by Olivia Unger | Mar 17, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Practices for Building Thinking Classrooms As classical educators, we strive to get our students thinking. Are there practices we can add to our toolbox that can help us better engage student thinking? In Building Thinking Classrooms, Peter Liljedahl...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 17, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Teaching with Eyes on the Sun: The Doxological Pedagogy of Dante’s Paradiso Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever; the chief end of education must be to equip students to do just that. The classroom’s primary purpose therefore...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 17, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Who, me? Draw? (Drawing for Teachers) Ever felt inadequate when doing nature study or attempting to draw something? Would you like to know some simple steps to improve your drawing abilities? “Drawing for Teachers” will help! In this workshop, we will...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker How to Teach Like a Medieval There is no shortage of ways and strategies to help us teach the Great Books. From practicable tools to historical pedagogies, various techniques abound. But not all approaches to the Great Books (especially the...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Mentorship and Dialectic: A Shared Path to Wisdom for All Ages Socratic teaching and learning are not limited to older students. While high school students may read Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, others might stumble upon Coleridge’s poem...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Hugh of St. Victor: Nourishing the Soul of the Teacher Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalion is a beautiful reflection on a lifetime of teaching from the high middle ages, and one of the best descriptions of the medieval liberal arts tradition. This...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Building Consistent Best Practices in the Grammar Classroom My goal is to equip grammar-level teachers to glorify God in the classroom. To this end, I propose to provide tools that will shape a teacher’s desire and attitude toward excellence and...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Get Medieval on Them: Training Teachers into the Classical Tradition Much pride of place is given to the modern education renewal movement, with an emphasis on introductory and summary texts to bring teachers around to the Classical Christian method...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker The Value of the Medieval Style of Disputation The scholastic method of inquiry, also known as the Medieval Disputation, is a very valuable tool which makes use of many of the skills we teach as classical educators. Learning to write medieval...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Rethinking How to Teach the Biblical Flood The biblical flood is so much more than a children’s story in Sunday school. It is an exceedingly rich event with symbolism yet surrounded by scientific mystery. This mystery sparks curiosity for those who...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Grammar Matters (Shurley Instructional Materials, Inc.) Grammar is the foundation for writing; that’s a fact! In this session, we will discuss the value of teaching grammar fundamentals during language arts time. Along the way, we will explore several...
by Olivia Unger | Mar 14, 2025 | Speaker 2025
Workshop Speaker Cultivating Curiosity: Incorporating Nature Studies the Charlotte Mason Way into your School Curriculum Legacy Classical Christian Academy (est. 2010) recently added the Charlotte Mason Model to their 2024-2025 curriculum. As a result, Nature Studies...
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