In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker interview Seth Dunham, the president of the Homeschool Trade Association, which exists to support and equip business leaders to maximize their ability to achieve the greatest possible success. Listen as they share the history of the organization and how member businesses work together to serve homeschooling families.

Referenced Materials

• Homeschool Trade Association
• Notgrass History
• “However Imperfectly: Lessons Learned from Thirty Years of Teaching” by Andrew Pudewa
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 545

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

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Questions are swirling around the topic of AI and its role in education. Teachers and parents are wondering when and how students should use it and whether using AI is beneficial for students. Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker while they revisit this topic that leads to frequently asked questions as Andrew visits homeschool conventions around the country this summer.

Referenced Materials

• “Writing Maketh an Exact Man” by Andrew Pudewa
• “Back to Basics?” by Andrew Pudewa
• Episode 492: Academic Integrity with Dr. Steven Hales
• Episode 376: A Necessary Conversation about Artificial Intelligence
• Episode 483: How AI Affects Thinking
• Episode 513: Who Should Use AI and How?
• “AI – Not a Virtual Thinking Cap”
• “I'll never use this, why should I learn it?”
• Episode 499: A Conversation about Critical Thinking with Jennifer Mauser
• ​​“Encyclopedia Dad” by Andrew Pudewa
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 544

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

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Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker are joined by Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, to discuss how parental involvement is the best indicator of student success. They talk about the history of American education and the variety of educational options that have become available to parents.

Referenced Materials

• Robert Bortins
• Woke and Weaponized: How Karl Marx Won the Battle for American Education, and How We Can Win It Back by Robert Bortins and Alex Newman
• Classical Conversations
• “Homeschooling and the Social Life of Families and Communities”
• VELA Funding
• Reece Report
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 543

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

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Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker for an exciting announcement about a new digital tool—IEW Writing Companion. They are joined by Heidi Thomas, who worked with Joseph Tabenkin to create IEW® Writing Companion. She describes how IEW Writing Companion solves common problems and provides the assistance that students need to successfully “do what they check and check what they do” as Andrew always encourages. Don’t miss this episode!

Referenced Materials

• IEW Gradebook
• Episode 421: Announcing IEW Gradebook
• Episode 512: IEW Gradebook – Why Teachers Love It
• “Simplify Grading with IEW Gradebook”
• IEW Writing Tools App
• “The Writing App Every Student Needs”
• IEW Writing Companion
• Try IEW Writing Companion
• Structure and Style® for Students
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• Frontiers in Writing
• Frontiers Writing Companion
• Wonders of Science Writing Lessons
• Wonders of Science Writing Companion
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 542

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

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In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker review Andrew’s article “Process versus Product” from However Imperfectly and discuss why the process of learning is just as or even more important than the student’s finished product.

Referenced Materials

• “Process versus Product” by Andrew Pudewa
• “Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing” by Andrew Pudewa
• However Imperfectly: Lessons Learned from Thirty Years of Teaching by Andrew Pudewa
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• Principles of Motivation audio talk by Andrew Pudewa

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com

Do you allow kids to look back at the source for spelling while they write? What are the pros and cons of Structure and Style® for Students versus a Writing Across the Curriculum course? Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss these and other questions and share a couple new jokes in another Ask Andrew Anything episode. You never know what you might learn!

Referenced Materials

• IEW Practical Printables
• Misplaced Modifiers Booklet
• Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
• Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level C
• Structure and Style for Students, Year 3 Level B
• Structure and Style for Students, Year 2 Level B
• Structure and Style for Students, Year 2 Level A
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• IEW in Writing Series
• EZ+1: IEW's Step-by-Step Teaching Method
• Episode 417: Using IEW through the Years
• Magnum Opus Magazine
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 540

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com

In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker open the mailbag (or the email inbox) and read letters Andrew has received from students. Listen to this episode to find out from students themselves why they enjoy IEW’s award winning Structure and Style® for Students and Fix It!® Grammar. This episode also features a book authored by a reluctant young writer who changed her mind about writing after learning from Andrew.

Referenced Materials

• Structure and Style for Students
• Fix It! Grammar
• Furhaven: Slavery or Freedom, Quest 1by Abbie Cole
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 539

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

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Summer is the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors! In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker are joined by Amy Wormald, whose family met the challenge of spending 1000 hours outside in a single year. Listen to find out how they gradually worked up to this, how they figure out how much time they need to spend each day or month, and what activities they have found to be the most beneficial and memorable.

Referenced Materials

• Nature Deficit Disorder: Causes, Consequences, & Cures audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
• Episode 367: 1000 Hours Outside – A Conversation with Ginny Yurich
• Episode 428: Enjoy the Great Outdoors
• 1000 Hours Outside by Ginny Yurich
• 1000 Hours Outside App
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
• Bud and Me by Alta Abernathy
• Transcript of Podcast Episode 538

If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).

If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com