Sylvia Caruvana
Sylvia is a veteran homeschool mom of 20+ years. In her life before kids, she was a Mechanical Engineer. She graduated from LeTourneau University with a BSME in 1996. While it might sound strange to some, she finds solving Algebra problems fun and relaxing and looks forward to sharing that joy with others. She has fallen love with history and grammar, too, since homeschooling her kids. Sylvia and her husband of 30 years have 7 children.
Kimberly Keiser
I’m currently in my fifth year of homeschooling my two children: an 11-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son. Our family has a deep love for nature and outdoor activities. I have been happily married to my husband, Lee, a retired Navy veteran with 16 years of service, for 17 years. I serve as the President of the Floyd County Homemakers Council, where we engage in community service throughout the Floyd County area. Additionally, I am a member of the Mountain View Homemakers Club. I proudly own two small businesses: Twisted Treatz Bakery, licensed under a cottage food program in Georgia, and 7 Hills & 3 Rivers Nature School. Twisted Treatz Bakery specializes in a variety of baked goods, including sweet breads, yeast breads, sourdough, cookies, bagels, and more. The 7 Hills & 3 Rivers Nature Co-op, established four years ago, aims to connect homeschooling families with similar educational goals and children of compatible ages, primarily focusing on pre-teens and teenagers (ages 10 and up), while also welcoming younger siblings to create a family-friendly environment. Parental involvement is essential for many activities, particularly for younger children. Our offerings include salves, herbal remedies, bath and body care products, and more. I have completed multiple herbalist courses both in-person and online, and I hold an Herbalist diploma from CoE.
Karissa InCreation Miller
Karissa InCreation Miller is a degreed working artist and art educator with 15+ years of experience teaching children and adults in the field of visual arts. She has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education at the University of West Georgia. She has also earned several certifications in child development at the Childcare Education Institute. Karissa thrives on creating a safe space for her students to learn and self express varying in ages from P-12 grades and adults. As an Atlanta, Georgia native, mother of two grown daughters, grandparent of two amazing grandchildren, and pet parent to three fur babies-she is inspired daily by connections to family, self, and nature and how those connections can change and educate us for deeper, more spiritual living. As a mother to a teen with special abilities & needs, Karissa has had 18 years of adapting curriculum and applying empathy, patience, and understanding both in and out of the classroom setting for her daughter and students. Karissa loves to create using recycled & found materials for the purpose of renewal and sustainability. Though skilled in painting, printmaking, wood works, metal works, drawing, mixed media, photography, and jewelry making, She is the most happy in creating & teaching ceramics and sculpture at the child, teen & adult levels of learning. Karissa keeps her focus always on building new pathways to safe self-expression through experimental creative processes in multimedia art. Her personal work is focused on trauma & healing, spiritual inclinations & patterns as they relate to the living world. Karissa’s work is both reactionary and visionary in her response to the world around her and can often take a comedic path in her vast imagination of ideas.
Nira Scheer
Nira is a passionate, compassionate educator with 20 years experience. She has Masters in Jewish Education from Gratz College and her Bachelor of Arts from American University. After spending years as a classroom teacher, she spent a decade building curriculum and mentoring teachers from Kindergarten through 7th grade. She wrote and led Family Education and created curricula for various non-profits. For the last twelve years, she has homeschooled her five kids (now ages 10-20) while teaching within the homeschool community extensively. Nira has experience teaching kids with special needs (such as those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, ADHD).
Kiesha Shoemaker
Kiesha Shoemaker is a Certified Teacher in both Arizona and Georgia. She has enjoyed teaching for over 30 years. While she taught professionally at a school she Codeveloped and directed in Arizona called Sequoia School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, she has fabulously enjoyed the freedom of homeschooling. Kiesha has 20-plus years of experience developing and individualizing curricula to meet the needs of her own six children, and then for hundreds of children in the homeschooling community.
Kiesha is fluent in American Sign Language and developed a school in Arizona for the Deaf in 1997. There, she taught elementary, middle, and high school Deaf students. She developed her own curriculum based on Deaf Community input and appreciation. Kiesha taught among and hired Deaf leaders in the school and eventually her replacement before entering the world of motherhood. Kiesha thereafter taught classes in ASL communication and worked as an ASL Interpreter in Mesa, AZ. Her work among the Deaf there was dear to her heart and she is grateful for lasting friendships from her time there.
In 2007, Kiesha and her family moved to her home state of Georgia and shortly thereafter began homeschooling most of her children from 12th grade down to 5th grade. She later birthed her last child and homeschooled him from a little to current grades, moving on up. Kiesha has continued to work with the Deaf Community in Georgia alongside her husband, Aaron, who is a professional Interpreter. They run a nonprofit together called All Hand On. All Hands On trains Deaf instructors to teach their community emergency preparedness and coordinates with hearing emergency professionals.
Kiesha has experience working with children who have been adopted and the challenges they face, children with a variety of special needs like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. She is patient and kind and talking to children and parents comes easily to her.
Kiesha runs Keystone Hybrid, a homeschool hybrid in Cobb County. For the last 10 years, Kiesha has taught classes in the homeschool community. She moved to Rome in 2021, where she and her family have developed their land into a farm and homesteading learning ground. They desire to share this learning and the educational journey they have been on with friends in Rome, GA. Sharing years of experience with animals, maths, sciences, and so much more! While the farm is in many ways still in the beginning stages they welcome new ideas and friends to partner in learning gardening, animal husbandry, herbal and homesteading skills! Come learn and grow with us!
We welcome students from all walks of life, both religious and those who are not, students and families.
“ We understand growth itself, requires understanding the people and cultures around us. ”
— Kiesha Shoemaker, Founder of Creekview Hybrid
