About Juneberry Hill Schoolhouse

Juneberry Hill Schoolhouse is a multi-age, one-room schoolhouse where practical life skills, friendships, and character building are emphasized as well as traditional academic curriculum. Students receive instruction in agriculture, practice homestead skills, and utilize the outdoors in a rural setting. 

Juneberry Hill Schoolhouse is a community-crafted education center. Following a blended model, homeschooled students meet one or two days each week to learn together under the guidance of a teacher and receive instruction from their parents at home the other days. 

Our Vision

Our mission is to have a multi-age, one-room schoolhouse where students of all abilities can succeed in a community of learners. Modeled after the one room schoolhouses in the past, our schoolhouse purposefully keeps enrollment numbers small, thereby enabling individual supports to be given to students across all levels of academics.

Our Values

We provide a rich, well-rounded academic setting using a variety of techniques and curricula where practical life skills, friendships, and character building are emphasized as well as traditional academic skills. We honor the student’s needs for unstructured play, time in nature, socializing, creativity, and personal accountability.

Our Heart

Our goal is to instill a love for learning, a love and respect for one another, and a love for God to develop caring individuals. We go outside every day, no matter the weather. The gardens, fields, barns, and pastures are just as much a part of our classroom as the space within our schoolhouse. Our schoolhouse views all children as valued members of the education community.

Who We Are

Lisa has a Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood Education from MVNU and a Masters Degree in Elementary Reading and Literacy from Walden University. She taught Reading Recovery and First Grade in the public school for seven years and has been homeschooling since 2009.

Lisa Miller

Administrator

Deanna Shetler holds a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education (PreK-5) from Kent State University. She believes the world is a student’s best classroom and is passionate about hands-on, outdoor learning and encourages exploration and real-world experiences. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, board games, and adventuring in National Parks with her soon to be husband.

Deanna Shetler

Teacher

Tiffany has a Bachelors degree in K–12 Special Education mild to moderate and a Bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education PreK–Grade 3 with a Reading Endorsement from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

Tiffany Hunter

Board President & Special Education Consultant

Additional Board Members:

Becky Miller

Tessa Yoder

Board Member

Questions about operations or openings? 
Contact Lisa

Why We Are Here

Marlin and Lisa Miller adopted all four of their children. Their oldest son is on the Autism Spectrum and the three youngest children all have Down syndrome. Their youngest son has Mosaic Down syndrome. A former public school teacher, Lisa has homeschooled their children since 2009. The Millers also wanted their children to have the opportunity to learn alongside other students. Marlin and Lisa stepped out in faith to reimagine what home education looks like for their children and built a one-room schoolhouse on their homestead where their children and other students can learn together under the direction of a teacher one or two days each week. 

Inspired by Rory Feek and Hardison Mill School (the one-room schoolhouse he built on his farm for his daughter, Indiana, who has Down syndrome), the Miller family purchased the original frame from an 1850 one-room schoolhouse in Franklin County, Indiana, to rebuild. As an extension of their homeschooling, academic skills are taught alongside practical life skills in the gardens, orchard, barns, and pastures. Most important to the Miller family is that the schoolhouse be a place where all students are valued members of the community, whether their needs are unique or typical.

Our schoolhouse is a restored one-room schoolhouse built in 1850. It was originally located in Posey Township, Franklin County, Indiana and was referred to as School No.3. (Other names for the school may have included Bull Fork, Griner, Croddy, or Siders School.) After the one-room schoolhouses were consolidated in the early 1930’s, this schoolhouse was turned into a residence. After the residence was torn down, we purchased the original hand-hewn framework of the schoolhouse and rebuilt it on our little farm.