Welcome to season four of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

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So today we're talking about brain-based learning.

So why are we doing this?

Why am I not talking about writing or talking about a lesson planner or

those kinds of things?

Well, here's my theory about home education.

We didn't go to be trained educators in college. Most of us. Some of you did. Some of

you know all this stuff because you learned about it. I did not. I was a history major. I wasn't even an English major.

So when I got into homeschooling, the people I read were home educators, which makes sense because I wanted to understand the philosophy of home education.

But you all know, you're all talking to each other about who the great home

educators are. What I didn't do is I didn't really understand sort of how

education or learning functions inside of a person.

And it wasn't until one of the educators I knew in California passed on some brain research to

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