Workshop Speaker
The Seven Laws of Teaching: Laws I-III (Part 1)
John Milton Gregory’s Seven Laws of Teaching remains a constant north star for classical pedagogy and a constant need for review among teachers and administrators. This talk aims to introduce the teaching-training dichotomy and the first of the three laws, taking a slower pace through Gregory’s manual.
The Seven Laws of Teaching: Laws IV-VII (Part 2)
This talk aims to continue from a previous talk on Laws I-III and better illustrate and elaborate on Laws IV-VII, taking a slower pace through Gregory’s manual.
How Rowdy Boys Become Good Men
In a culture where boys struggle for success at every level in the academic world, classical Christian educators must determine the boys in their classrooms will succeed. It is no mystery why boys are the most frequent visitors to the headmaster’s office: school is necessarily an institution, yet boys are difficult to institutionalize. Should they be? How can we learn to look at our rowdy little boys with hope about their futures as godly, brave, and self-controlled young men? This talk aims to provide a vision for little boys and encourage their teachers.
Christie Wright serves as the academic dean at Highland Rim Academy in Cookeville, TN. She was instrumental in founding the school in 2007 and has spent most of her instructional time in the humanities and rhetoric classes. She earned a BA in English Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from Tennessee Technological University. She enjoys her country home with her husband, Jeff, where the chickens and their six children are all free-range.