We are a team of experienced educators who have worked in both institutional and homeschool settings.

Jean Kulczyk, M.Ed.

Jean is a certified teacher in the areas of learning disabilities, emotional disorders, typical children K-8 and high school English, with additional certifications in Reading and Behavior Modification. For seven years, she authored and published, At Our Own Pace, a newsletter for homeschooling special needs families. She has over thirty years of experience as a homeschooling special needs advocate in public schools for five years. Jean also volunteers as a Court Appointed Specials Advocate, and has homeschooled her three daughters.

Jean H. Vondriska, M.Ed.

Jean has worked as a special education teacher, school director and university instructor before assisting her two children in unschooling from kindergarten through high school. Jean has a special interest in children who learn to read "later"; she has researched and given workshops on later literacy. In addition to her work with Dynamic Learning 411, she maintains a private practice as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.

Kathy Wentz

Kathy is a certified teacher who left the classroom to raise and homeschool her own family 18 years ago. For the last decade she has been speaking on a wide variety of topics, and running a number of homeschool websites and email lists. She spearheaded the creation of the first-ever Homeschool Resource Center in a public library. In addition to her current ongoing work at the Johnsburg, Illinois Public Library, she is a much sought-after educational consultant, private tutor and homeschool math and science teacher.

Dorothy Werner

Dorothy started homeschooling her children in 1978 after doing Masters work in education at Northwestern and helping to run the Sunflower School. Four of her five sons graduated through Clonlara School. She helped found HOUSE (Home Oriented Unique Schooling Experience), a statewide network of homeschooling support groups in Illinois. She began working with Clonlara families in 1979 and represents Illinois Unschoolers Network on the Ad Hoc Committee for Illinois Home Education Legal and Legistlative Matters. She has helped many families translate what they do at home into academic language. She is now available for private consults about transcripts, unschooling and other aspects of homeschooling.