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Developing a Growth Mindset
Developing a Growth Mindset

Help your students develop a different way of thinking! The way students think about learning has major implications on what and how they actually learn. We will discuss Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindsets versus fixed mindsets to… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Teaching from a Place of Rest: Christ Centered Teaching
Teaching from a Place of Rest: Christ Centered Teaching

We are counseled to, “Be diligent to enter his rest,” but what does it mean to enter His rest and how can we do so in our schools and classrooms? The answers are surprisingly practical, and unsurprisingly important. Come and reflect on how… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


14 Essential Elements of Classical Christian Mathematics Instruction
14 Essential Elements of Classical Christian Mathematics Instruction

Contextualize through storytelling; love your subject out loud; color your classroom with traditionas and routines; engage all of the senses as often as possible; contemplate truth, goodness, and beauty; present archetypes worthy of… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


What Hath Biology To Do With Physics?
What Hath Biology To Do With Physics?

In contemporary schools we often imagine that all the natural sciences fit neatly together. Casual observers sometimes assume that the scientific approach offers a simple methodology which must only be applied in each subject. But woe to… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


The Scaramental Classroom: Creating Assignments that Invite the Holy Spirit
The Scaramental Classroom: Creating Assignments that Invite the Holy Spirit

The integration of faith into the learning enviornment requires a delicate balance between guidance and permission to wrestle with core issues, including faith and doubt. Young people need leadernship but they also need the freedom to be… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Math for Goodness Sake
Math for Goodness Sake

How do we as Christian educators instill in students an appreciation for the inherent goodness of math? This question is of vital importance as many students (and, let’s be honest, some teachers) experience mathematics as confusing… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Establishing a Peace-Making Culture
Establishing a Peace-Making Culture

How much time do you spend in conflict with others at school? Whether it is teachers and parents, students and students, administrators and teachers, board members and administrators, every type of relationship in your school community has… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Latin Memory and Oration
Latin Memory and Oration

The ancients do us the great courtesy of providing many wonderful examples of orations with both invention and arrangement already selected and crafted. With these first two canons of rhetoric already in place, the use of such orations… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Practical Examples of Embodied Education and Liturgical Learning
Practical Examples of Embodied Education and Liturgical Learning

Come to this seminar to participate in a discussion about the best practices of embodied education. This conversation will be a follow-up to Jenny Rallens’s talk on classroom liturgy and virtue formation at last year’s SCL and Alcuin… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Slaying the “Cram, Test, Forget” Dragon
Slaying the “Cram, Test, Forget” Dragon

There are significant benefits to building an upper school science sequence around an introductory physics course in 9th grade. On the other hand, there are serious weaknesses and missed opportunities associated with the common practice of… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Teachers as Intellectuals, Not Technicians
Teachers as Intellectuals, Not Technicians

Many 21st century teachers view themselves primarily as technicians: they are professional educators who have been trained with a set of skills that, when correctly employed, will produce the prescribed outcomes. In this seminar, however… Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014


Grammar: Paradoxes, Divisions, Methods
Grammar: Paradoxes, Divisions, Methods

A contemplation of the first of the Liberal Arts: Some oddities about teaching it and some thoughts about learning it. Continue Reading

Date posted06/26/2014