Episode 795: Tyler Bastian, Founder/Director: Roots High Charter School

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My friend Tyler Bastian joins us to talk about Roots High School (located on a 5-acre farm)—a charter school for students who need a different experience—and may have fallen through the cracks. Tyler talks about why he started the school in 2015, its focus, their mission statement around “we love you”, and what they are doing in a unique and powerful way to help each student feel purpose and belonging. Tyler also talks about the role of farm animals in the education process, how it helps individual students, and how the farm environment brings down potential barriers between groups. Tyler also talks about we love others “not by words—but how we treat them”. Tyler also shares career advice for those who may not feel comfortable in a more traditional career path—by sharing his own story find his way to start a chapter school. Thank you, Tyler, for being on the podcast and all you are doing to give student more hope, purpose, and a feeling of belonging. I’m grateful for your work—and everyone at Roots High School—and honored to have you on the podcast. Root High School: https://www.rootshigh.org/ "Everything is Incredible" https://youtu.be/oqZ56-RMbNc?si=lkoMVhvGYvMbN29L "When I Need a Friend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgkE23j_8Ss

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.1	This is the third episode we've done this week and the third episode with my horse voice.
0:14.8	So sorry about that, listeners, but you're here to hear our guests.
0:18.4	And our guests on today's podcast, this will be a content we've never covered before. We have the founder of a charter school, Roots High Charter School, located in West Valley, Utah on the podcast. My friend Tyler Bastion, welcome to the podcast, Tyler.
0:35.7	Thank you. I'm excited to be here. I've just been visiting with Tyler, and I'll give you a little bit of an podcast, Tyler. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.
0:41.3	I've just been visiting with Tyler, and I'll give you a little bit of an overview.
0:49.6	Tyler is a married father, a married husband and a father of six kids, plus another kid along they brought in.
0:54.2	He grew up in Utah or Salt Lake County.
0:58.0	He started Roots High Charter School in 2015.
0:59.8	So they're about nine years old.
1:04.1	And they're a charter school on a farm.
1:12.1	And he started this school really out of love for people and recognizing some kids kind of fall through the cracks and need a different academic experience. And it's just a very unique experience at the
1:18.2	high school level. I believe it's 9 through 12. They have about 50 or 60 that graduate a year.
1:25.1	And it's it's a public, it's funded publicly. So if you wanted to go to a
1:32.3	school like Roots, charter school, you don't have to pay separate tuition. It would just be like a
1:38.0	public school. They have a waiting list, but they also at the beginning of they're generally
1:43.2	are able to accept everybody. So you may be a parent of a waiting list, but they also, at the beginning, they're generally are able to accept everybody.
1:45.8	So you may be a parent of a kid who is having a difficult high school experience
1:50.9	or a junior high experience and live in the Salt Lake County general area and might consider
1:56.2	Roots.
1:57.6	He's not necessarily on the podcast just to invite everybody to come to Roots,
2:02.1	but I think to increase awareness of what Roots is trying to accomplish
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