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LiberatED Podcast

The LiberatED Podcast tells the stories of the entrepreneurial parents and teachers who are creating innovative K-12 learning options across the US and expanding education options for families. This twice-weekly podcast is hosted by Kerry McDonald, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and leader of the Education Entrepreneurship Lab. A regular contributor at Forbes.com and The 74, Kerry is the bestselling author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the

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37:00

Why two tech entrepreneurs created a home-based...

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2024/04/22

Bountiful Microschool is a home-based microschool in Bountiful, Utah created by edtech entrepreneur, David Blake, cofounder and CEO of Degreed, and his wife Mikel, cofounder of Tech-Moms. The couple wanted to bring the innovation and personalization they were seeing in the larger tech sector to the K-12 classroom to benefit their own children and others in their community. "Utah's Emerging Education Ecosystem Is Diverse and Accessible" (Forbes.com) *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email

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39:53

Our 200th episode! The podcast’s first guest, Jill...

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2024/04/19

The podcast's very first guest, Jill Perez, joins us today to celeberate our 200th episode! She gives us an update on her journey as the founder of Tranquil Teachings Learning Center, a pandemic pod turned microschool, in New Jersey. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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25:59

How Iowa’s new school choice program is activating...

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2024/04/17

Jenson “Fig” Newton is the founder of Empigo Academy, a faith-based high school focused on career technical education (CTE) that is opening this fall in Des Moines, Iowa. He expects to launch with 50 students, all of whom will attend tuition-free thanks to Iowa's new universal school choice program. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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36:32

An Arkansas Microschool Fueled by Choice: Former...

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2024/04/15

Kanesha Adams is a former public school teacher and founder of The Learning Lounge, a tutoring center and new microschool in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a low-income community outside of Little Rock. In this episode, Kanesha shares her founder story and explains why Arkansas's new universal school choice program propelled her startup decision. In Arkansas, School Choice Is Encouraging Education Entrepreneurship (Forbes.com) *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at

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38:28

Professor Angela Watson on the new Johns Hopkins...

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2024/04/12

Angela Watson is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and the creator of the new Homeschool Hub at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, providing in-depth data on homeschooling, regulations, and research across the US. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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41:51

Trials & Tribulations of Being A School Founder:...

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2024/04/10

On the podcast today, Heather DiNino, a former public school teacher and founder of Elements Academy just outside of Boston, talks about the challenges of running a microschool. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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49:57

A Waldorf Microschool: A former public school teacher...

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2024/04/08

Jennifer Kempin taught for more than a decade in public schools in Pennsylvania before launching her home-based, Waldorf-inspired microschool, Fáilte Microschool, earlier this year. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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48:14

Why one founder created a school fully integrating...

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2024/04/06

Jen Granberry is the founder of ARROWS Christian Academy in Phoenix, Arizona that she launched in August 2023. ARROWS is fully-integrated K-8 private school blending neurotypical and neurodiverse students with a focus on individualized learning, meeting each child where they are at academically and developmentally. She currently has 23 students enrolled with 3 teachers and 3 aides with plans for incremental growth. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at

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32:52

Mixing Forest Schooling & Self-Directed Learning: A...

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2024/04/04

Justine Wilson is the founder of Curious and Kind Education. She has been an educator for 18 years working in a variety of roles including outdoor science educator, public school teacher, and university instructor doing teacher-training. She launched the nature-based Curious & Kind in 2023 as part of the Agile Learning Centers (ALC) Network that prioritizes self-directed education. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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31:45

Why are families choosing microschools? Christensen...

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2024/04/02

Thomas Arnett is a senior research fellow in education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. He is the author of a new paper on why parents choose microschools, entitled: Families on the New Frontier: Mapping and Meeting the Growing Demand for Unconventional Schooling. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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49:35

Chicago’s Catholic Acton Academy: Kelly & Michael...

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2024/03/29

The Sanctuary Academy on the north side of Chicago is a Catholic microschool focused on learner-driven education enabling each child to follow his or her own unique path. It is part of the global Acton Academy network of hundreds of learner-driven microschools serving thousands of learners. The Sanctuary Academy is the first intentionally Catholic version of the Acton model. It was cofounded in 2020 by Kelly and Michael Sullivan who are homeschooling parents to their 8 children. They currently

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33:36

A Reggio Emilia-inspired Jewish microschool in El...

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2024/03/27

The Cherry Hill School in El Paso, Texas is a Reggio Emilia-inspired, project-based 1st through 5th Jewish microschool that was founded in 2020. Joining me today to talk more about Cherry Hill and its learner-centered educational philosophy is Meg Birk, Head of School Curriculum at The Cherry Hill School. Prior to joining Cherry Hill, Meg spent 36 years as a public school educator in the El Paso School District. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at

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36:13

A Muslim microschool in DC: Al Hadi cofounder Rida...

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2024/03/25

Rida Rizvi is a cofounder of Al Hadi Learning Organization, a Muslim microschool in the Washington, DC area that sprouted in 2017 as an off-shoot of a mommy-and-me class. It currently operates as a learner-centered preschool and early-elementary microschool. Rida is now creating a new organization called Azeez Academy for upper-elementary students. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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33:46

An innovative microschool for rural Utah families:...

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2024/03/22

Todd Hepworth is the co-founder of Orchard STEM School, a K-8 microschool located in a working orchard in his rural community of Santaquin, Utah that is scheduled to open this August. Todd worked as a public school teacher for more than a decade, as well as an administrator at a Waldorf-inspired charter school, before becoming an education entrepreneur. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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44:35

“If we can’t find one then we’re going to open one.”...

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2024/03/19

Alexis and JT Rubatzky are the founders of Triumph: An Acton Academy in Cleveland, Tennessee, just outside of Chattanooga. Triumph is a home-based microschool for homeschoolers that opened in August 2023 and is part of the Acton Academy network of hundreds of learner-driven microschools. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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44:35

A Tennessee microschool nurturing discovery &...

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2024/03/15

Rachel Good is the founder of Discovery Learners’ Academy (DLA), a microschool that opened in Chattanooga, Tennessee in fall 2022. Rachel worked for more than 8 years as a public school teacher in Washington and Tennessee before launching DLA as a state-recognized PreK-12 private school with a personalized educational approach. It opened with 21 learners and today has 50—about 15 of whom attend part-time as homeschoolers. About half of the school’s students are neurodiverse, a population that Good

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45:42

Launch Your Kind with Iman Alleyne!

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2024/03/12

Iman Alleyne is the founder of Kind Academy and creator of Launch Your Kind, an accelerator program for those interested in opening their own microschools! *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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58:26

How Prenda has launched hundreds of microschools:...

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2024/03/08

Kaity Broadbent is the Chief Empowerment Advocate at Prenda, the national network that has helped to launch hundreds of microschools serving thousands of learners since 2018. A homeschooling mom, Kaity is a thoughtful and insightful voice on the topic of personalized learning and alternative education models. Prior to Prenda, Kaity was a Speech-Language Pathologist in public schools, literacy coach, and curriculum designer. She's a certified peaceful parenting coach and mom to four Prenda kids ages

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34:08

In rural Arizona, Prenda microschools are popular:...

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2024/03/05

Denise Lever was a firefighter turned homeschooling mom who launched a Prenda microschool in August 2020 in the rural town of Eager, Arizona in Apache County, which is one of the poorest counties in the US and one of only 3 counties in the entire country where neither English nor Spanish is the primary language spoke at home. In Apache County, that language is Navajo. Denise is also an administrator of 5 other independently operated Prenda microschools in her town of Eager. *** Sign up for Kerry's

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52:07

How a single, working homeschool mom became an...

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2024/03/01

When Shari Robinson's oldest son wasn't thriving in public school, she pulled him out for homeschooling and then began homeschooling her other children as well. It was her personal experience of homeschooling her own children that inspired Shari over the years to create various STEM activities for local homeschoolers, including continuing to lead one of the highest-ranked robotics teams in the state. Those efforts evolved into Homeschool Resources Group and Pierian Spring Academy of Arts &

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