The School of Rhetoric will hold its first dance of the year on Saturday, October 19 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm at Oakwood Country Club Ballroom.
New Covenant Schools Celebrate Poetry
Join us as we celebrate and enjoy the gift of poetry. Make plans to attend one (or all ) three events during October. Grammar School Poetry Recital- Thursday, October 10 at 6:30 pm Middle School Poetry Recital- Friday, October 25 at 7:00 pm Schoo ...
iHistory Welcomes Navy Vets for Veterans’ Day
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 ...
Bon Appetit! When Poetry is the Feast
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 ...
Poetry – What Siri Cannot Understand, But Humans Should
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 Research on Classroom Tech
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 ...
Three Great Untruths, pt 3
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 ...
Three Great Untruths We Should Avoid Teaching Our Children Part 3
At our 2019 Convocation, Headmaster Heaton addressed, “Three Great Untruths* We Should Avoid Teaching our Children.” This article is based upon notes from that address. You can read the first two parts of this series in previous posts, or listen to the wh ...
Community Lecture Series
We invite you to join us for our Community Lecture Series on October 17, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Tamara Long and will be speaking to us on "Helping Students Realize their Potential: Understanding Core Strengths That Influence Student Learning and Develop ...
Three Great Untruths, pt 2
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 ...