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A Curriculum Guide with Purpose
by Lindsey Ralls More often than not, our curriculum guides look a lot like the ones in the public school classroom down the street. But, if we want our classrooms and our students to be different, then our curriculum guides should as well! The attached guide is for a Chorus Unit. Notice it’s connections to… Read more
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The One Pager
Lindsey Ralls As you onboard new teachers and even new families, it’s important to have a document that outlines what education looks like at your school. Classical Christian Education is becoming an ocean, rather than a stream. And while this is a great thing, it can sometimes feel overwhelming to wade through the varieties of… Read more
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Chat GPT is no William Tyndale
by Lindsey Ralls This morning, our chapel speaker didn’t use any Power Point slides. She explained that while she normally loved a good slide show, she wanted us all to read our passages from our physical Bibles, rather than just relying on the screen. She talked about William Tyndale, who translated the Bible into English… Read more
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In Ten Words Or Less
by Lindsey Ralls Chances are, at some point in the last week you told someone that your kids just started school and that it’s a classical school. And chances are, they probably asked you what that means. “ “Well… ” you began. And then it got kind of tricky. Is it about paideia? (You’re pretty sure you’ve… Read more
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Flourishing In The Face Of Injustice
Bringing Black History Month to a Classical School – Lindsey Ralls The attached document outlines several ways in which a classical school can honor black history month while also moving their dialectic and rhetoric students towards making connections between history, injustice, and the idea of human flourishing. While there are multiple ways in which this… Read more
Where Paideia starts to feel possible…
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Pai·deia (noun) – The upbringing of a child
Prac·ti·cal (adjective) – Concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with simply theory and ideas
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