Peggy Ployhar | Ep. 127

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About this Episode

What if your greatest parenting challenge became your life’s calling? When Peggy Ployhar’s five-year-old son struggled in traditional school, she reluctantly turned to homeschooling despite her initial resistance. Zan and Peggy share their parallel journeys of releasing parental guilt and learning to embrace their children’s unique learning styles. Together they discuss how God transformed Peggy from a corporate engineer into a passionate advocate for special needs families through SPED Homeschool, showing how He often works through our biggest challenges to fulfill His purposes.

Meet My Guest

Peggy Ployhar, SPED Homeschool Founder & CEO, is a dynamic leader and a popular speaker known for addressing a wide variety of topics she learned throughout her homeschooling journey. A physicist by training, Peggy left a successful career in the medical device industry to focus on teaching her struggling learners at home. This personal experience ignited a passion that led to the founding of SPED Homeschool in 2017.

As a cancer survivor, influencer, and business owner, Peggy brings a unique perspective to her work. Under her leadership, SPED Homeschool has grown into a global organization that empowers thousands of families each year to create specialized home education environments for their children with unique learning needs. Peggy’s extensive experience in the homeschooling community is further highlighted by her past roles, including serving as the Texas Home School Coalition Special Needs Team Lead, the Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators Special Needs Coordinator, and the Mothers of Preschoolers Area Coordinator for MN, ND, and SD.

Peggy is also the primary host of Empowering Homeschool Conversations, a popular live broadcast and podcast tackling pertinent topics concerning homeschooling diverse learners, the proprietor of Eternal Aerial Arts, and an aerial arts instructor and performer.

Alongside her husband Doug, she resides in League City, TX, having successfully homeschooled all three of their children for 19 years until their graduation.

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Mentioned in this Episode

• spedhomeschool.com
• Empowering Homeschool Conversations Podcast 
• THSC (Texas Home School Coalition)
• homeschoolfreedom.com – Find your statewide homeschool organization

Podcast Sponsor

At BJU Press Homeschool, we’re committed to providing children an education from a biblical worldview that is academically sound and challenges them to advance, think critically, and live like Christ. This type of education is not often possible in public schools because of the number of children taught in a classroom, a difference in worldview, and peer and societal pressure to conform. Homeschooling allows parents to instruct and disciple their children without daily fighting messages from an opposing worldview taught in the classroom. And with tuition costs and fees for private schooling or tutoring, homeschooling may be the only option for parents who are concerned for their children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
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