How do we motivate kids to be high achievers? What qualities do teens wish they saw more of in their own educations? How do you know when your kid has a great teacher? How does school impact a teen's anxiety? On the More Than Just a School podcast we investigate the answers to these questions and more. When MTJAS host Karen Lock Kolp's kids needed something different in their education, she and her husband Benjamin Kolp (MTJAS producer) found Bay State Learning Center, a nurturing community of creative, self-directed learners. Their teen sons started there - and LOVED it. Karen and Ben immediately noticed amazing changes in the boys! But when they tried to tell friends, relatives, people who care about their sons, why this new school was different...they couldn't. They didn't have the words. This podcast changes all that. Come along on this quest to find out what works in secondary education...and what doesn't...and why.

Latest episodes of the podcast More Than Just a School

• Getting Teens to Talk to Grown-ups: a Conversation with Blake Boles | Podcast Episode 5
• What motivates kids to learn? Talking with BSLC Director George Popham | Podcast Episode 4
• One teenager's educational must-have: A conversation with BSLC student Max K. | Podcast Episode 3
• How to know when your kid has a great teacher | Podcast Episode 2
• High School, High Anxiety | Podcast Episode 1