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 is the heartbeat of Eagle’s Wing. Nothing happens without her! She has been with Eagle’s Wing since its inception bringing previous school administrative, banking and homeschooling background.
Angie is a homeschooling mom to one of Eagle’s Wing’s graduates and has been an integral part of the prayer ministry 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 Kinder Plus 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 18 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.
Coni Yanez
K1 and Spanish 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.
Jennifer Kerkering
Lower Elementary Explorations
Mrs. K. was born and lived mostly in Washington state until 2017. 
She is a professional cellist with degrees in Cello Performance, and brings her knowledge and expertise to Eagles Wing by offering music lessons in addition to teaching lower elementary and music to the lower elementary students.
She has homeschooled her own 5 children using Charlotte Mason methods and additionally over the years she has taken Montessori teacher training, and Waldorf Teacher training,
Her son Andrew attends Eagle’s Wing in the High School as well.
Audrey Cox
Elementary Teacher Aide
Audrey Cox has been a teacher at Eagle’s Wing for the last two years. She has a passion for arts, history, and deep learning.
Miss Audrey loves to use her artistic talents to help students engage in the classroom and enrich her lessons.
She is currently completing her bachelor’s degree at Loyola University Chicago where she specializes in the study of classical history. As a lifelong learner, Audrey looks forward to sparking the same excitement for education in her students during the coming year.
Haley Schuchardt
Lower Elementary and Art Teacher
Lauren Engel
Elementary Aide and Art
Lauren Engel graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in philosophy and Studio Art, and a minor
in Communication.
She grew up in Traverse City, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spent time with YWAM in Hawaii and Thailand before landing in Illinois.
Since graduating, she has worked with Stars Family Services, done professional organizing, and worked in marketing for a Christian publisher.
Lauren loves learning and practicing new artistic mediums, but among her favorites are drawing, collage, photography, and weaving. She also enjoys baking bread, walking in nature, and watching documentaries. She is so excited to begin teaching (but really learning!) alongside her students at Eagle’s Wing and witness the discoveries this year will bring!
Ellen Koskinas
K1 and Spanish Teacher
Ellen Koskinas, is excited to join the teaching team at Eagle’s Wing. As a homeschooling mom of 4 kids for 
over 14 years, she has a passion for meeting each child where they are and helping them to grow their skills and create an environment where they love learning.
Ellen has a BA in Spanish Studies from Andrew’s University and an MA in Elementary Education from GCU. She has spent many years traveling and living overseas and has discovered and learned so much from these experiences, through the unique perspectives, each language, culture and people group offers.
Ellen is looking forward to working together with the teachers, staff and parents at Eagle’s Wing to come along side each student in her classes, to meet their needs as whole persons and to help them discover the amazing world around them in new and fun ways.
Christina Smith
Lower Elementary and Spanish Teacher
Christina is excited to start her fourth year at Eagle’s Wing! Feeling so blessed to have stumbled across
this opportunity, she knows God had plans for her and her children to be a part of this community. She prays God will use her and her gifts to serve well here!
Christina is a wife to Phil and homeschooling mom to Vinny, Isaiah, and Josephine and new baby Zek. Christina 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.
Michelle Baccarini
Elementary and Art Teacher
Michelle is very excited to be part of such a great team at Eagles Wing.
Several years ago, Michelle went back to school to pursue her teaching degree in Elementary Education. Although she initially planned to teach in the public school system, a series of events led her instead to teach at a local homeschool group for the last few years in addition to homeschooling her own children.
In her spare time, you are likely to find Michelle at the park with her kids, hiking, or being in nature. She strives to treat everyone with compassion and care, find joy in all things, and lead with love. Michelle hopes to encourage her students to find their strengths, pursue their interests, and continue to establish a love of learning.
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!
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.
Kelly Targosz
Junior High School 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.
Linda Standinger
Science and Junior High and High School 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.
Jennifer Gnagni
Biology Teacher and K-1 Teacher
Jennifer is so excited to be a part of the teaching team at Eagles Wing. She is a homeschooling mom of
two adventurous boys. Her oldest, Banyan has been a part of Eagles Wing for a number of years and this year Canyon is going to be joining the amazing program.
Jennifer earned a B.S. degree in biology and minor in chemistry from DePaul University but realized after many odd jobs her passion really was working with children. She continued her schooling to earn a masters degree in elementary education with middle school science endorsements and proceeded to teach in the public school setting for many years. She now is so blessed and fortunate to stay home, teach, and learn alongside her own children. She also tutors many elementary students in reading and math and was the lead kindergarten teacher in a co-op.
Jennifer and her boys can usually be found keeping the curiosity growing learning outside in nature. Jen loves to garden, grow micro greens, and spend as much time outside as possible camping, hiking, kayaking, and reading in a comfy hammock. She is excited to be at Eagle’s Wing this year and hopes to nurture the students’ love of learning while bringing some adventure to the classroom.
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 Tutoring
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. Her two youngest are homeschooled and attend Eagles Wing. 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.”
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.
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.”
She looks forward to working with the children and families of Eagles Wing in whichever capacity she is needed.