Debra Bell is a popular convention speaker known for her humor, candor and content-packed delivery. She is the director of Debra Bell’s Home School Resource Center and the author of the award-winning The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling, now in it’s 3rd edition. A former public school teacher, Debra homeschooled her own four children elementary school through high school. She has been teaching literature and composition courses for homeschooled students since 1988, and currently teaches Advanced Placement English online. Many of her former students, including her own children, have won regional and national writing competitions as well as substantial merit scholarship for college. She and her husband Kermit have been married 25 years and are founding members of Living Hope Church, in Harrisburg, PA. She continues to be actively involved with her homeschool community in South-Central PA,