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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


The Church, the School, and the Political Economy of Virtue
The Church, the School, and the Political Economy of Virtue

he final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, paints a provocative political scenario. A talking ape dresses up a talking donkey in a lion skin to impersonate Aslan. The ape hopes to rule Narnia by using the lion-donkey as… Continue Reading

Date posted06/10/2019


The Three R’s of Mathematics
The Three R’s of Mathematics

Success in mathematics requires a variety of skills, all of which are perfectly situated within classical Christian schools. Classical Christian educators can use God’s Word to help students develop these skills. Recognizing the good… Continue Reading

Date posted06/10/2019


A New Natural Philosophy: Implementing the Vision of C. S. Lewis
A New Natural Philosophy: Implementing the Vision of C. S. Lewis

Though I have not finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, its contours already feel intimately familiar. Many science fiction stories since then seem to have borrowed either slightly or generously from that 1932 cautionary tale… Continue Reading

Date posted10/1/2016


Aslan in the Academy: What C.S. Lewis Can Teach the Modern Christian Educator
Aslan in the Academy: What C.S. Lewis Can Teach the Modern Christian Educator

Louis Markos Louis Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, where he… Continue Reading

Date posted06/17/2016


More Than a Subject: the Purpose, Place and Power of Language
More Than a Subject: the Purpose, Place and Power of Language

Picture a city, established long ago through the wisdom and virtue of those who founded and built it, but gradually weakened by the long neglect of that wisdom andvirtue. Now it finds itself assaulted by a tyrannical and temperamental… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


Why Latin? Learn it for the Hypallage!
Why Latin? Learn it for the Hypallage!

For several years now, Latin has been making a steady and decided comeback. Not just classical schools, but private schools of various stripe as well as some suburban public schools, inner-city schools, and everything in between have Latin… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


What Hath Athens to Do with This Cafeteria? Debate, Rhetoric, and Psychagogia
What Hath Athens to Do with This Cafeteria? Debate, Rhetoric, and Psychagogia

You’re sitting on an uncomfortable plastic bench. You rest “spreading” (speed reading) and technical debate jargon. your arms on an equally uncomfortable plastic table. You The bad habits acquired through participation in these note the… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016


Bless and Curse Not: a Path to Loving Words Well
Bless and Curse Not: a Path to Loving Words Well

The Bible is rich with teachings about the work of our words, from lines of poetry to pastoral exhortation, from wisdom proverbs to prophetic utterances. The psalmists remind us that the tongue and lips are for the praise of God and not… Continue Reading

Date posted01/1/2016