Blake Willard, D.Ed.Min. Email & Phone Number

United States

The Homeschool Mastery Group exists to equip, empower, and encourage parents to Homeschool Well™We uniquely serve families ready to begin their homeschooling journey by working with parents to give them the skills and know how to operate their homeschool as the lead educator and lead administrator. We help parents do a thorough self-evaluation, know themselves, their motivations, and their strengths and weaknesses, then form a customized Family Education Plan that gives them a complete roadmap to successful homeschooling. Every family we serve will be equipped to define their families mission, values, and goals, will know how to operate legally within their given state, and will develop a customized curriculum and pedagogical approach that fits their family. We also give special attention helping parents develop their learning environment, create a structure for discipline, and have an active plan for discipleship and faith formation.As the founder of a new organization, I balance the need for product development and quality with creating and implementing systems for growth and scalability. I serve as the face and voice of the organization, creating brand awareness and developing and implementing a unique framework to successful education. I inspire personal growth and development, coaching and mentoring parents, leading to lasting positive change within families.I work with parents remotely all over the United States and the world, navigating a successful remote work environment on multiple platforms.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

I am an organization builder, creating a better alternative to public education.● Founding principal and head of school.● Positively impacting the culture by rooting students in the truth of God’s Word and equipping parents to change the world starting at home.● Developed a culture of parent partnerships and commitment, where everyone is involved in serving our students and our school.● Created significant positive community awareness extending well beyond the reach of the school.● Developed a collaborative work environment where staff are bought into the missional impact they are making and have a contributing voice in improving the organization.As the founding principal, I scaled the new organization from infancy to profitability in less than a year. I added over 20 new staff positions, securing new and diverse forms of funding, and setting a strategic plan for continued growth and future development. Besides creating sustainable systems for longevity, I also managed organizational growth, reporting directly to the school board and setting plans for future development. I developed a positive culture through marketing and creating a strong public image, leadership development, and recruiting and training both staff and volunteers.

Southern Pines, North Carolina

Served a lead administrator at Covenant Preparatory School, a classical Christian school providing a robust education for students ranging from Pre-K to 8th grade and utilizing a unique Hybrid-model of education in partnership with parents.● Revitalized student enrollment, increasing student body by 42%, improving recruitment and community outreach, making school competitive, and accomplishing record enrollment and profitability.● Supervised ethical hiring, creating and hiring 5 new faculty positions.● Systematized operations by balancing policies, compliance, regulations, testing, staffing, and retention.● Improved school culture, building relationships, client visibility, and engagement, working collaboratively with parents to build partnerships through persuasive and reliable communications.● Designed and integrated biblically based curriculum, publishing a 360-page Bible curriculum and implementing scholarly research.● Facilitated team meetings, displaying consistent dedication to collaboration and faculty advancement.

Southern Pines, North Carolina

● Exemplified committed service, community outreach, recruitment, partnership, volunteer retention, and exceptional writing.● Recruited, Trained, and Supervised 46 teachers and volunteers for instruction at all ages.● Slashed annual spending through budgeting; designing, implementing, and distributing innovative curriculum infused with digital media and visual arts.● Executed community outreach, serving over 2,500 people, scheduling volunteers and operations.● Lectured and taught on numerous topics effecting children and families including Trauma, Communication Skills, and Ecological Stewardship.● Established and standardized safe educational practices for over 100 children on a weekly basis

Cameron, North Carolina

Cameron Boys Camp is a year-round residential camp-school for at-risk youth, incorporating nature, groupwork, and problem solving to strengthen cognitive, educational, social, and moral development.● Trained and mentored new counselors, giving presentations in philosophy/methodology of the institution.● Addressed thousands of physical and emotional problems, building partnerships with clients.● Performed hundreds of community outreach presentations promoting organization vision and focus.● Attained certification as a CARE (Children and Residential Experiences) instructor.● Developed training curriculum offering support services to new wilderness educators.● Slashed training and synthesized employee onboarding, writing and implementing a compliance training curriculum incorporating all regulatory requirements and reporting policies into a single field guide, giving vision for streamlined employee readiness. ● Oversaw successful documentation of all compliance policies, exercising knowledge in Microsoft Office and Excel.

Cameron, North Carolina

Cameron Boys Camp is a year-round residential camp-school for at-risk youth, incorporating nature, groupwork, and problem solving to strengthen cognitive, educational, social, and moral development.● Managed high-risk youth, developing safe and developmentally informed educational practices.● Taught and oversaw principals of design and construction with groups of 8 to 10 boys.● Led Made at-risk youth through wilderness expeditions across the East Coast encompassing nearly 1,000 miles of canoeing and 300 of miles of hiking.● Reunited youths with histories of trauma and violence to healthy homes.● Demonstrated mastery of group work, using creative thinking, problem solving skills, and student collaboration.● Mastered fundamentals of Wilderness Education and implemented them in year-round school program.● Taught fundamentals of reading, composition, creative writing, mathematics, science, geometry, health and fitness, and experiential education.

Doctor Of Educational Ministry - Dedmin, Education/Biblical Spirituality

Master'S Degree, Education, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Bible/Biblical Studies