Scholé Academy Principals Dr. Joylynn Blake and Presbytera Maria Koulianos invite parents and community members to sit down with them over a warm cup and consider how to cultivate a “Lightness of Spirit” amidst cultural temptations toward frenzy and anxiousness. Come visit with us and be refreshed.

 

Aquinas House of Studies assists families in forming the hearts and minds of students aided by the study of Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Liberal Arts tradition. We welcome your family to join us at our open house and learn how Aquinas House of Studies can help prepare you for the 2023-2024 school year with a knowledge of important new courses you’ll want to look for this year! Connect with us at this open house and prepare for a year of restful learning in a Christ-centered culture, award-winning courses, and family-oriented community.

 

What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual practice that deepens our faith? Award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson shows readers how to reap the spiritual benefits of reading. She argues that the simple act of reading can help us learn to pray well, love our neighbor, be contemplative, practice humility, and disentangle ourselves from contemporary idols. In her accessible and engaging style, Jessica will outline several ways Christian thinkers–including Augustine, Julian of Norwich, Frederick Douglass, and Dorothy L. Sayers–approached the act of reading. By learning to read for the love of God, readers can discover not only a renewed love of reading but also a new, vital spiritual practice to deepen their walk with God.

Come and see Well-Ordered Language at Scholé Academy! Learn more about this rich, interactive, delightful English grammar study, available as a live, online course. Scholé Academy Classroom Experience events highlight live classroom activities with a veteran Scholé Academy instructor. We host these events to provide prospective students and their families with an inside look at Scholé Academy’s culture, community and pedagogy. On March 17, please join us for a special focus on our Grammar department, featuring instructor Alison Grace Johansen. Alison has always loved the written word and the sounds they make in poetry and songs, which happen to be a delightful part of the Well-Ordered Language curriculum! She hopes to inspire her students to discover the many ways they can use their own words to express themselves with truth, goodness and beauty. Scholé Academy Classroom Experience events highlight live classroom activities with a veteran Scholé Academy instructor. We host these events to provide prospective parents and families with an inside look at Scholé Academy’s culture, community and pedagogy.

Scholé Academy Classroom Experience events highlight live classroom activities with a veteran Scholé Academy instructor. We host these events to provide prospective parents and families with an inside look at Scholé Academy’s culture, community and pedagogy. Come experience an upper school physics class with an instructor who is passionate about showing students how the relationship between faith and science is not one of conflict but of qualified agreement. Join the discussion on Physics through the lens of Newton’s Universal law of Gravity based on the Novare Physics texts in this exciting Classroom Experience.

Scholé Academy Classroom Experience events highlight live classroom activities with a veteran Scholé Academy instructor. We host these events to provide prospective parents and families with an inside look at Scholé Academy’s culture, community and pedagogy. Come experience an upper elementary/middle school math class with an instructor who endeavors to assist students toward a deeper love for learning and to appreciate the beauty of mathematics through study of concrete and abstract thinking. Explore with us “the language with which God has written the universe” from its daily practical use to the wonder of the subject.

 

Join us as Elizabeth Crispina Johnson presents on Saint Raphael, the Holy Shepherd of Brooklyn: His Life, Legacy, and Lessons. Listen to the conversation surrounding St. Raphael’s commitment to simply doing his work, that of serving others, engaging in the struggles of those around him showing them kindness and compassion, and how this “doing” can lead to spiritual growth.

 

Scholé Academy welcomes your family to join us on Tuesday, February 7th for our 2023-2024 Open House. Learn how your family can join our community who pursues Christian education through the time-tested classical pedagogy. Families choose us because of our restful, engaging, live online courses hosted by talented instructors in every discipline. 

Our open house will prepare you to register for the 2023-2024 school year with a knowledge of The Great Hall and our Houses of Studies as well as important new courses you’ll want to look for this year! Connect with us at this open house and prepare for Scholé Academy’s Christ-centered culture, award-winning courses, and family-oriented community. 

Come experience an upper school history session and learn about Humanities offerings for grades 4-12. Through literature and historical texts, this rich program offers a contemplative learning experience that engages students in discussion and reflection on various expressions of human nature.

Scholé Academy Classroom Experience events highlight live classroom activities with a veteran Scholé Academy instructor. We host these events to provide prospective parents and families with an inside look at Scholé Academy’s culture, community and pedagogy.

Start the New Year out with a reflection application of “Why St. Thomas Aquinas Matters in 2023”.

Dr. Boyle writes on Thomas Aquinas and Thomas More and published a lost work of Thomas Aquinas. A graduate of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Aquinas Medal from the University of Dallas, and delivered the Aquinas Lecture at the National University of Ireland.

 

In C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Professor Kirke laments the dreary landscape of modern education with the famous quip, “It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?” An essential touchstone of Plato’s and Lewis’ shared educational vision is the preeminence of instilling moral and intellectual virtue in our students. But to what end? Too many classical educators teach only to the dutiful part of our student’s souls, but virtue is also for delight. If we were made for infinite joy, how do we cultivate Christian happiness as well as holiness? In this talk, Heidi White draws from Plato and Lewis to cast a vision for virtuous delight guided by ancient understandings of beauty and temperance.  

 

Did you join us for the fall college night on November 28th? In that round table panel, we discussed the value of a liberal arts education and the relationship between formation and vocational preparation. Join us for part 2 of that conversation on January 12th!

When you’re in the mood for a movie, how do you choose what you’ll watch? Given that the average American now spends more than a hundred hours every year just scrolling through Netflix menus, it is safe to assume that most Americans don’t know how to pick a movie. The way in which Christians choose what to watch is quite complicated. They want to be entertained, they want to be enlightened, but they also want to keep their finger on the cultural pulse of the country. What considerations ought to have top priority?

In this lecture, Joshua Gibbs reads the first chapter of Love What Lasts, his sprawling new book about how we choose what to watch, read, eat, wear, worship, and listen to. The first chapter of Love What Lasts is all about film—how film has changed since the 60s, how Christian viewing strategies have changed in the last generation, and what sort of questions confront the man who now has unlimited viewing options. If you often find yourself debating what to watch, are regularly disappointed with your choices, or simply want to have better taste in film—or better taste in general—this reading from Love What Lasts will help get you thinking in a new direction.

Join the Scholé Academy Tutoring Center on Dec. 5 to learn more about private courses, tutoring services, and learning difference support offered through the Center for Students with Learning Differences all with the same commitment to Classical education and restful engagement in a live, online setting!

Our LIVE Open House event will include these highlights:

 

• Scholé Academy Tutoring Center Overview (with SA Director and Principal Joanne Schinstock and Tutoring Center Manager Charissa Sethman)
• Discussion of Scholé Academy Philosophy and Tutor Profile
• Snapshot of Services Offered and How Those Look in Various Disciplines

• Testimonies from students, families, and tutors
• Q&A with the manager, principal, tutors, and special needs instructors

 

Whether your student is enrolled in a Scholé Academy course, attends another school, or is a homeschool student, we look forward to giving you a glimpse of how Scholé Academy’s Christ-centered commitments and family-oriented services can help you!