Instructors
Kristina Carney
Kristina is a dedicated homeschool mom who serves as one of the ELC teachers. She lives at home with her husband and three daughters. Kristina is passionate about fostering a love of learning and encouraging children to take an active role in their education. She enjoys creating learning environments that support natural curiosity and encourage exploration. Before moving to York in 2023, she lived just outside Philadelphia, where she led a nature based play group, which is what sparked her desire to homeschool. In Kristina's free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and exploring nature with her family.
Hope Eberly
Hope holds a bachelor’s degree from Shippensburg University and is a proud native of York County. Her deep appreciation for local history inspires her homeschooling approach, where she weaves the stories and traditions of the region into her lessons. Hope believes that when students can personally connect with a topic, they are more likely to retain the information, which is why she incorporates hands-on activities and local history projects into her curriculum. Now in her second year of homeschooling her three children (ages 8, 5, and 3), Hope brings energy and creativity to each day.
Outside of teaching, she cherishes time with her family, enjoys reading, volunteers with older adults, and shares her home with a beloved dog named Dais
Mr. Henry Hartman
Henry is a life-long resident of the Hanover area and has lived in the same farmhouse for his entire life. Henry has been a dealer for Steiner Turf Equipment for nearly 40 years. He has been teaching Adult Education Small Engine Repair classes for more than 40 years. He and his wife, Peggy, have two children, son Dale who is an active volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder, and daughter Juliana who is a PA State Certified Veterinary Technician. The Hartman family members are passionate about snowmobiling and flying, both Henry and Dale are licensed Private Pilots. In 2021, Peggy and Henry were inducted into the International Snowmobile Hall of Fame at Eagle River Wisconsin.
Training and Certification:
1973 graduate Southwestern High School, 1975 graduate National Technical Institute, motorcycle technology
Charlotte High
Charlotte High a homeschool mom of two and is the founder of Cozy Crafter Crates, where she helps families rediscover the joy of hands-on crafting. Combining a love for vintage handicrafts and modern materials, she designs projects that are beautiful and useful. Her passion is teaching forgotten skills and making handicrafts accessible for modern families.
Jacqueline Kasian
Jacqueline Kasian brings more than a decade of experience at Accenture, where she currently serves as an Account Director and Delivery Lead supporting clients in their digital marketing initiatives. In her role, she oversees the end-to-end execution of digital marketing campaigns and helps clients bring their strategic vision to life. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Jacqueline’s expertise spans strategic planning, leveraging real-world data and insights, executing omnichannel campaigns, and developing customer-centric integrated marketing programs.
Jacqueline holds an MBA in Marketing Management from Centenary University and a BA in Communications from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Outside of work, she is a proud mom of two sons and the owner of two dogs. She enjoys spending time with family, road trips, cooking, volunteering, art, movies, and music. Jacqueline looks forward to sharing her passion for marketing and inspiring the next generation of influencers.
Mrs. Nicole Kidd
Nicole has a degree from York College of Pennsylvania as well as her veterinary assistant certificate from San Juan College. She has been homeschooling her two children since Kindergarten. She lives with her husband, two kids (Emmett & Oliver), 2 dogs, 4 cats and an ever fluctuating number of chickens. She has worked in the veterinary field since 2010 doing everything from reception, outpatient appointments, inpatient care and surgery/dentals/anesthesia. When not at work, Nicole enjoys reading, cooking, gardening, running, crocheting and hanging out with all of her critters!
Amie Odman
Amie has an associates degree in culinary arts and restaurant management. In addition to working almost every position in a restaurant she has also spent time in a gluten free bakery. Amie and her 12yr old son (Damian) are in their 3rd year of homeschooling this is their second year with the Inclusive. They current reside with her husband and their Norwegian Forest cat Mogwai. Amie and Damian both enjoy video games, traveling, and trying new foods.
Alannah Revels
Alannah is a stay at home mom who began her homeschool journey in 2020 when her oldest child started kindergarten. Since then, she’s organized homeschool Bookclub’s and a variety of activities within the homeschool community. Alannah lives at home with her 3 children, husband, and German shepherd.
In her free time, she’s an avid reader and founder of an adult bookclub that’s been going strong for over a year. When she’s not reading, you’ll find Alannah outside with her kids, traveling with her family, or in the gym. She’s always had a passion for fitness- she started playing basketball in second grade and continued through high school. These days she’s shifted that love into weight training and maintaining a h
Amy Schafer
Amy holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Secondary Teaching Certification from Messiah University and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Wilkes University. She spent three years teaching Chemistry and Physical Science in a public school, but her aspiration was always to homeschool. Amy is passionate about educational alternatives to the traditional "K-12 assembly line" approach. Many of these alternatives come naturally in a homeschool setting: mixed-age groups, curriculum compaction, differentiated instruction, collaborative learning, field trips, and project-based assessments (ie, portfolios). Amy believes in using testing when appropriate as a tool to guide teaching, rather than teaching to the test. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, playing board and video games, listening to podcasts, and learning Spanish through Duolingo.
Patch Schneider
Patch is a devoted parent and homeschool teacher to four incredible kids aged 5 to 10. Embracing a nonbinary identity, Patch uses they/them pronouns. Passionate about animals, plants, and science, they've embraced a vegan lifestyle throughout adulthood, extending this commitment to their children. Beyond teaching, Patch is an avid artist, skilled gardener, and enthusiastic baker during their well-deserved free time. Their love for holistic education and nurturing creativity shines through in their teaching approach. Patch is not only dedicated to instilling the love of learning in others but is also deeply passionate about education and lifelong learning, creating an inspiring and engaging educational environment.
Training and Certifications: Homeschool parent and passionate life long learner
Evan Tunney
Evan is a naturalist and an experienced Vivariist and Herpetoculturist. He has experience with teaching, from presentations of his animals to short one-day enclosure building classes. Evan has kept every class of animal including fish, microbes, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, and other animals with a non well recognized class but primarily loves reptiles and amphibians. In the future, Evan hopes to become a Field Herpetologist. Currently, Evan has 3 lizards 2 frogs/toads 2 salamanders 2 millipedes 3 Daces, fluffy animals, and much more.
Training and Certification:
6+ years of animal husbandry and lots, upon lots, of research. Many hours volunteering with watershed stewards and stream studies. Experience teaching. Evan has been homeschooled his entire life.
Mrs. Lori Tunney
In what seems like her previous life, Lori obtained a degree in Experimental Psychology from Penn State University with the intention of getting her masters, focusing on neuroscience and research. Fast forward warp speed 20 years, and I am happily married with three children and what seems to be a zoo in my house. I immediately took to homeschooling my first child over 13 years ago. That was never my intention, who knew?! I enjoy learning as I school my three children. I love hiking, beach, reading, house projects, spontaneous trips, learning new things, and building a co-op community.
TRAINING:
BS in Experimental Psychology from PSU, Homeschooling parent and co-op teacher for over 13 years
Gal Witmer
Gal is passionate about teaching architecture to everyone except college students! She sees it as something everyone should at least be exposed to and have some basic knowledge! She has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame and is a licensed architect with 30 years of experience.
Last year she began homeschooling her daughter and became much more familiar with all it has to offer! She has long been interested in offering more than a “career day” experience to kids about architecture so is happy for this opportunity!