by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Living Logic Practicing the Arts of Argument and Discussion through Debates I will introduce teachers to the methods and assignments I use in my 9th-grade Logic class to teach students the skills of argument construction and on-the-spot thinking. Participants...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker What Hath Athens’ Questioning To Do With Jerusalem’s Parables? Pedagogy matters, and Jesus’ use of parables better aligns with a Christian approach to classical education than Socratic Questioning. It also better aligns with Dorothy Sayers’ application of the...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Modes of Memorization Repetition and Application in the Upper School Memorization is not only a grammar school skill, nor is repetition limited to grammar jingles and chants. Upper school students need to hide things in their heart as much as younger students,...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Framing Stories with God’s Story A Visual and Narrative Approach to Biblical Integration It can be challenging to integrate biblical thinking naturally in the classroom. The Framing Stories with God’s Story (“Framing”) approach helps teachers and students...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Science Labs Letting Students do the Work Science is full of simple joys and discoveries. There is such delight to be found in a classroom full of students uncovering God’s truth for themselves. When given the opportunity to make a hover craft, design a...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Defining, Refining, and Celebrating the Common Denominator in Collaboratives, Hybrids, University Style, and Blended Learning Models In a growing sea of collaboratives, hybrids, blended learning, and university-style schools appearing in the greater American...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker How Classical Christian Education Can Rescue Science from Its Descent into Irrationalism Due to the secularism’s rejection of the Biblical worldview that a rational God created an ordered universe to be understood and ruled by rational men and women...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker What Hath Poetry to do with Education? This workshop is an opportunity for those who have little study of poetry and for those who are old admirers of poetry. The workshop presents the benefits of poetry beginning in the early years and continuing throughout a...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Elemental Meaning Teaching Euclid Dialectically Plato’s Academy famously forbade entry to any who had not “mastered geometry.” Euclid’s Elements is still the “key” that opens the quadrivium to our Rhetoric-level students....
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Physics First The Why, and How, to Flip a 100 Year-Old Sequence Upside Down Physics First is a sequence of rhetoric science courses where physics is taken in 9th grade, chemistry in 10th and biology in 11th. Debated since the 1990’s, this is no longer a purely...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Speaker
Speaker Recovering the Lost Tools of Loving Since Douglas Wilson’s Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, classical methods have been emphasized to help children think logically and biblically. However, how do we teach children to not only know what is lovely...
by beth mccabe | Feb 27, 2026 | Leader's Day Speaker
Leaders Day Speaker The Disenchanted Graduate Why Classical Students Lose Wonder after Graduation Classical schools excel at teaching students to analyze texts, construct arguments, and master content. Given their rigorous secondary education, though, many students...
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