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Former Teacher: How Schools Hide That Your Kid Is Falling Behind
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The world has changed, and education is catching up. Join Isaac Morehouse and the OpenEd team as we explore the future of personalized learning. We're breaking down barriers between traditional schools, microschooling, homeschooling, and alternative education. Each episode features innovative educational approaches, real family stories, expert insights, and practical tips for navigating educational choices.
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- Former Teacher: How Schools Hide That Your Kid Is Falling Behind · 59 mntWhen Colleen Dippel was a fifth-grade public school teacher in Houston, she got called into the principal's office and told never to tell parents about two higher-performing…
- The Real Pros and Cons of Homeschooling | From a Mom of Four · 52 mntAshley Partridge homeschools two second-grade boys near Nashville with a 24-month-old and a 12-month-old at home. Her school day used to start at nine and end by lunch. Then the…
- Ex-Teacher Now Fights for Homeschool Laws · 1 jam 18 mntAnita Scott was homeschooled before Texas settled that it was legal, then became a principal in South Dallas. Her method, in classrooms and at the kitchen table: build the…
- What Homeschool Parents NEED to Hear | Beginner OpenEd Guide · 55 mntAndrea Fife spent 10 years teaching fifth grade. Then she joined OpenEd as a homeroom teacher, reading the learning logs families sent in every week, and within a couple of…
- Why Is Math So Hard for Kids? (It's How We Teach It) · 53 mntRuth Rinaldi got through a maths degree without knowing her seven times table. She went on to run the maths department at a UK secondary school, then left the system, and today…
- How Unit Studies Make Homeschool Feel Like Play · 1 jam 2 mntCynthia and Justine are the co-founders of The Learn + Live Letter, a homeschool membership of hands-on, play-based unit studies for ages 3 to 12, and this is OpenEd's first…
- How to Start Homeschooling If You Don't Feel Qualified · 59 mntBefore homeschooling, Blanca Montelongo worked in a public school as a registrar, sorting incoming kids by income, background and last name. Eight years in, she talks with Ela…
- Why She Pulled Her Kids Out of School | Homeschool Stereotypes · 1 jam 5 mntCassie Olguin nearly didn't homeschool, and not because of the workload. She could not pick a curriculum. "There's like eleven billion homeschool curricula, and ways to do it…
- Why a Principal QUIT to Homeschool Her Kids · 48 mntLiz Powell spent nearly two decades in public education, nine of them as a public school principal. She left when her own daughter reached school age. She looked at her own…
- FORMER TEACHER: I Told My Students They Didn't Have to Come to Class · 60 mntTanner Bowman taught computer science in a public high school for ten years, deleting one classroom rule per year until attendance in his class was optional. He now runs Optio…
- Is Homeschooling Hard? 22 Years and 5 Kids Later · 1 jam 9 mntRebecca Stromsdorfer never wanted to homeschool. She toured the charters and the private schools in her county looking for any other option, but she couldn't find a classroom…
- You Don't Have to Be a Teacher to Homeschool · 54 mntSam Griffin spent two years wanting to homeschool and not starting, because she did not think she was qualified. Five years later, she teaches four kids from kindergarten through…
- I Bought My Daughter a Cookie Shop (We Have 7 Kids) · 54 mntJeremy Cioara never planned to homeschool - or to become an entrepreneur. Twenty years and seven kids later, the longtime tech trainer has a simple method for raising kids who…
- The Real Reason Kids Hate School (and What to Do Instead) · 59 mntVal Morse was homeschooled until high school, and now she homeschools her own two daughters - two completely different learners. In this conversation, Val breaks down what to do…
- What's It Actually Like to Be Homeschooled? A 10-Year-Old Explains · 28 mntWhat's it actually like to be homeschooled? Finley is 10 years old, in fourth grade, one of nine kids, and a Lego robotics competitor - and he is the youngest student ever…
- 1 in 5 Kids Have Dyslexia | What a Reading Specialist Tells Homeschool Parents · 47 mntFaye Casell spent two decades as a special educator before reading struggles got personal with her own son during lockdown. In this episode, she explains why one in five kids is…
- Ex-Teacher's Playbook for Debt-Free College (Her Kids Did It) · 58 mntA former teacher who graduated with $50,000 in student loans made sure her two daughters never would. Both finished college about a week before high school graduation - debt-free…
- 20-Year Homeschool Veteran Reveals Why She Burnt Out · 1 jam 2 mntToriAnn Perkey homeschooled four kids from 2004 through graduation - all are now in college. She is the Executive Director at the Independent Education Program in Utah, where she…
- She Almost Quit Homeschooling Before Building A Hybrid School · 45 mntBecky Wilmoth never wanted to homeschool. A new baby, a private school bill she couldn't afford, and a nine-year gap between her kids pushed her into it. Becky is a consultant at…
- She Homeschooled 6 Kids for 13 Years. Here's What She Learned. · 55 mntAngela Rigby has homeschooled her six children for 13 years - and never tried to recreate school at home. In this conversation she shares the method behind it: get the bookwork…







