by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker The Power and Glory of Imitation in the Grammar School All learning is imitation. In this talk, Kern describes the glory of being an imitation (an image) of God, and of our Lord who came into the world and only and always imitated His Father. Then he describes...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker The First Days Creating Order, Cultivating Virtue Truth, goodness, and beauty are found in a well managed classroom. As we teach and train procedures and habits, we have the opportunity to train character and virtue. When students stand and greet visitors to...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Of Pomegranates and Tetramorphs Why in the world is Baby Jesus holding a pomegranate? And what are those four strange creatures surrounding Him? This talk is a quick primer on symbols in fine art. We will look at a selection of master paintings, identify the...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Track Plenary Speaker 2026
Speaker Reading Scripture with Bonaventure The heart of the Medieval interpretive enterprise was how one read Scripture, which was understood to be a complex book holding many layers of meaning. But in learning to read it well, one did not just learn how to read other...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Track Plenary Speaker 2026
Speaker Piety and Classical Education Throughout the ancient and medieval tradition, piety is considered a key goal of education. For example, as late as the seventeenth-century, Christian educator Comenius described the goals of education as “learning, virtue...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Teaching for Goodness Embodied Virtue Formation Greek paideia included within it not just the transmission of information but also training in virtue, by which the student would live wisely and well. How, though, do we teach virtue in a classical Christian...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker The Mirror of the Soul The History and Purpose of Theatre in the Classical Tradition Why has theatre held such a central place in Classical Education? From the Festival of Dionysia in ancient Athens to the Cycle Plays of the medieval Church and the poetic...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker The Rota Disputationis Imagine a teaching tool that empowered the student to engage with each element of classical Christian education: reading, writing, critical and creative thinking, dialectic and Socratic engagement, artistic expression, physical movement...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Architecture Imagination, Emulation, and the Liberal Arts Architecture, much like Law, Politics, or Medicine, is one of those applied disciplines residing just outside traditional boundaries of the seven liberal arts. Reflected in Vitruvian catagories of...
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Teaching Long-form Writing to Adolescents in the Age of AI Large Language Models have made it more difficult to teach teenagers to write. The challenge presents us with an opportunity to develop a deeper, more resilient, classical pedagogy of writing....
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker An Apology for Hybrid Education Why Formation Demands More Than Instruction Hybrid classical education is often misunderstood as a compromise, but at its heart, it is a profoundly faithful model for forming students, and families, into Christ-centered lives....
by Beth McCabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Friday Night Lights without the Football How to Maximize Campus Fellowship and Celebration on a Budget Over the years we have developed a series of events that provide a “Friday Night Lights” feel but which are based around our school culture....
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