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Welcome to HeightsCast, the podcast of The Heights School. With over 200 episodes, HeightsCast discusses the education of young men fully alive in the liberal arts tradition.
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Alvaro de Vicente on the Scope of Mentoring (opens the original)
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At The Heights, every teacher functions as a mentor for students. This is more than a figure of speech; it's the character of certain student-teacher relationships with routine check-ins oriented toward holistic personal growth. This week on HeightsCast, Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente considers the scope of different kinds of advisory, and outlines his vision for what makes real, effective mentorship. Chapters: 4:36 Whether all teachers are mentors 9:07 All advisory: goals, agency, and disposition
David Maxham on Struggling in Math: Where Digital Tools Can Assist in Academic Virtue (opens the original)
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There's a sea of online math supplements, from drills to games to whole courses, all promising advancement for your struggling student (or your stellar student who has outpaced his cohort). What kind of program, if any, is right for your student? Under what conditions are digital tools most effective? Heights math teacher David Maxham gives us an extremely practical guide to the best digital resources out there and how to use them effectively. He also shares the failure modes you may not see com
Dr. Jonathan Buttaci on the Art and Act of Knowing—and What That Means for Teaching (opens the original)
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How do we know whether we know something? How do we know whether our son or student has apprehended a lesson? Sometimes we hear the liberal arts discussed as a "beholding of great things." But Catholic University professor Dr. Jonathan Buttaci reminds us they are liberal arts —implying a craft or adept handling of knowledge. In other words, coming to know something is not passive at all. It's an act. And that act does not primarily belong to the teacher. This week on HeightsCast, Dr. Buttaci tal
Dr. Paul Shrimpton on Newman and his Idea of a School (opens the original)
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The most famous work of our newest Doctor of the Church is, of course, The Idea of a University —a collection that explores the essence of a Catholic university education. But fewer people know about St. John Henry Newman's extensive efforts in primary and secondary education: Newman's part was not just as an educational theorist, but a school founder, who played every nitty-gritty role from fundraising to parent relations, from essay grading to student mentoring, even processing repair orders a
Alvaro de Vicente on Boy-Girl Socializing: Fostering Healthy Peer Groups (opens the original)
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Statistics show that young people today are spending significantly less time socializing in face-to-face mixed company, across genders, than previous generations. This week on HeightsCast, Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente looks at how we might assess and address boy-girl socialization for our sons, helping the modern boy to develop healthy relationships in the right context. Chapters: 2:46 "Normal" is not necessarily the measure 5:53 Healthy group dynamics 7:30 Growth comes in stages 12:12 The role
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