Practical Paideia

Making Pedagogy Palpable

All Things Classical

  • It’s all well and good…

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) One of the things I find myself often correcting my students (and my own kids) on, is their use of the word ‘good’. Frequently they say things like, “I think I did pretty good on that math test” or “practice went good”. I always remind them that they’re using the Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • Virtue Based Participation

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) See below for a rubric that connects class participation with the four cardinal virtues. Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • But can we walk on Saturn?

    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 Read more

What we’re all about

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 

Paideian – A paideian is an individual shaped by or committed to the principles of paideia,

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