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HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully AliveTom Cox on Being a Faculty of Friends: Making Schools into CommunitiesThe joy of "being known here" is not just for the students. When a faculty cultivates friendship, it benefits the entire school community. Tom Cox has been a middle and upper school Latin and Greek teacher at The Heights since 2009. Tom also hosts The Forum Faculty Podcast, now in its second year, which gives a slice of teacher breakroom culture: the kinds of conversations, rapport, and friendship that are born of our shared work and life as teachers. Tom joins us today to talk about how important faculty friendship is to making a school into a community...
2025-10-301h 06
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully AliveMentoring without a Program: Joe Cardenas on Teaching the Whole PersonAt the heart of teaching is the desire to make an impact on the lives of one's students. Beyond conveying useful information or training them in resume-building skills, great teachers wish to help their students live well—to be fully alive. Such a task, difficult as it may be, is what mentoring is all about. Yet most schools may not have a formal mentoring program. In these circumstances, how can teachers, who wish to help their students in ways that go beyond math or language arts, mentor students? To help us answer this question, we welc...
2023-04-2834 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in SeasonGuest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, and her latest, The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season.
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2022-12-0659 min
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully AliveFoundations for Mentoring Struggling Students: On Fighting the Right FiresContinuing with the theme of mentoring, this week Mr. David Maxham discusses how we, as parents and teachers, can better mentor struggling students by taking a step back and focusing on the basics. He offers three practical guideposts for these wonderful guys to strive for as they take steps toward becoming the man they were made to be. We remain, as always, optimistic. After establishing a relationship of trust with your mentees, Mr. Maxham recommends helping our boys structure their days around the following three key moments: Waking up in the morning Midday break Going to sle...
2021-12-0226 min
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully AliveOn Friendship after Senior Year: Higher Stakes and Beautiful OpportunitiesWhat is present in every Platonic dialogue, the subject of one of Cicero's famous letters, and the kind of relationship Christ wished to have with his twelve apostles and with each of us? It is friendship. From facebook friends to philosophic treaties, 70's songs to Tennyson poems, we hear about friendship in many different contexts. But what is authentic friendship? How do we foster it? How do we help our children grow in their friendships? And in the end, how do we help them grow in the friendship of all friendships, namely that with Our Lord?
2021-05-2551 min
Blue Star UnionBlue Star Union - Ep. 040 - Andreas XirtusBoard member David Maxham makes his triumphant return as we welcome special guest Andreas Xirtus
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2021-02-2059 min
Teach Different"Men are born to succeed, not fail." Teach Different with Henry David Thoreau - PerseveranceDo we have control over our own success?
Setting aside the 19th century gender-biased language and applying the wisdom to all students, Thoreau is saying something important about success and positive thinking. If students believe they can succeed, then they are halfway home. The power of positive thinking is undeniable. But, failure is also crucial for human development. Students must find a balance here between positive thinking and acceptance of their imperfections. Only then will they learn how to persevere.
Join Dan and Steve Fouts for a conversation about perseverance using the Teach Different 3-Step M...
2021-01-2709 min
J. A. Bowman's Personal PodcastsEpisode 13 - Emerson and ThoreauIn this episode I provide some foundation for your study of Emerson and Thoreau. Though I cover a lot of ground, there is still much, much more to study. These are not easy texts, so my goal is to give you the foundations you need to properly engage with the texts rather than, as with some of the prior readings, walking you through them point by point. As you listen, consider how the ideas in the texts challenge your understanding of the world, reality, and worship. By seeing these concepts as a living part of our world, you will...
2020-10-2530 min
Teach Different"Disobedience is the foundation of liberty." Teach Different with Henry David Thoreau - Civil DisobedienceShould we have the freedom to disobey rules?
Some people think that freedom gets in the way, that we should all conform because that's what rules are for. Ask Henry David Thoreau and you'll get a very different response to this question. Disobeying is exactly what we should be doing. That's what freedom is. Which argument wins out when it comes to wearing masks in a pandemic?
Join Steve and Dan Fouts for an unforgettable conversation about civil disobedience that you can recreate in your classroom using the Teach Different 3-Step Method.
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2020-06-2210 min
Intangible Assets The IP Law Section Podcast2: Larry Maxham on 50+ Years of Patent LawWelcome to Intangible Assets: The IP Law Section Podcast, a podcast for & about the California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Law Section, hosted by David Lizerbram. Today's guest is Lawrence A. Maxham, the founder of the San Diego patent law firm, The Maxham Firm. Larry has been practicing patent and trademark law for more than fifty years and has been involved with the IP Law Section for many of those years, so I hope you’ll find his insights over the evolution of IP law and the IP Law Section as fascinating as I did. If you wa...
2019-11-0521 min
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully AliveMathematics: The Lost Liberal ArtDavid Maxham explores the role of Mathematics in a Liberal Arts education. Contrary to popular perception, the Liberal Arts include a robust commitment not only to mathematics, but to a mathematical way of thinking. We don't achieve this for our students, however, simply by slogging through the usual progression of math courses. The mathematical art of liberty must be nurtured, and Dave offers some thoughts on what that looks like here.
2019-02-1445 min