Everyday Educator

Join host Lisa Bailey and guests Leslie Hubbard and Stephanie Meter for this Everyday Educator podcast exploring the tool of Definition. Discover just how "common" a topic definition truly IS, and how it can lead to deeper, richer explorations and conversations with your family. These ladies give great examples of how defining a term begins the learning process, and how the student actively participates in the learning when the right questions are posed. This first in a series on the Five Common Topics gives Everyday Educators encouragement and ideas on how to use the tool of Definition. Definitely DO try this at home!

Join Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, and Kelli Wilt as they finish the series on the Five Core Habits by waxing eloquent on the Habit of Storytelling! Listen as they discuss the ways to encourage beginning storytelling, and how to coax reluctant story tellers to join the fun. These experienced moms will even help you see how storytelling sharpens skills your older kids will need to thrive and grow. You'll gain some great insights, and pick up some tips you can use to make storytelling a more everyday part of your homeschool.

Join host Lisa Bailey and guests Jennifer Courtney and Kelli Wilt as they consider the habit of Expressing. You'll be encouraged to see expressing as worship, to celebrate expressing as communication of joy in learning, and to be brave in expressing your own thoughts about what you are learning. The testimony of these experienced moms will hearten you as you ponder all the ways children express their learning in their own time.

In the latest installment in "The Tools" series, join Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, and Kelli Wilt as they discuss the habit of Memorizing. Everyday Educators will be encouraged to practice this tool with our littles without stressing out! The beauty of this habit is found in enjoying the time spent memorizing alongside our children, building a shared body of knowledge that we can take out and discuss at will in our families—and in our communities! In fact, one of the best things about memorizing is that it can draw us together. Your podcast buddies will think about laying a foundation for later thinking, allowing children to choose their mode of memorizing, and creating a "library of the mind" as they share a conversation about the habit of memorizing.

In this final episode of our series, Marc Hays, Lisa Bailey, and Jennifer Courtney discuss the last parts of Chapter 8 and the Epilogue. They discuss how a classical, Christian education depends upon divine assistance for understanding and how it leads us to the person of Truth with a capital T. Together, they celebrate a deeper understanding of students as image-bearers and the truth that all of us will be changed through classical, Christian paideia—students and parents!

Join Jennifer Courtney, Kelli Wilt, and Lisa Bailey as they continue to discuss the value of Core Habits for our families. Today they will delve into the beauty of the habit of Attending! Learn how to cultivate this natural habit with your children of all ages, attending with joy to the world God has created and celebrating both God's goodness and our relationships.

In this episode, join Lisa Bailey, Kelli Wilt and Jennifer Courtney as they discuss the core habit of naming. They will define naming and discuss how naming is a tool of learning for everyone from preschoolers to parents. Learn how naming allows us to communicate more and more complex ideas and truths to others so that we can truly be a community of learners. Get practical tips for how to foster this core habit at home. Learn how naming encourages conversations that allow us to wrestle with big ideas.

Join Lisa Bailey and Marc Hays as they discuss analogies, curriculum development, frog dissection, and epic sonnets. Marc is the author of the new resource, Analogies For All of Us, which is being used in the Reasoning Strand of Challenge A this semester.

Join thinkers and readers Jennifer Courtney....as they continue to discuss David Hick's Norms and Nobility, Chapter 8 Part 3. In section IV, they wrestle with the modern outcome of "values free education", one that Hicks declares to be both false and dangerous. Follow our lively bunch as they ponder the beauty and necessity of teaching responsibility along with information.

Have you ever pondered the benefits of Foundations and Essentials, both the obvious and the not-so-obvious? Join Foundations parent Marc Hays, parent and Director Jaime Hays, and former student/current Challenge Director Stephanie Meter as they discuss what makes these programs winners in the short AND long run!!

Are classical education and Christian education opposed to one another? Join Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley as they explore how Christianity actually fulfills the classical quest to unite knowledge and responsibility. They visit the age-old question "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Listen in as they compare Greek tragedy and sin. Learn how Christianity allowed optimism about education.

In Chapter 8, David Hicks looks at "The Promise of Christian Paideia." In this chapter, his discussion of classical education shifts from the ancient Greeks to the era of Christian education. In this episode, our panelists consider sections 1 and 2 in which Hicks outlines the problems of classical pagan education and looks at how Christ provides the answer to those problems.

Why does anyone in a democracy need a classical education anyway? In this episode, Marc Hays, Lisa Bailey, and Jennifer Courtney finish up their discussion of Chapter 7. They consider four objectives of a classical education in a democracy and apply those ideas to our efforts to reclaim classical, Christian home education.

In this episode, our panelists ask some really important questions about classical education. Is classical education elitist or is it for everyone? Is classical education a good form of education for a modern, technologically advanced society? Is classical education a good form of education for democracy? Listen in as they explore these questions and be inspired to give your children a royal education with plenty of truth, goodness, and beauty as they seek to become more like Christ.

In this episode, Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley finish their discussion of Chapter 6. Join them as they think about how to educate both the heart and head of our children. Listen in as they consider how to resist modern notions of education. Be inspired to think about education as preparation for life instead of a strictly practical, utilitarian endeavor to prepare young adults for increasingly complex jobs.

In this episode, we move away from the aims of classical education to the method of classical education. Panelists Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, and Marc Hays explore questions like "What is dialectic?" "What is the relationship between dialectic and conscience?" and "What can we learn from Socratic dialogue?"

This podcast covers chapter 5, section 5 to the end of the chapter. In this episode, Lisa, Jennifer, and Marc ask and attempt to answer the questions: "Why did modern educators walk away from the classical education tradition?" and "What were the consequences of that decision?" They conclude by thinking about how we can teach science in a classical, normative way.

Join your Norms and Nobility fellow-readers as they discuss the question of why the ancients seemed to mistrust scientific inquiry. We'll explore the idea that the ancients were wary of giving the "answers" science provided too much power; instead, they wanted ideology to first provide the unifying vision for discoveries and technology, so that students might be saved from "chaos" and moved to just courses of action. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join your Norms & Nobility friends as they discuss part 3 of chapter 5! The crew explores the idea that mathematics bridges the gap between ancients' focus on the ideal types and the moderns' focus on the utility of harnessing nature for man's own ends. The ancients found that math could explain the immanent forms of matter (the "perfect forms" undergirding reality), and that helped them make peace with their observations of the "irrational" concrete universe. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, Daniel Shirley, and Lisa Bailey as they discuss the results of modern science's emphasis on things that can be empirically measured in the material world while discounting and ignoring the immaterial world. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney and Lisa Bailey as they discuss the reasons for starting the valuable practice of reading aloud to your children. Also, get a brief glimpse of Old World Echoes, a hand-picked collection old classic tales of awe and wonder from around the world. Perfect for Cycle 2 read aloud time! Click here to purchase at the Classical Conversations Bookstore.

Join Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays and Daniel Shirley as they explore Chapter 5 of Norms and Nobility. It's all about science. In this episode, our panelists discuss the differences between how ancient, classical thinkers approach science and how modern thinkers approach science. Along the way, they examine questions like "What about technology?" and "Does the study of science help my students think more about the Ideal Type? 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

In this episode Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, Lisa Bailey, and Daniel Shirley wrap up Chapter 4 of Norms and Nobility with a discussion about the efficiency in education. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

In this episode Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley discuss and define the "tyrannizing image" encountering questions like, "What is the use of poetry?" "How do we teach without boring our students?" 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

In this episode Marc Hays and Daniel Shirley discuss the final section of Norms and Nobility Chapter 3. They discuss questions like, "How can we learn without encountering what we don't know?" and "What does friendship between parents as teachers and their children as students look like? 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Daniel Shirley and Marc Hays continue the conversation about Norms and Nobility delving into the question, "How do we keep healthy tension between having all the answers and being curious about the world around us? 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

In this episode Daniel Shirley and Marc Hays discuss David Hicks' Norms and Nobility Chapter 2 on the necessity of story and of messy friendship within classical Christian education. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley for this ongoing discussion of David Hicks' book Norms & Nobility. In this episode, they look at HOW to teach virtue and define some key terms in the book like "logos" and "mythos." They discuss questions like "what's the relationship between words and meaning in the universe?" big questions like "What is virtue?" and "Can virtue be taught?" Along the way, gather some tips for reading and highlighting well and for teaching virtues in your own homeschool. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley for this ongoing discussion of David Hicks' book Norms & Nobility. In this episode, they discuss big questions like "What is virtue?" and "Can virtue be taught?" This is the perfect episode for families and directors of Challenge II-IV students. Along the way, gather some tips for reading and highlighting well and for teaching virtues in your own homeschool. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney, Marc Hays, and Daniel Shirley for a discussion of David Hicks' Norms & Nobility. In this episode, the panelists tackle questions like "What is classical education? What is the purpose of education? and What is the theoretic life?" Get tips on reading and marking up your copy of the book as well as ways to apply these ideas in your own homeschool. 20% off Norms & Nobility at www.classicalconversationsbooks.com through May 31 when listeners use NORMSPOD20 at checkout.

Join Jennifer Courtney, Lisa Bailey, and Jamie Hays as they discuss the valuable topic of the why and how of schedules, specifically what works and what does not.

Jennifer Courtney, Lisa Bailey, and Marc Hays share their experiences as first time parents. They discuss their expectations, anticipations and assumptions, as well as how realizing that though reality often failed to meet expectations, maturing alongside their firstborn didn't mean they had failed as parents, but meant accepting that His mercies are new everyday.

Jennifer Courtney, Lisa Bailey, and Jamie Hays share some of their journey as homeschooling mothers through classical education, remembering the enjoyable moments and the tough times.

Leigh Bortins and Jennifer Courtney discuss the development of a child's ability to read beginning with pre-reading skills, the phonics stage, middle school, high school, and beyond Challenge IV.

In this Episode of the Leigh Bortins Show, Leigh speaks with Chris, Tobin, Jeremiah and William, about movies, and the Christian entertainment industry. From, horror to fantasy – they dissect the goals of cinema, as both an art form and a rhetorical device. Listen to them model tools of conversations, this week – On Movies and Films.

Do you want to incorporate fine arts into your home education but don't know how? Join veteran home educators Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, and Jamie Hays as they discuss painting, poetry, music, dance, sports, and even home economics. Gather some fresh ideas for enjoying these arts with your family.

In this series, we are discussing the book The Core by Leigh Bortins a chapter at a time. This episode features on the three big ideas you need to know as you learn to love math and as you teach math to your children.

Listen in on this discussion of science for students ages 4-12. Learn how to inspire wonder in your children and how to teach them to use their five senses while observing God's world. Science helps us to know God through His world. As we marvel at the beauty and order, we will worship Him.

Be sure and tune in to this insightful episode on Leigh Bortins' book The Core. In this eighth installment in our CCP series, we will explore the 8th chapter from The Core and discuss history!

We hope you enjoy this new podcast series "The Leigh Bortins Show"! On our first episode, Leigh sits down with Tobin Duby, Jeremiah Wentz, and Christopher Blackburn to talk on the hot topic immigration. Immigration is a topic many disagree on, and we hope this episode helps instruct how to converse with one another in a loving and understanding way.

We hope you enjoy this seventh installment in our CCP series on Leigh Bortins' book, The Core. Join us as we explore the 7th chapter from The Core and discuss the importance of geography!

We hope you enjoy this fifth installment in our CCP series on Leigh Bortins' book, The Core. Join us as we explore the 5th chapter from The Core and discuss the value of training our students and kids to be writers for life. Also be sure to check out other special CCP offers by visiting our bookstore online.

We hope you enjoy this fourth installment in our CCP series on Leigh Bortins' book, The Core. You can learn more about the rewards of reading by reading Chapter 4 in The Core. Also be sure to check out other special CCP offers by visiting our bookstore online. Just for our listeners and viewers! Save $5.00 off your total order when you use the offer code CCP2018 at checkout.* Finally, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses the resource for Challenge B, Tanglewood Tales "Golden Fleece."

We hope you enjoy this fourth installment in our CCP series on Leigh Bortins' book, The Core. You can learn more about the magic of reading by reading Chapter 4 in The Core. Also be sure to check out other special CCP offers by visiting our bookstore online. Just for our listeners and viewers! Save $5.00 off your total order when you use the offer code CCP2018 at checkout.* Finally, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses the resource for Challenge B, Tanglewood Tales "Pomegranate Seeds."

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses Leigh Bortins' book The Core. In this episode, the focus will be on Chapter 3. Just for our listeners and viewers! Save $5.00 off your total order when you use the offer code CCP2018 at checkout.* Finally, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses the resource for Challenge B, Tanglewood Tales "Circe's Palace."

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses Leigh Bortins' book The Core. In this episode, the focus will be on Chapter 2. Just for our listeners and viewers! Save $5.00 off your total order when you use the offer code CCP2018 at checkout.* Finally, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

Thanks for joining us on a Cultivating Classical Parents podcast or webinar! Enjoy this wonderful episode as our team discusses Leigh Bortins' book The Core. In this episode, the focus will be on Chapter 1. Just for our listeners and viewers! Save $5.00 off your total order when you use the offer code CCP2018 at checkout.* Finally, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.