Michelle Russell

Greetings! I live in the great state of Texas in the rapidly growing city of McKinney. I began homeschooling my two children in 2010, graduating my youngest in May 2024. While homeschooling, I served on the board of our homeschool cooperative and taught various middle school and high school courses. I earned a Bachelor of General Studies from Texas Women’s University in 2011 and graduated from the CiRCE Institute Apprenticeship in 2022.

When not teaching, you can usually find me snuggled up on the couch, crochet hook in hand, watching a British Detective show.

Teaching Philosophy

My philosophy of education is built on the truth Paul declares in Colossians 1:17: “Christ is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.“ Christ is both the source of all knowledge and the one who brings all parts of knowledge into one whole. He is the Logos, the reason for all of creation. Believing this, I see all areas of academic study as a means to know Christ, and as a result, a means to know ourselves rightly. On this foundation, I add the assertion of David Hicks in Norms & Nobility that the supreme task of education is “the cultivation of the human spirit: to teach the young to know what is good, to serve it above self, to reproduce it, and to recognize that in knowledge lies this responsibility.“ It is not enough to know what is right, one must also do what is right. One must be both wise and virtuous.

Statement of Faith

I believe in the historic Christian faith as expressed in the Nicene Creed. My family and I attend Frisco Bible Church, a non-denominational community of believers.