Month: April 2018

Portrait of A Graduate: A Thirteen Year Proposition

Our guest today is Eric Cook, Head of School at Covenant Classical School in Fort Worth, TX and Executive Director of the Society for Classical Learning (SCL). He addresses the question: What do we want for our graduates at the end of thirteen years? Many classical schools articulate and even publish the goals of their graduates,…

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5 Graduates, 5 Colleges, 1 Year Later – Thoughts on K-12

Students from MIT, two Classical Christian colleges, one “Christian” college and one state school discuss their experience their first year after graduating. They answer questions like: Did you feel prepared from your K-12 classical Christian School? Knowing what you know now, what questions should one ask when evaluating a college to attend?  What has been…

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Raising Kids Who Love Christ – Making the worlds of Home, Church and School Connect

Raising the next generation is a team effort. Yes, school and yes, church, but what can we do at home to create an environment that helps develop a bold and confident faith in Christ?  Parents choose their church, and classical Christian schools work “in loco parentis” or under the authority of the parent. So how…

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Education is 99% Habits and 1% Knowledge

Classical Christian parents and educators are fond of saying “education is more than information – it is formation”… but what does formation really look like in a practical way? 100 years ago British educator Charlotte Mason wrote on how affections and habits are formed, noting what neuroscientists are now claiming as a new discovery! Our…

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