Take a Peek Inside a ZipCast

Take a moment to find a quiet place and experience a ZipCast for yourself! This is a real ZipCast from the 2024-25 school year giving you an example of what parents all over the country hear driving to school weekly.

Sample Parenting Syndicated Segments:

  • Uses gardening metaphor to describe parenting

  • Schools partner with parents to nurture growth

  • Education as soul transfer from one generation to the next

  • Focus on being friendly rather than making friends

  • Tips: eye contact, remembering names, asking questions

  • Friendship starts with kindness and genuine interest

  • Fire on the stove becomes a teachable moment

  • Covers calling 911, first aid, and staying calm

  • Family practice builds confidence in crisis response

  • Distinguishes between adult privacy and child safety

  • Advocates for parental device checks as loving oversight

  • Encourages open dialogue, not surveillance

Sample Classical Life Syndicated Segments:

  • Ancient technique to boost memory using spatial association

  • Practical tips on building and using a memory palace

  • Promotes physical movement to enhance retention

  • Engaging summary of Beowulf's epic battles and themes

  • Encourages parent-child conversations about heroism and legacy

  • Highlights timeless values of courage and duty

  • Defines grammar, logic, and rhetoric in classical education

  • Explains how these work together across child development

  • Emphasizes forming students who think and live wisely

  • Justice is more than fairness—it's rooted in righteousness

  • Connects divine justice to Christ’s resurrection

  • Calls students to live justly in daily life and society

  • Rhetoric is essential for persuasion with moral responsibility

  • Equips students to wield words truthfully in a post-truth world

  • Echoes Augustine’s view of rhetoric as a tool for truth-telling

  • Virtue is the fruit of grace, not a substitute for it

  • Builds toward Christlikeness in students

  • Encourages parents to pair grace with high expectations

Sample Because You Asked Syndicated Segments:

  • Classical grads succeed across diverse fields—from law to homemaking

  • Emphasizes learning how to learn and soft skills development

  • Poetic imagination and wisdom prepare students for future innovation

  • Western culture shapes the world we navigate daily

  • Great books provide timeless wisdom for present and future

  • Recommends starting with C.S. Lewis to engage with the canon

Sample On the Journey Syndicated Segments:

  • Honest story of wanting to leave classical education in 6th grade

  • Realized the value of meaningful conversation and deep thinking

  • Credits classical ed with strong communication and reasoning skills

  • Parents can lead spiritually even with lower Bible IQ

  • Presence and faithfulness matter more than knowledge

  • Jesus' parents as an encouraging example

  • Marked his son's 13th birthday with a Bible and journal

  • Weekly quiet times encouraged reflection and maturity

  • Godly manhood is formed by intentional design

  • Lions are bold, driven leaders who take initiative

  • Strengths include decisiveness and accountability

  • Warns of becoming overly intense—leadership must be wise and kind

  • Reenergized by classical education after years of teaching

  • Story of a student deeply impacted by Tale of Two Cities

  • Books as tools for forming virtuous, thoughtful adults

  • Create joyful, structured homework routines

  • Keep older kids nearby for communal learning

  • Incentivize good habits with fun, family-oriented rewards

  • Budgeting must feel rewarding to be effective

  • Uses a personal story: trading eating out for a Maui trip

  • Emphasizes delayed gratification and family financial goals

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    — School Administrator

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    — ZipCast Parent

  • “Zipcast has been a great addition to our school community, adding a different option for parents to engage and get information other than every school's everlasting emails!”

    — School Administrator