Forget What You Learned: Reimagining Education for Today's Families

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...