New Covenant Schools is pleased to announce that Dr. Marcel Widzisz (pronounced WID sis) has been invited to join the faculty as Instructor in Latin. Dr. “W” is a distinguished scholar. His undergraduate degree was from Southern Illinois University where ...
On November 11, 2019 New Covenant will host three retired Navy officers at a Veterans’ Day Assembly. iHistory is a program that brings grandparents and friends of the school – people who lived history – to tell their stories. Our guests (l to r) are Cpt ...
The following post was contributed by faculty members, Kathryn Martin and Starlet Baker, after attending a lecture hosted by the Trinity Forum in Washington D.C. Poet Dana Gioia, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was the key-note ...
New Covenant administrative staff continuously reviews the place of technology in our pedagogy and curriculum. In recent years we have surveyed our graduates in college who have given very specific feedback on the computer skills they felt they needed to ...
We sometimes teach our children things we don’t intend. These are “untruths” that can hamper effective parenting and classroom instruction. The third untruth is that the world is structured as “us vs. them.” This untruth relies upon an assumption that hum ...
We often teach our children things that we don’t intend. In the previous article in this series, we examined the first “Untruth” we unconsciously teach -that children are fragile. We noted that, rather than benefitting from being protected or rescued f ...
There are three great untruths we should avoid teaching our children. Listen here:
It Ain't Funny Rereading Reinhold Niebuhr’s essay Humor and Faith reminds me that humor is the exclusive domain of human beings. While my dog demonstrates noticeable “joy” when I take her to my office off leash, and while she is often amusing to me, I ...
This spring students in grammar and middle school have had the new opportunity to start cool weather garden plants in their classrooms. Using special seed trays and white lights, the children planted spinach, lettuce and other greens before leaving for S ...
New Covenant students spent Spring Break in Cozumel, MX diving the great reef. Each was dive-certified (PADI) after taking a semester-long course in marine biology last fall. The trip is part of New Covenant's foreign study program. This particular cour ...
