2024–2025 PHS Leadership Team

The PHS Leadership Team is concerned with the management or day-to-day operations and implementation of policy and programs of Planet Homeschool. These volunteers are responsible for communicating our mission, strategy, and policies to our members and instructors and for coordinating our members toward accomplishing our goals beyond the scope of individual effort. The PHS Leadership Team reports to the MSHE/PHS Board.

PHS Leadership Team members are experienced co-op members who have volunteered to take on the responsibility of developing and implementing the best strategies and policies to achieve our co-op’s goals and for ensuring that all essential tasks are completed. They are committed to knowing, learning, understanding, discussing, researching, setting, explaining, clarifying, revising, and (if necessary) enforcing co-op policies and practices that are in alignment with our co-op’s mission and values, to both soliciting and listening to the preferences and suggestions of our members, and to being discreet with any private information shared by our past, current, or prospective members and instructors.

1. Aza Donnelly, Co-op Director.
2. Kim Guedes, Co-op Director.
3. Becky Hansen, Associate Co-op Director.
4. Katie Rothstein, Associate Co-op Director.
5. Kathy Oaks, Co-op Advisor.
6. Carrie Wilder, Co-op Advisor.

2024–2025 Support Volunteers

Support Volunteers are co-op members who have volunteered to take on the responsibility of ensuring that specific essential tasks needed to implement the policy and programs of Planet Homeschool actually get done.

1. Class Registration Manager(s): Dan Hoisington
2. Communications Director(s): Becky Hansen
3. Conflict Resolution Mediator(s): Kathy Oaks
4. Copyeditor(s): Eliot West
5. Course Interest Survey: Bee Harrison
6. Event Planner: Kim Guedes
7. Finance Director(s): Mike Zugschwert
8. Fundraising Manager(s): Kim Guedes and Becky Hansen
9. Historian(s): Nic Rosenau
10. Member Liaison(s): Kathy Oaks
11. Membership Manager(s): Ellen Koch
12. Open House Party Planner(s): Becky Hansen
13. Social Media and Marketing Manager(s): ...open...
14. Volunteer Coordinator(s): Katie Rothstein
15. Website Editor(s): Kathy Oaks, Eliot West, and Mike Zugschwert

Board of Directors

Minnesota Secular Homeschool Enrichment, Inc. dba Planet Homeschool (MSHE/PHS)

1. Kathy Oaks, President.
2. Kim Chase-Kozak, Vice-President.
3. Nic Rosenau, Treasurer.
4. Tom Anderson, Secretary.

The Board of Directors is concerned with governance or the vision and organizational direction of Planet Homeschool. Our Board defines expectations, grants our co-op’s PHS Leadership Team the authority to act, verifies the performance of our co-op’s leadership team, and monitors our compliance with laws, regulations, and other requirements.

Board members can be reached at PlanetHomeschoolMN+board@gmail.com. Messages sent to this address are received by our Communications Director(s) and are forwarded to the appropriate Board member.