Workshop Presentations

Cindy Wiggers is an, author, publisher, and national speaker. She established a family business, Geography Matters, with her husband in 1989. She has a heart to help parents inspire their children with a love for learning. Her workshop presentations are full of practical ideas from true-life experiences gained from home schooling her three very different children and her intense desire to see homeschool families succeed beyond their hopes and dreams. Her interests include nutrition and fitness, spending time with her grandchildren, and engaging in adventure with friends.

Her accomplishments include:

• Home schooling 3 children through high school
• Author: Trail Guide to World Geography andTrail Guide to U.S. Geography
• Co-author: Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide and Trail Guide to Bible Geography
• Publishing Director for Geography Matters
• Articles published in various homeschooling magazines
• General workshop speaker at numerous state conventions over the past 15 years including: FPEA, SHEM, HEAV, MACHE (MN), TPA, NCHE, CHEA of CA, IAHE, and more
• Former candidate for Colorado State House of Representatives
• Interpreter for the Deaf
• Leader of women's in-home Bible study group
• MOPS mentor

After attending her sessions, folks often remark Cindy's workshops provided the most practical and useful information they heard all day.

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Want Cindy to speak to your group? Contact her for details about scheduling her for your conference, book fair, support group meeting, or retreat.

Ashley (Strayer) Wiggers grew up in the early days of the home schooling movement taught by parents, Greg and Debbie Strayer, who are authors of numerous home schooling materials. Ashley recently retired from a 10-year career as a national champion synchronized swimmer, is a swim instructor at the YMCA, and coaches the Pulaski County High School swim team. In her “spare” time she speaks at home school seminars across the country, edits a monthly online newsletter for Geography Matters, and has written Profiles from History which will be available in spring of 2009. Ashley makes her home in Somerset, KY, with her husband, Alex, and their faithful Golden Retriever, Mandy.

Want Ashley to speak to your group? Contact her for details about scheduling her for your conference, book

Workshops Include:

7 Secrets to Help Kids Think for Themselves

Do you have trouble keeping your students interested in learning? Perhaps it’s time you begin to think outside the box. Leonardo da Vinci approached knowledge from a unique perspective. Discover techniques used by da Vinci that, when implemented, will improve critical thinking and creativity, inspiring your students to want to gain knowledge. Included also in this workshop are ideas from the teachings of Ruth Beechick to develop thinking skills which help create a delight for learning and improves your children’s ability to excel in any area they choose to pursue.

See How Easily You Can Make Learning Come Alive!

Kids love to get out of the books and DO something with what they are learning. Give them a deeper understanding of the peoples of the world as they study world history or geography by integrating art projects, cooking international meals, and using other hands-on learning tools like timelines and outline maps. They'll develop learning skills that will serve them for a lifetime!

The Secret of Adding Spice to Any Curriculum

Did you know George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson all kept notebooks? Explore this natural approach to education that encourages your students to be life-long learners! Open the door to self-motivation, academic excellence, creativity, and true learning for your children through notebooking. See how readily it adapts into any home education program and how to start your family on this exciting journey of discovery learning.

How to Teach Geography in a Way That Has Your Kids Asking for More

Are you encountering geography in your everyday life experiences? You can, and we'll show you how! Knowing geography's 5 themes will help you make this topic come alive in your daily learning activities. Discover creative ways to incorporate games, simple mapping assignments, and using atlases and almanacs. Kid's love these kinds of hands-on projects and will want to learn more about the geography of our world.

What Everybody Ought to Know about Timelines

Are you trying to keep up with time and place in this continuum of life? Want to help your students remember historical events and their significance to history? Timelines can help you… "boldly know where mankind has gone before"! Transport your, often random, historical studies into a chronological, simple format, and watch your student’s interest and recall soar. This workshop explains the importance of routinely using a timeline and how to get started!

You Don’t Have to be SuperMom to Homeschool Successfully

Moms, are you tired, grumpy, overweight, disheveled, unorganized, or all of the above? All too often devoted Moms focus so much of their attention and energies to serve the needs of their families they neglect their own very essential needs. When these Moms (and you know who you are) have also committed to educating their children this is even more the case. Come learn the basics of keeping yourself fit- spirit, soul, and body thus keeping a peaceful, yet confident attitude while fulfilling each day's duties. This is coming from a Mom who's "been there, done that" and would do it differently. Come learn from my mistakes and create a home environment you can be proud of. You will walk away inspired!