Charlotte Mason was convinced that children--all children--are born persons and advocated for "a liberal education for all." This interview is with Nicolle Hutchinson who founded and administrates Gillingham Charter School in Pottsville, PA. Once Mrs. Hutchinson, a public school teacher, discovered Charlotte Mason, she knew there was a way to make public education life-giving. In this interview, she shares about her journey to Charlotte Mason's method, her growing dream to bring her principles and practices to publicly educated children, and the formation and continuation of her charter school.

Episode 166: A CM Charter School

Through twice monthly conversations, three moms who have studied the Charlotte Mason method of education and put her ideas into practice in their homes join together to share with one another for the benefit of listeners by giving explanations of Mason's principles and examples of those principles put into practice out of their own teaching experience. These short discussions aim at providing information, support, and encouragement for others by unfolding the myriad aspects.

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There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.      "The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)   "With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)   "Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)       Beauty & Truth Math   Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?   Episode 182: Visualization   Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method    Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum   Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books   ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode Sandy Johnson, mom of three, joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. As she has graduated her oldest daughter who is now in college, Sandy reflects on her own education, and how different the education she is giving her children is. With humility and strength, Sandy shares her family's personal struggles and points us to the Hope we all need.       Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series (Audiobook)   Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens   David Copperfield, Charles Dickens   Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray   Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard       Awaken Living Books Conference   Episode 276: ADE Book Discussion: Vanity Fair   ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 279: Trusting the Method with Sandra Johnson

As we near the end of this season-long discussion on "Trusting the Method" we turn our attention to the curriculum itself. How can we choose curriculum that Trusts Charlotte Mason's Method? How can we evaluate whether a resource or curriculum follows the method in part or whole? How do we decide if we even *want* to trust the method with our curriculum?     "N.B.1 In home schoolrooms where there are children in A as well as in B, both forms may work together, doing the work of A or B as they are able, but more work must be expected from I A." (All P.U.S. Programmes)       Arabella Buckley's Eyes and No-Eyes Series Here and Here    Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics       Beauty & Truth Math   Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?   Charlotte Mason's Curriculum Programmes   Episode 70: CM Purists   Visual Latin   ADE's Teacher Helps   Episode 6: Living Books   Episode 7: Recognizing Living Books   Episode 8: Narration 2.0   Episode 3: The Role of the Teacher   Episode 5: The Power of Connection   ADE's Episodes by Topic   Charlotte Mason's Short Synopsis:     Points 1-4      Points 5-8      Points 9-12      Points 13-15      Points 16-19      Point 20    ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they've come to "Trust the Method." In today's episode, as she prepares to graduate her oldest student this spring, Morgan Conner joins us to reflect on her homeschool journey and how she came to trust Charlotte Mason's Method. After jumping from one curriculum to the next, once Morgan discovered Charlotte Mason, she never looked back, but that doesn't mean it has always been easy. You will glean much from Morgan's vulnerability and honesty as she describes overcoming her perfectionistic tendencies and learned to trust the Lord with even the smallest details with her neurodiverse students.      For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay   Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen        Q&A; about Nature Walks   Podcast Episode on Forecasting   Forecasting Teacher Training Workshop   Morgan's episode on Reading Charlotte Mason's Volumes   Morgan's episode on Planning Physical Geography Lessons   ADE's Patreon Community 

Episode 277: Trusting the Method with Morgan Conner

Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 2, 2024, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to contribute what they had been taught by William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair. If you have read the book, you will revel in the myriad messages this book conveyed to us all, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.        Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray       Talkbox.mom 

Episode 166: A CM Charter School

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