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Events @ Scholé Academy

Register for our live, online events and watch recordings of past events.

Upcoming Events

Coffee with the Principals

September 29   |    11:00 AM ET   |   Registration is Required

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.

Event Recordings

Back to School Family Night

August 31   |    7:00PM    |   Registration is Required

Dr. Joylynne Blake, director and principal of Scholé Academy, and her team talk about the upcoming school year. Enjoy the activities, games and discussion!

Summer Book Club: Beauty For Truth’s Sake

July 17th   |    7:00PM    |   Registration is Required

Come join in the Great Conversation as we discuss Beauty, Goodness, and Truth in our summer book club: Beauty For Truth’s Sake, On the Re-Enchantment of Education. Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, the author explains that unity is present within diversity.Hosted by SA School Director Joylynn Blake and the SA Administration Team.

2023-2024 Aquinas House of Studies Open House

April 18th   |    7:30PM    |   Registration is Required

 

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.

Scholé Academy Lecture Hall Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson

March 28th   |    7:00PM ET   |   Registration is Required

 

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.

March 2023 Coffee with the Principals

March 28th   |    1:00PM ET   |   Registration is Required

In this March Coffee, Scholé Academy Principals will join with parents & community members to consider Restful learning – Pursuing Excellence over Perfection. Leo Tolstoy once stated, “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” Being driven to reach perfection can be costly in terms of achievement and relationship. Come explore these impactful ideas and how they can affect your Scholé learning around a simple cup of coffee on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon with our SA and SRS Principals.

Scholé Academy Classroom Experience: Well-Ordered Language with Alison Johansen

Friday, March 17, 2023  |  4:00pm ET  |  Registration Required

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: Physics Course with Sherry Joslin

Friday, March 8, 2023  |  5:00pm ET  |  Registration Required

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: Foundational Math VI Course with Joelle Riethmiller

Friday, February 17, 2023  |  2:30pm ET  |  Registration Required

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.

SRS St. Raphael of Brooklyn Feast Day Lecture

February 15th   |    7:00PM    |   Registration is Required

 

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.

2023-2024 Open House at Scholé Academy

February 7th   |    7PM    |   Registration is Required

 

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. 

Scholé Academy Classroom Experience: Upper School Humanities Event With Phaedra Shaltanis

Friday, February 3, 2023  |  3:30pm ET  |  Registration Required

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.

Aquinas House of Studies Presents St. Thomas Aquinas Feast Day Event

January 27th   |    11:30AM    |   Registration is Required

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.

Scholé Academy Lecture Hall Presents Heidi White

January 19th   |    7PM    |   Registration is Required

 
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.  

Scholé Academy Winter College Night

January 12th   |    7PM    |   Registration is Required

 
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!

Scholé Academy Lecture Hall Presents Joshua Gibbs

December 12th   |    7PM    |   Registration is Required

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.

Tutoring Center Open House

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!

 

Scholé Academy Lecture Hall Presents Math and Science for the Formation of the Soul: Placing the Quadrivium at the Center of Education with Founder of Hildegard College, Matthew Smith

The renewal of the liberal arts that we know as “classical education” is often narrowly associated with a renewal of the humanities — philosophy, literature, politics, history, and the arts. But the majority of the seven traditional liberal arts (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, logic, rhetoric) are sciences. Classical educators sometimes find it difficult to integrate the study of geometry, physics, mathematics, and biology into a curriculum that inspires our students. Yet it is important to recognize that these “quadrivial arts” are essential not merely for technical knowledge but for the moral, intellectual, and spiritual formation of young people, which is why music and even theology are best taught as sciences. Great thinkers like Plato, Boethius, Aquinas, and Milton give us a roadmap and vocabulary for reinforcing the power of the quadrivial arts to lead students to a clearer vision of what is true, beautiful, and worthy of our love.

 

Canterbury House of Studies Music Workshop no. 1
Gregorian Chant–A Cathedral in Time
with Garth MacPhee

The 18th century writer Goethe once wrote, “Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music.” The ethereal sounds of Gregorian Chant transcend time and place, not unlike the feeling of entering an ancient cathedral. Like the cathedral, Gregorian Chant is both a living embodiment of prayer, but also a jewel of Western Art which can be admired and appreciated by pilgrims of every walk of life. In March, 1994 an album simply entitled “Chant”, performed by a choir of Spanish Benedictine monks went double platinum, landing incongruously on the hit parade alongside Pearl Jam and Jimmy Hendrix. 

So what is it about chant that, like the great cathedrals, can capture the popular imagination and yet retain its essential purpose and integrity? This is the question we will explore in our October session. Read more about this series of music workshops entitled “O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness” here.