Meet The Homeschool Connection Staff

Marianne Herlocker

World History, U.S. History

Pensacola Christian College
Over 14 years’ teaching and tutoring experience
With THSC since 2017

“Since 2013, The Homeschool Connection
has welcomed nearly 500 families.”

Renee Tucker

Small Group Math

Tennessee Temple University
Over ten years’ teaching experience and over
fourteen years tutoring experience
Successfully homeschooled her three children

“Doors opened in 2013 with a
primary focus on offering homeschool classes as a
supplement to Florida’s homeschooling families.”

Myra Cruz

Tutoring Director

Crown College
Twenty years in education, sixteen years’ teaching experience
Tutoring Director at THSC since 2014
In graphic design since 2012

“Our group of professionally
trained teachers are committed
to helping students break through learning
barriers and showing them that
learning can be fun!”

Rebekah Ricks

Owner/Director, Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry

Oklahoma Baptist College
Nearly twenty years in education and teaching
experience
Previously worked at a private hospital with
special needs children as a speech therapist aide

“The Homeschool Connection has offered
exceptional homeschool education since 2013,
successfully helping students meet their academic goals.”

Meet The Homeschool Connection Staff

Doug Conklin

Pre-Algebra, Small Group English

Landmark Baptist College
Over twenty-nine years’ teaching experience
Former principal of LFBC Homeschool Academy

Marianne Herlocker

World History, U.S. History

Pensacola Christian College
Over 14 years’ teaching and tutoring experience
With THSC since 2017 

“Since 2013,
The Homeschool Connection has welcomed nearly 500 families.”

Cassie Pavy

Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science

Warner Southern College
Over thirteen years’ teaching experience
Currently holds four different teaching
certifications

Renee Tucker

Algebra 1, Pre-Algebra

Tennessee Temple University
Over ten years’ teaching experience and over
fourteen years tutoring experience
Successfully homeschooled her three children

“Doors opened in 2013
with a primary focus on offering homeschool classes as a supplement to Florida’s homeschooling families.”

“Doors opened in 2013 with a primary focus
on offering homeschool classes as a supplement
to Florida’s homeschooling families.”

Brittony Yates

Jr. High English, Sr. High English

Thomas Edison State University
Southeastern University
In education for nearly twenty years
Experience teaching grades pre-school to high school

Myra Cruz

Tutoring Director

Crown College
Twenty years in education, sixteen years’ teaching
experience
Tutoring Director at THSC since 2014
In graphic design since 2012

“Our group of
professionally trained teachers are committed
to helping students break through learning barriers and showing them that
learning can be fun!”

Lissette Cruz

Assistant Director

Pensacola Christian College
Over twenty years in education and teaching
experience
THSC Office Administration since 2013
Former award-winning Fine Arts Director

Rebekah Ricks

Owner/Director, Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry

Oklahoma Baptist College
Nearly twenty years in education and teaching
experience
Previously worked at a private hospital with
special needs children as a speech therapist aide

“The Homeschool Connection has offered exceptional homeschool education since 2013, successfully helping students meet their academic goals.”

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provide, and glean encouragement
for those tough days.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for helpful tips on various subjects and insight into the need-to-knows for homeschooling.

Our Story

The Homeschool Connection is a small team of experts dedicated to helping you develop your children to their highest potential. We believe that education is a priceless commodity, and we want to help you and your children with their education for only a fraction of the cost that others charge. We carefully choose our teachers, who are experts in their fields of study, to aid you in your homeschool endeavors. With our various backgrounds (from Oklahoma to the city of Chicago) and our mastery of subject matter (Our teachers have been teaching an average of ten years in the classroom.), we are confident that we can help you, connecting our table to yours.

After teaching for over ten years in traditional schools, we started as a “one-man show” with Rebekah Ricks teaching upper math to homeschoolers in small groups at their dining room table. A homeschooler herself, she realized that there was a need for upper-level instruction in areas some homeschool parents were not as familiar with. After many hours of discussion at Starbucks (A cup o’ joe is never far from our reach!), the idea for The Homeschool Connection was born with the goal of imparting our love of the subject we teach to the students with whom we are entrusted. We have striven in every way to keep that same sense of cameraderie with our students and families by keeping class sizes small and our teachers acccesible.

We believe that every parent has the right to choose the best route to educate their child. We are advocates of thinking outside of the box in our teaching style and approach to education, mixing the structure of a classroom with the flexibility of homeschooling.