Everyday Educator

As classical, Christian educators, we are interested in finding the truth and communicating that truth well! An ancient tool can help us achieve that goal; join Lisa Bailey, Brittany Lewis, and Jennifer Courtney as they begin to explore the 5 Canons of Rhetoric in this podcast on the canon of Invention. You'll be encouraged as these veteran homeschoolers share how Invention can help your student overcome the "tyranny of the blank page" when thinking and writing about a new idea, and how Invention can help us all become more gracious communicators.

We hope you enjoy the final episode of a three-part series on the topic of "Advent." We hope you enjoy Part 3 as we discuss a variety of topics surrounding advent and anticipation.

We hope you enjoy episode 2 of part of a three-part series on the topic of "Advent." We hope you enjoy Part 2 as we discuss a variety of topics surrounding advent and memory.

This is the first part of a three-part series on the topic of "Assessment." We hope you enjoy Part 1 "Advent Assessment" as we discuss a variety of topics surrounding assessment during the current season.

In this final episode of the series "The Five Common Topics", Lisa Bailey, Leslie Hubbard, and Stephanie Meter share how a consideration of Testimony helps seekers pursue Truth. They show that Testimony (including authorities, testimonials, statistics, maxims, laws, and precepts!) helps us wrestle with ideas, stimulate conversations, and gain wisdom. Join these friends and discover how to wield this tool well with your own learners!

Are you looking for a tool to help you dig a little deeper in literature, history, or science? Maybe you want to guide your student to understand others more compassionately, or perhaps you are trying to encourage your students to keep thinking when they believe they're done! The Common Topic of Circumstance can help you with that! Join Lisa Bailey, Leslie Hubbard and Stephanie Meter as they continue to think about the Five Common Topics, and how these ancient tools help us pursue understanding with our students today. Find out how to use simple questions to "connect the dots" and learn to think more deeply.

This episode of The Everyday Educator Podcast examines the topic of Relationship, and proves just how exciting the Five Common Topics can be! Join guests Leslie Hubbard and Stephanie Meter as they explore how this topic can be used from Foundations through Challenge, in math, Latin, timeline, history, science, and Bible study. Host Lisa Bailey guides the discussion on how valuable it is to make connections, build relationships, and wrestle with big ideas, and helps us see how connecting actions and consequences through a consideration of relationship blesses our children for life.

On this episode of the Everyday Educator Podcast, host Lisa Bailey asks guests Leslie Hubbard and Stephanie Meter to consider the topic of Comparison. Listen as they reveal Comparison as an "all-purpose tool", one useful for integrating new ideas with familiar information, for starting absorbing conversations, and even for getting acquainted with new people! You'll discover how natural this classical tool is, and how it easy it is to use with all ages, and in practically all situations. As Leslie says, "When in doubt, compare!"

Join host Lisa Bailey and guests Leslie Hubbard and Stephanie Meter for this Everyday Educator podcast exploring the tool of Definition. Discover just how "common" a topic definition truly IS, and how it can lead to deeper, richer explorations and conversations with your family. These ladies give great examples of how defining a term begins the learning process, and how the student actively participates in the learning when the right questions are posed. This first in a series on the Five Common Topics gives Everyday Educators encouragement and ideas on how to use the tool of Definition. Definitely DO try this at home!

Join Lisa Bailey, Jennifer Courtney, and Kelli Wilt as they finish the series on the Five Core Habits by waxing eloquent on the Habit of Storytelling! Listen as they discuss the ways to encourage beginning storytelling, and how to coax reluctant story tellers to join the fun. These experienced moms will even help you see how storytelling sharpens skills your older kids will need to thrive and grow. You'll gain some great insights, and pick up some tips you can use to make storytelling a more everyday part of your homeschool.