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Former Tommy Hilfiger Marketing Director Discovers Classical Christian Education

Gordon Pennington is one of the best cultural translators out there. His life reads like a fascinating adventure novel. In his marketing days in New York as the head of marketing for Tommy Hilfiger, he was courted by MTV and jet setting with celebrities and stars including David Lee Roth, Prince Albert and Johnny Depp….

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Meet the Cultural Translators

Wouldn’t it be helpful if someone took the time to translate today’s teen culture for you… the latest cultural trends, the media and technology revolutions, even the buzzwords – and then gave you a weekly briefing on what was happening?  That’s exactly what my guest today, David Eaton, CEO and founder of Axis does as a way of helping all of…

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A Father’s Guide to Supporting the Next Generation

A school is only as successful as the home in raising the next generation. In many traditional and busy homes, mom manages “the school stuff” while dad is fully engaged in work. However, a father’s involvement is important, especially in classical Christian school homes. Which practices can fathers add to their parenting without adding guilt…

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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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When Grades Rule Your Life

The pursuit of grades is the all consuming end game for many students and parents today. Grades are the currency that our culture trades in and ultimately determine when a good education has been achieved. And in our culture, everyone deserves an “A”, or so we are encouraged to believe. Self esteem and personal values…

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Prom vs. Protocol – Afraid of Putting on Dancing Shoes? Prom A Better Way

It’s called the night that you will remember for the rest of your life… high school prom… yet for most of us, prom and other junior high and high school dances were anything but positive experiences. It doesn’t have to be this way! Join us for this episode of BaseCamp LIVE as we talk with…

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What do parents of engaged Christian teens do differently?

Barna’s VP of Research, Brooke Hempell, reveals the latest research on Gen Z’ers that shows a specific habit and rhythm among parents of engaged Christian teens that will encourage you to do the same. Generation Z (the oldest are beginning college) is the first generation to grow up completely immersed in the iphone world which…

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