Trisha Pull has eleven years of experience teaching at home and is currently home educating her six children in grades 5, 6, 7, 9,10, and 11. She has used a variety of teaching approaches, because different kids have different learning needs. She believes that school customized to the individual student is one of the great strengths of homeschooling.
Following Jesus, not by obligation but as a relationship driven by hearing His voice, is Trisha’s goal in all she does.
Trisha has a bachelor’s degree in oboe performance and music education. Her favorite hobbies are music, University of Kansas basketball, tea, strategy board games, and running. Home renovation television shows are one of her vices.
Speaking Topics 2023
Homeschooling: Starting Off Right
Starting the homeschool journey can be an overwhelming and intimidating process. How do you decide which curriculum to use? How should your home be set up for learning? What does the law require of homeschoolers? Is there a right way to homeschool? This session is designed to address beginning topics like state homeschool laws, how to choose curriculum, understanding your children’s learning styles, finding support for you and your homeschool, and making learning a lifestyle. It’s my hope that you’ll leave this session feeling equipped and confident for the school year ahead.
Leveraging Learning Styles
One of the great benefits of homeschooling is the opportunity to personalize your children’s education. A key ingredient in tailoring education is understanding each child’s individual learning style. This facilitates easier learning, adds fun to school, and aids in choosing curriculum. This workshop will give you the tools to determine your child’s learning style and ideas for how to better teach them. Additionally, you’ll be able to learn about your learning and teaching style, too!
Raising Children who Love to Learn
In school as in life, attitude is everything. Children who want to learn will remember more, complete lessons more quickly, and make our job as their teacher easier. But how do we move them from complaining about doing school to being engaged and interested in school? That is the challenge of training up lifelong learners. In this session you’ll learn some practical ways to foster a love of learning in your children, and break the cycle of bad attitudes about school.
Managing the Mess
If you’ve ever thought “There aren’t enough hours in a day” concerning managing life as a homeschool mom, this workshop is for you. Managing meal planning, chores, routines, housework, schedules, lesson plans and schoolwork can prove a daunting task. Come hear from a homeschool mom who has regularly been host to a laundry pile taller than her dryer. This session aims to provide helpful and practical tips for managing every area of homeschool life and thoughts on how to train our children to help us. We can’t make more hours, but we can help you manage the mess a little more easily.
Balance Not Burnout
In the busy, plate-spinning, always running, never-stopping world of raising kids and homeschooling, how do we avoid being overwhelmed, overtired, and burned out? This session will explore the life-giving tension of work and rest and how it fuels physical, emotional, spiritual and relational health. Expect to be challenged and encouraged through practical help for living life in balance to avoid burnout.
10 Gifts of Routine
It’s easy to view routine as an imposition to our otherwise fun and carefree ways. While routine requires sacrifice, it also delivers many benefits. In this session we will discuss 10 gifts routine provides and some practical ways to implement routine that works for YOUR family at any stage and age.
The Balancing Act – Authority & Relationship
As a parent, God has appointed us the authority in our home. He has also called us to pursue a rich relationship with our children. As such, we tend to be permissive in order to pursue relationship or overbearing in order to maintain authority. Balancing these two seemingly opposite roles as parents can seem impossible. This session focuses on finding the balance between authority and rich relationship and offers practical tips for success in both areas.
The Issue of Intimacy (for wives only)
Healthy marriages thrive on Intimacy. It’s key to keeping both spouses happy and connected. Without intention, it easily falls to the bottom of a busy mom’s to do list. This session will offer encouragement to consider intimacy in new ways, keep intimacy a priority, and offer practical tips on how to pursue it.
Called & Capable
Many homeschoolers believe God has called them to homeschool. Despite the call, they don’t feel confident or capable. How do we embrace the truth that what God has called us to do, He has made us capable of doing? In this session we will explore calling, confidence and our capability, rooted in Christ .
Planning & Priorities
Balancing school, home, activities, church, and relationships can prove challenging. How do we decide what to do and when? How do we keep from scheduling every minute or every day? How do we keep from aimlessly wandering through our days with no plan? This session will explore priorities and how we can use them to practically plan and effectively shape our days to be productive and meaningful.
Developing Spiritual Root Systems
Scripture compares followers of Jesus to trees that are firmly planted, bearing fruit in every season and unmoved by adversity. The key to fruitfulness in a tree and in the life of a believer is a healthy root system. As believers, the presence or absence of deep roots ultimately affects our whole life. How can we develop a healthy spiritual root system so we can remain strong in times of trouble and bear fruit in every season?
Loving People without Losing Our Kids
How do we teach our kids to both love the people of the world and simultaneously protect them from the dangers of the world? Technology, friends, cultural ideas and many other temptations pull at our kids, drawing them away from Jesus and the life He intends for them. How can we raise our children to stand strong in times of temptation? How do we teach them to love others without compromising their own faith? With God’s help, it is possible! This workshop focuses on the delicate balance of loving people without losing our kids.
Building Blocks for Healthy Relationships
Homeschooling provides lots of family together time. One common product of family togetherness is conflict. How do we leverage family time toward building lasting family relationships, good communication skills, and whole relationships? This workshop is designed to offer insights and practical tips on how to raise peacemakers who harvest righteousness instead of strife.
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Developing Spiritual Root Systems
Scripture compares followers of Jesus to trees that are firmly planted, bearing fruit in every season and unmoved by adversity. The key to fruitfulness in a tree and in the life of a believer is a healthy root system. As believers, the presence or absence of deep roots ultimately affects our whole life. How can we develop a healthy spiritual root system so we can remain strong in times of trouble and bear fruit in every season?
Raising Children Who Love the Lord with All Their Heart
How do we teach our kids to both love the people of the world and simultaneously protect them from the dangers of the world? Technology, friends, cultural ideas and many other temptations pull at our kids, drawing them away from Jesus and the life He intends for them. How can we raise our children to stand strong in times of temptation? How do we teach them to love others without compromising their own faith? With God’s help, it is possible! This workshop focuses on the delicate balance of loving people without losing our kids