Miss Carrie

Co-Founder & Lead Teacher

Carrie is the Co-Founder and Lead Teacher of MindGarden Learning and holds a degree in Elementary Education. She has taught with a variety of homeschool co-ops and enrichment programs over the years and brings both professional experience and lived parenting wisdom into her work.

Carrie is a homeschooling mother of three children, ages 16, 14, and 7, and approaches both parenting and education through a developmental, attachment-based lens alongside a non-faith-based interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy.

Her studies in childhood development and attachment come through the Neufeld Institute, where she has completed Intensive I and Intensive II, along with additional coursework exploring attachment, counterwill, anxiety, aggression, emotional development, preschoolers, adolescents, alpha dynamics, and the science of emotion.

Carrie discovered Charlotte Mason’s philosophy while homeschooling her older children and was struck by how deeply Mason’s insights resonate with modern developmental science. Though Charlotte Mason and Dr. Gordon Neufeld lived in different eras, both emphasize that children grow best within relationships of trust, respect, and emotional safety.

At MindGarden Learning, Carrie brings these two traditions together, offering children a rich “feast” of living ideas through literature, nature study, art, music, storytelling, and handicrafts while nurturing the relational foundations that allow true learning and maturation to unfold.

Carrie especially loves the authenticity of children, their spontaneous songs, imaginative stories, and the way they notice beauty in the smallest things. When she’s not teaching, she can usually be found outside hiking with her children, tending her garden, reading several books at once, or painting with watercolors and alcohol inks.

She feels deeply honored to walk alongside families as children grow, learn, and discover the world.