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Matt Barnes – The Education Game
Matt Barnes is the Co-Founder and Parent Coach at The Education Game. Over 25 years, he has led hospital departments, distributed $500m in philanthropy, run an education reform nonprofit, served on nine educational boards from university to pre-K, and now coaches parents on navigating the education system. His aim is to help every parent grow […]
Matt Barnes is the Co-Founder and Parent Coach at The Education Game. Over 25 years, he has led hospital departments, distributed $500m in philanthropy, run an education reform nonprofit, served on nine educational boards from university to pre-K, and now coaches parents on navigating the education system. His aim is to help every parent grow kids who are curious, competent, life-long learners.
Matt did quit his job to become a stay-at-home father. After three years as a full-time-dad, he had a new appreciation of the traditional role of mothers and also understood the pressures behind the women’s liberation movement — as he often wanted to burn his “manzier.”
It was in 2014, when Matt launched The Educational Makeover, a learning lab that studied parent decision-making, mindsets, and capacities. Then he launched “The Education Game” in 2020, a speaking, coaching, blogging, and podcast platform that inspires parents to embrace a 21st-century learning model that shamelessly deemphasizes grades and academic compliance while radically emphasizing learning, problem solving, and student-engagement
He served as Houston’s representative on a national research initiative exploring the challenges facing Boys and Young Men of Color which later became President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative.
Key Takeaways:
00:30 What is Education Game?
02:26 Actionable Advice to a Frustrated Parent
16:21 What’s your Origin Story?
23:20 What about College?
47:34 Baby Steps to Starting in Alternative School
58:55 Screen Time during COVID
01:07:13 Metaphor Comparing Conventional School to Alternative
Quotes:
“Learning happens all the time. You can’t stop your child from learning.”
“Standardization doesn’t fly in the 21st century.”
“Starting a business teaches you so much.”
“The people that were hardest to manage were the people who were just average.”
“Once your child actually starts to adopt a mindset that they are learners, there’s far less work to do.”
Social Links:
Website – www.theEducationGame.com ; http://www.barnesstrategies.com
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcbarnes/
Travis Adams – Every Child Can be an Entrepreneur
Travis Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of MyFirstSale and lives in Tyler, Texas. Travis has a passion for igniting the creativity and uniqueness inside of kids. He owns a summer camp called Camp Huawni and has started and grown multiple companies, including Apex Fun Run (with Scott Donell), Affair Recovery, and Grow My Camp.
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Travis Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of MyFirstSale and lives in Tyler, Texas. Travis has a passion for igniting the creativity and uniqueness inside of kids.
He owns a summer camp called Camp Huawni and has started and grown multiple companies, including Apex Fun Run (with Scott Donell), Affair Recovery, and Grow My Camp.
Travis and his best bud, Scott Donnell, met at the Acton School of Business where they discovered their shared passion of inspiring kids. Travis is most passionate about his wife Mandi and their three sons. He also loves to surf.
Key Takeaways:
00:10 Favorite Thing Working with Young Learners
00:09 Why did you and your wife decide on Acton for your kids?
00:23 Why do you see ADHD as a positive thing?
00:31:54 Metaphor for Acton versus Conventional School
Quotes:
“Every kid is unique. Each kid is literally one of a kind throughout history. And as you get to be around them, you get to see that come out.”
“Loving to learn because if they love to learn, we know, and there’s plenty of scientific evidence behind this that they’ll take off.”
“Our kind of big goal is we want to launch a million kid businesses. And we also, what we do is we empower kids to take on the real world, because we all know that not every kid is going to be an entrepreneur, but every kid can learn to be entrepreneurial. “
“My hope is there’ll be way more confidence about their (children’s) trajectory based on their journey and way more plugged into their own wiring that they’re going to make every step count.”
Social Links:
Travis Adams
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-adams-56b02615/
Website- myfirstsale.com/events
YouTube – MyFirstSale Virtual Business Fair
Jesse McCarthy – Montessori Education
Jesse McCarthy began his career as a young assistant at a small private Montesorri school in California, and now leads an organization that helps parents and teachers around the world to achieve inevitable success with children. Jesse McCarthy has been in education for over 15 years. Through his career he’s worked with thousands of children,
Jesse McCarthy began his career as a young assistant at a small private Montesorri school in California, and now leads an organization that helps parents and teachers around the world to achieve inevitable success with children.
Jesse McCarthy has been in education for over 15 years. Through his career he’s worked with thousands of children, teachers, and parents as an elementary & junior-high school teacher, a Head of School for infants to 8th graders, an executive with a nationwide group of Montessori schools, and a parent and teacher mentor.
Jesse is the host of The Montessori Education Podcast, a platform where the topics revolve around Montessori, raising children and educating students while bettering ourselves alongside them.
Jesse McCarthy, founder of MontessoriEducation.com and host of The Montessori Education Podcast, has worked with thousands of children, parents, and teachers over the past 15+ years — as a principal for infants to 8th graders, an executive with a nationwide group of private schools, an elementary & junior-high teacher, and a parent-and-teacher mentor.
Jesse received his B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Montessori teacher’s diploma for 3- to 6-year-olds from Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), the organization founded by Dr. Maria Montessori.
Key Takeaways:
00:01:38 What is the Montessori Discipline course?
00:08:33 Effectivity of Self-directed Education and of Montessori.
00:17:51 Most Important Innovation in Montessori
00:22:58 Do you think it is true that Montessori gives you an advantage in terms of success, innovation, confidence, creativity?
00:30:34 What does it mean to help parents achieve inevitable success?
00:35:06 Different Certifying Approaches
00:48:00 How did you decide to become a Montessorian?
00:52:39 For the Kids, after a year of not being in their Montessori environment, what do you predict is going to happen to them?
Quotes:
“Montessori is very structured in the sense that, there are choices you can have. And within those choices, you’re free. But outside of that, there’s a real wall and you cannot go pass that and it might sound kind of dictatorial, but that wall gets bigger and bigger as the children grow up and get more freedom.”
“Improvement means that something wasn’t going that well before we needed to change it.”
“Most of us had crappy education. So with Montessori, the idea is to spend a lot more time on the foundational elements.”
“When I fail, it’s awesome because I know I’m going to learn something.”
Social Links:
Jesse McCarthy
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessemccarthy/
Website- https://www.montessorieducation.com/