The Schooling America podcast covers issues and ideas relevant to leaders in American education. We bring in the brightest minds in administration, philosophy, culture, and beyond to reflect on topics that directly impact schools, organizations, and the children and families they serve. From cultural issues to operations to curriculum and pedagogy, Schooling America seeks to enrich the ideas, strategy, and execution of education institutions nationwide.
Your Students Can't Imitate a Teacher Who Won't Say What He Thinks w/ Joshua Gibbs | The Furrows
Send us Fan Mail Editor's note: the original recording was lost, so this is the backup. Please excuse the quality. Will be back to normal next episode. Thanks! Joshua Gibbs, director of the Classical Teaching Institute at the Ambrose School in Boise, Idaho, couldn't be paid to read books as a kid—and he started teaching classic literature at 28 with no natural interest in the texts in front of him. Then The Consolation of Philosophy became the first book he ever really understood. Ryan and Al...
15 Sept 2026
Your Students Are Terrified of Silence, and It's Worth Finding Out Why | The Furrows
Send us Fan Mail Jane Scharl read Crime and Punishment alone at eleven, and what it gave her was not a sense of being special but the opposite: a sense that everything she felt had been felt before, and that she owed it to those people to go find out how they'd handled it. She's now a verse playwright whose Rabelais plays get staged, and she talks here about the classical language she never got to learn, the student she was who could hold every idea and no due date, and why she thinks a base ...
1 Sept 2026
Patrick Whalen Made 10th Graders Wrestle to Learn about the Iliad | The Furrows
Send us Fan Mail Patrick Whalen spent a decade in the Marine Corps, founded a boys' boarding school on a Kansas farm, and now builds physical education curriculum for classical schools through Iliad Athletics. He tells Ryan Klopak and Alex Julian how a candlelit reading of Ecclesiastes, a wagon crash into a chain-link fence post, and The Song of Roland read over cigars all point at one conviction: that formation runs through the body, and abstraction is what happens when it doesn't. Wha...
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