The Educational Renaissance Podcast

Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 3. Some of the topics they discuss: thoughts on the plenary session by Brian Williams;  praise for Patrick’s presentation; and book recommendations. As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 2. Some of the topics they discuss: Thoughts on Justin Bailey's plenary session connecting beauty and apologetics Comments on Eric Cook's session on relational wisdom Praise for Kolby's workshop "Equipped to Learn" Book recommendations As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 1. Some of the topics they discuss: this year’s theme is “recovering beauty in education” reflections on Robert George’s is plenary talk on beauty and reality reflections on Margarita Mooney Suarez’s talk on how classical education is best positioned to address the issues of wokeness, and book recommendations As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is Day 0, or the pre-conference. Some of the topics they discuss: What it means to be part of an educational renewal movement The benefits of a conference Big ideas/take aways from the pre-conference sessions Book recommendations from today's sessions As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance 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 the domains of the church and of the academy and where they can and should overlap ... as well as discuss where it may not be a good idea for them overlap. They refine the definitions of teacher and pastor and suggest there should be some distinct boundaries defined by the school. As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance 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 reflects on a topic brought up at a recent Alcuin Retreat, about how to approach Christian and pagan literature. The ponder Tertullian rhetorical questions while pursuing whatever "gold" might be found in pagan writings ... and when one can go too far in embracing non-Christian thought. 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 introduces the new Educational Renaissance Book Store, where you can purchase the books the team references and recommends. Here is a link to the bookstore: The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance Today, they discuss three essential books: An Introduction to Christian Education, by Christopher Perrin Wisdom and Eloquence, by Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans The Liberal Arts Tradition, by Ravi Jain and Kevin Clark In the comments section, suggest some books you'd recommend for the team to read and/or review. 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 pulls from C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and other sources to discuss how to train students to fight moral subjectivism through Christian Classical education. This helps children deal with emotive and misleading propaganda. He explores different views through multiple thinkers and concludes with a couple approaches to incorporate into teaching young minds to prepare them to be able "... to hold logic, emotion, and beauty together." Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

*** 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