Category: communication skills

Alumni Interview with Neeya Toleman

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Post date March 10, 2026
Categories In alumni interview, Alumni Interviews, apologetics, Basecamp Live, biblical worldview, Christian education, Classical Christian, classical Christian education, classical education movement, collaborative model, communication skills, Conversations, Coram Deo Academy, Critical Thinking, Dallas Fort Worth, electric grid, electrical engineering, engineering, faith formation, hybrid classical school, John Brown University, learning how to learn, Neeya Toleman, Parent Involvement, power systems, school home church partnership, Scripture memory, senior author project, speech and rhetoric, STEM careers, time management, transmission lines, utilities

In this episode of BaseCamp Live, Davies Owens continues the alumni series with Neeya Toleman, a graduate of Coram Deo Academy in Texas who now works as an engineer helping develop major power transmission lines across the United States. Neeya shares how her classical Christian education shaped her ability to think deeply, communicate clearly, and tackle…

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Alumni Interview with Ashton Lawrence

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Post date January 20, 2026
Categories In ad hominem, alumni interview, Ambrose School, Ashton Lawrence, Basecamp Live, Baylor University, Christian school graduates, Classical Christian, classical Christian education, classical education outcomes, Common Arts, communication skills, community, Critical Thinking, davies owens, Discourses, faith and reason, fallacies, great books, Latin, liberal arts, logic class, Mentorship, Parenting, problem solving, Rhetoric, student formation, tolkien, trades and vocation, virtue, worldview formation

Many listeners have been asking for more alumni interviews, and this episode delivers. Davies Owens sits down with Ashton Lawrence, an Ambrose School graduate who joined the classical Christian world in fifth grade and stayed through graduation. Ashton reflects on the early challenges of adjusting to a more rigorous environment, the slow-burning value of logic…

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Summer Flashback: Writing and Speaking Well with Andrew Pudewa

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Post date July 1, 2025
Categories In Andrew Pudewa, articulate students, Basecamp Live, Classical Christian, classical Christian education, classical education, communication skills, Critical Thinking, Discourses, education priorities, homeschooling, Institute for Excellence in Writing, language arts, memorization, Reading Aloud, Rhetoric, speaking skills, student formation, teaching speaking, teaching writing, thinking well, vocabulary development, writing skills

Welcome to this summer flashback episode of BaseCamp Live! In today’s conversation, host Davies Owens revisits a powerful interview with Andrew Pudewa, founder and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing. In an age of shrinking vocabularies, short attention spans, and over-reliance on screens, Andrew shares why writing and speaking well are more critical than…

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