Community Crafted Education

Episode 8: On Gifted Education

Pamela Hobart, Gifted and Talented Education Evangelist from GT School, joins Eric to talk about gifted students and their families, the nature of gifted and talented programs, and massively accelerating school.

Episode 7: On Defining Success

Matt Lee, Assistant Professor with the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University, joins Eric to talk about how families make school choices, and new methods and approaches for defining "success" in education. 

Episode 6: On Mental Health

Michael Strong, founder of The Socratic Experience, joins Eric to talk about the state of student mental health in the U.S. and what impact the community-crafted education sector might have on it.

Episode 5: On Black Homeschoolers

Cheryl Fields-Smith, Professor of the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia, joins Eric to talk about black homeschoolers, the history of homeschooling, and her new book, Creating Educational Justice. 

Episode 4: On Classical Education

Josh Herring, Professor of Classical Education and Humanities at Thales College, joins Eric to discuss classical education -- how it's defined, how it has grown over the years, and what the impacts of a new, larger set of classical schools might be.

Episode 3: On Teachers

David Marshall, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundation, Leadership, and Technology at Auburn University, joins Eric to talk about differences in preparing teachers for conventional public schools versus new, community crafted education models, core teaching principles that are essential for educators in any setting, and the role of conventional teacher preparation programs in a new landscape. 

Episode 2: On Family Business

Sara Davis, Director of the Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University, joins Eric to discuss parallels between founding a family business and launching a community-driven school, multi-generational success, and local community values.

Episode 1: On Higher Education

Erin Davis Valdez, Executive Director of the Incubator for the Center for Education and Public Service (CEPS) at the University of Austin, joins Eric to talk about UATX as a startup, how colleges may start looking at graduates of hybrid and microschools, and polarization in higher education.

Community Crafted Education Starts April 22nd!

The school choice landscape has exploded in recent years. Microschools, Homeschools, Charter Schools, Hybrid Schools. The list goes on. This podcast will talk about the downstream effects of school choice and especially community crafted education models on society. To explore these developments, host Eric Wearne, Director of the National Hybrid Schools Project, will talk with people who are mostly not a part of the school choice world about how these new options are affecting or could potentially affect their various fields. 
Be sure to check back on April 22 for our first episode!