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Liz Coxon (teaching Pre-Calculus) graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University (1986) and upon graduating enjoyed working for General Electric (GE) on the A-10 tank killer. She received a full-ride scholarship and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1989. After marrying her best friend, she moved to Virginia and built and launched low earth orbiting satellites for DSI and Orbital Sciences, launching on the Scout and Pegasus rockets. She resigned from Orbital Sciences and moved to California with their two children where she started homeschooling through the Irvine School District. Her family continued to grow as two California beach boys were born and then two Texans. Liz loves to teach and has homeschooled her six children during the last 21 years including having taught Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Saxon Advanced Math, Geometry, Tapestry of Grace History, and SAT Math prep at local co-ops and as a private tutor for public, private, and homeschool students in the classroom, private one-on-one, and zoom classrooms.
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Kim Kirby (teaching Math 9 Honors, Geometry and Honors Geometry) earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with minors in both Mathematics and Statistics from Colorado State University in 1986. Upon graduation, she moved to Houston to work for NASA in the Missions Operations Directorate/Training Division as an Aerospace Technologist. She trained astronauts and flight controllers on the Shuttle’s communications systems, the Space Station’s command and data handling systems, and worked in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory as a flight hardware coordinator. In 2001, she resigned from NASA in order to help her husband as senior pastor and homeschool their three children. The Kirbys have a passion for mission work and have enjoyed serving on many short-term projects in Burma, Sri Lanka, Mexico and Nicaragua. In 2010, she accepted a position with a homeschool "school" as the Mathematics Department head and lead instructor. For the past nine years, her teaching has included middle and high school math classes (pre-algebra, algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, pre-calculus and calculus). Mrs. Kirby also instructs both Beginning and Intermediate Algebra at the local junior college.
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Raegan Wolff (teaching Pre-Pre-Algebra) graduated Northeastern State University (Oklahoma) with a BS in Education (Elementary-Jr. High). She has since taught in public schools in Texas, tutored many middle school and high school students, taught home school classes, and home schooled her own children. Raegan and her husband of 27 years have three boys, their oldest son, Brett, graduated from The University of Arkansas in May 2020 with a BS in Sports Management, he is now employed at their local church as a Missions Resident; Nick, the 2nd born son, attends Texas A & M Kingsville; where he plays baseball and is working on his industrial engineering degree; Sam graduated from high school this year and is undecided about what college to attend, so he will be taking classes at their local community college. This is Raegan's fifth year teaching Pre-Pre-Algebra with HSML.
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Melissa Wyatt (teaching AMP Algebra I, AMP Statistics) graduated in 2003 from Hardin-Simmons University with a Bachelor of Behavioral Science in Mathematics and a minor in English. She certified first in Texas to teach 8-12 grade math, later updating her certificate to teach 4-8 grade math as well. After teaching middle school and high school math in Texas for 11 years, she moved to Massachusetts where she homeschooled her children for two years, joining a homeschool co-op, transitioning later to teach math/science at a private school in Wayland, MA. She is now back in Texas and is excited about focusing her efforts with HSML.
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