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The OpenEd Podcast — 97 episodes

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3 Rules for Raising Emotionally Intelligent Homeschool Kids

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She's 13, Lives on a Sailboat, and Just Published Her First Novel

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Homeschool High School Without Fear: Two Real Families on Transcripts, Trade School, and College

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A Public School Principal Stopped Following the Rules. Here's What Happened.

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How to Spot a Skills Gap in Reading and Math - A Cognitive Specialist Explains

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School Principal Reveals: Why Teachers Are Quitting to Start Microschools

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Former Teacher Reveals Why School is Failing 91% of Kids

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Unschooling Explained (by a Lifelong Unschooler)

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Is It ADHD or a Spirited Child? | Family Therapist Explains the Signs

10

The Life Skills Your Homeschool Is Probably Skipping

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Stop Trying to Make Your Kid Love Math | Math Academy

12

The #1 Reason Great Teachers Are Quitting (It's Not Money)

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Your Child's Brain Can Do This at 8 - But NOT 25

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A 16-Year-Old Homeschooler Responds to the New York Times

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Joshua Fields Millburn: The Minimalist's Guide to Education

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She Never Planned to Homeschool. Now She Can't Stop.

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She Did Everything Right—Her Daughter Still Couldn't Read with Janssen Bradshaw | OpenEd

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How to Homeschool (Without Being the Teacher) with Dalena Wallace | OpenEd

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How Music Physically Changes Your Kid's Brain with Deborah Pratt | OpenEd

20

How to Homeschool Year-Round (Without Burnout) with Jean Lee | OpenEd

21

What's Spiking Teen Anxiety? (It's NOT Social Media) with Dr. Peter Gray | OpenEd

22

Why Your ADHD Kid Won't Listen (It's Not What You Think) with Dr. Amy Moore | OpenEd

23

The Fastest Way to kill a kid's motivation with Brenna Clarke Gray | OpenEd

24

Ex-Teacher Reveals: You Don't Actually Have to Go to School with Ken Danford | OpenEd

25

The Truth About ADHD Medication in Schools (From Someone Who Lived It) with Ben Somers | OpenEd

26

How to Raise Kids Who Actually Care About Others with Kerry Owen | OpenEd

27

A Public School Administrator Reveals The Truth About Homeschooling with Dave Hoffman | OpenEd

28

Your Kid's Screen Was Built Like a Slot Machine with Anjan Katta, Founder of Daylight Computer | OpenEd

29

Middle School is the Most Important Time You're Ignoring with Jean Eddy | OpenEd

30

Her First Day of Homeschool Was a Complete Disaster with Janae Daniels | OpenEd

31

How 2 Hollywood Veterans Are Sneaking Kids Into the Film Industry with Chet Thomas & Darrin Fletcher | OpenEd

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Why These Teachers Let Kids Play 3 Hours a Day with Kristin Fink & Ginger Montezon | OpenEd

33

What Kind of Homeschool Parent Are You? CEO vs. Gardener with Janae Daniels | OpenEd

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Are you qualified to homeschool your child? with Corey DeAngelis | OpenEd

35

Why 99% of "Geniuses" Are Overlooked By The System with Michael Gibson | OpenEd

36

This LinkedIn strategy got him a sales job at 18 with Kade Hinkle | OpenEd

37

He Sold His House to Homeschool in an RV (With 3 Kids!) with Zach Koon | OpenEd

38

Stanford Pioneer Reveals Why Online Education Failed (Until Now) with Ray Ravaglia | OpenEd

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Why School Fails Most Kids with Mike Goldstein | OpenEd

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College-for-All Is Breaking. What Replaces It? with Michelle Rhee & Michael Horn | OpenEd

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Is Your Dyslexic Child Getting the Wrong Help? with Kris Vassel and Jamie Lesko | OpenEd

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He let his kids skip 100 days of school. with Darryll Stinson | OpenEd

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Are you Helicopter Parenting without realizing? Try this instead... with Katie Kimball | OpenEd

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What to Do When Your Students Don't Respect You (Michelle Rhee's Story) | OpenEd

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If Your Kid Hates School, Please Watch This with Benton Crane | OpenEd

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Is Your Child Behind in Reading? Here's How to Catch Up FAST with Tony Mickelsen & Jen Johnson | OpenEd

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Her son HATED his first job. Perfect. with Rose Ybaben and Danielle Randall | OpenEd

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Burned Out from Homeschooling? This 3-Part Reset Will Save You with Meg Thomas | OpenEd

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How top 1% parents prep their kids with Ken Coleman (career coach) | OpenEd

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Just in Time vs Just in Case: Connor Boyack on Rethinking Education | OpenEd

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OpenEd Academy: The Virtual School That Adapts To YOUR Child (Not The Other Way Around) with Teresa King | OpenEd

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Why Do Schools Make Even Genius Kids Feel Like Failures? | OpenEd Book Launch

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Have We Been Teaching STEM Completely Backwards? The Case for Project-Based Learning with Jack Casdorph | OpenEd

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Stop Limiting Your Child's Screen Time (Do This Instead) with Outschool Founder Amir Nathoo | OpenEd

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What Makes a Thriving Homeschool Collective? with Cassie Tinsmon | OpenEd

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Your kid will be weird (and that's okay) with TK Coleman on homeschooling socialization | OpenEd

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The 3-Hour School Day: How Homeschoolers Really Spend Their Time with Maecy Palkki | OpenEd

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How to Find the PERFECT Homeschool Curriculum (New AI Tool Makes It Easy) with Robert Gamble and Jonathan Chizick | OpenEd

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How Coach Meg Thomas Created a Self-Running Homeschool (With 7 Kids) | OpenEd

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The Van-Powered Mobile Microschool (Education That Goes Anywhere) with Eleyah Knight | OpenEd

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Stop Overscheduling Your Child's Learning with Matt Bowman | OpenEd

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"Am I Enough?": The Question Every Homeschool Parent Must Answer with Laura Feller | OpenEd

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What Neuroscience tells us about homeschooling with Dr. Claire Honeycutt | OpenEd

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The Rise of Microschools (Why Parents Are Switching) with Dalena Wallace | OpenEd

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Why Traditional Schools Create Dependent Learners with Tyler Thigpen | OpenEd

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From Illegal Homeschooler to Microschool Founder with Tess Scholl | OpenEd

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Tips for Young Entrepreneurs (Why 'Weird' Wins) with Matt Barnes & Matt Bowman | OpenEd

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From Struggling Reader to Published Author: A Writer's Guide to Storytelling with Jennifer Jenkins | OpenEd

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Don't Force the Divorce: The Future of Educational Choice with Grant Hewitt | OpenEd

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Microschools, Homeschool, Charter or Private: How Parents Choose Schools in 2025 with Andrew Campanella | OpenEd

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The Homeschool to Homestead Pipeline with Ben Kasica & Ben Smallbone on their Unconventional Educations | OpenEd

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Hands-on Aviation Learning with Mark Hyatt of Falcon Aerolab | OpenEd

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Homeschooled Teen Makes $150k From Garden Boxes + Your OpenEd Q’s Answered with Matt Bowman & Isaac Morehouse | OpenEd

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Why an Award-Winning Principal Quit Traditional Schools with Jon England | OpenEd

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Why Poor Parents Trust Schools More Than Rich Ones Do with Derrell Bradford | OpenEd

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The Apogee Approach to Modern Education: A Former Teacher's Journey to Microschooling with Peggy Lowe | OpenEd

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How This Working Mom Ditched Homework & Transformed Her Kids' Education with Keri Mae | OpenEd

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Why We Left School: The Red Flags She Wishes She Saw Earlier

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The Secret to Not Ruining Your Homeschool Kids From a Veteran Mom's 20-Year Journey with Sandy Grant | OpenEd

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Q&A: ADHD, Social Skills, & Making Hard Choices in Alternative Education with Andrea Fife | OpenEd

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Is It Really Dyslexia? Why Your Child's Reading Struggles Might Be Vision-Related with Krystle Cordingley | OpenEd

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From Classroom Teacher to Homeschool Mom: Finding Your Family's Educational Cocktail with Jamie Lesko | OpenEd

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The Single Mom Who Fixed Her Kid's Education (Without Leaving Public School) with Sunny Simkin | OpenEd

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How to Transform Everyday Moments into Powerful Learning Experiences with Charlynn Chambers | OpenEd

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Stop Outsourcing Your Child's Education and Taking Back Control with Matt Beaudreau | OpenEd

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Sidekick to Hero: Joey Mascio on Empowering Teens Through Self-Development with Joey Mascio | OpenEd

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Liberating Education with Kerry McDonald | OpenEd

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Unplugged and Unafraid with The Nature Kids Connection | OpenEd

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Relax. Trust the process. with Matt Bowman and Isaac Morehouse | OpenEd

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The Surprising Connection Between Baking and STEM Education with Daniella Park | OpenEd

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5 Building Blocks of Open Education with Isaac Morehouse | OpenEd

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Deschooling Your Mind with Hannah Frankman | OpenEd

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She Almost Gave Up On Education with Andrea Fife | OpenEd

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The End of One-Size-Fits-All Education with Michael B. Horn | OpenEd

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The Truth About Tech Careers in 2024 (No Degree Required) with Aaron Osmond | OpenEd

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When someone asks if you homeschool... with Isaac Morehouse | OpenEd

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Why He Started A Cutting-Edge Open Education Company with Matt Bowman | OpenEd