Summer Conference 2026

Association Updates

Session 2: Shepherding Middle Schoolers into Maturity
Session 2: Shepherding Middle Schoolers into Maturity

Slides linked HERE Middle School teachers are all too familiar with the response, "oh I could never teach Middle School!" Middle School students have a poor reputation as students who are immature and never expected to grow into maturity… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Nature of Man and How it Affects the Nature of Education
The Nature of Man and How it Affects the Nature of Education

Session recording from Summer Conference 2026. Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Turn Around School: Strength, Strategy, and Gratitude
The Turn Around School: Strength, Strategy, and Gratitude

Leading a school through seasons of difficulty requires both courage and clarity. This breakout session offers practical, biblical strategies for guiding a community through challenge while sustaining gratitude and resilient hope. Through… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


Mathematics as a Language of Logic
Mathematics as a Language of Logic

Through mathematics, students learn to perceive the created world in its order, structure, and hierarchy. This breakout session considers how purposeful conversation in the elementary classroom can shape mathematics as an act of thoughtful… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Gracious Classroom - Beyond Behavior Management
The Gracious Classroom - Beyond Behavior Management

Slides HERE Behaviorism can amplify sinful tendencies by reducing the classroom to systems of control and compliance. In contrast, the shepherd teacher seeks to guide students toward rightly ordered affections, directing hearts toward God… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


Nature Study and the Liberal Arts: Experience a Lesson
Nature Study and the Liberal Arts: Experience a Lesson

Session recording from Summer Conference 2026. Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Mechanical Arts: Bodying Forth Wisdom
The Mechanical Arts: Bodying Forth Wisdom

Slides HERE In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare describes the poet whose imagination “gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.” Such language captures a task that belongs not only to poets, but to Christian educators… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Sympathetic Teacher
The Sympathetic Teacher

Slides HERE Great teachers of history and today teach through the eyes of their students. The sympathetic teacher is able to put themselves in the position of their pupils. They are able to anticipate challenges, consider motivations, and… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


Laying the Groundwork: Fund Your Master Plan Vision
Laying the Groundwork: Fund Your Master Plan Vision

Slides HERE Is your enrollment bursting at the seams? Are you holding 7th grade Latin in a broom closet, repurposing hallways as homerooms, or doubling grammar sections with no place to put them? Like many growing classical Christian… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


The Nature of Education: Classical Christian vs. Progressive
The Nature of Education: Classical Christian vs. Progressive

Session recording from Summer Conference 2026. Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


Culture and Discipline: Building a Loving, Peaceful Environment
Culture and Discipline: Building a Loving, Peaceful Environment

Slides HERE In classical, Christian education, school culture must be intentionally created and faithfully maintained. Culture is not merely what a school claims to value, but what its daily practices, rhythms, and tone produce. Every… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026


Don't Be a Silo! - Interdisciplinary Teaching & Practical Collaboration
Don't Be a Silo! - Interdisciplinary Teaching & Practical Collaboration

Classical education flourishes when disciplines converse with one another, yet teachers often labor within subject-area silos. This breakout session invites dialectic and rhetoric school faculty to recover the interdisciplinary spirit of… Continue Reading

Date posted09/18/2026