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
7 days ago
7 days ago
Adam Foster (Associate Pastor) and Bethany Lee (Homeschool Academy Director) from Fellowship Church in Greenwood, Missouri, join Eric to talk about churches as sponsors and hosts of community-crafted schools.
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
James Shuls from Florida State University joins Eric to discuss common schooling and civics education.
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
David Hunt from the Aristotle Foundation joins Eric to talk about the status of and prospects for community crafted education in Canada.
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.