The Educational Renaissance Podcast

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In today's episode, Patrick, Kolby, and Jason discuss how education is life and that life does not start AFTER school. The point of education is not to learn just what one needs to know in order to get a good job; rather, education is meant to inspire and give children energy. The team then goes deeper and discusses how teachers teach minds not brains and what that means for teachers in the classroom. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In today's episode, the team discusses creating a warm learning atmosphere in the classrooms in order to help the students learn and grow. They discuss the difference between a  "pursuit of knowledge" atmosphere and a "pursuit of grades" can have on the outcome of learning. They end the podcast discussing not only how to create a "spirit of inquiry" atmosphere in the classroom but also in the entire school. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In today's episode, the team will talk about the issue of technicism and compare it to scientism in modern education. They discuss the impact that having quantitative measurements and economic evaluation of success frame and influence how we educate our children. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In this episode, Jason, Patrick, and Kolby discuss the book, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 by Doug Lemov, which comes out of the charter school movement. The team discusses the book from a classical perspective. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In this episode, Kolby, Jason, and Patrick discuss what it means to teach students to have a prophetic voice. The discussion will touch on rhetoric, composition along with what we are doing spiritually in the lives of our students, morally, helping them to cultivate a voice where they can speak into the world things that are good, true, and beautiful, and to defend and cultivate those things. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In this episode, Kolby, Jason, and Patrick discuss the implications a group like the Clapham Sect might have on education today. The discusses how students need to be equipped and that the Clapham Sect plays a key role in the "how" of equipping students today. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In today's episode, Jason, Kolby, and Patrick discuss FLOW, which is a recent concept that the team has connected to classical education and how we learn and develop habits for moral excellence. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In this episode, Patrick, Kolby, and Jason delve deeply into the tension that might exist between Classical Christian Education and Charlotte Mason's teachings and show that there is a junction between the two models. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In today's episode, Kolby, Patrick, and Jason discuss the concept of narration. Narration is a method of familiarizing a student with a particular topic in two steps. In the first step, you exposure the student to the content, and in the second step, you ask them tell back in their own words what they took from the content. These steps allow the student's mind to assimilate the information. Enjoy listening to the podcast to go deeper into the topic of narration. You can find more information about narration in an e-book on the Educational Renaissance website: http://educationalrenaissance.com/  Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. In this episode of the Educational Renaissance, Jason, Kolby, and Patrick discuss habit formation and training. "Habit training is guiding a child down a pathway of correct movement, correct speech, correct behavior, so that they are acquiring for themselves these experiences, training them in such a way that they acquire for themselves the tools that they need in life for them to have an easy, productive life." Enjoy! Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music