Latest Greenfieldsacademy Podcast Episodes
Education Is Life [EP 26] with tutor Lindsay Zoeller
Education Is Life Podcast - May 26, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutesWhat does academic success mean to the students themselves? When their grades start slipping in a particular subject, what does that mean to them? In this interview with The Chicago Family Tutor owner Lindsay Zoeller, we quickly learn that tutoring is about much more than a cognitive understandin...
Education Is Life [EP 25] Learning is a non-conventional practice with Greenfields Parent, Chris G
Education Is Life Podcast - May 25, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutesWe don’t hear it too often at Greenfields, but kids love to ask: “Why are we doing this?” “When will I need to use this in the real world?” At its core, this question is about much more than being bored or impatient with the subject at hand. It shows that kids care about the larger purpose behin...
Education Is Life [EP 24] Defying the “Just Deal with It,” Approach to Life with Greenfields Parent, Mitchel Bleier
Education Is Life Podcast - March 24, 2021 21:51 - 34 minutesShould we just “suck it up and deal with it” when life isn’t right or going our way in a job, a marriage, or a bad situation? What about school- is that for kids to just ‘deal with’ if it isn’t working? Mitchel BleierGreenfields Academy parent invites parents to listen to children who are sendi...
Education Is Life [EP 23] Teach a Girl to Throw a Ball; Change Her Life
Education Is Life Podcast - March 10, 2021 13:47 - 28 minutesAlong the lines of creating something unique for your outside-of-school activities, check out the My Pandemic Life Creative Expo coming up on March 18th - 21st for another great way to see how education in young people is more than academics. It is important to emphasize social & emotional learn...
Education Is Life [EP 23] Perspective from our Youngest Griffins Sonia and Shaurya
Education Is Life Podcast - February 10, 2021 19:00 - 32 minutesHow many podcasts do you hear from young people about what school and learning is like? Brace yourself for cuteness and stay curious about how these young people are taking charge of their education, their learning, and life through a pandemic. “Is it a big change or a change like the size of...
Education Is Life [EP 22] Perspective from our Youngest Griffins Sonia and Shaurya
Education Is Life Podcast - February 10, 2021 19:00 - 32 minutesHow many podcasts do you hear from young people about what school and learning is like? Brace yourself for cuteness and stay curious about how these young people are taking charge of their education, their learning, and life through a pandemic. “Is it a big change or a change like the size of...
Education Is Life [EP 21] Stop Competing and Start Creating - Using Music to Heal the World with Adrienne Schroeder
Education Is Life Podcast - January 20, 2021 16:07 - 44 minutesVisit Adrienne Schroeder's Website: https://www.adrienneschroeder.com/ If you are interested in the My Pandemic Life Creative Youth Expo, more information here: https://www.greenfieldsacademy.com/my-pandemic-life
Education Is Life [EP 20] with Allison James - Empathetic Entrepreneurship & Innovative Inventions
Education Is Life Podcast - October 29, 2020 02:30 - 50 minutesHow is traditional education squashing the possibilities of solutions & new opportunities for the world to thrive? From food deserts to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy- young children are capable of coming up with solutions to some of life’s biggest challenges that even adults can’t quit...
Education Is Life [EP 19] Rethinking College, Academia, and the Purpose of Education with Vero Smith
Education Is Life Podcast - October 21, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutesFrom Teaching College to Guiding at Greenfields, we hope that you find an abundance of insight in this episode of Education Is Life! Starting with the concept of Time Deserts vs. Education Deserts- have you thought of the difference in how much time people spend having to work just to have acces...
Education Is Life [EP 18] Insider’s Tips to Succeed as a Vendor at the Chicago Children’s Business Fair
Education Is Life Podcast - October 01, 2020 23:47 - 37 minutesWith years of experience, young entrepreneurs start businesses from as early as the age of 7 at the Chicago Children’s Business Fair, hosted by Greenfields Academy. Founding student, Aviva, has participated as a business owner for the last 6 years and has a treasure trove of knowledge for an...
Education Is Life [EP 17] This Micro-School is Keep up with a Changing World
Education Is Life Podcast - July 29, 2020 13:55 - 13 minutesWith education that truly guides children into exploring their full potential to change the world, what could that mean for our society? At the start of this journey, founder Rob Huge had visioned a school that honored the amazing things that a young person has to offer and worked har...
Education Is Life [EP 17] This Micro-School is Keeping up with a Changing World
Education Is Life Podcast - July 29, 2020 13:55 - 13 minutesWith education that truly guides children into exploring their full potential to change the world, what could that mean for our society? At the start of this journey, founder Rob Huge had visioned a school that honored the amazing things that a young person has to offer and worked hard to inco...
Education Is Life [EP 16] The College Admissions Process & Student Self-Worth from a Counselor’s Perspective - is it worth it?
Education Is Life Podcast - July 22, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutesHow are we approaching the fierce and competitive nature of college admissions and how does it impact the self-worth of students? Student-centered college counseling takes the allure of big-name schools and questions, “Is this right for my child,” as the focus of the conversation and replaces t...
Education Is Life [EP15] Analyzing the Psychology of Stress & Anxiety in Young Adults with Andrea
Education Is Life Podcast - July 15, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutesPsychologist Andrea always knew she was destined to be a helper. Throughout her time as a liberal arts college psychologist, she quickly realized that when struggling children were helped TOO much, problems arose. From the start of her 11 years working with college students (2004-2015), an incr...
Education Is Life [EP14] The Importance of School - Life Balance with Student Ozan
Education Is Life Podcast - July 08, 2020 15:00 - 22 minutesFiguring out how to live a life that doesn’t allow work to absorb all of your time is a valuable life lesson to learn, but imagine knowing all about work-life balance as a 12-year-old! In this episode of, “Education Is Life,” we speak with Greenfields Academy Griffin, Ozan, who is balancing his...
Education Is Life [EP13] with Greenfield’s Guide Becca Penzick on Learning without the Red Tape
Education Is Life Podcast - July 01, 2020 15:00 - 44 minutesHow the student feels about the way they learn and the environment in which they learn is crucial to start developing at a young age. Having a loose, but not lazy approach to guiding from the teacher-figures in school creates learning that encourages children to feel more comfortable to explore...
Education Is Life [EP12] with Guest Mona Yaeger on Racism & Education
Education Is Life Podcast - June 24, 2020 15:08 - 46 minutesYou may not be hearing too much from an education standpoint around racism. Schools across the country may not have the ability to have a powerful discussion with different perspectives from various individuals to talk about how we can do better for our children in schools - not for Greenfields A...
Education Is Life [EP11] with Greenfields Academy Student Michael
Education Is Life Podcast - June 17, 2020 14:55 - 26 minutesWhen we think about our young people, how much do they really understand about the world around them? What do they learn in school & what is it that they get to explore beyond their own parent’s biases while at home? Is this something taught in school that allows them to go deeper beyond curric...
Education Is Life [EP10] with Greenfields Guide Pawel
Education Is Life Podcast - June 10, 2020 15:00 - 47 minutesWe don’t have teachers at our school- we have guides. Here’s a perspective from Pawel, middle school/explorer program “guide” at Greenfields Academy. The journey of finding your passion is one of the most transformative & exciting realizations to experience. This is what we discuss in this week...
Education Is Life [EP 09] with Greenfields Alumni Student Amelia H
Education Is Life Podcast - June 03, 2020 15:00 - 40 minutesThere is a real difference between Greenfields Academy education & any other school, take it not from the adults, but from the perspectives of the students themselves! One of our founding Griffins, Amelia, shares with us what her experience was like as a student of 5 years at Chicago private sc...
Education Is Life [EP09] with Greenfields Alumni Student Amelia
Education Is Life Podcast - June 03, 2020 15:00 - 40 minutesThere is a real difference between Greenfields Academy education & any other school, take it not from the adults, but from the perspectives of the students themselves! One of our founding Griffins, Amelia, shares with us what her experience was like as a student of 5 years at Chicago private sc...
Education Is Life [EP 08] with Guest Dr. Aditi Mehra on FIT Learning
Education Is Life Podcast - May 27, 2020 14:58 - 42 minutesLearning doesn’t always come easy for those who have been put up against multiple-choice or true/false questions. “I’m just rubbish,” was the self-talk of Dr. Aditi Mehra before she learned outside of the bounds of linear answers, pass/fail scores & standardized tests throughout her own learning ...
Education Is Life [EP08] with Guest Dr. Aditi Mehra on FIT Learning
Education Is Life Podcast - May 27, 2020 14:58 - 42 minutesLearning doesn’t always come easy for those who have been put up against multiple-choice or true/false questions. “I’m just rubbish,” was the self-talk of Dr. Aditi Mehra before she learned outside of the bounds of linear answers, pass/fail scores & standardized tests throughout her own learning ...
Education Is Life [EP 07] Parent Guest Scott Leonard
Education Is Life Podcast - May 20, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutesScott Leonard Attorney at Law & parent of 9-year-old Greenfields Academy Griffin shares with us his perspective on being raised homeschooled, & what he is doing now to make the most out of the COVID 19 pandemic situation of "school at home." Scott's question to what is the role of educa...
Education Is Life [EP07] Parent Guest Scott Leonard on Homeschooling vs. School at Home
Education Is Life Podcast - May 20, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutesIf you were to start from scratch and recreate schooling, what would you do? Only, it's more than just the question of what you would do—it's also why would you do it at all? If Dewey was right, then education isn't preparation for life; education is life itself. Therefore, this idea is more tha...
Ep 06 | Guy P. Bell on "Who Are You?!" as the Question we should be asking more
Education Is Life Podcast - May 13, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutesPowerful Executives are Created by Asking Powerful Questions- with Guest Guy Pierce Bell When looking at who we are and what we are building, what is it the most important question or model we should be following? In this episode, Rob & Guy Pierce Bell share a powerful discussion around educat...
Education Is Life [EP06] Guy P. Bell on "Who Are You?!"
Education Is Life Podcast - May 13, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutesPowerful Executives are Created by Asking Powerful Questions- with Guest Guy Pierce Bell When looking at who we are and what we are building, what is it the most important question or model we should be following? In this episode, Rob & Guy Pierce Bell share a powerful discussion around educat...
Education Is Life [EP 06] Guy P. Bell on "Who Are You?!" as the Question we should be asking more
Education Is Life Podcast - May 13, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutesPowerful Executives are Created by Asking Powerful Questions- with Guest Guy Pierce Bell When looking at who we are and what we are building, what is it the most important question or model we should be following? In this episode, Rob & Guy Pierce Bell share a powerful discussion around educat...
Education Is Life [EP05] COVID Stay at Home Reflections & Survey Results
Education Is Life Podcast - May 06, 2020 14:50 - 10 minutesThis SPECIAL EDITION Episode reflects on the COVID-19 Pandemic School at Home orders & a survey our school sent out to the Chicago community of families both inside and outside of our community. With a variety of responses & reflections, we were able to tie back to the story of our founder, Rob ...
Education Is Life [EP05] COVID19 Special
Education Is Life Podcast - May 06, 2020 14:50 - 10 minutesThis SPECIAL EDITION Episode - we reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic & some of the lasting effects on our young people. Our school sent out a “School at Home” survey to the surrounding Chicago community of families both inside and outside of our school to find out what was working, & what wasn’t ...
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