Cultivate: A Veritas Academy Podcast

We pour so much into our kids - as parents and educators alike - and we know that the whole point is for them to be then be able to pour out blessing to others as they go into the world carrying the light of Christ. In this episode, Ty Fischer talks with Veritas Director of Service Anna Martin. We'll get to know some of her story (which includes running an orphanage in Guatemala and fostering a re...

Meet Johnny and Lily, two of our Class of 2022 graduates, who stopped by to chat with Head of School Ty Fischer before heading off to college about how their different experiences at Veritas shaped and prepared them for the next phase of life. With one coming from the perspective of a student who transferred into Veritas in high school as a junior, and the other who began as a kindergartener and w...

Math doesn't have to be dry and daunting. In fact, this conversation will help awaken you to how amazing and wonderful it really is! For anyone who ever decried themselves as being poor at math, or any parent working to help a child with their math homework, it's an incredible thing to realize that math is, in fact, profoundly beautiful and exciting when you're guided through it with the right len...

We're "going there" in this episode. That is, we're addressing Critical Race Theory and its place in education...while modeling and discussing how we talk about such tough and sensitive issues with those who hold opposing viewpoints.  Cultivate host and Veritas Head of School Ty Fischer is joined by three other Veritas faculty and administrators to talk about how we can prepare this generatio...

Parents all across the country and within our local school community are gearing up to take their young adult children off to college soon. It's a tumultuous time in anyone's life, and we all hope that our kids can hold fast to the faith they've built while they've been home. This week on our podcast, Veritas alumna Victoria DeWeese talks with Ty Fischer about a particularly turbulent experience s...

We invite author, pastor, and speaker Dr. Tedd Tripp to talk with our host Ty Fischer about how Christian parents can relate with their older children and teens. Ted's well-known book, Shepherding a Child's Heart, is often remembered for its call on parents to establish Godly, firm but loving authority with their young children, but the second part of the book covers how that relationship changes...

As believers, we were created for community. And in a time when face-to-face, IRL conversations and meetups have been too often replaced with virtual conversations (Zoom calls, anyone?), it's crucial that we grasp and embrace continual time around the table with the people in our lives.  Join us in this inspiring conversation with special guest Katharine Savage, Head of School at Philadelphia...

In this episode, we welcome artist and author Ned Bustard to talk with Ty Fischer about why it's worth helping students to understand, seek, love, and appreciate true beauty. If classical Christian education is all about truth, beauty, and goodness, how does something like beauty - which can seem to some as superfluous and subjective - fit into a life well lived? About Our Guest: Ned Bustard is a...

Ty Fischer and Graham Dennis unpack the great transcendentals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and how a student's education can point them toward these three worthy values. Listen in as Ty and Graham talk with us about the ways that classical education cultivates students who love and seek that which is true, good, and beautiful all their lives.

Cultivate podcast host and Veritas Head of School Ty Fischer talks with his co-host Graham Dennis, Veritas Dean of Students and Omnibus/Rhetoric Teacher about the question: what is the point of school? Pointing us back to the ancient biblical and Greek concept of "paideia," Ty and Graham talk with us about an education that does more than just teach necessary subjects, but seeks to mature kids and...