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Charge What It Costs: A Primer on Financial Sustainability
Charge What It Costs: A Primer on Financial Sustainability

Every classical, Christian school claims exceptional quality, but do your finances support the claim? This seminar introduces a framework for financial sustainability, and begins to answer these questions: What does quality education… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Behavioral Health for Educators
Behavioral Health for Educators

This session is an overview of major concepts and techniques in the psychophysiology of wellness under the pressures of education. Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


The M&M's of Employment Law
The M&M's of Employment Law

Over the years we have seen administrators and boards of faith-based programs commit the M&M's of employment law. In this session we will discuss multiple legal mistakes and assumptions involving staff and how to avoid potential liability. Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


The Rhetoric Pigfest I: A Timely Idea
The Rhetoric Pigfest I: A Timely Idea

In the age of sound bites, commercialism, and the celebration of the trivial, our culture makes it difficult to dialogue about ideas. However, the popularity of coffee houses, talk radio, and Internet blogs, among other things, highlight… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Student and Parent Legal Rights
Student and Parent Legal Rights

Too often administrators, board members or directors of faith based education programs find themselves confronted with the question of what rights must the school afford students and parents. In this session we examine the legal basis for… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Writing with Excellence (Grades 1-3)
Writing with Excellence (Grades 1-3)

This workshop will explore techniques for integrating writing, style, spelling and more. Launch students into a lifetime of writing with excellence. Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Building a Classical Highschool that Students can Love
Building a Classical Highschool that Students can Love

When our students were eight-year-olds, it seemed so easy to inspire them to classical and Christian greatness. Now, they've turned fourteen and everything has changed. Can we build secondary schools that really reflect our classical and… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Classical Writing Instruction for the Modern Classroom
Classical Writing Instruction for the Modern Classroom

This seminar will examine the success of the Progymnasmata in preparing K-12 students for college level communications, written and oral. We will discuss the most efficient and effective means of taking pre-writers and preparing them for… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


The Word of a Gentleman
The Word of a Gentleman

15 rules and philosophic base for those rules approach the behavior of a gentleman less by mimicry of periods and cultures we approve and more by changing the reality, in heart, and head, of the man. In the Classical Christian school… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


The Rhetoric Pigfest II: A Timely Idea
The Rhetoric Pigfest II: A Timely Idea

The PigFest is a regular gathering of a group of people around a hosted table. PigFesters meet to indulge in great food and great conversation about the important issues of the day, and to sharpen their respective abilities to engage and… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


Integrating Writing in the Grammar Classroom (Grades 4-5)
Integrating Writing in the Grammar Classroom (Grades 4-5)

This seminar is designed to demonstrate creative ways in which to integrate writing in each of the subjects of daily instruction. Finding ways to make writing fun, practical, and engaging is a struggle in the classroom but these tips… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008


The Way of a Lady
The Way of a Lady

15 rules and philosophic underpinnings that seek to define that strong cultural presence called "the Lady". This is not for the faint of heart or head, those who seek to have Jane Austen dress up tea parties, but it is for those who wish… Continue Reading

Date posted06/27/2008