Episodes
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What Are They Teaching Our Children? New Gender Diversity and Sex Ed Curriculum
California has adopted new curriculum guidelines for Gender Diversity and Sex Education. In this episode, Amber talks about some of the curriculum being developed and adopted by local school districts in order to meet the guidelines. After listening to this podcast, we believe you will agree that...
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Equipping for Advancement: Resources to Help You Jump-Start the Growth Process
Building off the latest episode in the Equipping for Advancement series regarding learning and growing, Josiah provides a number of podcasts and books that he has recently found helpful in the continual growth process.
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Equipping for Advancement: Are You a Scholar?
Growth requires both inlets and outlets. We should always be learning, but also organizing and focusing that stream of knowledge into something that can be useful to others.
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Equipping for Advancement: Kingdom Advancement through Education
Have you wondered about the appropriateness of formal education for Apostolics? Here we touch on the foundations of how formal education fits into the Bible-believing Christian’s life.
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Your Child’s Greatest Educational Resource
You, the parent, are the most important resource your child has when it comes to their education. Amber talks about your role as an advocate - finding resources, talking to teachers, and staying aware of what happening with your child’s education. You have the right and responsibility to raise…
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A Healthy Environment for your Teen - Special Episode with Beth Baus
Guest Speaker Beth Baus, LMFT returns to talk with Co-founder Amber Aston about creating a healthy learning environment for your teen. They discuss the importance of scheduling, reducing distractions, and establishing boundaries, working with their personality, and knowing their love language.
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Understanding Your Teen - Special Episode with Beth Baus
Guest speaker Beth Baus provides ways parents can better understand their teens. She covers emotional and cognitive development and ways to encourage,support and help your young person thrive (and parents survive).
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The Importance of Education - Part 1
I just want to go into ministry, to do the work of God. Why then do I need to spend a few hours every day to learn stuff that I’ll probably never use again? Starting with a scriptural example of Jesus, Josiah here explains how education is the preparation of our imperfect humanity for better...
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Finding Purpose through Exploration and Experience
How do I find my purpose? Using some personal examples, Josiah talks about the role exploration and experience have in finding one’s purpose.
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Thinking about Purpose
What is my purpose? And why is it important that I explore this question? In this episode, Josiah asks questions to help us think about our purpose and how it fits into God’s plan for our lives.
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Planning for College
Need some college planning assistance? Amber brings in her personal and professional experience to offer tips for navigating the journey. Does the particular school matter? Should I start at a four-year university or community college? What classes should I take? What if I don’t know what I want…
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Learning Styles
Through a story of one of her childhood experiences, Amber illustrates how important it is to understand and work with your child’s learning style when it comes to particular subjects or domains.
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CA SB276 - Should Parents Have a Choice?
Amber talks about a bill just passed in the California Legislature, limiting vaccination exemptions.
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Does Environment Matter?
Using two stories to illustrate, I talk about the public school environment, specifically, large class dynamics and peer pressure.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Uplifting, Apostolic Environment
In this episode, I share a couple stories about why it’s so important to make sure your student is going to school in the right environment. Do you really know what’s happening in your child’s classroom, much less in their off-times on campus? Do you think the peer pressure won’t affect them? Or...
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Online Education
Why online? Amber talks about the future of learning and the benefits of online education.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Quality pt. 2
We get it. Quality matters. So what does that look like at Missio Academy? Amber shares one way that we attempt to provide a quality education for our students.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Quality pt. 1
Does quality matter? Josiah and Amber talk about quality as it relates to investment in education.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Education
What is education? What does it mean to be educated? Amber, co-founder of Missio Academy joins us for a discussion of how education provides access, opportunity, and cross-disciplinary skills.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Advancement and Blessing
Blessing, which all Spirit-filled children of God are meant to have, is connected to advancement.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Personal, Professional, and Pedagogic Advancement
This episode continues a series of episodes where we break down the mission statement of Missio Academy to get a deeper understanding of what high quality online education is all about. This time, we discuss the meaning and importance of personal, professional, and pedagogic advancement.
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Mission Statement Breakdown - Equipping Students
In this episode, we start looking deeper into the mission statement of Missio Academy, exploring the question of what it means to equip students. This involves a discussion of hard and soft skills. See our show notes page for more information!
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Educational choices: The influence of secular culture
Is the secular public high school the best option for your child? Let’s talk about it. Click here for Show notes.
About this show
Is an online Christian high school a viable alternative for my child? We explore this and other topics related to online Christian secondary education.
Hosted by
Josiah Aston
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