MEET OUR TEAM

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Margie Keyser brings more than 40 years of experience in teaching. She has had an extensive career as an educator in public and private schools in five different states and has worked in a variety of educational settings from inner-city schools to Appalachian coalfields.

Margie has taught pre-school through high school in regular and special education classrooms, as well as homeschooled her own four children for several years. Margie has taught private classes in math and science for homeschool co-ops.

Margie's experience, combined with degrees in Early Childhood Education (B.S., JMU), Masters of Special Education (UTK),  and additional graduate coursework in reading and special education, provides her with a solid basis for understanding the foundations of learning.

As a licensed teacher in the state of Tennessee with endorsements to teach Preschool through Elementary, Gifted and Talented K - 12, Mild to Moderate Learning Disabilities, and Severe to Profound Learning Disabilities, she is equipped with concentrated coursework and teaching experience that spans the full spectrum of special needs.

Margie has studied special reading and learning disabilities programs including Wilson, Orton Gillingham,  NILD (National Institute of Learning Disabilities), and PACE (Processing and Cognitive Enhancement) with Master the Code for accelerated remedial reading and spelling.

Margie has twenty five years of experience using PACE/MTC including advanced training. Her recent thesis work on dyscalculia at UT has led to her development of a sequential math program for mastery of number sense and math facts with application to higher math skills. 

Rhonda earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Human Ecology, with two concentrations in Family & Human Development, and Early Childhood Education, along with a minor in Psychology.  She has an MBA from Carson-Newman University with a concentration in Human Resource Management.  She has homeschooled three children, all with various needs. Her oldest son is in college studying Aerospace Engineering. Rhonda's middle son was diagnosed with severe autism when he was three years old. Through various therapies, treatments, and prayer, he is continuing to improve. Her youngest child has mild dyslexia and a general processing-based learning disability. Rhonda found Learning Dynamics through word of mouth and brought her daughter in for invention. She made significant progress noticeable by her other teachers and now maintains a high GPA in college while keeping up with a busy extra-curricular schedule.

 Rhonda keeps our business running so our director can focus on supervising instruction and maintaining top-quality effective intervention. Rhonda understands the PACE and MTC programs by working through various homework with her daughter under a trainer's guidance. She has experience firsthand what a difference this program can make. She supports our trainers, our director and helps our clients with any administrative needs they have. 

Kimber is a licensed trainer in PACE and MTC. Her gifts of teaching, insight, and creativity, combined with her experience, make her a highly effective trainer.  Kimber brings a wealth of talent to our center with her broad background as a home educator for grades 1 -12, including work with cognitive enhancement and vision therapy.

With a B.A. in Applied Ecology/Environmental Health Science, she has fifteen years of experience as a professional technical writer creating training curriculum and procedures as well as studies and reports for private and governmental agencies.   She enjoys sharing her writing talent with students enrolled for writing help.

Kimber has worked as a private instructor in high-school level biology, chemistry, and physics classes offered through BHEA, SIEGE, and Thursday Connection.    She taught several years in 3rd grade and high school at Oak Grove Home School Co-Op.   Kimber has completed many training hours in curriculum administration and special education in the areas of Language Arts, Math, and General Education.  

Lexi is a licensed PACE and Master the Code cognitive trainer and holds a B.S. in Education.   She is licensed in Tennessee as an Intervention Specialist in grades K-12.   Lexi has over 10 years of experience teaching special education classrooms in  public school and residential settings.   Her classroom experience, knowledge of learning disabilities, and an enthusiastic attitude make her a highly-adept cognitive skills trainer.  She is highly recommended by former principals and our current director!  She is very patient and understanding with her students and knows how to motivate them to do their best.

Rachel offers reading and spelling tutoring using the Orton-Gillingham based program, Brainspring, which is IDA and IMSLEC accredited.   The Brainspring program integrates multi-sensory activities into it's methods to help students develop strong brain connections with sounds and symbols.  She will finish full certification this spring.

Rachel has over 12 years of experience teaching and tutoring in elementary and middle school grades. Possessing a B.A. in English - Professional Writing, she has taught 4th Grade ELA at River’s Edge Christian Academy, as well as 4th-6th grades at Classical Conversations.  She is a registered instructor for IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing, and is a certified ESL teacher with experience teaching  Chinese students.   She started her career  as a Journalist for a Chicago-area newspaper. She plans to become licensed in our PACE Program as well.

 Rachel is very committed to helping students reach their potential.   She has natural teacher insights and intuition into her student's areas of difficulty and is very knowledgeable about methods and helpful techniques.  

Ryan started as our high school math and science tutor but quickly became licensed as a PACE and Master the Code trainer as he saw the exciting changes these programs were making in student learning abilities..   He has experience in the classroom teaching high school science and served as department head at two different schools.  He received a B.S. in education grades 7 - adult with emphasis in science from Miami University in Ohio  and has a Tennessee teaching license.   He has worked diligently to expand the scope of our Number Dynamics program.   He has acquired skills in teaching beginning reading and math and as all teachers on our staff, can teach all subjects on any grade level.

He is dedicated to making a difference in student's lives and those in our community, even doing volunteer church work providing music ministry for the elderly.  He will have your student engaged, laughing and learning right away.