Tracey Leary

I am a 30-year resident of Alabama, where I homeschooled my three boys. For most of our homeschooling years, we were involved with a large homeschool co-op, where I served as a director and teacher, and complied the upper school curriculum. I have degrees in music and English from Huntingdon College, a Masters degree in Education from Auburn University at Montgomery, and am currently in the doctoral program for humanities at Faulkner University. In my spare time, I enjoy sewing and reading.

Teaching Philosophy

To paraphrase Charlotte Mason, I believe that what a student knows is not as important as how much a student cares about what he or she knows. To that end, I believe that a quality education for students consists both of reading works that inspire and challenge them and providing a format for them to discuss those works in a group setting with a teacher who is herself inspired and challenged by them. As an educator, my desire is that no student feel intimidated by the Great Books. Rather, I want to help students to see first and foremost, that the reason these books have endured for centuries and are still being read today is not …