Practical Paideia

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  • Conquering The Mountain

    Conquering The Mountain

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) During the first week of Christmas break, we traveled to Tennessee with my parents and spent a few days at a cabin in the Smoky Mountains. On the last day of our trip my oldest daughter, myself, and my parents decided to do a short hike at the base of Read more

  • Lesson Plan Example – Introducing The Cardinal Virtues

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) Lesson Plan Homework Objectives/Standards – Introduction to English 7- Introduction to the four cardinal virtues  Vocab Quiz this Friday  E7.1: The student will participate in and contribute to conversations, group discussions, and oral presentationsE7.1b: Ask probing questions to seek elaboration and clarification of ideas  Objective :Enduring Understandings: The four cardinal virtues Read more

  • Dialectic Catechism

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) Dialectic Catechism – English 7 2 Peter 1:5-7  But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.  What are the three stages of the Read more

  • Rhetoric Catechism

    Summit Christian Academy Summit Christian Academy What are the stages of the trivium? The three stages of the Trivium are grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric.  What is Rhetoric? Rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case all of the available means of persuasion. How should rhetoric be used? I should think, write, and speak Read more

  • The Virtue of Argument

    Lindsey Ralls (Summit Christian Academy) The Virtue of Argument As I sat down at my computer to write this, my daughter asked me what I was writing about. Adequately explaining virtue to a 9 year old seemed like it might take more time than I wanted to devote at the moment, so I simply said, Read more

  • Promoting Student Engagement

    Promoting Student Engagement

    By changing the layout of her classroom, and introducing the idea of “participation tickets”, Anita’s 7th grade Civics students became more engaged in the discussion. 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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