what I ought to be, ah, how imperfect and deficient. I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be soon; soon I shall put off, with mortality, all sin and imperfection. Though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say that I am not what I once was, a slave to sin and Satan. And I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge, "by the grace of God I am what I am." The CHHS has benefited greatly from Mrs. Hook’s expertise with Composition 1, 2, and 3; we are blessed to have this godly woman teaching Composition 2 and 3 in the school year 2005-2006.
Connie D. Popa, RN, BSN, BS in Sci.(Professional)
Mrs. Popa will be teaching the General Science course. She graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Science and she has been teaching in various capacities with a wide range of age groups for the past 20 years. Her most recent employment has been with the William Paterson University for which she taught Anatomy and Physiology courses. In addition to ConnieÕs degree in Science, she continually self-educates and studies much current information from that arena. She has also worked in nursing care facilities, public health care and has implemented outreach programs for underpriviledged inner city children. Connie has lead numerous bible studies for many age groups and her current passion is conveying Christ through the Creation vs. Evolution debate: she believes that the study of Science reveals God's creativity, love and even sense of humor. Mrs. Popa has familiarity and close contact with the homeschool community through her nieces and nephews, who have been homeschooled for the past nine years. Mrs. Popa's enthusiasm and dedication to the natural sciences will is a true asset to the Hybrid School.
Janice Rodriguez, BS Elementary Education (Professional)
Mrs. Rodriguez joins us in 2005-2006 to teach Spanish 1, as she has studied Spanish all through her schooling in Jr/Sr. High and all through college. Moreover, she married into a Spanish-speaking family and has spoken Spanish fluently with her in-laws for over 18 years. Janice graduated from King’s College in New York, in 1985 with a K-8 teaching certificate. Since that time, for ten years she has privately tutored reading, writing, phonics, mathematics, and as well has provided piano lessons for over 25 years. Janice has worked professionally in the New Dorp Christian Academy, using the A Beka curriculum and teaching music, and also in the American Christian School, teaching 4th-7th grades with A Beka curriculum and conducting various K-8 musical programs. She has also taught Spanish to K-8th graders in the Grace Co-op of Netcong for the past 3 years. Mrs. Rodriguez grew up in a Christian home, and was saved at an early age. She writes, “This is one reason why I am so burdened to see young people come to know the Lord at an early age and start serving Him.” She has taught Sunday School and has been a pianist for church services since she was a teenager; also she was very involved with Campus Crusade for Christ while in college. Furthermore, Janice attended a missions trip to Portugal before she was married. The Rodriguez family has been homeschooling their three children, now ages 14, 12, 10 since 1994 and she came to the CHHS during 2004-2005 when her oldest was enrolled. In her spare time, Mrs. Rodriguez enjoys playing the piano, scrapbooking and reading. The CHHS has found a gold-mine of abilities and a servant’s heart in Mrs. Rodriguez!, and we are grateful and pleased to have her join our staff in 2005-2006!
Mrs. Christine Shultz, BS Mathematics (Professional)
Mrs. Schultz will be teaching Physical Science this year at the CHHS. She earned her degree in Mathematics at Wheaton College in 1988, with much extra coursework in Physics. While in college, she served as a Teacher’s Assistant for Calculus I and II, and since graduating, has taught at the elementary ages at the Homeschool Co-op at Grace Church in Netcong, NJ. Christine asked Jesus to be her savior at the age of 5 and she was baptized at the age of 16. Since that time, she has been a member of Grace Church in Netcong. She has served there both as Sunday School teacher and on the Missions Committee. The Schultz’ have chosen to homeschool their own children in order to best pass on to them their Christian values and beliefs; she has been homeschooling for five years and is a member of MCCHE. As well, Christine started, and is currently the president of, the Grace Homeschool Co-op in Netcong. Christine has been married for 14 years to Jeff Shultz, a cartoonist, and together they are raising their three children: Lauren, Katie and Nathan. The CHHS is pleased to be able to add Mrs. Schultz to their growing faculty!, and we all look forward to getting to know her better in the 2005-2006 school year!
Cheryl Van Lenten, BS in Education (Professional)
Mrs. Van Lenten will be teaching the Composition I and Study Skills classes in the 2005-2006 school year. In 1986, Cheryl earned a BS in Education from the University of Bloomsburg in Bloomsburg, PA. Since finishing college, she has taught second grade, substitute taught in several school districts, and as well has taught at the nursery school level. She has also taught Sunday school for several years and has provided child care in her home. Mrs. Van Lenten gave her heart to the Lord as a very young girl, and was baptized at 14. Her relationship with the Lord has truly grown over the past nine years. She and her husband and three children attend Lafayette Federated church and prior to Lafayette, they were members at Cornerstone Chapel for about 12 years. Cheryl says, "I love the Lord with all my heart. He has blessed my life in so many ways. Every day we can look around and find something to be thankful for, every day!" Cheryl came to the Hybrid School through her sister, Pam Pena, who is the mother of two attending CHHS students. Pam was asking her sister for prayer for the school to find teachers; Cheryl felt God speaking to her heart immediately. She spoke to her husband Dave, prayed about it, and came to accept the teaching postions! Mrs. Van Lenten will be married 14 years this year, and the Van Lentens have three wonderful children: Alixandra, 10, Timothy, 8, and Brittany 6. She also has a son, Jacob, who is now with the Lord. He was born in 1996 and lived for 36 days. Cheryl feels that "God has truly blessed us with our children." Mrs. Van Lenten is looking forward to meeting all of the CHHS students and their parents next Fall!
