Everyday Educator

We hope to have many of our Challenge I tutors, parents, and students listening as Leigh Bortins interviews author, writer, and journalist Richard J. Maybury. Maybury is the author of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy and The Money Mystery. Richard J. Maybury is widely regarded as one of the top free-market writers in America. Maybury's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other major publications. President of Henry Madison Research, Inc., Maybury is a world-renowned author, lecturer and analyst who consults with business firms and individuals in the U.S. and Europe. Maybury is the Editor of the widely read newsletter, Richard Maybury's U.S. & World Early Warning Report.

Author Joel Belz founded World magazine, a Christian interest weekly, in 1986. He served as editor and publisher until late 1994. Before that, Belz was managing editor of The Presbyterian Journal, a magazine of theological interest started in 1942. In 1997 Belz was elected president of the Evangelical Press Association. In 1994, he received the James DeForest Murch award from the National Association of Evangelicals. Belz focuses now on editorial tasks for World magazine, having written the lead column for more than 20 years. He also speaks across the country. He is an active churchman, having served in 2003 as moderator of the highest assembly of his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. He has been a member of the board of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, for most of the last 25 years. He has a B.A. from Covenant College, an M.A. in mass communications from the University of Iowa, and a doctor of humane letters from Geneva College.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful Writer's Circle episode by Lisa Bailey. Be encouraged and ready for Practicum this year!

We hope you enjoy this special L@L episode as Leigh Bortins sits down with five homeschool mothers to discuss the joys and hardships of classical homeschooling. Listen and be encouraged!

We hope you enjoy this interview from the past as Leigh Brotins interviews Becky Dunlop, Vice President of External Relations at the Heritage Foundation. Over the years, Classical Conversations has established a strong relationship with the Heritage Foundation. "The Heritage Foundation is one of the nation's largest public policy research organizations. More than 710,000 individual members make it the most broadly supported think tank in America." We are excited to have Vice President Dunlop on the show this week to help you learn more about the Heritage Foundation.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful podcast episode by Tifany Borgelt as she share her journey in discovering languages. We hope you listen in and prepare for our 2018 Practicum theme this year "Art of Grammar, Unlocking Languages."

We hope you enjoy this wisdom-filled article by Amanda Butler as she shares the necessity of humility for all Classical Conversations Tutors.

We hope you enjoy this episode as Kate Deddens explores science discovery within the research strand in Challenge B. You are sure to enjoy this audio and delight in the incredible gifts of God given to us in science!

We hope you enjoy this wonderful conversation from the Leigh!@Lunch archives. Leigh Bortins interviews Douglas Wilson about Classical Christian Education. Douglas Wilson is the Pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, ID. He is a strong supporter of the Classical Christian model and wrote the books Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning and The Case for Classical Christian Education.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful article by April Foster as she answers some questions about starting homeschool that many parents have considered and asked about.

Can We Put the Phone Down is an insightful article written by Tifany Borgelt. We hope you enjoy the audio!

Have you considered the 5 Common Topics and its relationship to the universe around us? We hope you enjoy this audio from Challenge I Tutor David Bailey.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful article from Jen Greenholt.

Listen in to this exciting episode from our L@L archives as Leigh Bortins interviews Martin Cothran! Martin is the author of Traditional Logic, Books I and II, as well as Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle, both published by Memoria Press. He is also Latin, logic and rhetoric instructor at Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky and is Master Teacher at Mars Hill, Lexington. In addition to being editor-in-chief of Classical Teacher magazine, he serves as senior policy analyst for The Family Foundation of Kentucky, where he directs legislative and media relations and is a frequent guest on political and cultural issues on radio and television in his home state of Kentucky. He holds a B.A. in economics and philosohpy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. degree in Christian Apologetics from the Simon Greenleaf School (now part of Trinity University. He lives with his wife and four children in Danville, Kentucky.

You are sure to enjoy this fantastic episode as Leigh Bortins interviews president of Foundation for Economic Education. This episode aired in 2011. Lawrence W. Reed became president of FEE in 2008. He was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. A champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 69 countries on six continents. Lawrence W. Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania.

A Lead Learner sounds intimidating right? But should it? Listen in to this wonderful Writer's Circle episode as Leslie Hubbard talks the importance of "becoming." We hope you enjoy the audio! You can read the article here!

Whew! We made it through the prologue in David Hicks astounding book Norms and Nobility. Please be sure to check out this last section of the Prologue and be ready for more episodes to come where we can actually start on CHAPTER ONE! :)

Sit down with Lisa Bailey and Elisabeth Webber to talk Memory Master and its importance. You are sure to benefit from this rich and lively discussion!

Dual Enrollment? Concurrent Enrollment? is an article written by Linda Tomkinson. We hope you enjoy the audio!

Raising Imaginative Children is an article written by Lisa Bailey. We hope you enjoy the audio!

Homeschooling Through Every Season is an article written by Cara McLauchlan. We hope you enjoy the audio!

This particular audio is based from an article written by Marc Hays. The article demonstrates a socratic dialogue read in parts. We hope you enjoy the article!

CCMM's Math in Motion 2nd edition will be coming next year. In order to help us think more about music and math, here is a podcast done by your CCMM education team. We hope you enjoy the audio!

Making a Home for the Holidays is an article written by Ruth Holleran. We hope you enjoy the audio. You can also read the article here.

The Truth about Thanksgiving is an article written by Courtney Sanford. We hope you enjoy the audio. You can also read the article here!

We finally made it! Through the prologue... But it was worth it. Please listen in to our discussion on the 3rd section of David Hicks prologue to his thoughtful and inspiring book Norms and Nobility. We know you will be encouraged through this discussion!

What Potlucks Teach Us About Choosing Curriculum is written by Rachel Brown. We hop you enjoy the audio!

Ready to keep tackling David Hicks' Norms and Nobility? Well, we are going slow and still talking about the prologue in this second episode on Hicks' intriguing treatise of education. What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive education? Normative or analytical? Join this episode as members of the CCMM education team wrestle and struggle through the intro of Norms and Nobility.

Listen in to this special episode about playing with numbers. Are you curious about math sense? Do you want to learn more about numbers? This episode also includes Nation Number Knockout guru Elisabeth Webber and 2017 N2K winner Ethan Gates!

Be sure to tune into this wonderful episode! Matt Bianco interviews Dr. Kopff on the Classics and Latin. Dr. Kopff has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1973. For about five of the last thirty years he has lived in Rome, Italy, teaching and studying. He is editor of a critical edition of the Greek text of Euripides' Bacchae (Teubner, 1982) and author of over 100 articles and reviews on scholarly, pedagogical and popular topics. He currently works with the Classics Department of the University of Urbino, Italy on ancient Greek lyric poetry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the CU Committee on Research. His book, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition is widely cited in the new Classical Education movement. Dr. Kopff is the founding faculty father of the CU-Boulder Honors Journal, which is the elite undergraduate publication for the university. He is winner of the Jacob Van Ek Mentor Award, the Faculty Essay Award of the CU Graduate School Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and two-time winner of the SOAR Award (Student Organization for Alumni Relations. To win this award twice is a very exceptional accomplishment).

Do you have insecurities about teaching math? Do you feel like you are not a "math person"? Well we want to help! Join us on this episode as Lisa Bailey and Elisabeth Webber talk math and why learning to love math is like any journey worth having!

The Real Impact of Imagination is an article written by Stephanie Meter. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

Rhett Butler and Relationship Advice is written by Rachel Brown. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

Please join members of our Parent Education Team as they discuss the Prologue of David Hicks fascinating Treaty of Education, Norms and Nobility. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Join some of our CCMM team members as they discuss the blessings of small communities with Classical Conversations. We hope this episode brings you encouragement and inspiration as you continue on your classical educational journey

A Glorious Journey is an article written by Scott Whitaker. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

The Year of the Bold is an article written by Cara McLauchlan. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

Attorney Mike Smith is the President of HSLDA, an organization that he helped found in 1983. Established to protect the right of parents to teach their children at home, HSLDA now represents over 80,000 member families. Mike and his wife Elizabeth began homeschooling their children in 1981. He has been defending families for 28 years. Mike has been speaking to homeschool audiences for 23 years. His columns on home education appear regularly in the Washington Times, and he has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs, including Focus on the Family with Jim Dobson and Hannity and Colmes on Fox News. He believes that there is a revival taking place in America through the homeschool movement and that, through the second and third generation of homeschoolers, there is great potential to return America to its moral and religious foundation.

Join this week's CCMM episode as your host Caleb Skogen sits down with CEO of Classical Conversations Robert Bortins Jr. to discuss two new Scribblers products from CCMM. Robert authored both of the following products: Lily Stays for School and My CC ABCs. We hope you enjoy the show!

This article was written by Linda Tomkinson. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

Woo Your Reluctant Reader: Put Away the Books is an article written by Leslie Hubbard. We hope you enjoy the audio. You can also read the article here.

Although he was delivered from the manacles of slavery by the Emancipation Proclamation, Booker T. Washington knew that freedom was not free. In the Reconstruction-era South, he knew that in order to manage their freedom well and benefit from it fully, former slaves would have to undertake a lot of hard work. How does his experience compare to ours? One hundred fifty years later, is freedom free? Or does it still come at a cost? How can we manage and protect our freedom? And how does the study of the liberal arts help us do that? Listen as we discuss these questions and more!

Editors describe Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's classic Gothic novel, as "a love story, an unlikely coming together of two people far apart in age and social situation, yet clearly meant for each other." Or are they? Listen in as we consider whether governess Jane and her master, Rochester, are well suited for each other. Whether you have had opportunity to read the novel or not, and whether your children are Scribblers or Challenge students, you are sure to enjoy the rich conversation.

Are you intimidated at the prospect of building a classical, Christian education for your family? Do you have others asking you where to start with homeschooling? Do you want to return to your classical roots? Then Classical Christian Education Made Approachable is the blueprint for homeschooling you need. CCEMA will help give you the tools you need for the home-centered, classical education using the building blocks of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Join the Foundations Academic Advisor Team as we discuss this booklet and be ready to share ideas about what has worked for your family during your classical education journey.

In this Platonic dialogue, readers are lead on a journey to examine what virtue is and whether or not it can be taught. Join us as we consider how to use the Socratic method to educate our children and the importance of teaching them "how" to think. We will reflect on how to awaken the conscience of our students through dialectic conversation as we explore timeless questions about choices, consequences, and character. Whether you have had opportunity to read the dialogue or not, and whether your children are toddlers or high school students, you are sure to benefit from the conversation.

Do the words "literary analysis" make you quiver with fear and trepidation? Are you vexed with nightmares from a previous literature class and hesitate to begin exploring the elements of stories with your students? Set your worries aside, and join Jennifer Courtney, the Director of Parent Education, and Jaime Kovanda, the Essentials Academic Advisor, to explore a NEW curriculum that teaches an approachable method for using the tools of literary analysis. No need to read War and Peace to accomplish this skill since Teaching the Classics uses children's short stories to present a step-by-step method for reading, analyzing, and discussing literature with students of all ages.

What is Needed? is an article written by Shelly Stockton. We hope you enjoy the article. You can also read the article here.

Falling in Love at Practicum is an article written by Cara McLauchlan. We hope you enjoy the article. You can read the article here.

Please join this week's Book Club episode on The Bronze Bow. Do you want to have better discussion on classical books and literature? We hope this episode gives you insight and encouragement to start book clubs in your communities and increase the importance of good reading.