A Delectable Education is back for its Tenth year! We have grown a lot over these past 9 years, and so has the Charlotte Mason Community. We are honored to be here sharing with you all still. In this episode we are sharing some big announcements like our 5th Annual Parents' Educational Course Reading List, our 5th Annual Online Conference (coming February 2025) and new Teacher Helps and Training Videos to help your school year go smoothly. We're glad you're here with us.

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell -- 2025 ADE Book Club selection. Living Book Press has produced a special edition just for our book club.

Every Moment Holy, Volume 3

Living Book Press: Our first ever season-long sponsor!

Charlotte Mason Digital Collection

2024-25 Parents' Educational Course: A suggested reading list curated for the modern CM educator

Teacher Helps: Products we've created to help you plan, forecast, and implement lessons

Physical Geography Teacher Helps

History Tools Planner

Folk Dance Resource

A Short Grammar of the English Tongue, Year 2

Short Talks Collection

Teacher Training Videos

Good and Dangerous Books, Jono Kiser

CM Through High School, Nicole Williams

Instructing the Conscience, Jessica Becker

Form 1 Natural History Demo Lesson

Form 2 Geography Demo Lesson

Form 2 Dictation Demo Lesson

ADE at HOME 2025: Our fifth annual {Virtual} Conference, check back for more details in November. Registration begins November 29, 2024. February 7-8, 2025 through May 7, 2025.

ADE's Patreon Community

The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also provide a great number of helpful episodes and resources as you plan for the upcoming school year. The episode closes with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead.

“Every mother, especially, should keep a diary in which to note the successive phases of her child’s physical, mental, and moral growth, with particular attention to the moral.” (2/105-106)

Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections

Seasonal Reflection Questions

Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method

Episodes by Topic

ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following)

Teacher Training Videos

ADE's Patreon Community

Parents' Educational Course

Episode 232: Forecasting Lessons -- How to plan

Forecasting Teacher Training Video

Form Overviews:

• Form IB Overview
• Form IA Overview
• Form IIB Overview
• Form IIA Overview
• Form III Overview
• Forms IV-VI Overview

Subjects By Form

Episode 162: Creating Your Own CM Curriculum

Curriculum Templates

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Your Curriculum

Schedule Cards

Episode 264: The Time-Table

Episode 33: Scheduling a CM Education

Awaken: Living Books Conference July 26-27, 2024

There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.

"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)

"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)

"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)

Beauty & Truth Math

Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?

Episode 182: Visualization

Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method

Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum

Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books

ADE's Patreon Community