Leigh! at Lunch 2012-2013 Season

Please join Leigh@Lunch as Leigh interviews Art Reed about Saxon Math. The conversation will include a discussion on the history of Saxon and a discussion on mathematical concepts that will hopefully help you as parents understand Saxon Math better in order to teach your children more effectively. Art Reed has more than twelve years of Saxon teaching experience at a rural high school in Enid, Oklahoma. Using John Saxon's math books, he taught high school mathematics from Algebra ½ through Calculus . He was instrumental in raising the school's average math ACT scores from 13.4 to 21.9 in just four years. Art Reed retired from classroom teaching in 1999. Because of his hands-on experience and success with teaching from John Saxon's math books, he was asked to assume duties as the curriculum advisor in the Home School Division of Saxon Publishers, for the upper level math textbooks from Math 76 through Calculus and Physics. His experiences and depth of knowledge regarding John Saxon's math curriculum have enabled him to advise and assist parents and educators at all levels on how to successfully get the most from their Saxon textbooks and to ensure that their students received a quality education in mathematics. Art Reed is a qualified nuclear weapons officer, as well as an engineer and mathematician, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma State University, and later earning a second degree in mathematics from Phillips University. Art and his wife Judy have been married for more than forty years. They reside in Enid, Oklahoma, as do their two daughters and their families, which include five grandchildren. *Join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments. Please note you must be signed up to chat.

Welcome to another exciting season of Leigh@Lunch! Please join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews Anthon Esolen, author of 10 Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. Anthony M. Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College and translator of classic works, as well as writer for magazines including the Claremont Review and Touchstone, of which he is a senior editor. He has translated Dante's Divine Comedy, Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, and Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Dr. Esolen graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981. He pursued graduate work from the University of North Carolina, receiving his M.A. in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1987. He taught at the University of North Carolina from 1985 to 1988 and then at Furman University from 1988 to 1990. He began teaching at Providence College in 1990, becoming a full professor in 1995. Along with teaching, Esolen has published articles and books on a regulat basis. He has also served as an editor with Touchstone Magazine. We are excited to have Dr. Esolen on this week's show to talk about his book, 10 Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. *Join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments. Please note you must be signed up to chat.  

Join Leigh Bortins and Caleb Skogen as they discuss Mandala Fellowship. This is a time for our listeners to call in and comment or ask their questions about Mandala Fellowship and the Quadrivium.  Be sure to register if you are not registered with blogtalk in order to chat your comments and questions during the show.

Leigh Bortins sits down with Caleb Skogen and Matt Bianco to discuss Mandala Fellowship and the Quadrivium.

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Matt interviews Wesley J. Callihan about astronomy and the Quadrivium. Wesley J. Callihan is the Founder and Tutor of Schola Classical Tutorials. He grew up on a farm in Idaho and graduated in History from the University of Idaho in 1983. He has taught at Logos School, the University of Idaho, and New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, and at Veritas Academy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has written curriculum for several ACCS and other Christian schools, such as Great Books study guides, and speaks regularly at Classical Christian education conferences for home educators and private schools, and teaches summer intensive Latin courses. He has written columns and short fiction for Credenda/Agenda and Antithesis, and contributed to the book Classical Education and the Home School, (published by Canon Press). We are excited to have Wesley J. Callihan on this week's show and we hope you join the conversation to learn more about astronomy and its importance to classical education. *Join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments. Please note you must be signed up to chat.

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews members from Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Summit Ministries, PHC Teen Leadership, and Generation Joshua about summer camps and other opportunities for your children and students. We are excited to have these organizations separately share what they have to offer your students and family during the 2012 summer months. Do you have suggestions or ideas for your children or students in the summer? Join the chat this week and get your ideas and advice out to all our listeners and students. We hope you take the time to get to know some of these organizations and see what you can do to get your children and students involved. Join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments. Please note you must be signed up to chat.

Leigh!@Lunch is sponsored by Patrick Henry College for the month of March! On this week's show, Tobin Duby will interview Dr. Gene Edward Veith from Patrick Henry College to talk about Patrick Henry College and classical education.  Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is an Alliance Council member and Provost and Professor of Literature, at Patrick Henry College, a Christian classical liberal arts college in Purcellville, VA. Prior to coming to Patrick Henry College as Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Veith previously served as the Culture Editor of World Magazine and Executive Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In addition he also serves as the director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He has been a Fellow at the Capital Research Center and Heritage Foundation. Dr. Veith is well-known in Christian conservative circles through his writing and speaking on various aspects of Christianity and culture. He is a columnist for Table Talk magazine. He also operates the Cranach blog (geneveith.com) featuring regular commentary on Christianity and Culture. His writings number more than 100 scholarly articles, reviews, papers, and books including Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture; God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life; A Place to Stand: The Word of God in the Life of Martin Luther; and Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals. We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments.

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews published poet, author, and teacher, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes. Her poetry collections include What a Light Thing, This Stone and Weather of the House (Sow's Ear Press). She has also written a collection of prose meditations on everyday life, Sketches of Home, as well as a guide for student poets, The Roar on the Other Side (Canon Press). She serves full-time as the director of public affairs for Angel Flight, a nonprofit charitable organization. Suzanne lives with her husband Wayne in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Together, they have five grown children and three grandchildren. We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments. *Leigh!@Lunch is sponsored by Patrick Henry College

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews Becky Dunlop, Vice President of External Relations at the Heritage Foundation. Over the years, Classical Conversations has established a strong relationship with the Heritage Foundation.  "The Heritage Foundation is one of the nation’s largest public policy research organizations. More than 710,000 individual members make it the most broadly supported think tank in America."   We are excited to have Vice President Dunlop on the show this week to help you learn more about the Heritage Foundation. We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments.

  Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews 2nd generation homeschoolers, Alicia Glendenning, Jessica Herbert, and Nikki Wilcox.    We are pleased to have these three guests on our show to talk about their own experiences as well as their challenges of being homeschooled and then homeschooling their own children. We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to gain some insight and encouragement as you take the reins in your children's education.    Having been classically home-educated, both Alicia Glendenning and her husband Luke saw the value in home education. Alicia is the Illinois State Manager for Classical Conversations. Jessica Herbert's appreciation of her own homeschooling experience gave her the heart to offer the same blessing to her own children. Jessica was homeschooled through high school and is the incoming Foundations/Essentials director for CC Tampa. Nikki Wilcox is in her first year at CC but not in her first year of homeschooling. She is the mother of four, with two already enrolled in CC.    We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questions or comments.

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews Mitch Stokes, speaker at the 2012 Toward the Quadrivium event in Ohio.  Dr. Mitch Stokes is a Senior Fellow of Philosophy, responsible for teaching the junior-level Principia Mathematica Colloquium, lecturing in the upper-level Traditio Occidentis integrated humanities courses, and teaching electives in philosophy. Dr. Stokes received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1992 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1994.While serving as an advanced and senior engineer in Florida in the 1990s, Dr. Stokes took theological courses at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He went on to complete an M.A. in Religion (Philosophy of Religion) at Yale University under Dr. Nick Wolterstorff in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy at University of Notre Dame in 2003. He completed his doctoral studies in Philosophy at Notre Dame under Dr. Alvin Plantinga and Dr. Peter van Inwagen in 2005, prior to joining the New Saint Andrews faculty. We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questinos or comments.

  Join Matt Bianco and the CCMM Team today on Leigh!@Lunch as they discuss specific Classical Conversations' products and updates. Jennifer Courtney and Denise Moore will be with us from Classical Conversations Multi Media team to explain and share new products from Classical Conversations. Some of these products include the new Foundations Guide, 4th edition, and our new History Cards. We hope you take the time to join the conversation by signing up on blogtalkradio and chatting or calling in with your specific questinos or comments.

The Toward the Quadrivium event is fast approaching! This week on Leigh!@Lunch, Leigh will interview James D. Nickel, one of the speakers at the 2012 Toward the Quadrivium event. Please visit the link above to learn more about the TTQ event and register now! James D. Nickel holds degrees in mathematics (B.A., Fresno State University), theology (B.Th. and B.Miss. Bethany College of Missions), and education (M.A., Valley Christian University). He is the author of Mathematics: Is God Silent? (Ross House, [1990] 2001) and Lift Up Your Eyes on High: Understanding the Stars (Christian Liberty Press, 1999). Professor Nickel has worked in the fields of mathematics and computer science in a wide variety of contexts, including for the US Navy as a mathematical analyst designing code to analyze radar flight data of the F-14A Tomcat and the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. He is currently a full-time consultant and teaches a wide variety of mathematics courses as a member of the math faculty of The Potter's School.  Remember to sign up on blogtalkradio.com in order to chat and ask questions during the show.

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Leigh interviews Andrew Kern on classical education and how to be a better teacher. Andrew Kern, is president and founder of the CiRCE Institute. He graduated from Concordia University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was mentored by Dr. Gene Edward Veith and was graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts. Shortly afterward, Dr. Veith and Andrew co-authored the best-selling book, Classical Education, The Movement Sweeping America, now in its second edition. Andrew has been directly involved in the establishment of three classical Christian schools, has trained teachers in over 50 states since 1996, and has been directing the CiRCE Institute full time since the summer of 2000. Andrew Kern is married to Karen. They are the parents of three boys and two girls: David, Matthew, Katerina, Larissa, and Andrew. Remember to sign up on blogtalkradio in order to chat and participate in this week's show!

Join Leigh!@Lunch this week as Matt interviews Latin experts, Denise Moore and Kathy Sheppard! The National Latin Exam is coming soon and registration is due in January! Kathy Sheppard will update you on all you need to know to get your kids registered and also answer any other questions you may have about the National Latin Exam. Denise Moore will join the conversation and give you her presentation method for Latin. We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions and learn more about Latin. Don't forget to sign up or register on blogtalkradio in order to participate in this week's conversation.