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The world has changed, and education is catching up. Join Isaac Morehouse and the OpenEd team as we explore the future of personalized learning. We're breaking down barriers between traditional schools, microschooling, homeschooling, and alternative education.
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How Unit Studies Make Homeschool Feel Like Play (opens the original)
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Cynthia and Justine are the co-founders of The Learn + Live Letter, a homeschool membership of hands-on, play-based unit studies for ages 3 to 12, and this is OpenEd's first episode to take the method apart - what a unit study actually is, how one dinosaur unit carries history, measurement and letter sounds, how to run one lesson across a 3-year-old and a 12-year-old, and what Cynthia does the moment tears start at the table. GUESTS Justine LoMonaco and Cynthia Holt - co-foundersm of The Learn +
How to Start Homeschooling If You Don't Feel Qualified (opens the original)
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Before homeschooling, Blanca Montelongo worked in a public school as a registrar, sorting incoming kids by income, background and last name. Eight years in, she talks with Ela Bass about the fear she hears most from moms: "I don't think I can do it." IN THIS EPISODE - What she says to a mom who tells her, "I don't have the patience" - The one thing every family needs before they start, or they go back - Why finding a homeschool community is "kind of like dating" - The year her entire curriculum
Why She Pulled Her Kids Out of School | Homeschool Stereotypes (opens the original)
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Cassie Olguin nearly didn't homeschool, and not because of the workload. She could not pick a curriculum. "There's like eleven billion homeschool curricula, and ways to do it, and methodologies for teaching... it was so loud at a certain point that I almost didn't do it." In this episode, she explains how to choose a homeschool curriculum without needing anyone else's opinion, including the day her own written rule convicted her for teaching her twins the same math because it was easier for her.
FORMER TEACHER: I Told My Students They Didn't Have to Come to Class (opens the original)
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Tanner Bowman taught computer science in a public high school for ten years, deleting one classroom rule per year until attendance in his class was optional. He now runs Optio, an accredited K-12 program built on one move: start with what the kid already cares about, and let the subject arrive as a requirement of the goal. A sixteen-year-old who hated online algebra was doing mathematical analysis of the stock market on his own time. That analysis became his math credit. This episode: 0:00 – Col
Is Homeschooling Hard? 22 Years and 5 Kids Later (opens the original)
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Rebecca Stromsdorfer never wanted to homeschool. She toured the charters and the private schools in her county looking for any other option, but she couldn't find a classroom she'd put her daughter in. This episode is a full walkthrough of how she started homeschooling and what she learned along the way. GUEST Rebecca Stromsdorfer - homeschool mom of five (22 years), founder of My Homeschool Village Website: https://myhomeschoolvillage.com CHAPTERS 00:00 She never wanted to homeschool 03:55 Enjo
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