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SCHAEFFER ACADEMY (MN)2022 Administrators Summit |
When: November 3-4
Details: Learn More | Schedule | Speaker | Hotel & Travel | Schools
Where: 2700 Schaeffer Ln NE, Rochester, MN 55906 (See Map)
Cost: $148 per person through October 14 | $188 after October 14
Join Us
This year’s Summits will be intentionally focused on relationship building and discussing the real-world issues you face within your school community. Join us for speaker presentations, discussions and situation rooms*, and meals together.
This opportunity to step aside for a couple of days, to relax with nearby colleagues, to discuss issues, to pray for one another, and to bear one another’s burdens should not be overlooked in the pressing daily battle for the souls of your students and the security of your school. You will return home invigorated, knowing that you have allies you can rely on.
If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].
*The Situation Room is a small group mixer where we discuss real-life or fictional situations, and where we ask tables of 6-8 administrators to work through solutions to 2 or 3 scenarios with a time for broader sharing at the end of each.
EVENTS
Fellowship with peers while visiting your host school. Join discussions, tap into keynote speakers and ACCS updates, and get input from others around the table.
SITUATION ROOMS
Experience small group mixers working through real-life and relevant fictional situations.
TWO DAYS
School visits on Thursday; meetings, speeches, situation rooms on Friday.
CONNECTIONS
This is your opportunity to share experiences, strengthen your school in a local network, and make connections with the men and women working to move classical Christian education forward in your part of the world.
Images from 2021 Summits.
Common Schedule
Details about the schedule and activities will be added here as they become available.
Thursday
10:00 am – Arrival and Fellowship; Observe Classes (optional)
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – Situation Rooms, Workshops, and Classroom Observation
7:00 pm – Reception Fellowship Event
Friday
8:00 am – Situation Room and Presentations
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Situation Room and Presentations
3:00 pm – Wrap-up and Depart for Home
Guest Speaker: Matt Beatty
Matt Beatty has been formally involved in Christian and classical education since 1998. For most of that time, he served at Mars Hill Academy in a variety of administrative and teaching roles. He also taught at Grove City College and pastored a CRE church in Cincinnati for two years. Currently, he is delighted to serve as the Head of School at Bloomfield Christian School in suburban Detroit. He is a member of New City Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Ferndale, MI. Matt has been married to his college sweetheart, Lynnae, for nearly 29 years. They have four children, all of whom graduated from MHA or BCS. In his spare time, he reads, picks at his guitar, listens to music, and spends time with family and friends — preferably over a good meal.
Matt has been a guest speaker at Repairing the Ruins. You can hear his conference talks on the MRC.
Travel
Home2 Suites
831 16th Street SW
Rochester, Minnesota 55902
14 min drive
Holiday Inn Express
155 16th Ave SW
Rochester, Minnesota 55902
15 min drive
Hampton Inn and Suites
2870 59th Street NW
Rochester, Minnesota 55901
13 min drive
If you need to fly, you may fly into either:
Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP) – 90 miles north of Schaeffer. You’ll need to take a car or shuttle into Rochester. The shuttle charges $44 each direction ($88 round trip) per person.
Rochester International Airport (RST) – 13 miles south of Schaeffer. There are few direct flights to RST, but only a 15 min drive to Schaeffer.
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A Message from Tim Dernlan
Fellow ACCS Administrators,
Classical Christian education is a mission. It can be challenging and at times overwhelming. This is especially true if you are an administrator. Sometimes you might feel alone. That’s why I am writing to you to encourage you to consider coming to one of the Regional Summits for ACCS administrators being held this fall all over the US.
Ty Fischer, head of Veritas Academy in Lancaster, PA, describes how these meetings began:
A few years ago, here in the Northeast, a few administrators started meeting regularly. We would spend time in prayer, share our problems and concerns, and help each other think through issues that were on the horizon.
At about the same time, we also got together with a number of faculty and staff members from our schools and had a day of training and fellowship. What a blessing it was to be with people who understood the challenges that I was facing. What a blessing it was to have people I could text or call who would be praying with me, laughing with me, and crying with me during Covid.
C. S. Lewis described friendship in “The Four Loves” as that sort of love where people stand side-by-side focused on a common goal. These summits are opportunities to learn together, pray together, work together, and stand side-by side. These sorts of meetings have been a great blessing to me, and I believe that they will be so for you.
I hope you can join us!
A Message from Katharine Savage
Building relationships with colleagues has been key to my growth as a leader. In the midst of all the immediate demands of a school year, it can feel like a detour to take time away to travel and connect with like-minded friends, but in reality it is an investment in the long game. Building a network of regional colleagues opens up new pathways and new knowledge previously unknown or unexplored.
In my region, leaders began by simply committing to meet at least once a year outside of the national conference. We rotated which school would host. Now these leaders are people who I see several times a year and who I text regularly. Leadership can be a lonely and exhausting road but it doesn’t have to be! I am happy to be a part of strengthening the relationships and thereby the growth of our classical Christian movement with these formalized regional events. ~ Katharine Savage, Founder and Head of School at Philadelphia Classical School.