~ by Joylynn Blake and Joelle Hodge ~Generative AI (artificial intelligence) is a term for machine-learning algorithms used to generate new content that can include written text, images, audio, videos, and other content. ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney, DALL-E, and DeepMind...

~ by Edward Kotynski~There is a tendency in our society to fragment the self into separate spheres.  Each part of the self is analyzed on its own merits, often without reintegration with the whole, and these analyses are then used to provide simplistic solutions to...

~ by Sarah Marshall ~ And God said “Let there be music...” Well, not exactly. God said let there be seas; let there be birds, fish and animals; let there be rivers and fountains. But God does nothing arbitrarily so without a doubt the sounds of Creation were...

~ from Scholé Academy ~We're celebrating Father's Day with a heartfelt salute to the extraordinary fathers who are also teachers at Schole Academy! These remarkable dads embody the spirit of mentorship and guidance, bringing immense benefit and joy to their children...

~ by Chris Marchand ~Several times over the course of every school year I am filled with the same unsettling feeling: That’s it. Today’s the day. I’m finally done for. Once parents find out what we discussed in class today they’ll complain, ask me to leave, and I’ll...

~ by Peter Belfry ~Computer Programming? At a Classical Christian school? When you first hear of the concept, you may be a bit surprised. Having completed my MA in Classical Christian studies as well as having taught computer science at the college level, I have been...

~ by Catherine Wise ~As engaged parents and educators, I feel reasonably confident that most adults reading this pull from a fantastic reservoir of high quality classic children’s literature for family or classroom read-alouds. I would probably be preaching to the...

~ by Christi Seaward ~One of life’s great joys is reading classic literature where authors instruct and delight. Charlotte Brontë is one of those great authors. In her novel, Jane Eyre, Brontë delights readers with a well-crafted story of a young woman who finally...

~ by Andy Newman ~How readers approach a poem, or short story, or novel will determine what they find. There is an old saying that everything looks like a nail, if one only has a hammer. If readers engage a work from a vantage point of suspicion that the author is...

~ by Tyrone Benson ~Earlier this school year (October 2022), I penned an article published in this blog: “A Tamed Tongue As a Type of Temperance.” Its subtitle, “Self-Control in Speech,” pointed to a vital area of life to which temperance applies: language. That...

~ by Rhea Bright ~And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 12:2) Quite a few years ago (decades, to be honest!), one of my former...

~ by Monika Minehart ~A few weeks before Thanksgiving, my daughter ran up to me in the evening after looking out the front window and exclaimed with joy, “They have their Christmas tree up!” She noticed in the early darkness of the late afternoon that our neighbors...

~ by Lauren Hartke ~As a literature teacher, "What is your favorite book?" is a question that I ask my students in the first session of the year to break the ice. If I am to ask it of my students, I always need an answer of my own, in case they turn it around on me....

~ by Tyrone Benson ~“But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison” (Jas. 3:8, NASB). So proceeds a saying from the brother of our Lord, James being doubtless influenced by what Jesus had said: “It is not what enters into the mouth...

~ by Presbytera Maria Koulianos ~ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 In the Orthodox Tradition, this poignant icon painted in 1809 in Tver, Russia called "Goodwill" represents the lineage of the...