Back to School Conference 2025
Speakers
Cindy Rollins
The Radical Freedom of a Charlotte Mason Education: Atmosphere, Discipline, and Life
aug 2nd @ 11am estAbout Caitlin Beauchamp
Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp is a homeschooling mother and pastor’s wife, raising four children in rural Texas. Caitlin was one of the earliest graduates of AmblesideOnline and then earned a BA and MA in Arts and Humanities from The University of Texas at Dallas. Her days are filled with attempts at tending poultry, pigs, and gardens, and the adventure of walking with her children through a Charlotte Mason education. Find her on Instagram @caitlin.beauchamp
About Dawn Duran
Dawn is a physical therapist by training and a wife and mother by vocation. She has been home educating her sons, currently in 8th and 11th grades, using the Charlotte Mason philosophy “since the beginning.” She feels blessed to have encountered Charlotte Mason when her children were toddlers, and has immersed herself in Mason’s wisdom ever since.
For several years Dawn enjoyed leading local students in the study of Plutarch and Shakespeare as part of the Friday Feast group. She is the creator of Swedish Drill Revisited and author of the book A Reasoned Patriotism: Critical Thinking and Civic Duty in an Age of Polarization. She writes for The Discerning Home Educator and co-hosts The New Mason Jar podcast with Cindy Rollins.
About Jami Marstall
Jami has been homeschooling with Charlotte Mason’s principles, primarily following AmblesideOnline, for the past 18 years. She has graduated three of her four children from the family homeschool and her youngest is in high school. Her husband John has been an integral part of their family educational endeavors as a math, philosophy, and theology tutor. Jami particularly loves to read about and discuss educational history and philosophy. She always dreamed of being a professional student and homeschooling continues to be the perfect career to fulfill that ambition. Jami joined us on The New Mason Jar for episode 22 about Charlotte Mason through High School & episode 78 starting our Morning Time for Moms series. Listen in!!
About Kay Pelham
Kay Pelham was born and raised in northern Illinois, right beside the Mississippi River. She went to college in three southern states, ending with a Masters Degree in Music. Her mid-20s to mid-30s were spent in New York. Returning south, she met the man she would marry. Kay was 40 at her marriage, 41 at the birth of her son, and 44 at the birth of her daughter. Sadly, her daughter would die at 3 weeks. It was during her pregnancy with her daughter Grace that Kay discovered Wendi Capehart, Charlotte Mason and AmblesideOnline. All three remained alongside Kay as wise counselors as she homeschooled her son James until his graduation in 2021. Because she can’t get enough Charlotte, she continues to study, write about, and teach the philosophy. Kay also has over 30 private piano students, and teaches music and literature classes out of her home in Montana.
About Cindy Rollins
Cindy homeschooled nine children for over 30 years years using Charlotte Mason’s timeless ideas. She is the author of Mere Motherhood: Morning Time, Nursery Rhymes, My Journey Toward Sanctification, The Mere Motherhood Newsletters, Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah and Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love along with its Anthology.
She co-hosts The New Mason Jar Podcast with Dawn Duran and encourages moms weekly on her Patreon “Morning Time for Moms Discipleship Group.”
Find her on patreon.com/cindyrollins or at morningtimeformoms.com. Her heart’s desire is to encourage moms and go to baseball games.
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Schedule
2025 Back to School Conference
Education the Freeborn: The Radical Freedom of a
Charlotte Mason Education
July 30
Wednesday
1:00 pm ET
Caitlin Beauchamp
July 31
Thursday
1:00 pm ET
Dawn Duran
Aug. 1
Friday
1:00 pm ET
Jami Marstall
Aug. 1
Friday
3:00 pm ET
Kay Pelham
Aug. 2
Saturday
11:00 am ET
Cindy Rollins
Aug. 2
Saturday
1:00 pm ET
Panel of Moms
Photos by Aaron Burden on Unsplash