Posts from the Scholé Academy blog.
An iconographer on why the anonymous medieval craftsman had it right, and how humility and persistence free a student to pick up the pencil.
The gift of fortitude: the Spirit-filled boldness of Noah, Esther, Peter and John, and what it means for a student learning to speak the truth.
Fr. Christopher Marchand on what it cost Mary and Joseph to say yes, and the quiet, long fortitude that every parent is called to.
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.
Courage and truth depend on each other. A classical educator reflects on speaking truth in a fearful age and on how rhetoric teaches students to persuade toward the…
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.
