PODCAST · education
Conduit Connects
by Amy Oswalt
Imagine a vibrant online space where unique learners and their families find belonging, support, and personalized learning experiences, no matter where they are in the world.That’s the heart of Conduit Academy’s vision and our podcast is part of this vision.And we also like reading books here too:)*Please note: often we use NotebookLM to convert Conduit Academy weekly newsletters into podcast form. This is done to ensure that this information is accessible in multiple formats for our families and wider community.
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"A Wrinkle In Time" Chapter 3
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!By Madeleine L'EngleSupport the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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"A Wrinkle In Time" Chapter 2
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!By Madeleine L'EngleSupport the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Beyond The Building Bias
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We challenge the “building bias” that confuses shiny facilities and glossy tech with true expertise, and share Leo’s story to show how a remote specialist outperformed a prestigious campus by explaining the mechanism behind his errors. We end with a practical set of questions parents can use to find real experts and avoid costly detours.• the halo effect of impressive schools and tools• Leo’s multilingual profile misread as dysgraphia• linguistics-based diagnosis versus pattern matching• why AI tutors can be technically correct yet useless• pandemic lessons about portable expertise• the real cost of cheap generalists versus specialists• how tech should connect families to experts• three questions to vet the human who teaches your childKeep asking those hard questions, look past the fresh paint, and we'll catch you on the next deep diveSupport the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Stop Trying To Be Your Kid’s Entire School
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We compare homeschooling and professional virtual school for neurodiverse learners, drawing a clear line between responsibility, expertise, and emotional load. The goal is a setup where trained teachers deliver targeted support, kids gain structure and peers, and parents reclaim the safe harbor role.• key differences between homeschool and virtual school• what full responsibility means for parents at home• why dyslexia needs evidence-based instruction• executive function and the need for external scaffolding• the emotional and relational cost of being teacher and enforcer• how virtual schools provide structure and accountability• the role of process teachers and targeted interventions• peer connection and reduced stigma in specialized cohorts• the common homeschool burnout pattern and warning signs• five self-check questions before choosing a pathSupport the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Conduit Academy: Cognitive Load Theory in Virtual Learning Design
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Conduit Academy's model aims to minimize extraneous load through integrated and persistent digital workspaces, while dynamically managing intrinsic and germane loads via adaptive instruction and features that promote productive cognitive processing. Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Minimize Your Clutter
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Conduit Academy uses a uniquely designed platform that has been designed to help maximize our cognitive workload.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Teacher Who Followed
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!The profound impact of personalized relationships and truly "knowing" a student beyond their academic labels...this episode emphasizes genuine connection and understanding, rather than data or frameworks, as the most powerful forces in a child's growth and future success.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Co-Creating Digital Classrooms: Beyond Teacher-Owned Spaces
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Teachers usually spend lots of their own money and time decorating classrooms before school starts, making everything look perfect for their students. But this can't happen in persistent online classrooms like Conduit. Which option works better for our kids in terms of their learning? Learn more here!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Digital Classrooms Need Persistent Walls
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Conduit made a conscious choice based on years of online teaching experience: we chose a platform that provides a permanent experience for our students. Our online school is unlike any other.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Hidden Curriculum of Virtual Learning Platforms
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Platform matters for online learning so much more than you might imagine. Listen to this conversation to learn more about why an intentional, permanent space makes online learning so much more powerful.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Tears of Connection: Students Miss School
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Unlike typical student excitement for summer our students were genuinely sad for classes to conclude. This unexpected emotional response highlights how Conduit, by offering personalized education and fostering a strong sense of belonging and connection, successfully serves students who struggled in conventional environments. These tears are evidence of a supportive educational model where students feel seen and understood, ultimately creating a community they are reluctant to leave.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Discovery Tax and Other Cognitive Considerations
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Based on Carl Hendrick's substack article "Does Explicit Instruction Work For Students with Learning Difficulties?". He details the findings of a University of Haifa study, arguing that explicit instruction is not just helpful, but essential for students with ADHD and dyslexia, challenging the long-held beliefs against it.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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What If We Celebrated Something Else?
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!This hypothetical scenario encourages readers to reflect on how our own Earth-based educational system, which emphasizes literacy and cognitive skills, shapes our understanding of success and competence. The comparison prompts a consideration of how different innate abilities might be valued and supported in alternative systems.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Conduit Academy Uses The Polypad
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We love the Polypad at Conduit Academy. It provides us with so many opportunities to make math visible to our students.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Making Thinking Visible with Conduit Academy
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!In this episode, we look at how the document camera provides a way for the teaching team at Conduit Academy to "see" their students' thinking while working online.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Online Learning Has Its Advantages
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Is it just FOMO?
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Searching for the perfect educational experience may not help you get what you need. Instead search for the right fit that aligns with you and your family.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Get Out the Pencil and Paper
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Conduit helps students work in ways that make their learning stick. We use structures such as "retrieval practice" to ensure our students are making the most of our instruction. We also view the home environment as an important place for learning and so always look for ways to partner with home.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Conduit Model: Where Learning Happens
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!This session explains Conduit's approach to education, emphasizing the importance of active recall for enhancing memory retention. Conduit integrates active recall techniques with personalized learning strategies based on Benjamin Bloom's "2 sigma problem," which highlights the significant learning gains achieved through tutoring. The article describes Conduit's methods, including small group rotations, competency-based learning, and frequent parental meetings, which all aim to create a supportive learning environment that promotes deeper understanding and fosters a lifelong love of learning.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Active Recall Through Daily Writing at Conduit
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We discuss our continued implementation of science of learning in terms of how we design our learning engagements. This week, we talk about active recall and our use of this technique with our families at home.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Spaced Learning at Conduit
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We know that using science is key to helping our students learning stick. We are deeply invested in what our kids truly need to become lifelong learners.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Why Conduit does Competencies
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Learn more about why competency education is so important to us at Conduit and how it helps our neurodiverse learners succeed!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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We Don't All Have To Eat The Same Cake
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!As we develop our understanding of Competency Based Education, this might be helpful to listen to - and take away the idea that CBE is using evidence not time to demonstrate learning.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Teacher Draft
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!What if we asked who are the best teachers instead of where are the best schools? Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Shoulders Down Learning
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Thank you, Sunil Singh, for the "shoulders down" imagery :) This recording is of our weekly Conduit newsletter interpreted by NotebookLM.We love fun. We live in a world that is difficult. Why not have a little fun along the way?Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Conduit Qualitative Reasoning
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Learn more about the approach we take with math - it is all about making this a tool in our toolbox to solve problems!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The Reasons for Students to Read Whole Books
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!This podcast was created from Korbey's article using Google NotebookLM"TL; DR: The reasons for students to read whole books, together in class, extend beyond the research"by Holly KorbeyOct 04, 2024Original article: https://open.substack.com/pub/hollykorbey/p/tl-dr?r=4am89u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emailSupport the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Conduit Competency Based Education
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!We do CBE with intention because it is what our kids need now.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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The 3R's of Teaching...2024
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!This season of Conduit Connects, we are turning our Ask different questions posts into podcasts using NotebookLM.We will also upload content from our Conduit Connects coffees.Conduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here.Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 12 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 11 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 10 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 9 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 8: "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 7 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 6 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 5 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 2 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 3 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 1 "A Wish in the Dark" Christina Soontornvat
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapters 22 and 23 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
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Chapter 21 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 20 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 19 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 18 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 17 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 16 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapter 15 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapters 13-14 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
Send us a text and let us know what you loved!Support the showConduit is in the education revolution to win it for our kids. Join us by listening here, following us on social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn) and visiting our website.
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Chapters 11-12 "The BFG" Roald Dahl
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Imagine a vibrant online space where unique learners and their families find belonging, support, and personalized learning experiences, no matter where they are in the world.That’s the heart of Conduit Academy’s vision and our podcast is part of this vision.And we also like reading books here too:)*Please note: often we use NotebookLM to convert Conduit Academy weekly newsletters into podcast form. This is done to ensure that this information is accessible in multiple formats for our families and wider community.
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