About Homeschool Connections – Welcome Catholic LOOPers!
Get a world-class Catholic education – without the expense!
Since October of 2008, Homeschool Connections has been providing families across the world with expert online instruction, supporting you in the challenges and joys of homeschooling, to help to make your homeschool strong. We’ve been there. We know it can be tough. And we know that faith, family values, and teaching and learning excellence are important. Because we know… we truly care, and we support you. In the spirit of the New Evangelization and in light of Pope St. John Paul II’s teaching on the domestic Church, together, we walk hand in hand with you with the resources you need, to help your student become strong in mind, heart, and soul.
Homeschool Connections offers two types of online classes:
- Live, interactive courses that meet in real time.
- Recorded, independent-learning courses that can be taken on your schedule and at your pace.
We enable your student to:
- Recover a missing or lost credit for their transcript,
- Master a subject they wish to study more, and
- Complete a prerequisite course to pursue additional studies.
Meet some of our instructors…
Joseph Pearce
Teaches Literature
Phillip Campbell
Teaches History
Kristi Moore, Ph.D.
Teaches Psychology
Mission
Connecting your homeschool to the experts.
Get the resources and expertise you need for safe, excellent, and affordable education.
The Difference
Consistent, Caring, Personal Support
World-Class Instructors & Passionate Experts who Care
Affordable Pricing
For top-tier online education, your LIVE courses have some of the best prices available today—and your Unlimited Access to 500+ full recorded courses in all subject areas is only $34.97 a month! You get high-quality courses at a reasonable price that fits your budget.
Parent & Student Choice
Our Educational Philosophy
The Parent Leads
We strive to support you exactly where you are in your homeschooling journey. We assist you, the primary educator, by providing world-class courses that your student needs (and wants).
Customize Your Learning
We recognize (with you) that it’s important to address and customize learning to the unique needs of your student. Whether you want a college-style lecture or hands-on engagement… or need a full curriculum or a single course… or want must-have core courses along with high-interest, deep-dive learning—our desire is to help you find the exact learning that fits your student’s needs.
Create a Love of Learning
Explore and enjoy the flexibility of schooling at home. School doesn’t have to be “boring” or “in a box.” We bring to you instructors who share their passion and keep the learning fresh and engaging. We want your student to keep learning beyond high school—and help you create lifelong learners.
Lower Screen Time
With online courses here, your student doesn’t just sit in front of the screen for hours. Instead, students meet in the online classroom just once or twice a week (per course)—so your student can move and engage. Learning begins in the hour-long classroom and continues outside of class—with reading, project work, research, and more—so your student can connect with your family and community.
Go Beyond the Foundations
It’s important to have excellence in the foundations of learning—reading, writing, and arithmetic—and you can get that here! But here, you can also get all kinds of options for more. Take a deep dive into a subject that you’re passionate about—from accounting and American Sign Language, to space science and study skills, to philosophy, theology, zoology, and more. Expand your curriculum and get dynamic learning experiences that go beyond the basics.
Our Story
In October of 2008, Walter Crawford, an expert in applying technology towards learning, began offering webinars for homeschooling parents—and Maureen Wittmann, a well-known Catholic author and speaker, joined in to present a series of webinars on teaching, organization, and successful homeschooling. The response was positively overwhelming! Parents said, “We LOVE it! Can you give us more? And can you create online courses for my teen?” The answer was a resounding, “Yes!”—and Homeschool Connections was born. Within the first six months, Maureen joined Walter together to present a first course in “Government, Democracy, and Citizenship,” and more courses in literature, theology, philosophy, and economics quickly followed—with top experts across the nation joining in to teach. By 2012, over a hundred online courses were available for families online. Today, families across the world can choose from 450+ recorded courses and 200+ LIVE online courses each school year—making Homeschool Connections the largest Catholic course provider with the most comprehensive array of Catholic online courses available today.
Meet the Directors
Maureen Wittmann
Co-Director
Grateful for all the homeschool parents who helped her over the years, Maureen is passionate about giving back to homeschooling families through Homeschool Connections and all of its wonderful ways that it blesses families “in the thick of it.”
Walter Crawford
Founder
Staff
We have a wonderful staff—ready and available to serve you and your family.
Our Main Office
Kimlarie Lloyd
Customer Service Manager
Kimlarie is here to assist you each day via phone and email. If you have any concern—from simple questions on a course to technical issues—Kimlarie can connect you with the right people. If you’re a current family with questions or are simply checking out what’s here, help find answers to your questions with Kimlarie at [email protected].
Phyllis Kiernan
Operations Manager
Phyllis is responsible for integrating your student into the complete Homeschool Connections experience. She makes it seamless for parents, instructors, and students alike. For over 16 years, she and her husband homeschooled their five children, who have all graduated now.
Andrea Stewart
Development Coordinator
Andrea faciliates the development of our course catalog, leads the ongoing relationship with our college relationships, and coordinates the onboarding of new instructors.
Lynn Vershay
Administrative Assistant
Lynn finds great joy in helping others. She has been a special part of the Homeschool Connections Team for the past ten years, first as a Course Monitor and now in her current role as Administrative Assistant. Both Lynn and her husband live in Indiana and have homeschooled all five of their sons. She served in Youth and Pro-life Ministries and enjoys traveling, reading and spending time with dear friends, her family, and six grandchildren.
Catherine Godlewsky
Grade School Coordinator
Catherine Godlewsky is assistant to Phyllis Kiernan and does all kinds of jobs at Homeschool connections. She works on the website, course pages, assists teachers and much more.
Professor Godlewsky has a B.A. in English from Centenary University and an M.Phil in Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin; she is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at University College Dublin. She has been tutoring and teaching, both online and in person, since 2016, when she began teaching test prep and college-level writing. Professor Godlewsky has published poems in several poetry zines, including “this is not where we belong” and “Brave Voices Magazine”, and has published an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for classroom use. She also runs a poetry podcast dedicated to the works of Emily Dickinson. Professor Godlewsky lives in Ireland, and loves going for long walks by the sea.
Jennifer Mullen
Lead Course Monitor
Jennifer Mullen is the Lead Course Monitor with Homeschool Connections. She lives in Northern Illinois and loves camping, hiking, traveling, building lego’s, art, science,and spending time with family. Jennifer has 5 children who were homeschooled. She has a Bachelors of Science degree with a concentration in Marketing.
Sue Kresich
Customer Support Service
Sue Kresich is from Northwest Indiana and a Monitor for HSC and Customer service rep. She is active at her home parish as a catechist and taking care of the church environment. She has been involved with the Scouts as a Religious Emblem Coordinator for the diocese for over ten years. Her hobbies include reading and going on long walks.
Now that you know about us, find out what we’re passionate about:
Courses for you and your family education...
Live Courses
3rd-12th Grade LIVE, Interactive Learning
Unlimited Access
3rd-12th Grade Recorded Courses in All Subjects
Aquinas Writing Advantage
3rd-12th Grade LIVE & Recorded Writing Courses