Everyday Educator - Big News! We're Merging!
00:00:00.000 | Welcome, friends, to this episode of the Everyday Educator Podcast.
00:00:07.200 | I'm your host, Lisa Bailey, and I'm excited to spend some time with you today as we encourage
00:00:13.880 | one another, learn together, and ponder the delights and challenges that make homeschooling
00:00:20.640 | the adventure of a lifetime.
00:00:22.280 | Now, whether you're just considering this homeschooling possibility or deep into the
00:00:29.100 | daily delight of family learning, I believe you'll enjoy thinking along with us.
00:00:34.940 | But don't forget, although this online community is awesome, you'll find even closer support
00:00:42.160 | in a local CC community.
00:00:44.440 | So go to classicalconversations.com and find a community near you today.
00:00:53.480 | Well, listeners, you may or may not have heard rumbles in the jungle of something new happening
00:01:01.760 | with our podcasts.
00:01:03.120 | And I have here with me today a wonderful friend.
00:01:08.440 | And I was going to say my guest, Delise, but Delise is not going to be a guest.
00:01:13.740 | Delise and I are going to be at the helm of an all new Everyday Educator Podcast that is
00:01:21.360 | a little bit new and a little bit old, but a perfect blend of all the best of both of us
00:01:27.640 | and some great new stuff that we think that you're really going to enjoy.
00:01:32.640 | Delise, I'm so excited to share the chair with you.
00:01:36.620 | Well, I am so excited to be here.
00:01:40.040 | And I know a lot of our listeners know me from Blessings and Motherhood, and I've got a few
00:01:45.500 | chances to come over and chat with you on Everyday Educator.
00:01:48.480 | But I'm excited because we're going to be here all the time.
00:01:51.740 | I know.
00:01:52.100 | And I love that.
00:01:53.060 | I love the perspective that you bring.
00:01:55.800 | I love sharing with you.
00:01:57.380 | Guys, when you are, when Delise is a guest on My Everyday Educator, or I have been a guest
00:02:05.160 | on her Blessings and Motherhood, we have way more fun talking than you guys do listening.
00:02:09.860 | I am just excited that we're going to get to do more of that and share the perspective of
00:02:17.140 | a mom with children that are on the go and growing and a mom who has watched her girls
00:02:26.980 | grow up and now are watching them become moms of their own.
00:02:31.800 | And so we are going to offer something for everybody from moms with little kids just running
00:02:38.960 | around enjoying the exploration of the world and all the way through foundations and essentials
00:02:46.960 | and challenge moms who are in the trenches every day doing the very best they can to educate
00:02:52.780 | their family and build a family of culture, family culture of learning all the way up to people
00:02:59.800 | like me who still really want to make a difference in the lives of children and young families
00:03:06.960 | in my community.
00:03:07.980 | I'm a grandmother, and that still sort of freaks me out, but it's the best job ever.
00:03:13.840 | But you know what?
00:03:15.680 | I still want to build families up.
00:03:20.780 | I still want to encourage new moms.
00:03:23.020 | And I keep thinking, wow, if I could just tell you what I wish somebody had told me a long
00:03:30.180 | time ago, maybe that would bless you.
00:03:33.300 | So I think that's where I'm coming from.
00:03:35.600 | Well, and you're so right, Lisa, because, you know, we're all learning as we go and that
00:03:42.760 | never stops.
00:03:43.760 | But most of us, I think, are more like me and we don't want to learn the hard way.
00:03:49.720 | If I could learn this lesson well and not have as many Band-Aids, I would be okay with that.
00:04:01.300 | Yes, exactly.
00:04:02.660 | Yeah, yeah.
00:04:03.680 | Well, and sometimes it's just nice.
00:04:06.800 | It's not that I've learned this lesson and I'm going to teach you.
00:04:10.860 | Sometimes it's just nice to learn shoulder to shoulder with somebody.
00:04:15.380 | And it's nice to have a community, even virtually, that you can lock arms with and walk along with
00:04:23.800 | and pray for one another and shoot ideas back and forth and have somebody say, no, girl, that's
00:04:30.140 | crazy.
00:04:30.680 | Or, oh, I'm going to try that tonight and I'll let you know how it goes.
00:04:35.040 | Exactly.
00:04:36.120 | Yeah.
00:04:36.820 | So I really am excited to nurture.
00:04:39.500 | We've been calling it a broader conversation of home education together.
00:04:44.560 | And that also means, you guys, that you're going to hear from me and Lisa regularly, but
00:04:48.860 | you'll also hear from a number of other guest hosts who are going to rotate through the panel
00:04:54.300 | with us.
00:04:54.980 | And so we're really excited for you to meet some of our friends and to hear their perspectives
00:04:59.760 | on growing their families and the things that they're learning across the way.
00:05:05.500 | And one of the things we wanted to make sure that we put in this episode was just an overview
00:05:12.240 | of why Everyday Educator is called the Everyday Educator.
00:05:17.040 | Because I think, you know, we're kind of in our silo at this point.
00:05:20.420 | So we know what we mean by it.
00:05:21.720 | But maybe you're new.
00:05:22.620 | And if you are new, we're so happy you're here.
00:05:24.640 | So maybe you don't know what we mean.
00:05:26.580 | Maybe you're thinking, is that a daily podcast, a routine of things you do every day?
00:05:34.280 | And one of my favorite things I've heard you say, Lisa, is that learning is a lifestyle.
00:05:40.240 | Yes.
00:05:41.580 | We have co-opted that phrase and we use it over on the CC YouTube page all the time
00:05:47.480 | because I just think it's such a good way to describe what we're trying to accomplish here.
00:05:53.320 | That it would just be a lifestyle.
00:05:54.520 | It's not even necessarily something that you have to tell yourself to do.
00:05:58.360 | It's not a switch that you turn on.
00:06:00.140 | Okay, let's sit down at the table.
00:06:02.100 | Since we're at the table, now we're learning.
00:06:04.440 | And then when we close our books and we're done with school, that's not, that would be
00:06:09.820 | That's not real.
00:06:10.460 | Yeah, that's not real.
00:06:11.940 | That's not how we live.
00:06:13.380 | Sometimes the very best lesson, the very best math lessons that I ever taught were when my
00:06:19.080 | girls went with me to the grocery store.
00:06:21.100 | Oh, yeah.
00:06:21.660 | They learned about on sale and percent off and how to figure the tax and will I have enough
00:06:29.640 | money when I get to the register.
00:06:32.100 | And so those were some of the very best lessons.
00:06:35.480 | And those were not around the table.
00:06:37.960 | They were around the shopping cart.
00:06:39.920 | So exactly.
00:06:40.940 | Learning as you go.
00:06:42.820 | That's kind of what we mean by everyday educator.
00:06:47.680 | And you're an everyday educator because you are doing something every day to teach your children
00:06:56.740 | education, all kinds of things, practical knowledge and academic knowledge.
00:07:03.080 | You are an everyday educator.
00:07:06.580 | And it becomes, like you said, just a habit.
00:07:10.060 | A family culture is what we're trying to establish.
00:07:12.980 | A family culture of learning where your family explores a new idea together and you go and look
00:07:21.980 | it up, my grandson is constantly asking me, Lolly, what is this part of the front end loader
00:07:29.600 | called?
00:07:30.040 | I'm just like, son, I mean, I'm thinking to myself, I'm glad I even know it's a front end
00:07:35.160 | loader.
00:07:35.600 | And so I will say to him, because he means, what is that specific part called?
00:07:42.020 | And he's not going to forget.
00:07:43.140 | And so I don't want to make something up.
00:07:44.900 | And so I'll say, we're going to look it up.
00:07:48.200 | And so we'll come back in to where the computer or the phone is.
00:07:51.940 | And he will say, Lolly, look it up.
00:07:54.840 | And so we're everyday educators because as we go through life, as we do our everyday
00:08:02.420 | things, we are learning as we go.
00:08:05.800 | And so an everyday educator is somebody who just considers learning an everyday thing to
00:08:13.200 | do, like eating breakfast, or maybe you don't eat breakfast, or making your bed, or maybe you
00:08:18.760 | don't make your bed.
00:08:19.320 | An everyday thing to do, like getting dressed, right?
00:08:23.040 | Taking out the trash.
00:08:24.660 | It's an everyday thing.
00:08:27.480 | It's normal, I guess is what we want to say.
00:08:31.800 | Exactly.
00:08:32.680 | It's just natural to you.
00:08:34.440 | And it's so funny to me hearing you talk about how the best math lessons you ever taught were
00:08:39.820 | in the store, because I have so many vivid memories of my mother holding up an item of
00:08:45.260 | clothing and saying, you can have this if you can calculate how much it's going to cost
00:08:48.880 | with a discount.
00:08:49.500 | There you go.
00:08:51.460 | Okay, I got this by shopping.
00:08:53.080 | I can do this.
00:08:54.840 | Or, or, I mean, I can remember buying fancy wear and saying, okay, cost per wear.
00:09:02.360 | If you're only going to wear this three times, then it is way too, we're not spending it.
00:09:07.880 | But if you can tell me how else you will wear this, then we can talk.
00:09:12.660 | You know, those are good lessons.
00:09:14.500 | Those are nice lessons.
00:09:16.400 | And every time, every time it would happen, it was inevitable.
00:09:18.980 | Someone would pass our cart and say, oh, that's the most important math you need to learn.
00:09:22.860 | Right.
00:09:23.400 | So you're right.
00:09:26.900 | You're right.
00:09:27.320 | And I know that to be true now.
00:09:28.760 | And I'm excited too, because we're changing some things.
00:09:32.300 | You may not know this.
00:09:33.600 | You may be still listening to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform, which is awesome.
00:09:38.300 | Please keep doing that.
00:09:39.240 | Keep subscribing.
00:09:39.860 | But you may have found us on YouTube.
00:09:42.420 | So we want to let you know if you didn't already know, or if you've always wanted to see Lisa's
00:09:49.020 | smiling, gorgeous face, beautiful library, you know, or just put it on in the background while
00:09:54.600 | you're doing dishes.
00:09:55.200 | That's one of my favorite things to do that now everyday educator is on YouTube.
00:10:01.020 | It's a video podcast.
00:10:02.260 | And you can find us over on the classical conversations, YouTube page.
00:10:06.880 | So this is our capstone podcast right now.
00:10:09.680 | And then also we are creating a more robust social media presence because while we love talking
00:10:15.820 | to you, we want to be able to talk with you and to have conversations with you and to hear
00:10:21.200 | from you and to interact with you and to answer your questions in real time.
00:10:25.120 | And so social media is a really great tool for that.
00:10:27.500 | So if you're not already following us on social media at everyday educator, please go now to
00:10:33.560 | your favorite social media platform and do that so that we can say hi to you and keep sharing.
00:10:38.880 | And then you can also share different tidbits of this podcast with your friends.
00:10:43.900 | We would love to know what everyday educator moment happened in your family or what question
00:10:50.760 | you have, maybe that was generated by some offhand remark that we made.
00:10:56.460 | Or there may be a real question that you would love to have discussed by moms that you could watch
00:11:04.340 | and think, okay, okay, well, there's another perspective.
00:11:07.260 | So let us know.
00:11:08.840 | We want to know what is interesting to you.
00:11:12.160 | Absolutely.
00:11:12.560 | Well, and you know, Lisa, I know we're going a little bit out of order here, but I'm realizing
00:11:16.980 | we're just chatting and we've never introduced ourselves.
00:11:20.020 | So maybe we don't know.
00:11:22.020 | I know.
00:11:22.300 | It's just like, I think that all the people that I know, know each other and they're friends.
00:11:27.500 | All my friends are already friends, but that's not necessarily so.
00:11:31.560 | Oh, well, you're right.
00:11:33.060 | Well, Delise, introduce people to your lovely self.
00:11:36.200 | Okay.
00:11:36.640 | And then it'll be your turn.
00:11:37.900 | Okay.
00:11:38.480 | I am Delise Germond.
00:11:40.340 | I always like to joke that's germs on you, Germond.
00:11:43.640 | That's great.
00:11:46.460 | Very French name.
00:11:48.760 | And right now I am the mother of a three-year-old.
00:11:53.640 | And then I have another one on the way.
00:11:55.440 | Leo is our little precocious guy.
00:11:58.040 | He is a ton of fun, lots of energy, lots of questions.
00:12:01.380 | He's riding his bike.
00:12:02.880 | I mean, this is a high energy kid.
00:12:05.580 | And we're having a lot of fun.
00:12:07.360 | And my husband and I live out in the middle of nowhere.
00:12:11.740 | We have been married for, it'll be 10 years by the time you guys hear this conversation.
00:12:16.440 | So that's fun to have.
00:12:18.120 | Congratulations.
00:12:18.900 | That's awesome.
00:12:19.940 | Yes.
00:12:21.580 | It's been a very fun ride.
00:12:23.180 | Evan is an amazing man.
00:12:25.160 | And what has been most exciting for me being married to him is that he actually, he does do
00:12:31.860 | the things that he says he's going to do.
00:12:33.620 | And I know that that sounds perhaps-
00:12:35.880 | That's wonderful.
00:12:37.100 | It has been astounding to me.
00:12:40.080 | It has been a crazy adventure.
00:12:41.480 | You know, most of the time people talk and they're just dreaming.
00:12:44.200 | They're just talking.
00:12:45.000 | Right.
00:12:45.460 | That if Evan is talking about something, it's going to happen.
00:12:49.540 | Yes.
00:12:50.260 | So he says, you know, we're moving to this place.
00:12:52.780 | Get ready.
00:12:53.360 | We're about to move.
00:12:54.220 | Whatever it is.
00:12:55.200 | Start the boxes.
00:12:55.680 | Exactly.
00:12:56.380 | So that's been a lot of fun.
00:12:58.680 | And then, of course, I've been in this homeschool community my whole life.
00:13:03.820 | I'm the third of four children and I was homeschooled classically.
00:13:08.480 | I was not homeschooled with classical conversations, but my mother was a very big part of, you know,
00:13:14.500 | the middle part of creating all of the curriculum with classical conversations and things like
00:13:19.600 | that.
00:13:19.760 | So I got a firsthand view of what that looks like.
00:13:22.980 | And I'm really excited to jump into Scribblers in the fall with my son and to just be able to be a part of
00:13:28.580 | foundations through through challenge and beyond.
00:13:31.320 | Oh, that's so exciting.
00:13:33.780 | I just love I love hearing stories about Leo.
00:13:37.440 | I love hearing stories about what you're doing because it brings back memories for me because
00:13:42.620 | I'm on the other end of the homeschool journey, as some of you already knew.
00:13:47.260 | I'm Lisa Bailey.
00:13:48.940 | I have this is going to be a little shot and it shocks me when I say it out loud.
00:13:54.660 | I have been involved with classical conversations in some manner or other for 21 years.
00:14:01.740 | I joined classical conversations with my daughters when my older daughter was in the fifth grade
00:14:11.140 | and my younger daughter was in the second grade and they went through foundations and essentials
00:14:16.880 | and both graduated through the challenge program.
00:14:19.680 | And my husband and I were very pleased with the education that our girls got.
00:14:27.100 | But we were super pleased with the educations that we redeemed.
00:14:31.600 | Both of us went to a really good college.
00:14:37.760 | We were Wake Forest graduates and we thought we had a great education and we did.
00:14:43.980 | But there were still pieces of the education that we redeemed as we found the connections
00:14:50.960 | and the integrations between the things that we were studying at home with our girls.
00:14:57.520 | And it was a beautiful ride.
00:15:00.220 | I've tutored Challenge B and Challenge 1 and my husband was a Challenge 1 director.
00:15:06.200 | And I have been involved in a lot of different things.
00:15:09.560 | Field leadership, construction of practicum materials and training those practicum speakers
00:15:17.860 | for years and years.
00:15:19.460 | I was on the team that produced Scribblers that DeLise was mentioning a few minutes ago.
00:15:26.940 | And I still work for Classical Conversations as the director of program development under CCMM now.
00:15:36.040 | And so we are the arm of the company that produces the guides and the curriculum.
00:15:43.240 | The new books that are written are written by our team.
00:15:48.160 | And so I'm loving that.
00:15:50.060 | And I have been blessed to be the face of Everyday Educator podcast for a good many years.
00:15:55.880 | And I have enjoyed it.
00:15:57.500 | And people say, why do you keep doing this?
00:15:59.420 | And I just say, because I'm endlessly curious.
00:16:02.200 | And I wonder about things.
00:16:05.200 | And I like to talk to people and find out what they're thinking about things.
00:16:10.000 | And truthfully, I really have a heart for helping families love to learn together.
00:16:20.540 | And if I can save you from making one of the dumb mistakes that I have made, all the better.
00:16:28.300 | But mostly what I do is just come along beside of you and say, let's learn together.
00:16:34.020 | And that's what we do.
00:16:35.360 | I love that.
00:16:37.320 | And it's such a blessing to have that voice in your ear, you know, that person reminding
00:16:43.200 | you why you started this in the middle of that year.
00:16:45.600 | Yes.
00:16:46.780 | It's like, okay.
00:16:47.880 | But remember, I mean, today is not a good day.
00:16:51.100 | I mean, nobody would say that it was a good day.
00:16:53.660 | But you did not begin to homeschool just to have good days all the time.
00:16:58.760 | Homeschooled because you wanted to both redeem your own education and offer your children a
00:17:07.500 | way to know the God of heaven and earth and to make him known, to equip themselves to know
00:17:15.400 | him and to love him and to understand him more and to be able to pass that knowledge on to somebody
00:17:23.560 | else in a winsome, persuasive way.
00:17:26.860 | Yeah.
00:17:29.560 | And the fact that he keeps on showing up to do that kind of makes you want to show up too.
00:17:34.920 | Absolutely.
00:17:35.760 | Talking about that right before we started, just the fact that the Lord keeps taking the
00:17:42.880 | little bit in our hand and making much of it, you know, and he's not expecting us as homeschoolers
00:17:48.820 | or even just as believers to come to the table with everything.
00:17:51.940 | Right.
00:17:52.700 | And he's expecting us to trust him, you know, and to watch him work.
00:17:56.260 | Absolutely.
00:17:57.660 | Absolutely.
00:17:58.900 | And even give him room to work.
00:18:01.100 | Yeah.
00:18:01.720 | Take your hand off the controls a little bit and let him do what he's going to do.
00:18:08.380 | Mm-hmm.
00:18:08.960 | Exactly.
00:18:09.740 | And so I love that, you know, over the years that I've been around homeschool moms, the
00:18:16.660 | number one thing I've always heard them say is, you know, what blessed me the most is what
00:18:20.860 | God taught me.
00:18:21.640 | You know, they're never saying, oh, what blessed me the most is that my kid is now.
00:18:28.000 | Even though they're proud of their children and they're thankful that they did it, the
00:18:31.720 | Lord meets you, you know, on the path.
00:18:34.000 | The Lord meets you in the journey.
00:18:35.520 | And that's encouraging.
00:18:37.100 | And I'm glad that this is a place where we can amplify that truth for families.
00:18:43.500 | And so, you know, as we're rounding the bend on this conversation and just welcoming all of
00:18:49.160 | our new listeners and all of our old listeners to the party, we do want to reassure you that there
00:18:56.220 | are so many things about the Everyday Educator podcast that you love that are going to be the
00:19:01.420 | same.
00:19:01.700 | Right.
00:19:02.420 | Absolutely.
00:19:02.760 | You're still going to hear about classical Christian education.
00:19:07.780 | We are still going to give you the ins and outs of mock trial and different specifics that
00:19:13.000 | you need for the curriculum.
00:19:14.280 | We're going to talk about the curriculum.
00:19:16.340 | Yeah, we're going to talk about the seasons of a homeschool mom and family's year.
00:19:22.460 | We're going to talk about all of that stuff, too.
00:19:24.680 | Exactly.
00:19:25.700 | And we do want to continue to hear from you.
00:19:28.860 | And so if there are ever needs or questions that you have, we're going to start having episodes
00:19:33.900 | like that where we just answer questions.
00:19:36.280 | And so please keep your eye out on social media as we're on this journey with you.
00:19:41.960 | Please feel free to reach out to us.
00:19:43.720 | We are listening and we will do our best to respond in a timely way.
00:19:47.780 | We are so excited to keep pondering the delights and challenges together.
00:19:54.300 | I love it.
00:19:55.160 | I love it.
00:19:55.840 | I love it that we can change and stay the same.
00:20:00.180 | Because years ago, some of you may have been part of a CC community enough to know that we
00:20:07.900 | used to offer webinars and people had to log into their computer and it was like an hour or an hour
00:20:16.240 | and a half.
00:20:16.740 | And so we figured out, but it was real time.
00:20:19.820 | You logged in for that certain time.
00:20:21.480 | And, you know, people began to that.
00:20:24.880 | That is just really doesn't meet my need or it's not the rhythm of my family's life.
00:20:30.320 | So we went to podcasting.
00:20:31.980 | So this is just the next evolution.
00:20:35.160 | So it's going to be not just in your ear, but on your screen.
00:20:39.660 | And so we're doing the same thing of encouraging and inspiring and equipping families to do the
00:20:50.160 | work God's called them to do in homeschooling just in a different way.
00:20:54.160 | And we can't wait to walk with you, honestly, on that journey.
00:20:59.200 | So thank you all for listening.
00:21:01.080 | If you've enjoyed this podcast, we would love for you to rate and leave a review for the show.
00:21:07.520 | Anywhere that you listen to podcasts, you can give a five-star review.
00:21:10.900 | And rating it actually helps other people to find out about the show.
00:21:14.960 | It triggers that algorithm that we all hear about all the time.
00:21:17.980 | So we're so grateful that you're with us.
00:21:20.600 | And before we let you all go, we do want to encourage you all to participate in the Classical
00:21:26.900 | Learning Cohort.
00:21:28.020 | If you don't know what the Classical Learning Cohort is, it is comprised of small groups of
00:21:32.360 | CC parents who are learning how to become more confident, competent classical teachers.
00:21:38.280 | And I don't know about you, but that is definitely something that I need.
00:21:42.160 | I need help with the confidence and the competence in being a classical educator.
00:21:46.280 | So the CLC provides a place of mentorship while also helping you to practice the skills and
00:21:53.620 | hospitable assessment.
00:21:55.280 | Lisa, have you participated in the CLC?
00:21:58.020 | The CLC is awesome.
00:22:00.000 | It is a great way for you to get your feet wet and to get some practical tips.
00:22:06.200 | And it's not just you listening.
00:22:08.480 | You will actually practice how to give a great exordium, a great welcome or a hook to a lesson.
00:22:15.760 | And how to teach it by asking good questions.
00:22:19.640 | And then how to help your student learn how to assess himself or herself by asking, what
00:22:27.820 | did I learn?
00:22:28.680 | How did I get better at this?
00:22:31.280 | What did I do well?
00:22:32.760 | What can I improve next time?
00:22:34.860 | And so you have a mentor, but also classmates.
00:22:39.500 | You have a small group that stays the same.
00:22:43.260 | So you get to know one another.
00:22:45.380 | And it's iron sharpening iron.
00:22:47.560 | It is a beautiful way for you as a parent to grow as a classical educator and continue to
00:22:56.340 | be a lifelong learner alongside your kids.
00:22:59.380 | It is so great.
00:23:00.580 | And I've only heard good things about the CLC.
00:23:02.640 | Right now, we actually also offer a free online event.
00:23:06.960 | So maybe you want to try it out and see what it would be like to be a part of the CLC.
00:23:11.660 | You can do that with a CLC mentor.
00:23:14.100 | You just need to go to classicalconversations.com forward slash cohort.
00:23:19.260 | And then you'll search for experience the CLC to find an event that fits your schedule.
00:23:24.800 | And that'll be great.
00:23:26.120 | And I will tell you, they have groups that are opening up at different times of the year.
00:23:30.120 | So if you think, oh, but I don't want to do it now.
00:23:32.320 | We're just going into the summer and I have XYZ planned.
00:23:35.200 | There are fall cohorts that you can register for now.
00:23:39.540 | So find out, make your plan and have something to be excited about.
00:23:43.760 | Well, guys, thank you for listening to the show.
00:23:46.300 | Again, we'd love to see you over on social media and we hope you'll bring a friend next
00:23:50.580 | time you come back.
00:23:51.260 | Yeah.
00:23:52.120 | See you next time.
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