Patio Q&A With Angel Adams Parham and Anika Prather
Session recording from Summer Conference 2020. Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
Summer Conference 2020
Summer Conference 2020
Leisure is Essential for the Classical Educator
Talk to any teacher in February and they will, with slightly glazed eyes, tell you they are terribly behind on their grading. Talk to them at the end of May and they will gasp out a few exhausted comments on how they are ready to come up… Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
The Rhetoric of CCE Online
Recent developments have forced upon us the question of doing CCE online. Can it be done? Can it be done well? Is it even compatible with the classical understanding of education and it’s primary methodology of Trivium-driven learning? Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
Panel Q&A on Christian Classical Education for the World
Session recording from Summer Conference 2020. Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
Seeing God’s Glory in Our Students
After hearing this presentation, a veteran teacher of 30+ years commented that it had a more impact on how she viewed her role as a teacher than anything she had previously heard. This is the power of seeing your students as fellow image… Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
Fundraising During and After COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted how you carry out your mission as a school, and it also impacts your fundraising. If you have been overly-dependent on events, you may be re-thinking your approach. Learn a more strategic… Continue Reading
Date posted06/26/2020
New Parent Orientation
Why new parent Orientation? To emphasize the mission and the vision of the school. Review the statement of faith and highlight key information in the parent/student handbook. Goal is to remind the parents what they have agreed to do as… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020
Implementing Charlotte Mason’s Practice of Narration in the Classroom
Narration is a foundational tool of learning in which students are asked to reproduce quality content from memory. It was a simple and elegant mainstay of classical education before the factory model of the modern era crowded it out of the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020
Assessment – Friend or Foe?
National exams drive schools all over the world. Many schools measure their success and build the culture of their school around these high-pressure exams. What is the place of assessment in classical Christian schools? How do students… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020
The Grammar Classroom: Are Students Thriving
What will we learn from this current pandemic? Parents and teachers alike may realize that though grammar students might struggle from the lack of structure, they benefit greatly from the increased activity of free movement throughout the… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020
Slimming Down the Curriculum
Like so many secular schools, classical schools often pack their curriculum to include up to 10 subjects per semester spread over seven or eight periods per day. Like so many of our modern school practices, it turns out that this is not a… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020
Just the Math Facts; Not the Anxiety
Are your students struggling with basic mathematics fact recall? Memorization of basic mathematics facts is a basic principle in Classical Christian classrooms. This presentation will discuss basic facts’ instruction and how it looks in… Continue Reading
Date posted06/25/2020