About the Author

Beverly Burgess, is passionate about homeschooling and alternative learning. As a Homeschool Coach with over a decade in home-schooling experience, she has helped hundreds of families on their journey to homeschooling. She was the Executive Director of a large nonprofit homeschooling group from 2009-2016, runs an in-ternational social media support group for homeschool group lead-ers, and has been featured in magazine articles and podcasts and with Taming the High Cost of College, and College Funding Re-source. She has been a keynote speaker at Homeschooling Through Highschool and Introduction to Homeschooling workshops for the public, and is a fervent advocate for homeschooling rights and law. Bev coaches new and seasoned homeschoolers through all stages of home education, and is an admitted curriculum hoarder. In her pre-homeschooling life, Bev was a Registered Nurse and held advanced certification in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Nursing, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Critical Care Nursing, and spent almost twenty years working on the Neurosurgical Inten-sive Care Unit at a big city hospital. She has contributed to national studies on Tourette's Syndrome and ran a large adoption support group in Rhode Island as well as having served as chairperson for a $2-million-dollar capital campaign for green building initiative. She, her husband of twenty-six years and their three children, ages 12, 17 and 20 live in Rhode Island with an array of animals and big organic vegetable garden. Her oldest is a junior at a small liberal arts college in Vermont and is a writing major. Contact Bev through her website: http: //www.beverlyburgess.com or info@beverlyburgess.com