Lead Volunteers

2025–2026 PHS Leadership Team

The PHS Leadership Team is concerned with the day-to-day operations of Planet Homeschool. These volunteers are responsible for communicating our mission, strategy, and policies to our members and instructors, as well as coordinating members toward accomplishing our goals. Planet Homeschool is a non-profit organization, and our Leadership Team reports to the MSHE/PHS Board.

PHS Leadership Team members are committed to creating and enforcing co-op policies that are in alignment with our co-op’s mission and values. They listen to the preferences and suggestions of our members, and will be discreet with any private information shared by members and instructors.

Marilee Eischeid, Co-Director
Katie Rothstein, Co-Director
Dan Hoisington
Becky Hansen

Leadership Team’s Advisory Committee

Kathy Oaks, Co-op Advisor.
Carrie Wilder, Co-op Advisor.

PHS Leadership Team members can expect to spend some time weekly leading the co-op. That includes monitoring the status of our co-op, engaging in decision-making discussions, and attending planning meetings.

2025–2026 Support Volunteers

Support Volunteers are co-op members who have volunteered to take on the responsibility of ensuring that specific essential tasks needed to implement the policy and programs of Planet Homeschool actually get done.

Class Registration Manager: Dan Hoisington.
Communications Director: Marilee Eischeid and Katie Rothstein.
Conflict Resolution Mediators: Marilee Eischeid and Katie Rothstein.
Copyeditors: Eliot West and Becky Hansen.
Course Interest Survey Lead: …open….
Event Planner: Kim Guedes.
Finance Director: Mike Zugschwert.
Fundraising Managers: Kim Guedes and Becky Hansen.
Historians: Kathy Oaks, Nic Rosenau, and Carrie Wilder.
Member Liaisons: Ellen Koch.
Membership Manager: Ellen Koch.
Open House Party Planner: Becky Hansen.
Printing and Lamination: Becky Hansen.
Semiannual Get-Together Host: Marilee Eischeid.
Volunteer Coordinator: Katie Rothstein.
Website Editors: Nic Rosenau and Mike Zugschwert.

Co-op volunteers can be reached at PlanetHomeschoolMN@gmail.com. Messages sent to this address are received by our Communications Director, and forwarded to the appropriate team member.

Members of Planet Homeschool can find personal contact information in our co-op’s Member Directory.

Board of Directors

Minnesota Secular Homeschool Enrichment, Inc. dba Planet Homeschool (MSHE/PHS):

Kathy Oaks, President.
Kim Chase-Kozak, Vice President.
Tom Anderson, Secretary.
Nic Rosenau, Treasurer.
Katherine Anderson, Member at Large.
Tanya Lewerenz, Member at Large.

Our Board of Directors is concerned with governance or the vision and organizational direction of Planet Homeschool. Our Board defines expectations, grants our co-op’s Leadership Team the authority to act, verifies the performance of our co-op’s Leadership Team, and monitors our compliance with laws, regulations, and other requirements.

Our Board can be reached at PlanetHomeschoolMN+Board@gmail.com. Messages sent to this address are received by our Co-op Director and forwarded to our Board.