
Classical Education Podcast
produced by Beautiful Teaching
Classical Education is a podcast produced by Beautiful Teaching. It is for anyone who believes in rediscovering the art of asking questions, engaging in conversation, and attending to the ideas at the heart of well-ordered teaching and learning.
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Meet the Host
Adrienne is the founder and director of Beautiful Teaching, LLC which produces the Classical Education Podcast. Her expertise is in collaborating and guiding new and established schools in classical curriculum and professional development. She has worked as a curriculum and pedagogy specialist at Coram Deo Academies of DFW, and as the Classical Education Advisor and Developer for the K-12 Curriculum and Professional Development for K-12 Project at the University of Dallas. She also served as the Director of Classical Methods for Responsive Education Solution’s district offices, helping transition over 20 Charter schools to a classical model. In each role, Adrienne has written and designed classical curriculum for K-8, collaborated with districts, boards, school leaders, and thousands of teachers, helping nearly 30 schools transition to a classical model. She has led teams creating classical professional development, leading parent education workshops, and writing customized educational materials that promote a strong virtue-based humanities curriculum for K-12 schools.
As the founder of Beautiful Teaching, Adrienne collaborates with schools around the world. She has designed custom curriculum maps and worked on various special projects and ongoing mentorship for schools. She continues to offer customized plans, professional development and connections with the right trainer or mentor based on the personal goals and mission for each school she serves.
She currently continues to manage the Beautiful Teaching projects, produce The Classical Education Podcast, and write curriculum and classical pedagogy handbooks.
Adrienne has been married to Brian for 33 years. They homeschooled all four of their children for 15 years. They are the proud and active grandparents of nine.
Adrienne was a guest on the following podcasts:
The New Mason Jar Podcast with Cindy Rollins: Charlotte Mason Methods in A Schools Setting (with Adrienne Freas)
Humility and Doxology Podcast with Amy Sloan: Classical Charlotte Mason Homeschooling (with Adrienne Freas)
Literary Life Podcast with Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins: The Literary Life of Adrienne Freas, Episode 89.
The final result of the education I want you to give your children will be, in a few words, this. They will know what it is to see the sky. They will know what it is to breathe it. And they will know, best of all, what it is to behave under it, as in the presence of a father who is in heaven.
- John Ruskin, Educator & Artist
A Living Education, pastel by Anasyasiya Fender, 2022
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