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Backporch Education Podcast, 82 episodes.

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A New Season and Some Reorientation

2

The Whole and Its Parts

3

Of Church, School, and Family

4

What are School Administrators Good For?

5

Teaching the Love of Literature

6

Vacuous Art

7

Margins in the Classroom

8

What to do When a Student Does Not Get It

9

Have You Met? Lisa Bailey and Classical Conversations

10

Honoring Teachers

11

Standardized Testing and the Home School

12

Have You Seen? Man Without a Face

13

When Learning is Interrupted

14

Children of the Screen

15

Help Me Assess My Assessment

16

Homeschooling on a Hundred Bucks

17

The Voices of Others in Your Own Writing

18

Finding Space for Learning

19

Christmas Carols

20

Have You Read? Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins

21

Pedagogical Scaffolding vs. Handholding

22

Top Ten Books of All Time?  Really?

23

How Do You Teach Several Students at Once?

24

Estimating Your Student Rightly

25

The Joy of Choice in Home Education

26

What Should a Homeschool Schedule Look Like?

27

The Role of the Parent in Home Education

28

Pulling Back the Curtain

29

How to Do College the Cambridge Way

30

How to Have a Great First Month of School

31

What Can We Learn from the History of Education?

32

The Joys of Research

33

A Math Story Retold, With Craig Conticchio

34

Reading Retention Re-examined

35

The Role of Seminar in Education, with John Donohue

36

Whatcha Got in the Steam Pot? How Do Teachers Relax?

37

Have You Read? The Abolition of Man

38

What Do You Do When Truth Sneaks into the Classroom?

39

How Do You Write Good?

40

Special Episode: Coronavirus Contagion

41

Have You Met: Buck Holler?

42

Can the Internet Replace School?

43

Should Teaching Be Fun?

44

Adjusting the Climate of the Classroom

45

Is a School a Prison?

46

Why Teach Fiction?

47

The Education of Ebenezer Scrooge

48

Have You Met: David Kern?

49

A Defense of Poetry

50

Build Soil

51

Should Homeschooling Teachers Give Grades?

52

Is Education a Game Show?

53

Are Adversity Points a Good Idea?

54

Can You Compel a Student to Learn?

55

A Look Back While Looking Forward

56

What is the Educational Bare Minimum?

57

Have You Read...Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture?

58

Getting Ready for a Great School Year

59

Have You Seen? "Finding Forrester"

60

Pictures from Plato: The Cave

61

Pictures from Plato: The Sun & The Divided Line

62

Pictures from Plato: The Intro

63

The Worst Teacher Ever

64

The Futility of Telic Endeavor

65

Can You Teach Something Without Regard to Age?

66

What Are We So Afraid Of?

67

Is This Boring You?

68

Toward a Humanizing Critique

69

Can Conversation Save the World? Part 2

70

Can Conversation Save the World? Pt. 1

71

Magister or Minister?

72

Why is a Question the Most Powerful Tool in the Teaching Toolbox?

73

The Truth Incarnate Part B

74

The Truth Incarnate Part A

75

The One and Many

76

Educational Basics in the Modern Melee

77

What is Virtue? Part 2

78

What is Virtue? Part 1

79

What is Education? Part 2

80

What is Education? Part 1

81

What is Exciting About the Future of Education? Part 2

82

What is Exciting About the Future of Education?