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The Cambridge School is an oasis of classical Christian learning in a community of driven professionals. But ten minutes down the road, migrants and refugees have a very different experience. Service is one of our core values, but God had… Continue Reading
One topic unique to the collaborative school model is the issue of student workload on non-campus days. Multiple factors compound the question of what amount of work is appropriate to assign for student learning apart from a traditional… Continue Reading
Over 20 years ago, historian Gertrude Himmelfarb asserted in her One Nation, Two Cultures that “America is confronting at least six challenges: ‘the collapse of ethical principles and habits, the loss of respect for authorities and… Continue Reading
Session recording from Summer Conference 2021. Continue Reading
It’s all in the philosophy. When we isolate grammar, we pull it from its natural context, its relationship to the words a student writes. By fastening grammar instruction to writing and immediate need, Constance Weaver’s Teaching Grammar… Continue Reading
Throughout the past two years, standards-based grading has become a focus of assessment and learning in my classroom. There is a shift that takes place in mindset which then changes assessment practices in the classroom. As part of this… Continue Reading
Socratic methods aren’t just for high school! In this session, you will learn how to utilize Socratic methods to facilitate rich discussions in your grammar school classroom. Teachers will learn how to implement Socratic-based teaching… Continue Reading
This workshop aims to tackle the biggest challenges that are particular to classical collaborative schools, then consider some ways that collaborative schools have responded. We’ll look at issues such as part-time faculties, parental… Continue Reading
On any given day, a HOS faces countless difficult conversations. Whether with students, parents, faculty, staff, administration, board, etc., at any moment yet another challenge for how to negotiate conversations that can spiral out of… Continue Reading
What is it like to teach Upper School–or Rhetoric School, or High School, or even Logic School–in a collaborative model? Do you have enough time to cover everything? How do you spend the campus days? What sorts of things do the students do… Continue Reading
In this workshop I will present how I strive to help my biology students see reality in terms of Aristotle’s four causes instead of modern sciences reduction of reality to only the material and efficient. Applying four causes to modern… Continue Reading
Classical schools can choose to keep their rhetoric and theology curriculum in separate tracks or to blend them into one. This workshop will present the benefits and ways of weaving these courses together from 9th-11th grade to build both… Continue Reading
