Stacy Raymond
Founder and Director of Eagle’s Wing
Eagle’s Wing Resources and Learning Center was created by Stacy Raymond out of a desire to form a learning community which would nurture an atmosphere of joy and creativity, while still giving students a rigorous and liberal education.
Possessing a lifelong love affair with books, Stacy is an avid student of literature, history, the creative arts, and Bible study. She has found a way to foster learning for life as she learns every day beside her students. Believing as Charlotte Mason suggests that, ‘the only true education is self-education’, she seeks to serve families and to equip students to think critically.
When not in a ‘classroom’ somewhere, Stacy can be found home with her family, running on the trails, wandering through various art museums, or at a baseball field, usually with a book beside her.
Stacy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Berry College and an MBA from University of Colorado.
You can check out what her students are doing in the Artroom and Pottery Studio, and what we are reading in The Literature Circle!
All of life is learning, so come along and join us on the journey!
Angie Murray
Director of Operations and Bookkeeping
Angie has been with Eagle’s Wing since its inception in 2017. She comes to our program with previous school administrative and financial supervisory background.
Angie is a homeschooling mom to one of Eagle’s Wing’s graduates and has been an integral part of the pray of Eagle’s Wing since its inception. Angie has lived in Glen Ellyn for many years with her husband and 2 adult children Rachel, who lives in the area, and George.
Angie’s sweet and gentle spirit gives Eagle’s Wing a peaceful balance to our days.
Lisa Boehm
PK and Elementary Teacher
Lisa Boehm is a wife of Thomas Boehm, Department head of special Education at Wheaton College. She and Thomas have 5 children, several with unique learning styles, whom they have homeschooled for 17 years.
Lisa is an avid reader and collector of children’s books. Reading aloud is a passion that also brings out the latent actor in Lisa! Her heart for family and children can be seen as she has many spiritual children whom she mentors and loves as her own.
Creatively, she expresses a love for beauty through cooking gourmet ethnic foods and gardening. You can often find her knitting a scarf or baby blanket for a friend.
Rachel Schuchardt
PK Aid
Coni Yanez
K1 Teacher
Coni is from Chile. She got to the United States in 2015 when she came to work as an Au pair (child care program). After completing her year, she went back to Chile to finish University, graduating in 2017 with her Degree in Education. She has worked in primary schools in Chile and high school as well. She has also worked as a Spanish teacher in the Chicago area and Plainfield.
Coni is married to Tim who is an accountant for Tecta America, a roofing company. They have a beautiful daughter named Emma who is attending pre-k this year.
She enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Also, reading is one of her favorite hobbies and playing sports, such as volleyball and soccer.
Coni wishes her family from Chile could be closer because she gets to see them just once a year, but she loves her American family so much.
She is so excited about working at Eagle’s wing. She is sure it’s going to be a fun year full of learning with lots of new experiences and adventures.
Debbie Allgood
Elementary Bible and Math Teacher
Debbe Allgood enjoys being a part of the staff Eagle’s Wing having the opportunity to learn and grow, along with the students and families God places in her path.
Debbie brings a love of learning and an enthusiasm for the Charlotte Mason educational philosophy to Eagle’s Wing. She is a wife and homeschool mom and has previous teaching experience in Georgia and Tennessee, where she was an Elementary and Special Education teacher.
Debbie’s degree in business management was earned at Lipscomb University, with subsequent classes from Belmont University for the teacher training portion of her education. Both colleges are in Nashville, Tennessee, her hometown for 27 years before moving to Atlanta and then to Chicago, which have become the homes of the heart.
Outside of school, Debbie enjoys reading, travel, having coffee or a meal out with friends, being in Bible or book studies with other women, and sometimes discussing topics she hears on Christian radio. Barnes and Noble is one of her favorite places for coffee and reflection.
Jennifer Kerkering
Lower Elementary Explorations
Haley Ledbetter
Lower Elementary and Art
Melinda Gong
Lower Elementary Aide
I have 3 boys and have homeschooled them all! I am currently very active in my church! I am very excited to be a part of the EW experience!
My favorite color is green, and my favorite animal is toads. Some things I enjoy are Pizza, family gatherings, dancing, traveling, and reading the Bible.
Donna Giove
Lower Elementary Explorations and Reading Tutor
I have been teaching most of my adult life, sometimes in special education and often in lifesaving (CPR and first aid). I love learning and enjoy teaching very much! I homeschooled both of my children who are now successful in their field of study after graduating college. And my son is homeschooling his children as well. I look forward to teaching your children and supporting you in their academic discoveries! This is my second year at Eagles Wing.
Kelly Targosz
Upper Elementary Teacher
Kelly has always found joy and fulfillment in teaching and working with children. She received a Bachelor’s degree in social work (BSW) from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005 and taught preschool while working toward a Master’s Degree in social work (MSW), which she earned from Aurora University in 2008. From there, she went on to work as a school social worker for three years before staying home with her own children and now homeschooling! Kelly has really enjoyed learning Charlotte Mason’s philosophies and implementing CM principles in her family’s homeschool.
Kelly is married to Greg and has four children: Max, Lily, and Nora, and Hope. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, family bike rides, reading, gardening, and trying out new recipes in the kitchen. She is thrilled to be part of the Eagle’s Wing family and to help foster a lifelong love of learning in the children she is blessed to spend her Wednesdays with.
Stephanie Barta
Upper Elementry
Stephanie Barta has a teaching degree from Northern Illinois University. After graduating she taught for
8 years as an early childhood special education teacher. She has been homeschooling her children for the last 3 years which has renewed her love of lesson planning. Learning alongside them has been an added bonus! She is excited to continue to learn the ways of Charlotte Mason.
Stephanie is married to Keith Barta and their children are Shane and Brooke. Dabbling in many different hobbies you can often find her stitching, needle felting, or weaving. Being in nature is one of her favorite places. She loves gardening, hiking, boating, and camping which allows her plenty of opportunities to learn the names of the new creatures and discoveries she and her family make. She has been known to forage mushrooms, and other wild edibles while on her adventures. Reading with her children is one of her favorite past times.
Linda Standinger
Science and Upper Elementary Teacher
Linda Standinger is enthusiastic about the educational philosophy of Eagle’s Wing Learning Center. She loves helping students connect what they’re learning with concepts that are familiar to them, whether they’re studying science, history, geography or literature. Her teaching style has been guided by Francis Schaffer’s perspective that “All truth is God’s truth.”
Linda studied Food Science, earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University in New Jersey. After working in product development at M&M/Mars, Inc. for almost five years, she moved to Chicago and spent a year teaching chemistry at College of DuPage. During her home school years, she taught various co-op classes, including U.S. Constitution, biology labs, chemistry, and personal finance. She has been teaching at Eagle’s Wing Learning Center since the fall of 2019.
Linda and her husband, Greg, have been married since 1995. They home schooled their three children from pre-school through high school graduation, enjoying many soccer games, baseball tournaments and speed skating meets along the way. Linda’s favorite part of home schooling was reading living books out loud with her children. She has also enjoyed working in youth ministries and women’s ministries at her church as well as traveling with extended family.
Michael Hapner
Music Director
Michael has been a teacher, musician, and pastor in both Ohio and the Chicago area for over 15 years.
He is currently the worship leader at Grace Bible Church in Elmhurst where he has served for many years and keeps busy leading an awesome group of musicians as well as writing original music, arranging and composing for weekly services. He never met a musical genre he didn’t like and listens to pretty much everything from rock to pop to country to metal to musical theater to jazz (although he is a sucker for anything baroque.)
He has been playing guitar and piano for many years, and singing since he was in the womb. He teaches between 30 and 40 private students in those disciplines in the Chicago area every week.
In addition to keeping busy with music, Michael has been working with youth, both in a professional capacity as youth pastor/worship leader and chaplain, and as a volunteer for over 12 years. He loves getting to be there as students discover their gifts, are challenged to use them, and begin to grow into young men and women who employ those gifts skillfully in order to serve others.
His interests include theology (especially soteriology), religious philosophy, poetry, literature, art, and pizza and he is currently studying Latin, which he highly enjoys.
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est
Jana Dukes
Math
Jana is so excited to join the Eagle’s Wing family this year! After teaching math for 9+ years, Jana walked into full time ministry as a worship pastor. Working with the amazing staff and students at Eagles Wing will be such a joy and great opportunity for her to enjoy her love for teens and math. She feels extremely blessed with the ability to do both education and ministry.
Jana and her husband, Steven, have been married for 7 years. They both enjoy music, traveling, and spending time with family and friends. Jana earned a Secondary Math Education degree at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Ok. She is passionate about equipping young ladies to know their true identity in Christ. Jana is the author of I Am: A Practical Guide for Every Girl to Find Their True Identity In Christ.
Jana believes in the power of a healthy and safe community to equip students to excel and discover their God-given gifts. She is so excited to be a part of that beautiful journey with her students.
Catt Hall
Chapel and Elementary Songs
Mrs. Catt has been with Eagle’s Wing since our beginning and is dearly loved by all the kids!
Mrs. Catt is our Chapel assistant, elementary songs teacher, and whatever other role we may throw her into! Mrs. Catt currently serves as the Director of Children’s Ministry at Hobson Road Community Chruch and was previously the Director of the Before and After Care Program at a Public Elementary School.
Catt is married to Jari and mom to baby Inori (2 1/2), who is also a common fixture at HRCC.
Amy Aydoner
PE and Cooking Teacher
Amy is a mother of four kids whom she had had the honor to be home with both full time and part time through their lives. She states, “I feel God truly has a plan and has myself and people in our places for a reason bigger than ourselves. Having faith and working daily at being a faith driven person, helping others, bringing peace and light into spaces where it is most needed and honoring my family’s values have been my core.”
Amy is currently homeschooling her rising 1st and 3rd graders while working as a Pilates and Yoga teacher at various locations. Her older two children attend public school and are in 7th grade and a Sophomore in High School.
Her background in education includes 15 years of public education and ABA therapist for Autistic children and their families. Amy’s academic accomplishments include a Masters in Leadership, MA, Type-75 Administration MA, and an ESL degree.
She looks forward to working with the children and families of Eagles Wing in whichever capacity she is needed.
Amy’s hobbies include Yoga and enjoying family and friends. She is an avid tea and coffee drinker and enjoys traveling to Turkiye to enjoy her husband’s culture and family. She reflects, “I am at the age where being a part of my parent’s life and making memories while I am able to be with them both is also a strong focus.
Family is everything and faith drives our vision. I am humbled daily by what God has delivered to me and I don’t take any of it for granted.”
Christina Smith
Spanish and Lower Elementary Teacher
Christina is a wife to Phil and homeschooling mom to Vinny, Isaiah, and Josephine, as well as a 4th due in Sept. She has over 10 years of teaching experience ranging from public schools to private tutoring to teaching at an orphanage school in Mexico. She holds an elementary education degree from Northern Illinois University with endorsements in middle school education, Spanish, music, language arts and social studies. Her graduate certificate is in literacy and ESL/ bilingual education, with a minor in Spanish.
Aside from teaching and being a mom, Christina has stayed busy by singing with worship teams and serving with her favorite ministries; a few of which are Hesed House and Feed My Starving Children. She is also an avid runner, running all over Chicagoland for both for fun and in organized races. Additional hobbies include Zumba, swimming, weight-training, reading, traveling, and cooking.