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Andrew Kern

Andrew Kern

Track Plenary Speaker The Glory of Mimetic Teaching* *This workshop is required for the Foundation Track. Andrew Kern is the founder and president of the CiRCE Institute (Center for Independent Research on Classical Education), the husband of Karen, the father of five...
Dr. Christopher Perrin

Dr. Christopher Perrin

Track Plenary Speaker Ten Essential Pedagogies of Classical Education: Principles not Techniques How does one teach well? How would one ever master the art of teaching? In this seminar, we will note the difference between a principle of teaching and various techniques...
Dr. Louis Markos

Dr. Louis Markos

Track Plenary Speaker The Music of the Spheres: Dante’s Pre-Copernican Universe* Dante’s Divine Comedy presents a perfectly ordered, innately poetic cosmos of exquisite beauty, balance, and harmony. Come join me as we journey, along with Dante, from Hell to...
Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly

Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly

Academic Leader’s Day speaker Phillip Donnelly is a leader at the Academic Leader’s Day Pre-conference, Wednesday, June 18. Academic Leader’s Day – Renewing Christian Rhetoric for Contemporary Classrooms: Human Persuasion and Practical Wisdom in a...
Dr. Michael Ward

Dr. Michael Ward

Plenary (Keynote) Speaker Plenary – The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and the Planets As a medievalist, C.S. Lewis’s mindset was steeped in the old geocentric model of the cosmos. He knew that it was not scientifically “true”, but...
Dr. Grant Horner

Dr. Grant Horner

Track Plenary & Workshop Speaker Workshop – Perspective is Everything A major achievement of the Florentine Renaissance is the understanding of the mathematical basis of perspective. Among other contributors, the two main figures who contributed to this...
Dr. Junius Johnson

Dr. Junius Johnson

Workshop speaker Unlocking Music for the Study of Literature and Philosophy Music does more than express our feelings: it conveys meaning, and allows us to interact with that meaning in ways that differ from the verbal arts. Music provides a space of synthesis in...
Mandi Gerth

Mandi Gerth

Workshop speaker Creating “Seven Laws” Lesson Plans In this workshop, we will look at a blank lesson plan and a few different examples of actual curriculum and we will work together to complete a lesson plan that could actually be turned into an...
Karen T. Moore

Karen T. Moore

Practicum Speaker Karen is a co-leader at the Latin Practicum Pre-conference, Wednesday, June 18. Karen T. Moore has served as the Classical Languages Chair at Grace Academy of Georgetown, TX, since 2002, where she developed the 3-12th grade classical languages...
Diane Carter

Diane Carter

Workshop Speaker This is My Father’s World: Reuniting Science and Worship As early as middle school, training the student’s moral and supernatural imagination in the sciences is necessary to shore him up against the modern cultural trend toward scientism and...
Dr. Leonard Sax

Dr. Leonard Sax

Plenary (Keynote) Speaker Boys Adrift: Boosting Boys’ Motivation and Achievement On average, boys lag behind their sisters in every content area K through 12—not because girls are doing so much better, researchers find, but because boys are doing worse. Over the past...