Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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See EducationOptionsExpo.org -Next Expo is March 25, 2017! Mr. Wes Beach will speak there.

Wes Beach, Founder, Beach High School, Soquel, CA presents "Proven Nontraditional Educational Paths"
Find Wes Beach at: http://BeachHigh.education

Wes Beach has 53 years' experience in education. He spent 32 years in
public and private schools as a teacher in grades K-14 and as the director
of alternative education programs. In 1993 he wised up and left the
public schools. He is currently Director of Beach High School, a private
high school consisting of a home office and an attitude that offers a wide
variety of alternatives to traditional schooling. More than 1,450 people
have graduated from BHS without a traditional high school education and
have succeeded in a wide variety of endeavors, including but not limited
to reaching the highest levels of formal education.

Wes is an outside consultant for the Davidson Institute for Talent
Development. He has served on the board of the HomeSchool Association of
California (HSC) and is at present the Teen Adviser for both HSC and the
Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF). In 2005 he received a Distinguished
Service Award from the California Association for the Gifted. In 2012 GHF
published his book, Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling, and next
year will publish his second book.

Wes lives with his wife and two cats in Soquel, California, two miles from
the waters of Monterey Bay.

Explore your options at: EducationOptionsExpo.org