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Using Assessments and Analytics Data to Better Support Your Teachers
Using Assessments and Analytics Data to Better Support Your Teachers

What is the ultimate goal of assessment, especially in secondary school? Is it merely to provide students with scholarship opportunities? To please the parents? To check a box? This workshop will discuss different ways that school leaders… Continue Reading

Date posted10/23/2020


Great Books: A Polaris for the African American People
Great Books: A Polaris for the African American People

Dr. Anika Prather will share a brief history on the classical study in the African American Community. Continue Reading

Date posted10/23/2020


Legal Considerations for Religious Schools During a Pandemic
Legal Considerations for Religious Schools During a Pandemic

Many religious schools have successfully returned to campus and others are moving in that direction, but all want to minimize the liability that goes along with school during a pandemic. In this session we will discuss: What considerations… Continue Reading

Date posted10/23/2020


Patio Q&A with Dr. Angel Adams Parham & Dr. Anika Prather
Patio Q&A with Dr. Angel Adams Parham & Dr. Anika Prather

Join Angel and Anika in a conversation about what brought them to classical education, how it has shaped their personal and professional lives, and how they have integrated their study of the classic tradition with the writings of black… Continue Reading

Date posted10/23/2020


Three Core Partnerships on the Board | Fri, Oct. 2
Three Core Partnerships on the Board | Fri, Oct. 2

Friday, October 2 | 11-12 pm CDT For this coaching call, John Littleford will explain why the Head and Chair, Chair and Board, and Head and Board must all function at a high level in order for any independent school to thrive. He will also… Continue Reading

Date posted09/30/2020


Telling the Stories: Classical Education and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Telling the Stories: Classical Education and the Black Intellectual Tradition

When Martin Luther King, jr., was asked which book besides the Bible he would take with him to a deserted island, he replied, “I would have to pick Plato’s Republic. … There is not a creative idea extant that is not discussed, in some way… Continue Reading

Date posted09/28/2020


Listening for Truth in a Chaotic World
Listening for Truth in a Chaotic World

2020 has been a tumultuous year, filled with challenges and heartaches we could not have imagined as we left 2019 to enter into a new year. Protests and calls for change ring in the air everywhere we turn. How are classical educators to… Continue Reading

Date posted09/21/2020


Interview with Juan Sanchez
Interview with Juan Sanchez

The issue of race is at the forefront in our culture. As classical Christian schools, we are addressing it in a variety of ways. No doubt, all of our efforts to respond faithfully are challenging. While each school aspires to be rooted in… Continue Reading

Date posted09/21/2020


Getting the Culture Right for Academic Achievement
Getting the Culture Right for Academic Achievement

Hear George Sanker’s personal story of growing up in a poor inner city neighborhood in Washington DC while attending predominantly white schools and the impact each community had on him. George Sanker George Sanker serves as Headmaster of… Continue Reading

Date posted09/15/2020


Leading and Caring for Yourself and Your Team
Leading and Caring for Yourself and Your Team

Running a school in 2020 can feel like signing up to run a marathon and then being informed during mile 25 of 26 that one is only half way done! School has started back but leaders are dealing with anything but normal. The ongoing demands… Continue Reading

Date posted09/15/2020


Trauma and Resilience – Latest Research on the Impact and Opportunities for Our Schools
Trauma and Resilience – Latest Research on the Impact and Opportunities for Our Schools

We are in more than the education business. We are co-laborers with parents and churches in the student development business. And whether we like it or not the swirl of a pandemic, urban and racial unrest, not to mention general life, work… Continue Reading

Date posted09/15/2020


Fear, Faithfulness, and Fatigue with Fundraising During Covid-19
Fear, Faithfulness, and Fatigue with Fundraising During Covid-19

During the pandemic the need for fundraising dollars has increased but our ability to raise funds in the “typical” event driven way has been eliminated causing fear within the leadership of our schools. During this presentation evidence of… Continue Reading

Date posted09/15/2020