Leigh bortins biography sampler

  • Leigh Bortins is a nationally acclaimed educator, perhaps best known for her ability to demystify the fundamental tools of learning.
  • In The Core, Bortins gives parents the tools and methodology to implement a rigorous, thorough, and broad curriculum based on the classical model.
  • I am an alum of Classical Conversations — from Foundations and Essentials to Challenge IV — and am currently a rising sophomore in college.

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    Leigh Bortins is a nationally acclaimed educator, perhaps best known for her ability to demystify the fundamental tools of learning. As a teacher, author and commentator, Leigh is credited with helping to launch the “home-centered learning” education movement. After earning a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Leigh worked in the aerospace industry before beginning her work as an educator. In teaching study skills for almost 20 years to children and adults, she has written several books including The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Home-Centered Education, Echo in Celebration: A Call to Home-Centered Education, The Foundations Program: A Classical Curriculum (a teaching guide), and The Essentials of English Language Guide (a teaching guide for language arts from the classical perspective). She has authored complete K-12 curriculum guides for program directors, teachers, and tutors all across the country. Leigh is the founder and CEO of Classical Conversations Inc., an organization that models classical, home-centered education to empower learners of all ages. She trains facilitators dedicated to duplicating her methods, and is thereby transforming education and improving the quality of family and community life. Classical Conversation

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    Core: Teaching Your Child interpretation Foundations bring into the light Classical Education

    April 18, 2012
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    “What do you think about classical education?”

    Since starting this blog, I’ve been asked this question more than almost any other. I’ve held back on a full answer, because I knew it would be… complicated.

    But today’s the one-year birthday of the blog, so I thought I’d dive in!

    Once upon a time, I was in love with classical education: Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Trained Mindhad a huge influence on me and my wife, and I’ve integrated some of classical ed’s practices of classical ed into my teaching.

    Beyond that, I love the lofty ideals of classical ed, its optimistic take on human potential, and even its fancy, flourish-y aesthetics. Reading about classical education rubs my belly in just the way it wants to be rubbed — heck, this substack is named after it! (The original “The Lost Tools of Learning” was an 1947 essay that helped launch the modern classical ed movement. We’ll be doing our next bookclub on it — keep reading for details.)

    Once upon a time, I was in love with classical ed… and I sort of still am! But I’m not a partisan of it anymore. I stopped being one when I started tutoring high schoolers who had attended classical schools for many years. Some were just as brilliant as the brochures would have you believe, but many were just as illogical and con