Contact

The best way to contact Cedar Life Academy's director, Karen Taylor, is by email. When you email, please include your phone number. Karen's phone number is not published on this website in order to cut down on junk calls, however all Cedar Life Academy families are given her phone number at registration.

About Karen Taylor

Karen is a well known source of homeschooling information who has helped thousands of parents through her active involvement at the local and state level.

Karen taught preschool and even public school for a short time, but that was long, long ago! Years ago, she became a strong homeschooling advocate, and her youngest child did not go to preschool or any other school from K-12 and was fully homeschooled until he started college.

In 1995, she founded an inclusive local group, High Desert Homeschoolers, a group that still meets weekly all year long. She also served as a local contact for 13 years, helping parents learn about homeschooling in her local community, and she also answered CHN's 800# homeschooling hotline for several years.

She is the editor of The California Homeschool Guide, first published in 2001, and in 2003, she launched the CHN Family Expo, and coordinated the first 6 Expos, from 2003 to 2008.

Although not an attorney, she served as California Homeschool Network's legal chair for 10 years, and was part of the 5 group team (CHEA, CHN, FPM, HSC, and HSLDA) that successfully fought the huge 2008 legal challenge that stemmed from the In re Rachel L case, a case that received national attention.

In 2008, Karen's home-educated son graduated from her school. Her passion for helping homeschoolers continues in her role as the director of Cedar Life Academy, and she's able to draw heavily on her many years of experience with homeschoolers to now help the parents who enroll their children in her school.

Karen is the contributing editor for the Universal Preschool ezine. Formerly a moderator at the A2Z Homeschool Chat Room, she now provides homeschooling information on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HomeschoolNews and her blog.