Instructors

Terry Bartlett (Co-Director/Instructor) is a professional voice teacher, vocalist, and music director. She has been teaching children’s performance classes since 2002; homeschool performance classes since 2004, and private voice lessons since 1991. As an honor student at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA, she studied Musical Theatre, Voice, Acting, many styles of Dance, Directing, and other relevant subject areas. Terry shares her love of learning with her students, and utilizes the latest information on how our brains learn, including programs such as Brain Gym and Tribes. Terry has been the Music Director at Palm Lake Christian Church since 2007, has been a Voice Instructor for Bringe School of Music since 1994, and continues to perform professionally.

Heather Hollingsworth (Co-Director/Instructor) is a mother of three children and has been homeschooling since 2004. Heather began teaching right after high school in an afterschool program where she created lesson plans for elementary school age children. Realizing that she loved this line of work she went on to become a certified Pre-school Teacher which she continued doing until she had her third child. She has recently graduated with her Bachelors in Education from St. Petersburg College specializing in K-12 Exceptional Education. Heather is also a talented artist/crafter!

Michael K. Lyman is the creative director and founder of Magnum Arts, an art-instruction business whose motto is Inspire, Create, Engage. His first graphic novel, Dark Office, has just been published on Amazon’s Comixology platform, with more graphic novel projects in the works. He is an Army veteran with a degree in graphic design and photography who provides inclusive art, photography and Photoshop instruction to home-school students and at art centers in Pinellas County. In Florida, he has taught cartooning and drawing since 2007 at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, the towns of Belleair, Safety Harbor, Largo, Seminole, and the Arts Center in St. Petersburg. He provides art therapy to at-risk teens at juvenile detention facilities in the Tampa Bay area and conducted art activities at the prestigious Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Michael Lyman is an annual guest art teacher at the Shorecrest Preparatory School, Our Savior Lutheran School (both in St. Petersburg), and the Lighthouse Center for Creative Learning in Brandon, where he teaches kids how to unleash their creative potential. He has participated in area comic-cons and street festivals and also volunteers at The Spring, a domestic violence shelter in Tampa, providing drawing workshops to residents and their children.

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Erika Kauffman joins our team bringing 18 years of child development experience and her 3 children. She graduated from Salisbury University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Child Development and then from University of Maryland with a M.A. in Social Work and a focus on Community and Social Action. For 3 years she was privileged to intern and then work for the Center for School Mental Health, piloting evidence based practice groups in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to that role she worked at Kennedy Krieger Institute, being trained as a Behavior Analyst. Over the years she has also worked as a Tutor, Case Manager, Assistant Teacher, Marriage and Family Therapist, Grants Coordinator and Assistant Director at C2 Learning Center. "Running social groups and building community is what I have been doing my entire life. We moved a lot when I was a kid so I was always making new friends and bridging gaps in broken circles. It is the strong community of support at CLAP that has lead us to make a commitment to join and serve where we are planted. I am honored to join the CLAP homeschooling Tribe and work alongside so many very talented and like minded professionals to bring the fun and creativity back into learning while creating a strong community that extends beyond our walls."