~ 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...

~ by Joanne Schinstock, Presb. Maria Koulianos, and Rhea Bright ~From the inception of Scholé Academy in 2014, Dr. Perrin’s vision included three houses of studies to provide students and their families places unique to each of the Christian traditions - Anglicanism,...

~ by Lisa Jacobson ~Children have beautiful eyes. I love to look long and hard into them: the mirror of their souls. This gift of lovely eyes is from God, of course. How often are those beautiful eyes taught to really see beauty? Are they looking and appreciating the...

~ by Joanne Schinstock ~This summer I’ve been reading In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden. The premise of the book centers on the protagonist, Phillipa Talbot, a middle-aged woman who leaves her job, her friends, and her London life-style to join a cloistered order...

~ by Alison Johansen ~ One of my favorite poets, Robert Frost, is known for saying what has been proven to be true for me time and time again: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”   It is true, isn’t it? If you’ve cried over or been moved by a poem,...

~ by  Angelique Chaverri ~For many, reading is one of the great joys of life. We find adventure, beauty, insight into the human condition, new skills, and even the courage to face the dragons in our own lives.  Homeschooling families often delight in read-alouds while...