Everyday Educator

Parents, do you yearn to have lively and enlightening conversations with your high-schoolers about history—and everything else? Join Lisa Bailey, Kelli Wilt, and Marc Hays as they talk about the real reasons we should study history. Listen as they explore some great ways to start conversations about history, and reveal the real lesson that history should teach us all.

Are you a "discuss-er"? Do you wish you were, or that your family had the habit of wrestling with big ideas together? This week, Leslie Hubbard, Stephanie Meter, and Lisa Bailey talk about what entices family members to pursue truth together through conversations. Listen and learn to ask good questions, find the value in timely examples, and see the usefulness of the Five Canons of Rhetoric in family discussions.

What's the easiest way to bring math into the conversations you're having with your family? Get outside your math book and feast on the beauty and wonder in creation! Guests Jennifer Courtney and Marc Hays help host Lisa Bailey discover the relationship between numbers, patterns, creation, and math conversations. Listen in as these long-time lead learners discuss how the Five Canons of Rhetoric and a playful spirit will improve the math sense of your whole family.

If you are missing the delight your children took in science explorations as little kids, take a listen to how we can keep the wonder and delight in this study, even as our students head into high school. Join Leslie Hubbard and Amy Jones as they help host Lisa Bailey see that the best tools for studying science are wonder, imagination, our senses, and the ability and expectation to know God! They'll show us all how to use the Five Canons of Rhetoric to connect science to the everyday pursuits of family life.

Do you or your student dread writing or do you embrace it excitedly? Join Jennifer Courtney and Stephanie Meter as they discuss writing across the curriculum—in literature, history, and science. Together, they explore how the five canons of rhetoric can help you write about any topic in an organized, interesting, and persuasive way to capture the minds and hearts of your audience.

Hoping to guide your student to towards gracious communication, sound judgment, and contemplation of virtue? Teach them speech and debate skills, really! Listen as Melisa Weaver, Leslie Hubbard, and Lisa Bailey talk about how the Five Canons of Rhetoric and the practice of political speech, forensic speech, and ceremonial speech lead our students toward the art of compassionate conversation.

Do we really need to work on reading with our high schoolers? Isn't it enough that they can read and know what to read and do read? Listen in as Jennifer Courtney, Stephanie Meter, and Lisa Bailey discuss the spiritual aspect of "why read?" as well as offer some insights for weaving the Five Canons of Rhetoric into reading, into experiencing books, and into family conversations.

For parents looking toward the high school years, the Everyday Educator Podcast offers "Defining Rhetoric" The Conversation Ch 2, a look at how moving into the arts of Rhetoric can bind your hearts together at home and make those high school years exhilarating and satisfying and full of conversation. Join Marc Hays, Karin Carpenter, and Lisa Bailey as they talk about the canons of Rhetoric and why we all need to be rhetoricians.

Do you yearn to develop or strengthen your confidence as a homeschooler? Are you determined to redeem the Art of Rhetoric, and become an accomplished conversationalist who leads discussion on meaningful ideas? Whether you're looking for a little encouragement as you continue the homeschool journey into high school or you're just testing the waters to see if you want to jump in, this first podcast in a new series is for you! Join Brittany Lewis and Lisa Bailey as they discuss Chapter 1 of The Conversation, and share thoughts on three aspects parents really contribute to their children's educations.

In this final Advent episode, join Lisa Bailey in re-examining the journey of the Wise Men; consider the gift of Celebration, and how and why we are called to celebrate this season. Find encouragement to slow down and allow God's wonder to move you!

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