Top Ten TJEd Forum Recordings

Save $10 when you order this bundle of our top ten most inspiring and informative presentations on Thomas Jefferson Education. These experienced presenters consistently deliver powerful messages, packed with examples, ideas, principles and systems to help us transform our homes and classrooms. Learn from parents and mentors who are successfully implementing Leadership Education.

This Recordings Bundle Includes:

1. Angela Baker: “But How Do I Do It?”
2. Heather Burton: Stronger, Wiser, Deeper, Brighter, Sweeter, Finer, Gentler, Kinder:
3. Shauna Bird Dunn: The E’s & Ease of Helping your Child Learn to Love Reading
4. Julie Earley: Adult Phases: It’s Not What You Do; It’s Who You Are
5. Ruel Haymond: True Surround Sound System - Fathers Reading Classic Literature in the Home
6. Mary Ann Johnson: Ingredient # 20: The Closet
7. Nicholeen and Spencer Peck: The Power of Calm
8. Andrew Pudewa: Teaching Boys, & Other Children Who Would Rather Make Forts All Day
9. Dan Ralphs: Unveiling Genius - Mentoring in the Scholar Phase
10. Keri Tibbetts: Journey Through Core Phase

Scroll down for full descriptions of all recordings included in this bundle

Angela Baker: “But how Do I Do It?”

If the ideas of TJ Ed appeal to you, but you’re wondering, “How do I do it?” this workshop is a must for you.  One of the most important, though often overlooked, aspects of TJ Ed is the 7 Keys of Great Teaching.  If you understand these keys and how to apply them, then how to do TJ Ed becomes clear.  In this workshop we’ll cover four of the seven keys: Mentors not Professors; Classics not Textbooks; Inspire, not Require; and  You, not them.  By using these keys you will not only unlock the answer to “How do I do it?’ but you will also open the door to a superb education—one that grows great souls who are prepared to make a difference in this world.

Heather Burton: Stronger, Wiser, Deeper, Brighter, Sweeter, Finer, Gentler, Kinder -

How Classics Lead Us and our Children to Be More

This session is for two special kinds of people: those who love great books, and those who are trying to love great books. Please consider coming and bringing along with you your personal stories about the power of books to help us be more of what we hope (and need!) to be. We won’t even scratch the surface…but we will almost for certain come away grateful and hopeful and inspired to make great ideas and books beloved guests in our homes.

Shauna Bird Dunn: The E’s & Ease of Helping your Child Learn to Love Reading

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner

The E’s of helping your child learn to love reading include Example, Exposure and Excitement. This workshop is full of ideas to help fuel your child’s love for literature and reading—whether that love is just a tiny spark or a blazing fire.  Some of these ideas include:  Library-palooza, Drop Everything and Read time, holiday literary traditions, tips for encouraging personal core classic study, Book Diva visits, and Book Club Parties. Some ideas are tried and true methods while others are unique and exciting, but all are designed to help children in each of the four phases to develop a love for books and reading.

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”

~ Jacqueline Kennedy

Julie Earley: Adult Phases: It’s Not What You Do; It’s Who You Are

While understanding the phases of learning helps you mentor your children from core phase through scholar phase, in order to achieve your own life’s mission you must go through the phases as well. Experiencing them alongside your children can provide both challenges and epiphanies.  Instead of treating the phases like a “to-do list” to check off, we must learn what it takes to become a certain kind of parent.  It’s not necessarily about what you do, instead it’s about who you are.

Ruel Haymond: True Surround Sound System - Fathers Reading Classic Literature in the Home

In this workshop, we will discuss the invaluable role Reading Fathers play in the lives of their children.  With many economy-conscious families tightening their outside-of-the-home entertainment belts, we can discover, once again, how inexpensive and fulfilling reading is. The following will be presented in the workshop:

• What Research and Reason say about the positive effect of Reading Fathers
• Strategies for finding time to read and discuss with children
• Classics that both Fathers and Children will love

 Our goal is to help and inspire fathers as they lead the educational charge in their own homes.

Mary Ann Johnson: Ingredient # 20 - The Closet

Super charge your children’s learning environment and decrease your “what are we going to do today” stress!

Do you have children in the core and love of learning phases? Would you like your “structure time not content” to be more inspiring, fun, and less stressful on you? Would you like to learn how to create an environment that really nurtures your children’s love of learning while helping them engage in meaningful activities? Would you like a system that helps you introduce new items and elements into your children’s learning environment in a non-threatening way? If so, then this class is for you! Come learn how the closet can be adapted to your unique circumstances of space and money. Don’t miss this chance to super charge your children’s learning environment and decrease your “what are we going to do today” stress!

Nicholeen and Spencer Peck: The Power of Calm

When we speak to people around the country about the style of parenting we live in our home and the family culture we are passionate about, one of the biggest responses we get is, “I think I need self-government myself before I can teach it to my children.”  This is so true!  You, not them remember?  It is hard to stay calm when you are under pressure and dealing with the stresses of raising children and living in our fast paced world.  In this class we will talk about how fathers and mothers can tap into the power called “being calm.”  We will also be touching on how husbands and wives do it together.  Fathers and mothers are different, but that doesn’t mean there needs to be contention about parenting.  One of the biggest keys to staying clam as a parent is having a common vision with your spouse.  Come ready to learn and apply some not so new, but very effective communication principles which will strengthen your marriage first, and then your home. 

Andrew Pudewa: Teaching Boys, & Other Children Who Would Rather Make Forts All Day

Children like to do what they can do; they want to do what they think they can do, and they hate to do what they think they cannot do.  If you want excited and enthusiastic children who learn well, you must understand these key laws of motivation, and focus on the essential requirement of relevancy. If it matters, children will learn it, and if it doesn’t, they won’t.  This session will enlighten you with specific ways to find and create relevancy for children, even when they have no apparent interest.

Dan Ralphs: Unveiling Genius - Mentoring in the Scholar Phase

I don't know how many Mom's I have talked to who are secretly worried that their 14-year-old boy is still in "love of learning" phase or who struggle to know what to do with an apathetic 17-year-old. After nearly 10 years of mentoring, teaching and counseling high school age students, I have come to a handful of core ideas about what makes teens tick.  I will share how these core principles can drastically change the way you interact with your students and how you can help them unveil the genius they are so desperately wanting show the world.  

Keri Tibbetts: Journey Through Core Phase

Come take a journey through Core Phase and into Love of Learning. Learn how to give order, direction and rhyme & reason to Core Phase.  Children learn from work and play, but what gauges can we as parents and mentors set to help us determine, after a day of work and play, if it was a success?  Was it progression?  Did it lead them on toward Love of Learning?  Come find out how to let “Inspire not Require” really work, and how to apply it in your daily life.  Have you been inspiring, yet haven’t seen the fruits of your labors, and in desperation have begun requiring?  Join us as we discuss the different kinds of play that lead to Love of Learning vs. activities that invite children to remain in perpetual childhood. Come discover how to set up a rich home environment where your children will actually fall into Love of Learning on their own…naturally…boys included!

We will also be discussing how to act as mentor to your child once they begin the transition from Core Phase to Love of Learning.  Come explore the different ways in which the mentor’s role shifts when the child is inspired and ready to learn.

And finally, how to mend a broken system:  What if they were inspired to learn, and appeared to be progressing, and then it slowed down or even stopped?  What if you started late, and have a child in need of the crucial Core Phase? It is not too late to enable them to progress through the phases of learning.

If you have a child in Core Phase, or an older child who needs to “revisit” Core Phase, do not miss this seminar.