NDHSA Homeschool Hall of Fame
In recognition of the fact that freedom has a price, the board of the North Dakota Home School Association voted to establish the North Dakota Home School Hall of Fame.
Each year at our state convention, we will honor and recognize those who have given selflessly to promote the cause of homeschooling in this state. It was not an easy task, but these inductees chose to walk that difficult road, and consequently made the path easier for each of us to walk today.
And so, we honor and recognize these Hall of Fame inductees who have given selflessly to promote the cause of homeschooling in this state. Many did so through court battles which came with much strain on families. God has been gracious to us in raising up these individuals who were willing to stay the course. Most of them were quiet people, following where God led. May God, in like manner, find each of us faithful to the task which He calls us.
2025:
Arlo & Camilla Leedahl
2023:
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In 1993, Cam began teaching workshops at the NDHSA convention on getting started homeschooling, and later, workshops on homeschooling high school. She also spoke in Manitoba and Minnesota.
Cam wrote and sold several successful booklets: The Homeschool Support Group: A Handbook for Christian Leaders, which sold across the United States, and Strategies for High School, in North Dakota and Minnesota versions, which contained most of the information she gave at workshops.
In 1998, Arlo and Cam began attending the annual national homeschool leadership conferences held by The Teaching Home and the Home School Legal Defense Association. These were conferences that encouraged and equipped state homeschool leaders. In 2002, The Teaching Home turned over its conference to a new national organization. Arlo and Cam were honored to be chosen to be on the founding board of that new organization, the Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership (ACHEL). They served on that board for twenty years. The Alliance promotes homeschool freedom, networks the leaders of Christian state homeschool organizations in the U.S. and Canada, and facilitates many training opportunities. For several years, Cam directed the program for the annual conference, eventually becoming the overall director. Leaders from 47 different state, national, and international organizations attend this annual conference.
Arlo became very interested in international homeschooling and led an effort for the Alliance to reach out to homeschool leaders in other countries. In the past year, Arlo and Cam were integral parts of the Global Home Education Conference in Manchester, England.
The Leedahls give all the glory to God for how He has used home education to shape them and their children to be more like Jesus. They see the same happening with their grandchildren. They want to see the families of their next generations flourish, and so they continue to advocate for home education and encourage homeschool freedoms in their state and in their country.
