Meet Our Teachers

Amy is coming back this year to teach one of our PK classes. She homeschool her two young boys and has a passion for teaching children through books and play. She created a business that gave families monthly packages with everything they needed for a week full of learning based on a theme. Another passion of hers is supporting small businesses & raising awareness for autism. She and a friend recently created Maddox’s Market in honor of her son and has been a blessing to be able to serve the community in this way. Becoming a mom opened her eyes to the love of God and experience his grace on a new level. She is thankful for all He is teaching her family.

Carol comes with much teaching experience. She not only homeschooled her 5 daughters from PK to middle school & high school, but she has nine years of experience teaching grammar and IEW writing with other homeschool coop programs. She has also taught privately and tutored high school composition and speech; taught high school literature classes, and she also taught Latin and French. She has her BA in English and Italian, and an AA in Fashion Design. Beyond her education, she is most passionate about teaching, reading and literature. She loves seeing students light up as they gain insight on concepts and skills to express themselves. A well-crafted sentence can be a thing of joy!

Carrie Lopez and her family have been at Grace for several years. She has two daughters in high school and a younger son in elementary. She is gifted in teaching soccer to young students. She also loves to share her knowledge of other sports and teaching them sportsmanship, teamwork and more!

Cathy started Grace Homeschool in 2013 with a wonderful team of ladies who have a heart for coming alongside and helping homeschooling families. She homeschooled three girls, two all the way through graduation. In her previous season of life, she was an LVN in labor and delivery, and was also a long-time self-trained legal secretary. Besides loving the Lord first and foremost, then her husband of 37 years and her family, she also loves getting the job done and serving people. She has many years of experience with this kind of homeschooling program. Even though she recently moved to Oklahoma, she is still actively involved working remotely as Program Director, Registrar and Accounting Admin, and continues as President of the Grace Homeschool Board. She is only an email away for questions, advice and help as she loves Grace Homeschool and thankful God has allowed her to continue to be a part of offering these classes in a fun school-like atmosphere for homeschool students and families.

Chloe was home-educated, graduating from Calvary Chapel Murrieta, and then attended The CenterPoint School of Ministry. She has a passion for Child Psychology, and is currently working on her associate’s degree. She has a great deal of experience working with children both at her church and also teaching homeschool classes. For as long as she can remember, she has been in love with theater, and finds it fascinating the way how she could transform into someone new and tell their story while at the same time expressing herself in a way that feels free and genuine. She performed in shows all seven years of middle school and high school. During that time, she became aware of several meaningful ways that performing arts can be applied to everyday life and self-expression. She was struck most by its impact on a person’s connection with their Creator, whose heart delights when we create too. She is thrilled and honored to get to share this passion at Grace Homeschool, and to lead others in the mission to express their creativity and uniqueness for God’s glory!

Christina has always had a heart for teaching! She has four children of her own whom she has been blessed to homeschool. She has a great deal of experience teaching other students over the past 12+ years, including teaching PK and other classes Grace, teaching a kindergarten group and girls faith based club at a previous church, and she currently leads a local American Heritage Girls troop. She is a very busy but organized gal. Besides all this, she coordinates all our field trips and many events too. Not sure how she does it all, but she does it all very well. She loves the Lord, and is passionate about her faith, family, and freedoms.

Damon Davis is coming aboard our Grace teaching team to teach the Thursday Geography Study. He has a BA in Geography from Cal State Fullerton and a Theology degree from Calvary Chapel Bible College. He has supported his wife, Grace teacher Marty Davis, in homeschooling their children. He also has coached for youth sports leagues, served as a leader for AWANA for the 2nd grade, and taught in Children’s Ministry for grades 2-5th. As a sport fishing captain, he has taught clinics on “how to fish” for all ages. He puts his geography degree to good use, working as an urban planner for the County of San Diego. In his spare time, he loves camping all over with his family.

Debi has some big shoes to fill as she takes on Cindy Masi’s science classes since she is retiring. Debi has helped Cindy with her science classes for the past eleven years, and has been more involved these past three years, helping with homework prep, checking in homework, grading, record keeping, assisting in the classroom, etc. In addition to homeschooling her own children, she have been involved in children’s ministry since 2007, including co-directing with her husband of 30 years. He is a deacon at their church and together they serve in children’s ministry. All five of their children are homeschool graduates and each are excelling. She very much enjoys being in the classroom with the students at Grace, and also enjoys science, especially the biological sciences as she loves studying the intricacies of God’s creation and seeing His handiwork in everything around us.

Genevieve is grateful for the loving environment at Grace and is excited for the fall semester. She has always wanted to teach kids, and loves being able to homeschool her four children. She has a degree in Integrated Studies and Business, and also did one semester at Calvary Chapel Bible College in Okinawa, Japan. History is a love of her and planned to be a history teacher so took classes for that. She has directed after school programs for David Brown Middle School and Railroad Canyon Elementary School. She taught Sunday school at her home church in Japan and also at her current church, Cornerstone in Wildomar. She was raised in Hawaii and hopes to bring her kids there someday!

We are thankful to have Hayley teaching at Grace. She has a vast amount of education experience. She has been a private math tutor in the local area for several years, working one-on-one with elementary, middle school and high school students. She is a cheerful and positive-minded individual with great communication and children management skills, bringing more than 8 years of classroom teaching experience. She also has 13 years as the primary instructor for four children including special needs, during grades kindergarten through twelfth, having developed and implemented appropriate curricula, and 10 years in assisting special education for students with issues that impair learning and social functions. She has developed personalized learning paths teaching English, Math, History, and Science including a variety of electives: Beginning Spanish, Equine Science, Civics, Economics, Accounting, Business Math, Writing, Home Economics, Life Skills, Bible, Physical Education, Pet Psychology, and Canine Communication. She has also taught using a variety of curricula: Abeka, Accelerated Christian Education, Easy Peasy All-in-one Homeschool, Math-u-see, IEW, Apologia, Video Text Interactive Math and Bob Jones. She has done licensed foster care, owned a petting zoo, been an equine summer camp counselor, a PK teacher for private schools and churches, and done in-home daycare. She is married with 4 children, 3 of whom have graduated, and also homeschooled for the past 13 years. Her favorite past-times are swimming with her dogs and decorating her house for Christmas.

Even though Heather is also taking on helping with administration at Grace, she will continue to teach classes. She has taught both elementary and jr. high IEW Writing and IEW Grammar and Spelling, and has added high school classes to her repertoire, including English Fundamentals and Psychology . Heather has been homeschooling her own jr. high son for several years, and they have been at Grace Homeschool for three years. She comes with a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara and has been a full-time substitute & teacher of Pre-Chemistry & Physics, 7th Grade Math, Psychology, and Sociology. She also has a heart to help new homeschooling families so oversees Grace Homeschool Support.

Heidi has graciously agreed to come alongside Cathy as administrator of Grace Homeschool Classes. She is doing a wonderful job! She will continue to teach and has taught several classes at Grace with her gift for teaching and a heart for homeschoolers. She has her Bachelors Degree in Social Science from CSU San Marcos. In addition to working as an Office Manager for many years, she also worked as a substitute teacher for the Lake Elsinore School District. She enjoys being involved with the children’s ministry at her church and teaching in the 4th and 5th grade class. She left teaching as a sub to homeschool her children, which has its challenges but is also a joy! She homeschools her children who also take classes and she is so happy to have found Grace Homeschool Classes. She enjoys joining with other wonderful families to learn new things and grow closer to the Lord together.

Jenn Sousa’s homeschooling journey started in 2020, and has been an absolute blessing to her family. She teaches her four children from 5th to high school, and is blessed to be able to not teach her children academically, but teaching them the Word of God is her highest privilege. She has been director of Classical Conversations and has a great deal of other educational experience with children and students. She is joining the Grace teaching team to teach science on Wednesdays.

Jenna has has been homeschooling her two daughters for the past nine years. She has been assisting in the sewing classes at Grace, so when the opportunity arose to teach the class, she enthusiastically consented, and we are so glad to have her. She has a love for sewing, and she has a definite servant’s heart!

Kristin is joining the Grace teaching team to take over the K reading class. She has been homeschooling her son for four years since he was in PK. She has studied youth ministry and counseling, but graduated with a Bachelors in Psychology and Minor in Bible. Kristin has worked within a number of different youth programs where she had a classroom of kids to tutor or a small group to lead, and she loved working for an adoption attorney as an administrative assistant. She and her husband have been running a film production company together for the last 10 years. One of their main goals within the entertainment community is to be a light and an example of Jesus’ love to those they interact with.

Kristen has been teaching ASL to students in the Temecula Valley for many years. She homeschooled her own children for 13 years. She received her AA degree in ASL interpreting in 2004 and has also been an ASL interpreter for 10 years.

LeAnne loves being a part of all things Grace Homeschool, and since she’s there all 3 days of classes, she has her hand in a lot of areas. She has homeschooled her two daughters for six years, with one still in jr. high and the other going to Biola University. Being a preacher’s kid, she has served in Children’s church since a very young age. When her youngest was a Christian school, she taught art for 1-2nd grade. Along with her friends, she started a homeschool co-op and has taught elementary science and upper elementary Bible. This year, using “My Fathers World” curriculum, she taught several different subjects each week including art, geography or science. They also had a book club and were using the “Socratic” method.

We are excited to announce that Lori is coming back to teach at Grace in the Fall. She has been teaching our younger music classes as well as assisting her daughter with the Musical Theater. We know she misses teaching all her students as well so it will be so good to have her teaching again.

We are thankful for the years of having Maren teach at Grace. We have had so much great feedback about her classes and teaching style! She comes to Grace with a great deal of knowledge and teaching experience as she has her Bachelor’s of Art Sociology (CSUF), and Secondary Teaching Credential classes completed (National University). She taught 6th-8th Grade Science, Bible, Language Arts and Social Studies at Calvary Chapel, Capistrano Beach; and she has also been very involved in youth ministry. Her favorite thing to do is spend time with family; traveling, camping, hiking and swimming. Reading and playing at the beach are other passions of her. She delights in working with children and feels incredibly blessed to have the privilege to teach/disciple young hearts at Grace Homeschool.

Marty has been homeschooling her four children since 2021. She has her Master’s in Social Work; and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She has had several teaching positions and is currently part of the Adjunct Faculty at Cal State Fullerton. Marty enjoys making learning engaging and hands-on for her students whenever possible. She has always adopted a learner-centered approach in her pedagogy. She wants students to be able to take the classroom knowledge and use it in a practical way towards their academic & personal development.

Mike McDade has graciously committed to teaching our guitar classes after long-time teacher Marianne Holm had to step away for a time. He is on the worship team and has been the worship coordinator at Orchard Church since 2022. We are so blessed to have him teach at Grace.

Pete has taught Finance at Grace before but coming back now to teach on something he is very passionate about, missions and evangelism. Every year he coordinates a mission trip to Colombia where they serve and minister to the people there. He also does church planting and is involved in Spanish ministry. He and his wife homeschooled their son who is now graduated after being at Grace Homeschool for several years. It is such a blessing to have Pete as part of our teaching team!

Randa has been sharing her gifts and talents with Grace students through teaching many classes, but we so glad to also have her as the administrator of our PSP, Grace Christian School of Temecula Valley. She has been a licensed Esthetician and makeup artist for 15 years. She used her leadership skills when she was PTA president while her children were in public school, and has also been a leader and mentor for moms at Revival Christian Academy. She was a tutor for 3 years at Revival classes, teaching Art to grades ages K-12 , as well as Lego Fun. She has been homeschooling for seven years, and has been part of Grace for much of that time. Her daughter will be a senior this year so she will definitely be busy! She loves art and photography, and has passed down that love and talent for these to her children too!

Regina is entering her 12th year of homeschooling her children, her oldest kids from 2nd and 3rd grade through graduation, and currently homeschool her youngest who is entering 6th grade. She has served many years in children’s ministry, and serves weekly on a prep team doing prep for children’s ministry lessons at her church. Part of this is role includes designing art activities to accompany lessons. Her children serve with her which she feels is such a blessing for their family. Regina loves art and being an encouragement to others. Using art and creativity to serve others has always been a passion of hers, primarily through making art that was gifted to others for lots of occasions. She has been passionate about teaching the fundamentals of art to her own children, and looks forward to teaching students at Grace. She is excited to see how they progress and develop their own style and learn to see the beauty in God’s creation.

Satinka Brasington has been in the home educating community since 2013. Her oldest started in the eighth grade and graduated in 2018. She has been working with kids in various ways since the age of 12. Whether church nursery, community children’s church ministries and many ways where she can teach, she will. Her two children, plus her two nieces, all started their homeschool career from kindergarten. She’s been with Grace Homeschool Classes since 2021 and enjoys serving on campus wherever needed. She has organized some fun elementary parties at Grace. Teaching the preschool aged group is the most fun for her.

Shannon loves working with children. She is just finishing her first year homeschooling her oldest who is in Kindergarten, and next year, she will have another child in TK. Shannon has her Bachelor of Science in Child Development with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education from Cal State Fullerton. She has worked as a Pre-K teacher and has lead at KinderCare. She also loves working in children’s ministry/nursery at church. We are thrilled to have her teaching art to our younger students at Grace.

We have known Susy Padilla the past couple of years as her daughter has taken several classes at Grace. Susy has always been around ready to lend a hand on the campus so many times. And now she has graciously taken over our Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 classes. Susy grew up in a Spanish-speaking church and became immersed in the language and culture from a young age. As an adult, she has led worship for Spanish-speaking services. Homeschooling her two children for the past two years has changed their lives for the better. Before that, she spent countless hours in their classrooms so she has a great deal of experience with students. And she has also currently serves in children’s ministry at her church. She is very excited to guide our high school Spanish students through the rest of this school year.

Toni has been an integral part of Grace Homeschool since we started back in 2013. She has three grown children, and homeschooled her own daughter through graduation. Toni was always very involved with outside classes while schooling her daughter. Toni does keep very busy at home now, and besides working in administration at Grace, she is homeschooling her niece and nephew too. Her daughter is now married, and has given Toni the wonderful gift of her first grandchild! She has taught several classes on and off, and besides her deep love for the Lord, one of her loves is scrap booking and has shared that gift with our jr. high students. She will be taking over the jr. high boys Bible study as she has a heart to see young men grow in their relationship with Christ!

Veronica is a passionate photographer and artist, and finds joy in capturing beauty and expressing creativity being inspired by God’s amazing creation. She has 14 years of experience home educating her children. She also dedicates her time to volunteering in children’s ministry, where she strives to make a positive impact on young hearts. Additionally, she has taught science and art in a homeschool co-op, combining her love for discovery and creativity. As an avid self-taught learner, she is constantly exploring new skills and knowledge to enrich her life and the lives of those around her.

Yoon Lee will be teaching the JH Intro to ASL and HS ASL 1. He is a graduate of Gallaudet University with a Bachelors Degree in TV, Film and Photography. He was one of the hosts for “Alaska: The Last Frontier” Deaf Mosaic. He retired from California School for the Deaf, Riverside, as a TV Teacher after producing 30 short movies with high school students throughout 10 years. Currently, Lee teaches ASL classes at Palomar College and homeschool students at his church. He also finished Deaf Interpreting Training and now mentors Interpreting Training Program students. Lee is inspired daily by his wife and a daughter. In his free time, he organizes monthly Deaf Socials and writes movie scripts.