Community Crafted Education
The landscape of hybrid and microschools in various forms – what we will call “community crafted education” – has grown substantially in recent years. On this podcast we will talk about the downstream effects of school choice and especially community crafted education models. How are all of these entrepreneurial opportunities, policy developments, new schools, and new educational experiences improving society? This is probably the most exciting time in education entrepreneurship and policy in the past 30 years. To explore these developments, host Eric Wearne, Director of the National Hybrid Schools Project, talks 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.
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Episodes
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Shoshana Weissmann from the Abundance Institute joins Eric to discuss barriers to startups that don't fit into existing categories.
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Peter Gray, a psychology professor at Boston College, joins Eric to discuss self-directed and play-based learning.
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Matthew Sanders, founder and CEO of Longbeard, joins Eric to talk about current and future developments in AI, and their implications for schooling.
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Shiren Rattigan, founder of Colossal Academies, joins Eric to discuss education entrepreneurship as a means of building a legacy and wealth.
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Catherine Pakaluk, Associate Professor of Economics at Catholic University of America and author of Hannah's Children, joins Eric to talk about families, population decline, and school choices.
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Michael Ford, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue, joins Eric to talk about civil discourse in a fractured school landscape, school boards, and viewpoint diversity.
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, joins Eric to discuss the future of AI in schools and her book, The Disengaged Teen.
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
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.
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
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.
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
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.