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Scholé Academy Blog

Restful, Classical, Learning, Online. Scholé Academy offers live, online courses that pair a classical curriculum with the pedagogy of restful learning (scholé). Our instructors foster deep engagement to cultivate learning that lasts.

Temperance and Harmony

Temperance and Harmony

~ 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...

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Let There Be Music

Let There Be Music

~ 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...

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Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day

~ 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...

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Embracing Imperfection

Embracing Imperfection

~ 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...

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Logic & Art of Computer Programming

Logic & Art of Computer Programming

~ 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...

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Modern-Yet Worthy-Children’s Books

Modern-Yet Worthy-Children’s Books

~ 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...

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Running Toward Temperance

Running Toward Temperance

~ 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...

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On Reading Charitably

On Reading Charitably

~ 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...

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“One Unified and Ordered Whole” in Latin Teaching

“One Unified and Ordered Whole” in Latin Teaching

~ 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...

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The Renewing of our Minds

The Renewing of our Minds

~ 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...

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The Beatitudo of Christmas Lights

The Beatitudo of Christmas Lights

~ 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...

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Odysseus and Advent

Odysseus and Advent

~ 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....

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On Sophrosyne: An Orthodox Christian Perspective

On Sophrosyne: An Orthodox Christian Perspective

~ 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...

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