Where Have All The Parents Gone?
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Date posted06/28/2018
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Classical Christian Education as a Mission Strategy in Africa
Africa may be reached by the gospel, but Africans say that Christianity “is 2000 miles wide and a centimeter deep.” In the next 30 years, one out of every two human beings will be born in Africa. Should we not be concerned? That explosive… Continue Reading
Date posted06/28/2018
Studying Rhetoric for College Success
Rhetoric seeks to prepare students to “observe all the available means” of persuasion, enabling them to more easily master every kind of writing from analytical reports to argumentative essays. Sadly, many high school educators seek only… Continue Reading
Date posted06/9/2018
Whence Rhetoric for The Good Life?
Most, if not all, classical educators acknowledge the importance of rhetoric in the curriculum of the liberal arts. Many also recognize that the skills of rhetoric are not limited to one or two classes taken on the subject of persuasive… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
How a Catechism Can Transform Your Classroom/The Good Life in Confessional: Nominalism vs. Wonder
Aside from secularism, nominalism is the villain most commonly blamed by Christians for all that is wrong with the world. What is nominalism? The lukewarm Christian is nominal. The mediocre Christian is nominal. The nominal Christian is… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
A Theology of Knitting? Bonaventure, the Common Arts, and the Human Good
One of the most remarkable features of contemporary culture is that many of the “common” (mechanical) arts of tangible making that were once understood to be practical, now seem useless. The practitioners of almost any common art today… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
The Role of Faculty in Re-Enrollment
Are you an admission office of one? Or an admission office of five? What if you could harness the power of your entire faculty and staff? In this session, we will explore the role of faculty in re-enrollment and retention and how you can… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
Cicero on The Good Life and His Influence on the Modern World
The first entrance requirement to Harvard College in 1642 was to be “able to read Tully or such like classical Latin Author ex tempore.” Tully is Cicero. Why did Harvard and other Colonial colleges want students to read Cicero’s writings… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
Style and Substance: Preparing Seniors for Their Thesis Defense
Many classical Christian schools rightly expect their seniors to prepare, present, and defend thoughtful, clearly written, and well-argued senior theses. We do a great deal over the course of their education to prepare them intellectually… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
A Classroom Full of Embodied Beings: How Does That Change Our Pedagogy? Part II
This session will build heavily on Part 1. If we understand embodied cognition, how does that create a paradigm shift in our pedagogy? We will explore the sensory and motor systems of our human makeup, classroom strategies, handwriting… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
Cross-Curricular Integration in the Lower School Latin Classroom
This workshop will present specific strategies on integrating Latin into every core content area of a Lower-School classical Christian curriculum. Demonstrating for students the relevance of Latin instruction on History, Science, Math… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017
Habits of Mind and Singapore Math
Whether you are implementing Singapore Math or are simply looking to improve the math culture in your school, this session is for you. Changing the way math is taught requires more than just a change of textbooks. A successful transition… Continue Reading
Date posted06/24/2017