In this episode, Mosaic is joined by Eric Wearne, Director of the National Hybrid Schools Project at Kennesaw State University, for a conversation about the changing learning landscape across the United States.
Families today are navigating a growing range of options – conventional schools, homeschooling, hybrid schools, microschools, and self-directed learning environments – and many are moving among these models over time rather than following a single path.
What is driving these shifts? What are families seeking that they feel they cannot find in conventional systems? And how are new learning models emerging in response? Together, we’ll explore what is happening across the country as families rethink how, where, and why young people learn.
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Executive Director at Mosaic
A communications and storytelling leader, Bonnie works at the intersection of philanthropy, collaboration and action. She supports families, educators and partners as they explore non-traditional learning with clarity and confidence. With a background in strategy, media and movement-building, she brings a values-first approach rooted in kindness, truth, humor and integrity.
Assistant Professor & Project Director
Eric Wearne is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the National Hybrid Schools Project at Kennesaw State University. His research focuses on school choice, especially hybrid and microschools, as well as on education policy and teacher preparation. He is the author of Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America: Little Platoons (Lexington Books, 2020), the editor of a book on unconventional teacher preparation programs: New Pathways in Teacher Preparation and Certification: Perspectives on Alternative Teacher Education Methods (Routledge, 2023), and editor of the forthcoming Catholic Hybrid Schools: Supporting the “Vital Cell” of Society (2026). His academic work has been published by the Journal of School Choice, the Journal of Institutional Economics, and Home Education Researcher, among others. His work has also been covered in the Economist, Forbes, and Law & Liberty. He hosts the Community Crafted Education podcast. Eric lives in the north Georgia mountains with his wife and seven children, and helped found a hybrid high school program outside Atlanta.
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