Kolbecast

202 A Great Conversation

AMDG.  Experienced Kolbe mom Deirdre Mundy joins Bonnie and Steven in this first half of a two-part conversation on the lessons and insights she’s gained from homeschooling her eight children.  Deirdre shares reasons why her family chooses for traditional homeschool options and year-round school rather than online classes and summer breaks; advice for families where the parents do not have a classical education themselves; and opportunities for scholarships.  She also highlights the importance of allowing your kids to see you try, fail, and try again in learning new things, as well as the distinction between schedules and rhythms.  
Links mentioned: 
QuestBridge 
Classics Conference recordings & guide 
Kolbe Academy Homeschooling Families unofficial Facebook group
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
200 Transition Years  
60 Mission: Possible 
70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service 
54 Pro Omnibus Contendit 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
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201 The Soundtrack of Life

AMDG.  Join us for the second in our multi-movement reflection on music.  Carl Hasler and Olivia Knuffke visit with Bonnie, Steven, and Jordan about how music can be a kind of beauty that stretches your soul; the way that “classical” music can build stamina, attention, and the ability to sit with something new—but also the way that “classical” music can be a misnomer; reminiscences of the first time each of them heard various pieces; and the ongoing exchange between what a piece of music brings to you and what you bring to it. 
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
186  Full Circle (of Fifths), part 1 of this conversation 
194 Visual Literacy with Amanda Shepard 
28 A Pessimist with Hope featuring Dr. Anthony Esolen 
191 A Window into the Ancient World with Mike Aquilina 
36 A Beauty-Linked Life with Dr. Carol Reynolds 
Other resources mentioned: 
Anthony & Debra Esolen’s Word & Song Substack  
Hymn suggestions in Faith & Life teacher manuals 
Laudate Listening Guide from Kolbe bookstore 
Dr. Hank Reynolds’s Friday Performance Picks on the blog at ProfessorCarol.com 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
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The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

200 Transition Years

AMDG. In the 200 episodes since we rebooted the Kolbecast, we’ve heard from a lot of significant voices. In this episode, we hear from two of the most significant Kolbeans: our students. Ninth graders Noah (who does a hybrid of self-paced and online classes) and Caleb (who does all online) visit with Bonnie and Steven, where the real-life long-distance friends share about their typical school days, their happy and cautionary memories, the lessons they’re learning about both diligence and rest, the effort they invest in their education and formation, and the things they like to do when they’re not working on school. 
Noah and Caleb utilize Kolbe offerings in different ways. Here’s more information about the three ways to educate with Kolbe Academy.  
To hear the talks given at the 2024 Call to Holiness Retreat, check out this YouTube playlist. Speakers include Fr. Robert Spitzer, Msgr. James Shea, Mr. Dan Angel, Fr. Charles Archer, and Sr. Mary Rose 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
123 A Change of the Ages with Msgr. James Shea 
195 Greatness Awaits with Bobby & Dan Angel 
196 Adaptable Asynchronous & Dynamic Digital Homeschool Options 
60 Mission: Possible  
99 Gifted, Graced, and Formed 
5 Planning on Paper and Online 
Kolbe families can utilize the Schoology directory to contact each other. Here’s information from the Kolbe website’s help center.  
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
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The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

199 Jason Craig: Do Good Work and Read Good Work

AMDG.  If you want to make boys into men, it requires a brotherhood of men to set a disciplined example.  Jason Craig joins the Kolbecast today to visit about calling men to conversion and brotherhood.  He, Bonnie, Steven, and Jordan discuss disorders of loneliness in today’s society, the imbalanced emphasis on mothers to the exclusion of fathers in various homeschooling discourses, and the necessity of living out mercy and community locally.  He also compares and contrasts centripetal and centrifugal forces in current life, shares about the organization Fraternus, and describes his experience of homesteading.  All in all, his message is that the classical world is a lived culture that requires men as well as women. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
79 Doors to Your Memories, featuring Jordan discussing his book When the Earth Was Flat: One Boy’s Life at the Edge of the Millenium, to which Jason refers 
111 What Treasures Remain 
116 Things I Would Tell My Students 
Learn more about Fraternus here. Catch the first couple of episodes Till and Keep here and look for it in your favorite podcast app soon! 
Jason’s books: 
The Traditional Virtues according to St. Thomas Aquinas: A Study for Men   
Leaving Boyhood Behind 
The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead 
Jason also mentions a forthcoming book on localism to which he contributed: Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
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The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

198 The Sign of Our Salvation: Dr. Gilbert Lavoie on the Shroud of Turin

AMDG.  The Shroud of Turin—a burial cloth evidencing Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection—has become a research focus for Dr. Gilbert Lavoie, a physician who’s been practicing medicine for many years. In this episode, Dr. Lavoie takes an unflinching, clinical, and forensic approach to recount how he used his medical training in service of examining and understanding the Shroud. He discusses with Steven, Jordan, and Bonnie the process he went through to reveal the sign of our salvation hidden in the Gospel of John that awaits us. 
Listener note: the topics discussed include clinical descriptions of the sufferings of Jesus evident from the Shroud.  
Relevant links: 
Dr. Lavoie’s book The Shroud of Jesus and the Sign that John Ingeniously Concealed 
Kolbecast episode 194 Visual Literacy with Amanda Shepard 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 

197 Tools in a Toolbox: Kolbe Academy's Student Support Services

AMDG.  Children don’t come with instruction manuals, so having resources to help road map out various challenges can benefit everyone in a family.  In this episode, Karen Allgood and Krysten Pizzurro join Bonnie and Steven to describe the vast array of services available through Kolbe’s student support services and special education offerings.  They describe the individualized attention they provide and the confident communication they foster in situations where families may be uncertain they can fulfill a child’s need.  They also touch on the importance of documentation and accommodations, the concerns about being labeled or just needing to try harder, and the importance of the fact that each child is exactly how God willed him or her to be. 
Helpful links 
Student Support Services page on the Kolbe website 
Student Support Services webinar 
2024 Schoolwide Address, including information about the new Foundations courses 
Information about Kolbe’s financial aid options 
Kolbe’s testing services 
Related Kolbecast episodes 
196 Adaptable Asynchonous & Dynamic Digital Homeschool Options 
145 Subsidiarity, Support, and Resources 
140 Burnout Happens 
188 Challenges as Opportunites with Dr. Kevin Majeres 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

196 Adaptable Asynchronous & Dynamic Digital Homeschool Options

AMDG.  Today’s episode demystifies the self-paced program and describes upcoming changes that will streamline and improve Kolbe’s asynchronous course offerings. Chrissy Almanzar, Bonnie, and Steven discuss how self-paced classes fit into Kolbe’s three ways to educate; weaknesses in the older versions of self-paced courses that Kolbe is currently revising; and ways the upcoming changes support parental autonomy, accountability, and practicality for families. 
Check out the webinar about the asynchronous program for more details.  
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
118 Odysseys in Catholicism 
38 Pro Omnibus Contendit, containing a discussion on the principle of subsidiarity 
29 The February Staredown 
140 Burnout Happens 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

195 Greatness Awaits featuring Bobby & Dan Angel

AMDG. Brothers Bobby and Dan Angel visit with Bonnie and Steven today about how the human soul is meant to be challenged toward greatness.  Through a discussion ranging from video games to running marathons, they touch on ideas such as the fact that we’ll never grasp the fullness of truth in this life; the call the humans feel toward adventure, fellowship, and community; and the importance of anchoring ourselves in body and soul reality.  
For more information: 
Bobby’s book Gaming and the Heroic Life 
JackieandBobby.com 
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
146 Stepping into the Arena: Bobby Angel on the Universal Call to Holiness 
179 Translation Tug of War with Dr. Matthew Minerd 
148 Engage & Apply 
177 Tabletop Theology with Alexi Sargeant 
193 STEM, State Schools, and Sibling Dynamics 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.