
Forget What You Learned: Reimagining Education for Today's Families
by Pacific Preparatory
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Elizabeth Hamblet Asks: Do Accommodations at the College Level Actually Lead to Better Outcomes?
Nov 12, 2025
41m 48s
How to Embrace AI While Preserving the Humanity of Teaching with Carl Hooker
Oct 20, 2025
36m 55s
Breaking Down the Modern Homeschooling Landscape with Vida Mercer
Oct 12, 2025
38m 53s
Jess Chermak Gives the Inside Scoop About AP Classes and College Admissions
Sep 29, 2025
42m 18s
Ellen Braaten on What Demotivated Kids are Actually Saying
Sep 22, 2025
33m 52s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 11/12/25 | ![]() Elizabeth Hamblet Asks: Do Accommodations at the College Level Actually Lead to Better Outcomes?✨ | college accommodationslearning differences+4 | Elizabeth Hamblet | — | — | collegeaccommodations+5 | Pacific Preparatory | 41m 48s | |
| 10/20/25 | ![]() How to Embrace AI While Preserving the Humanity of Teaching with Carl Hooker✨ | AI in educationhuman connection+5 | Carl Hooker | — | — | AIeducation+6 | — | 36m 55s | |
| 10/12/25 | ![]() Breaking Down the Modern Homeschooling Landscape with Vida Mercer✨ | homeschoolingunschooling+3 | Vida Mercer | Pacific Preparatory | — | homeschoolingunschooling+3 | — | 38m 53s | |
| 9/29/25 | ![]() Jess Chermak Gives the Inside Scoop About AP Classes and College Admissions✨ | AP ClassesCollege Admissions+3 | Jess Chermak | Pacific Preparatory | — | AP ClassesCollege Admissions+3 | — | 42m 18s | |
| 9/22/25 | ![]() Ellen Braaten on What Demotivated Kids are Actually Saying✨ | motivation in childrenparenting strategies+5 | Dr. Ellen Bratton | — | — | motivationchildren+5 | — | 33m 52s | |
| 9/15/25 | ![]() Parenting Through Crisis: Making Peace with Therapeutic Placement Decisions with Jennifer Taylor✨ | therapeutic placementmental health+3 | Jennifer Taylor | — | — | therapeutic placementmental health+3 | — | 40m 34s | |
| 9/8/25 | ![]() Navigating the Maze of Educational Testing with Jana Parker✨ | educational testingevaluations+3 | Jana Parker | Pacific Preparatory | — | educational testingevaluations+4 | — | 52m 00s | |
| 9/1/25 | ![]() Susie Chau Embraces Travel as a Life-Changing Education Experience for Families✨ | travelexperiential learning+3 | Susie Chow | — | — | travel educationfamily travel+3 | — | 46m 07s | |
| 8/25/25 | ![]() Beyond Elite and Troubled Students: Krissy Naspo Asks Who Really Benefits from Boarding School✨ | boarding schoolseducation+3 | Chrissy Naspo | boarding schools | — | boarding schoolseducation consultant+3 | — | 43m 57s | |
| 8/18/25 | ![]() Controlling What We Pay Attention To: Dr. Ashley Smith on Anxiety in the Digital Age✨ | anxietymental health+4 | Dr. Ashley Smith | Pacific Preparatory | — | anxietymental health+6 | — | 37m 51s | |
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| 10/7/24 | ![]() Jamai Blivin Reimagines the Degree-Before-Work Paradigm | In today’s episode (our season closer!), Cory speaks with Jamai Blivin, who’s spent her recent career on this dilemma: most people need a high-paying job to afford college, but need college to afford a higher paying job. She is a tireless advocate for the systemic change that would begin to resolve this mismatch. Jamai believes we need to emphasize the importance of actual skills over that piece of paper, and she has ideas about how to make it happen. One of them is pretty simple:... | 38m 29s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 | ![]() Exploring Alternative Post-Secondary Education Options with Shayna Abraham | In today’s episode, Educational Consultant Shayna Abraham, discusses the need for alternative options to traditional four-year colleges. Sometimes it seems like we all have tunnel vision in terms of the path our kids should trudge through the K-12 system and beyond. But is it right for every student? Are our kids always ready at 18 to abruptly leave the highly structured high school and home life for the college dorm and freedom to just skip class if they want to? With the mind-boggling price... | 30m 55s | ||||||
| 9/23/24 | ![]() Sheila Akbar’s Secret to Helping Students Build Meaningful Lives (and it has nothing to do with Harvard) | In today’s episode, we chat with Sheila Akbar, whose resume reflects a person who has achieved ultimate success, within the definition of the word that many parents of school-age kids would covet. I mean, she’s got two degrees from Harvard and a double PhD. Her career spans Wall Street, the halls of academia, and finally entrepreneurship where’s she’s found her true passion: helping students and families navigate the college prep experience. Her personal story is a lot more nuanced, and invol... | 36m 29s | ||||||
| 9/16/24 | ![]() Matt Perry on the Impactful Role of Mentorship in Pedagogical Practice | We talk with Matt Perry, a seasoned educator who has a unique approach to teaching history, infusing the use of storytelling, decision-making, and personal connections to really bring it alive for students. It’s not just about dates and ancient wars. Matt uses his time with students to truly see them for who they are, which serves as the basis for developing a true mentor relationship - we dive into how and why this is critical for our kids, and lastly, we look at the outcomes he’s seen for k... | 35m 37s | ||||||
| 9/9/24 | ![]() A Teacher’s Journey: Jenny Meadow Before, During & After the Classroom | In today’s episode, Cory talks with a really familiar face. Jenny Meadow is the Director of Learning and Instruction at Pacific Preparatory School, so she’s honored to call Jenny her colleague. She gives Cory the inside scoop on her journey from the classroom to her current role and her perspective on what makes a good teacher. It’s something we as parents and educators should spend some time thinking about, especially in this tumultuous time. Jenny emphasizes the importance of ki... | 31m 41s | ||||||
| 9/2/24 | ![]() Jenn Binis on Protecting Public Education for the Greater Good | On today’s episode, we talk with Jenn Binis, a checker of facts in the noisy space of what’s wrong with our current education system. We dissect the premise that we actually talked about last season on this show - the idea that schools were built on a factory model that is no longer serving not only our kids, but society as a whole. Jenn wants us to look deeper at the actual origins of why we started to educate ALL American kids - spoiler: it wasn’t so they could graduate to an assembly line ... | 35m 17s | ||||||
| 8/26/24 | ![]() Activist & Academic Dr. Bibi Asks Educators & Parents to Rethink Oppressive Scripts | In today’s episode, our guest, who we like to call Dr. Bibi, truly takes us on a journey from how she’s trying to affect change on an individual level as an educational therapist, to her bird’s eye view of our society’s values around education, mental health, and social justice. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the larger systems at play and questioning the frameworks within which we operate. Dr. Bibi challenges the idea of a one-size-fits-all approach to education and highlight... | 45m 15s | ||||||
| 8/19/24 | ![]() Dr. Lisa Zarestsky Unpacks the Intersection of Educational Trauma and Neurodiversity | In today’s episode, you’ll hear about an issue facing a growing number of students: educational trauma. With us on the show to address this heavy topic is renowned expert Dr. Lisa Zaretsky, who highlights, in full color, the challenges faced by neurodivergent students and the limitations of the current education system. Dr. Zaretsky explains the concept of educational trauma and how it differs from general struggles in school, as well as the long-lasting impact on self-esteem, behavior, and m... | 54m 48s | ||||||
| 8/12/24 | ![]() Jenny Drennan Helps Parents Unlock Their Children’s Inner Motivation | In today’s episode, we unpack the details and the nuances of a really common struggle in our day to day lives as parents: our kids’ motivation to do tasks like homework, chores, practicing their sport or musical instrument…you know, all the things we find ourselves nagging, bribing or even threatening them about to just check these tasks off our lists. Jenny Drennan, an Educational Therapist in the LA area, reveals the underlying elements that contribute to our kids level of motivation ... | 37m 04s | ||||||
| 8/5/24 | ![]() Diana Clark Talks “Good Enough” Parenting and Raising Successful Children | Diana Clark, a seasoned expert in mental health and parenting, talks about a concept that we think needs more air time, the 50-year old notion of “Good Enough” parenting. Diana is a fan, and we go in depth about the idea of embracing our own imperfection and allowing our kids to experience discomfort and learn from their mistakes. It means taking our foot off the gas, which goes against the helicopter parenting norm of our generation. To sum up, Diana thinks parents should do A LOT less, and ... | 29m 08s | ||||||
| 11/13/23 | ![]() The Future of School: AI & Virtual Learning with Alex Asher of LearnCube | 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... | 34m 50s | ||||||
| 10/16/23 | ![]() From the Ground Up: Bristyl Garvin on her San Diego Dream School | 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... | 35m 30s | ||||||
| 10/9/23 | ![]() “Un-tigering” through Conscious Parenting: How this Practice Changed Everything for Iris Chen | 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 ... | 42m 48s | ||||||
| 10/2/23 | ![]() Project-Based, Individualized Learning: Anne Boswell Discusses Athena Academy's Innovative Model | 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 ... | 33m 45s | ||||||
| 9/25/23 | ![]() School as an Intellectual Playground: Jon Cassie & Jim Hahn of Qualia are Cultivating Capable Adults | 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 ... | 46m 52s | ||||||
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