Reflections on restful classical learning from the instructors and staff of Scholé Academy.
Study routines and lesson plans matter, but they are not the foundation. This reflection asks what place prayer and fortitude have in teaching and learning.
How do you teach fortitude to a six-year-old? A grammar school teacher finds the answer in stories, guided drawings, handwork and the patience of a garden.
Grades can feel at odds with restful learning. A parent and teacher explains how assessment, done as communication about growth, serves human flourishing rather than fighting it.
Debate comes from a Latin word for beating, discussion from one for shaking apart. Amy Morgan asks what lets us welcome, rather than resist, a question that shakes…
Amanda Reeves on why she still studies Latin after 18 years: not test scores or vocabulary, but the strange closeness of Seneca across two thousand years.
What we practice shapes what we love. A Scholé Academy teacher explains why she opens every online class with art, sacred music, prayer and Scripture, and what that…
Showing your work is more than a guard against cheating. A Scholé Academy math teacher on why every solution is an argument that trains students in ordered thinking…
Classic children's stories capture the imagination and form the heart. A Scholé Academy teacher explains how great books teach the four cardinal virtues.
The traditions families keep at Christmas are the ones they hope their children will carry on. An Anglican priest offers a pattern of worship, celebration, service and rest…
Justice pays each person what is due, and slander withholds it. A reflection on reclaiming the gift of words as instruments of love rather than weapons.
Amy Morgan on how the patient work of writing orders our thoughts toward truth, with Frederick Douglass as her guide to justice.
A toddler's trust and delight point to the two virtues every liberal arts education rests on. A teacher and new mother explains how to nurture piety and wonder…
