Forget What You Learned: Reimagining Education for Today's Families Tutor Corps & Pacific Preparatory

Host Cory Greenberg and producer Staci Stutsman are joined by guest, Alex Asher, CEO of LearnCube, a cutting edge company helping to shape the future of online learning. Alex talks about how the pandemic has pushed the virtual classroom model into new territory and how his company is trying to expand access to digital learning options for students around the world, making the user experience simple yet robust. He'll answer our bigger questions about the direction of alternative models of educ...

Producer Mel Nichols joins the conversation as Cory Greenberg talks with Bristyl Garvin, a mom of six who describes herself as someone who just knows they can do hard things…like envision her dream school and then actually make it happen. Like many parents, Bristyl thought the public education she received as a kid would be just fine for her own family, but when the reality of standardized testing, check-the-minimal-box arts and music, and a one-size-fits-all approach left her 2nd grader hidi...

Producer Mel Nichols joins Cory Greenberg for a conversation with Iris Chen, an author and founder of what she calls the “Untigering” movement, which aims to inspire generational and cultural transformation, especially among Asian communities. Iris is also an unschooling mom, which means she allows her children educational freedom, something a lot of families might not understand. As Mel embarks on her own unschooling journey with her kids, she and Iris unpack what it actually means and what ...

Host Cory Greenberg talks with Anne Boswell, the Admissions Director for a small school in the San Francisco Bay area serving students with dyslexia and twice exceptionality. Athena Academy has a unique formula that combines a cutting edge, research-based approach to dyslexia education with project-based learning, a buzzword you’ve probably heard but could use a little dissection - what IS it, really? And why does it work so well to empower students to love learning, especially when combined ...

Host Cory Greenberg is joined by two guys with 30+ years of experience in the education world, and together, they run a little school in the Los Angeles area that is truly progressive, truly cutting edge in its approach to learning. Jim Hahn and Jon Cassie dive into what makes the Qualia School an intellectual playground, as they call it. Their mission is to raise adults capable of critical thinking and problem-solving, fit for the needs of today’s modern job market, as well as to equip them ...

Host Cory Greenberg talks about neurodiversity within our traditional education system, and especially what it’s like for kids who are considered twice-exceptional. 2e kids have what can be a really challenging, puzzling mix of both learning differences AND giftedness. Our guest today, Sam Young is himself 2e and shares his own story of surviving school and how it inspired him to return to the classroom and then start his own company to support the unique needs of 2e kids. Overall though, we ...