Dr. Christopher Schlect has worked in classical and Christian education for over thirty years, including long experience with high school and college rhetoric. At his home institution, New Saint Andrews College, Chris is Head of Humanities and Director of the Classical and Christian Studies graduate program. He also teaches in Gordon College’s graduate program in educational leadership. Chris is the author of a forthcoming text on declamation exercises, which will be a capstone text in Classical Academic Press’s Writing and Rhetoric series. He serves CCE schools around the country through his writing, consulting, and training activities.
Join Dr. Schlect at this year’s Academic Leader’s Day pre-conference.
Academic Leader’s Day:
Renewing Christian Rhetoric for Contemporary Classrooms: Human Persuasion and Practical Wisdom in a Digital Age
ACADEMIC LEADERS DAY is a new offering for Repairing the Ruins, produced by the Alcuin Fellowship. This event is directed toward academic deans, department heads, lead teachers, and teachers with a focus on this topic.
Join Alcuin Fellows Dr. David Diener, Dr. Phil Donnelly, Dr. Chris Schlect, and Dr. Andrew Selby for an all-day study of medieval traditions of Christian rhetoric in order to understand how students and educators today can inhabit a genuinely Christian understanding of this verbal art.
Main Conference Workshop:
Effective History Lessons
How do we teach history well? How can our students become learners of history in their own right, rather than mere repeaters of whatever we explain to them? Our students should learn how to investigate sources, to make connections, and to relate events back to their causes—but too often we do this work for them. This workshop presents actual lessons for the upper school that require students to undertake historical analysis. Attendees will come away with ideas and strategies they can carry back to their schools and classrooms.