Alisha Brignall
INSPIRED Founding Director
Alisha is a passionate advocate for homeschooling and individualized learning options. She has 4 children and is currently home-educating her 3 oldest using an eclectic unschooling approach. She blogs at Learning From My Kids where she shares her children’s struggles and triumphs with ADHD and other learning exceptionalities. Alisha felt that when starting her own homeschooling journey 8 years ago that there was not enough support for families that were looking for secular resources, curriculum, community, or support. She and Michelle founded Inspired to make sure that going forward there is somewhere for parents like her when starting their own homeschooling lifestyle. Alisha also provides consultation and planning help for families and is currently enrolled in the 2 year after degree program at the Werklund School of Education to help further her knowledge in education.
Workshop
Planning, Organizing, Reporting…how to do it all.
Michelle Goulet
INSPIRED Co-conspirator
Michelle is an early childhood educator and special needs mom who found homeschooling after it became obvious her first child would end up surviving school, not thriving in it. She has embraced the differences in her children and their learning styles through a project/Inquiry based approach to curriculum. This includes research, documentation, experiential learning, immersion and fine arts. Her 16 years of experience as an educator has been heavily influenced by the work of Reggio Emilia, play based learning and, more recently, Forest School Canada. She is the director at Wild Child, an alternative education program that offers forest and nature school for homeschoolers in Bragg Creek, AB.
Lyndsay Prasad
Teacher Turned Homeschooler
Lyndsay Prasad is a former high school teacher and post-secondary instructor/curriculum developer. She recently completed her first year as a homeschool parent after pulling her children from public school last year. As a teacher-turned-homeschool-mom, she very quickly realized the importance of the de-schooling process, not only for her children, but also for herself.
Lyndsay has an M.A. in Writing and is a strong believer in lifelong learning. Her areas of educational interest include literacy and writing pedagogy, inquiry based learning, technology in education, study skills, fiction writing, travel writing, and service learning. She also has a keen interest in outdoor education, based on her former employment as the director of youth services for the Lethbridge YMCA, where she oversaw children’s sports & recreation programs and ran a residential summer camp in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Lyndsay loves to research curriculum materials and resources while drinking copious amounts of caffeine. She regularly ditches school in favour of field trips.