The Educational Renaissance Podcast

*** The Educational Renaissance podcast has moved to publishing the middle and end of the month. *** 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 wraps up the "get to know the team" series by interviewing Jason Barney. Listen in as they explore Jason's beginnings in public school in San Fransisco, how one teacher in particular influenced Jason's future high school and college choices and learn how a single passage from the book of Jeremiah convinced him he had to get into classical Christian education. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

*** The Educational Renaissance podcast is moving to a publishing schedule of the middle of the month and end of the month. *** 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 explores the concepts shared by Jim Collins in his books around Good to Great as they apply to schools. He shares the 7 characteristics of great companies and explores the 5 that schools struggle to implement. He finishes by exploring of the 5 struggles and offers suggestions to overcome this hurdle. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

*** The Educational Renaissance podcast is moving to a publishing schedule of the middle of the month and end of the month. *** 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 dives into the distinction between training the arts and teaching science by exploring the thoughts of Plato and John Milton Gregory ... two distinctly different thinkers about teaching. The discussion helps teachers distinguish between when they are training students in an art and teaching them a subject. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Educational Renaissance podcast is moving to a publishing schedule of the middle of the month and end of the month. 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 dives into the classical difference between liberal arts and science and weaves an example to help us understand the difference ... by using "underwater basket weaving". 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 lesson planning and how to use narration to really bring out the best in the lesson. They also provide some insights based on template you can find on their website ... listen to learn more and find out where you can get the template. 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, we continue our series of interviewing the Educational Renaissance team by interviewing Kolby Atchison. We learn about how his interests changed over time and led him to a surprising Masters Degree and eventually to becoming an administrator at a Christian Classical 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, Jason continues from his podcast a couple weeks ago, where he discusses the value of teaching self-control for Christians, especially in today's world full of distractions. He talks about 'the marshmellow' study and what it can tell us about self-control and finishes with some techniques we can use to train others - and ourselves - to have more self-control. 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 discussions how humans are desired to worship ... it is not a matter of "if" humans will worship, but "what" humans will worship. He provides examples of habits that lead us away from the kingdom of God as well as provides some best practices to get us and our students onto the right track of worshipping God. Finally, he ends with 6 questions we can ask ourselves about what we are doing, and the answers can lead us to new approaches in our lives and classrooms. 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 revisits a blog from several years ago, where he discussed the value of teaching self-control for Christians, especially in today's world full of distractions. 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 interviews Karen Glass (www.karenglass.net) and discuss how she came to teach her children through Charlotte Mason's method and then began writing about it to help other (mainly) homeschooling parents teach the method. She explores the notion that "education is the science of relationships". Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music