Setting Your Child Up for Success: Encouragement and Motivation
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One of the greatest teachers I’ve ever known taught me the importance of encouragement —and its relationship to motivation—in a grammar school classroom. She embedded into each day moments of […]
Setting Your Child Up for Success in School and Life: The Swinging Bridge
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There’s a reason why so many stories involve journeys –walking through woods like Goldilocks, trying to get home after the Trojan Wars like Odysseus, or charging forward like the Knights […]
On Choosing a School
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New Covenant operates on what we call the Continuous Enrollment Contract. This means that your child’s seat is protected and your child is automatically advanced to the next grade each […]
What’s Most Important in the Classroom? The Teacher
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Years ago in the early 2000s, an educational consultant I respected confidently asserted that I had better pay attention to remote learning. He suggested that the school would increasingly face […]
The Advantage of a Classical, Christian Education
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I have often been asked, “How would you summarize the advantages of classical education compared to modern education models?” First, we should make sure we understand what we mean by […]
Poetry, The Arts and The Imagination
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Our imaginations should be nourished as an instrument by which we know reality. While C.S. Lewis espoused many thought-provoking ideas, this lesson is a difficult, perhaps impossible one for us […]
STEM, STEAM, and STREAM? You Don’t Have to Choose
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Let me just say it and get it out of the way: there’s nothing wrong with STEM. Science, technology, engineering and math are all good pursuits. President Obama put out […]
Dr. Paul McClure To Speak To The School of Rhetoric
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The School of Rhetoric will have the pleasure of hearing Dr. Paul McClure speak to them on November 13th at 1:10 pm. in the Moomaw Gymnasium. His topic will be, […]
Bon Appetit! When Poetry is the Feast
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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 […]
Poetry – What Siri Cannot Understand, But Humans Should
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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 […]