Lindsey Ralls
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We’re at our best when we’re not teaching at all…
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) Today I substituted for 8th and 10th grade Latin. I actually don’t know any Latin (it was not a course option for the Upper School back in the day), so I went into it thinking that because I didn’t have the skills needed to teach the subject, the students would probably… Continue reading
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Virtue Based Participation
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) See below for a rubric that connects class participation with the four cardinal virtues. Continue reading
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Screwtape Letters Meets Professional Development
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) Viridis,You are correct. While it’s helpful to understand the purpose of what you are doing as a classical teacher, it actually leads to more questions rather than answers. Now you find yourself asking ‘how’. How do you teach in a way that instructs your students to love what they ought… Continue reading
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Can Ought be Taught?
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) One book that has been on my list for a long time is Mere Christianity. I think I read it in high school, but since that was quite a few years ago I’ve been wanting to pull it out again. This weekend I finally made time to pick it back up.… Continue reading
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But can we walk on Saturn?
Summit Christian Academy Seventh graders ask a lot of questions. Today, while I was sitting in Physical Science, the class was learning about the periodic table of elements. There were questions about how to pronounce a specific element or what an element is made of. There were questions about which page something was on or… Continue reading
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The Fear of Collaboration
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) If you had to pinpoint the main problem that Classical Christian Education solves, what would that problem be? I was thinking about this question over the weekend and if wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. What I realized, is that there are actually several ‘problems’ that CCE… Continue reading
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It’s the In-Between that Matters
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) During lunch today, a few of us were noticing the seventh graders. Seventh graders are loud. They are full of energy. They run everywhere (even if it’s just to the bathroom and they have 15 minutes left of lunch). They argue a lot. They don’t necessarily know how to work well… Continue reading
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Reflections from a Shadow Student
Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) Yesterday I spent the entire day as a shadow student with the 9th grade class. I sat on the floor with them before school started (where the main topic of conversation centered around the Super Bowl). I went to all four classes with them, ate lunch with them, and followed… Continue reading
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