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Featured &Workshop Speakers
Carol Arnold
Carol Arnold and her husband Brad are from Massachusetts and have been married for 32 years. They
homeschooled four children from 1983 to 2008. The Arnolds serve on the board of MassHOPE where
Carol is the support group Networking Director. Carol taught public high school for 6 years before having
children, and is enjoying her recent new role this spring of grandma. Carol is also an EBAY Education
Specialist.
Don & Darlene Catlett
Don and Darlene Catlett have homeschooled their four children, ages 26 to 18, since 1988. They have
graduated three of their children from high school at home, and will graduate their fourth this year,
and they enjoy spreading the vision to continue homeschooling through the high school years. Having
founded and held various leadership roles in both small and large co-ops, Darlene shares insights
on what works and what doesn’t. Don and Darlene have created and maintain many websites to both
encourage and educate homeschooling families. Serving together on the CHAP Board, they are also the
editors of the CHAP Magazine.
Bruce K. Eagleson
Dr. Bruce K Eagleson has practiced emergency medicine for nearly 30 years. He and his wife have exclusively
homeschooled their four children for 24 years. They have four high school at home graduates.
Their first and third children did college at home. Bruce has listened to over 900 homeschool presentations,
attended over 40 homeschool conventions, published homeschool research, and worked for 15
years to improve the homeschooling law in Pennsylvania. Dr. Eagleson is a homeschool evangelist.
Bruce is recognized nationally as the chairman (a position he has held since its founding in 2002) of The
National Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership. The Eaglesons have served for 15 years on
the board of directors of the Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania (CHAP). He currently
chairs that board. Dr. Eagleson also founded the CHAP Foundation. In addition, Dr. Eagleson is the
author of the CHAP getting started book, Keys to Homeschooling in the Keystone State. Bruce also
writes a regular column for the CHAP Magazine. Bruce’s teaching has been enthusiastically received at
many conferences including ENOCH of NJ, Mass HOPE, TEACH CT, HoME, CHAP, Sandy Cove’s
and Harvey Cedars’ Bible Conference homeschool week, HSLDA’s annual leadership meeting and the National Alliance of Home Education
Leadership. Topics he speaks on include: character lessons from historical figures, apologetics, a vision to homeschool, creation,
getting started in homeschooling, what to do after high school, and many Bible topics. Dr. Eagleson has been described as a principled,
courageous, and visionary national homeschool leader.