About our Guest
Chris earned a BA in Philosophy from Gettysburg College and an MAT in Elementary Education from Towson University.  He has been a classroom educator and administrator for 29 years, having served in public, independent, and classical schools.  His is an author, speaker, and consultant in classical education, as well as an online and in-person teacher, coach, and tutor.

Along with his professional pedigree, he is a lifelong practitioner of several of the common arts profiled in his book, Common Arts Education.  For more than thirty years, Chris has sought out training for and advanced his skills in 

armament, agriculture, material-working arts, ancestral skills, preparedness, and more.  He is a practicing musician, amateur radio operator, and avid outdoorsman, all of which serve to inform and shape his ongoing development of, and in, the arts.

Chris founded Always Learning Education in order to serve teachers, schools, homeschool families, and others who are interested in learning and propagating the common arts.   He lives on a small homesteaded farm in central Virginia with his wife and three homeschooled sons.

\https://alwayslearningeducation.net/

Show Notes
In this episode, Chris Hall shares a few of his favorite poems and discusses poetry for science lessons! This episode will inspire you in the delightfulness of integrating poetry and stories into science lessons.

Poems on this Episode

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman

The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry

Shakespeare's Sonnet 37
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Remembering Season 1, Episode 3 Chris Hall joined our podcast to discuss the common arts https://share.transistor.fm/s/a08b71cb
That podcast episode can be heard here. We discussed the following: 

• What are the common arts? 
• How do they relate to a classical education? 
• How do we bring up the whole human being, thriving in wonders of life and right ordered relationships? 
• How to balance and bolster both common arts and liberal arts in education. 

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SCL FALL RETREAT, 2024

Chris and I were both invited to lead the teacher track sessions at Society for Classical Learning's 2024 fall conference in Dallas the last weekend in October. We are collaborating and are creating not only some wonderful sessions on the theory of classical education but also practical sessions where you will leave feeling equipped.  You will discover the transcendentals (truth, goodness, and beauty)— through theory and hands-on practicum sessions. This conference is not only for classroom teachers but also for home educators. 

Tickets are on sale at the Society for Classical Learning website be sure to look for their link to the fall retreat so you can read more about this conference, our sessions, and register online.

https://www.societyforclassicallearning.org/fall-retreat-24/ 

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About our Guest
Andrew J. Zwerneman serves as Cana Academy’s President and as one of their MasterTeachers. For 40 years, he has taught and consulted in secondary schools that emphasize classic humanities. For 19 years he headed schools—2 at the public charter school, Tempe Preparatory Academy in Tempe, Arizona, 17 at Trinity School at Meadow View in Falls Church, Virginia. He is the founder and owner of The Academy Project, LLC, which wrote the original curricula and trained faculties for Thomas MacLaren School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Trinity Academy in Portland, Oregon. Education: B.A., A.B.D., University of Notre Dame; M.A., St. John’s University. He is the author of History Forgotten and Remembered (2020) and The Life We Have Together: A Case for Humane Studies, A Vision for Renewal (2022).

https://www.canaacademy.org/

Show Notes
Leading seminars is one of Andrew's areas of expertise. Adrienne invited him back on the show to discuss the principles of leading great seminars and how to give grades that matter.

Discussion Points:
Referring to Zwerneman's "10 for 10: How to Grade Seminar Participation" the following are discussed:

• Why seminars are an important pedagogy for classical school
• The  principles for guiding good seminars 
• Distinguishing between the higher habits of mind and the skilled habits of work 
• What are some good reasons for grading seminars and how to grade them

Resources from Cana Academy

10 for 10: How to Grade Seminar Participation

https://www.history250.org/

8 Tips for Leading a Great Seminar Discussion

8 Tips On Coaching a Reluctant Discussant

https://www.canaacademy.org/free-resources : scroll down to Seminar Leadership Videos

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About The Guest
Anna-Marie Carter is an enthusiastic classical education convert. After years of disillusionment under the philosophy of progressive education, she had about given up teaching altogether. Her hope in education was saved by a call to teach music at Founders Classical Academy of Mesquite where she made lifelong friends and fell in love with the craft. She continues this love by sharing her joy for the fine arts with her students in and out of the classroom. Anna-Marie teaches alongside her gracious husband Daniel at Founders Classical in Tyler where they are raising their sweet children Amelia, Remington, and Clara Mae.

Show Notes & Highlights
Adrienne introduces you to Anne-Marie Carter in a completely joyful interview about creatively connecting History of the world and History of America through the arts. 

Anne-Marie Carter falls in love with teaching after moving from a scripted school to  Founder’s Classical School in Tyler, Texas. They discuss some of the following: 

• Why and How to make an artful Book of the Centuries.
• Presenting a feast of ideas, to love many things and care about many things.
• The art and music teacher collaborates with the classroom teachers. 
• Creativity and how to grade the student's work.
• What materials are needed

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/6lbOdS6Hq8Y

The second half of this interview is all visual. To view the examples and hear how to make a book of centuries, visit our YouTube Channel. 
youtube@classicaleducationpodcast
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Books Mentioned
Charlotte Mason quote about history: (Vol. 6, 178), Mason's section on the teaching history begins on page 169 in vol. 6)
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and The Classical Tradition by Karen Glass

Books by Charlotte Mason

Abolition of Man by C S Lewis

The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

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About The Guest
Mariah Martinez has worked in education since 2015 as a teacher, curriculum developer, and mentor teacher. Mariah attended the Honors College at Houston Baptist University where she received a B.A., double majoring in Philosophy and English. In 2021, she received a Master of Humanities  in classical education from the University of Dallas. She is certified as a 7-12 ELAR instructor in the state of Texas. She began her teaching career at a Great Hearts school in San Antonio and now works at a Founders Classical charter school in Texas. She has eight years of middle and high school teaching experience and is a founding faculty member of the high school at her current location where she now serves as the assistant headmaster for the upper school. She has experience not only with developing classical curricula for the high school environment but has also developed guides for creating house systems and student leadership positions. Mariah's goal is to help make the methods of classical education and the philosophies behind them accessible for all.

Show Notes

Mariah Martinez shares what she has learned about Classical pedagogy and how to apply this art of teaching classically, simply and well. She shares her experience working at a classical charter school and the impact that it has had on her students. She also shares about the two types of classical pedagogy which she will expand on at the Vital Ideas Conference, 2024.

Some Highlights:

• What you must have in order to obtain good pedagogy;  from Norms and Nobility by David Hicks
• Does the state of education matter?
• What leads to an incomplete education?
• What happens with isolation and online programs?
• How do we form well ordered minds and souls?
• Two types of pedagogy and the subcategories 
• Observed differences that Classical Education has made in the students at her school

Resources Mentioned
Norms and Nobility by David Hicks ---An affordable REISSUE of Norms and Nobility releases August 6, 2024 (look for the blue book with the introduction by Andrew Kern)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Audiobook: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

 
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About The Guest
David V. Hicks retired in 2015 as Chief Academic Officer for Meritas LLC, a company based in Chicago that owned and operated K-12 college preparatory schools worldwide.  The day after his retirement, Meritas was sold to Nord Anglia Education.  

Before joining Meritas, Hicks spent thirty years in independent education, heading St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Jackson, Mississippi; St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas; St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire; and the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. 

After graduating from The Stony Brook School (New York) in 1966, Hicks studied at Princeton where he majored in English and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1970. He then read for a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Jesus College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He later studied at the University of Moscow.

Hicks served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and is the youngest man ever to teach on the faculty of the Naval War College. In 1976, he ran for Congress in New York’s Westchester County in a race he narrowly lost to long-time incumbent Richard Ottinger. In 1981 his book, NORMS & NOBILITY: A TREATISE ON EDUCATION, won the Outstanding Book Award for Education from the American Library Association. In 1996, Hicks created a stir in boarding school communities around the United States when he published his essay, “The Strange Fate of the American Boarding School,” in The American Scholar. His and his brother Scot’s translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations was published by Scribner as THE EMPEROR'S HANDBOOK in 2002.   Since then Scot and Davd have produced a series of annotated translations of Plutarch’s Lives for CiRCE: The Lawgivers; The Statesmen; and The Tyrant.

Forthcoming books by Hicks: The Stones Cry Out: Reflections on the Myths We Live By (CAP) and with Father Anthony Gilbert, Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education (SVP).

Hicks has served on numerous boards throughout the world, most recently including the TASIS Foundation (Switzerland), the Campion School (Greece), St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York), TASIS Dorado School (Puerto Rico), San Roberto International School  (Mexico), and St. Peter’s Monastery Foundation (Montana). 

Hicks and his wife Mary Elizabeth have four grown children and live on a ranch (West of the Moon) off the grid near Harrison, Montana.  They are members of St. Anthony the Great Orthodox Church In Bozeman.

Show Notes

• David shares about his education as a child into his early career and how it lead him towards writing Norms and Nobility. 
• Adrienne and David dive into what it means to create a spirit of inquiry rooted in dialects. 
• David delves into the thesis of Norms and Nobility and expands on the quote on page 18 of his book. 
• David discusses what early Christian education looked like.  
• David details about all his newer writing projects

David V. Hicks Resources
REISSUE of Norms and Nobility releases August 6, 2024 (look for the blue book with the introduction by Andrew Kern)
Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education: An Anthology edited by David V. Hicks (published by St. Vladimir's Press. Release date is not yet available)
The Stones Cry Out by David V. Hicks (CAP publishing- Preorder form is available here)
The Emporer's Handbook : A New Translation of the Meditations Trans. by David and Scot Hicks (the new paperback version is Marcus Arelius's Meditations also translated by Hicks)
The Plutarch books (all 3: The Lawgiver, The Statesman, The Tyrant) can be found on Circe Institute's website here.

Resources Mentioned
Thucydides (He did not mention what book, but this is the version that Dr. Matthew Post used for his classes at UD)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jabobs
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry (audiobook is free on audible)
Plutarch's Lives
Singapore Math
The Psalter
Film: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christianity and Classical Culture by Charles Norris Cochrane (free pdf here)

 
Past Guests on the Podcast who are Mentioned in this Episode:
RightStart Math
Teaching Math Like Socrates with Number Lab
Tending The Heart of Virtue: Vigen Guroian
Dr. Christopher Perrin on What is Classical Education?
Bryan Smith: A Sage in the Liberal Arts Tradition

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Beautiful Teaching is hosting an online classical education conference (Karen Glass is one of the keynote speakers).
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Conference Recordings: All sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is greatly encouraged, but come and go as needed. The recording will be av...

This podcast is produced by Beautiful Teaching, LLC.  Our team provides immersion courses, seminar led book studies, and comprehensive support for parents & K-12 classical educators.

This episode was sponsored by Classic Learning Test (CLT), Beautiful Feet Books, and Eighth Day Books!

Conference attendees have a chance to win gift certificates from these sponsors as well as our other conference sponsors!

Join us for our First Conference! 

 
Explore some of our Conference Sessions on this episode:
Discuss your conference topic and what can attendees expect to take away from your session?

• Karen Glass: The Children Ask for Bread 
• Peach Smith: Teaching Science Classically for K-12 
• Mark Signorelli: Before the Books & Story and Civics
• Aaron Mitchell: Teaching Euclid as a Way Beyond Gnostic Cartesian Mathematics
• Mariah Martinez: Introducing Two types of Classical Pedagogy: Mimetic and Socratic & Recitation: A Rhetorical Art for PreK-12
• Jonathan Fiore: The Things We Carry– Two Graduates of Classical Education Reflect on its Impact
• Adrienne Freas: Loving Many Things

Some Question We Discuss:

1. What does the term "Vital Ideas" mean and why is it the them for our first classical education conference?
2. Who has had the greatest influence on your philosophy of education and why?
3. "what makes being an educator in the classical tradition different than just being an educator per se?"
4. What do you think are the greatest difficulties for classical educators?

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$20 off Discount Code:
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Conference Recordings: All sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is greatly encouraged, but come and go as needed. The recording will be available 2 weeks after the conference. The recordings will be available for 9 months.

Sessions: We have 16 sessions and 12 Speakers! Our sessions are for parents, home educators, classroom teachers, and school leadership. Each breakout in the program is marked with the recommended audience to help you choose the right sessions for  your needs. See the detailed program guide! 

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About The Guest
Bryan Smith has been in education for over thirty years, primarily in schools with a liberal arts or classical education philosophy. His own education at the University of Dallas was a solid classical liberal arts formation in great texts, classical Greek, and rhetorical practice.

Bryan has worked in private schools for most of his career, but for a decade he worked with Great Hearts Academies, a charter school network operating in Arizona and Texas. He began his employment at Great Hearts as the founding head of school for one of eleven Arizona campuses. During Great Hearts’ expansion into Texas, Bryan served as the founding headmaster for the first network school in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metro area.

Bryan’s most recent work as a consultant has allowed him to continue helping school staff with planning, solid pedagogical and administrative practices, classroom management and student culture.

You can find Bryan Smith on LinkedIn

Show Notes
Bryan Smith and Adrienne Freas of Beautiful Teaching, reflect on what is attractive about a Liberal Arts Education. They talk about the principles that define a classical school, and why the ethos of classical education imparts a hopeful view of humanity. A noble end unfolds from permanent and universal reflections. The principles that anchor classical schools are discussed in this significant podcast. All educators will appreciate the wisdom of how to place school on course either to develop or to improve.

Some Key Moments Include:

• What books are really necessary for a classical school to include on their lists?
• Why The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius ought to be in every classical highschool curriculum
• What the early Christians thought about education
• Classical education is rooted in common assumptions--these are elaborated

Resources Mentioned
The Consolation of Philosphy - Boethius

The Discarded Image - C.S. Lewis

Essay “Schooling in Byzantium” by Bryan Smith (this will be a chapter in a new book coming out by St. Vladimir's press with essays compiled by David Hicks. More info coming soon)

St. Basil on Prepositions: The Human Condition

The Iliad &The Odyssey - Homer

The Psalter
Atigone

Books 1 and 2 of Samuel

On the Incarnation by Saint Athanasius the Great of Alexandria with an introduction by C.S. Lewis 

Plato
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

Frog and Toad series - Arnold Lobel
"The Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's Republic

Paradise Lost- John Milton

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Poetry by Virgil

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About The Guests

ACCESS LITERACY TEAM

Dorothy Kardatzke
I live with my husband in Columbus, Ohio. I taught for more than 25 years in both general education classrooms and in classrooms for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Since 1997, when I was first trained in the English code, all my literacy instruction has been delivered using programs that are Orton-based. I left the classroom in 2018 to create space to write curriculum, and train/coach teachers. However, I will always be a teacher. It is who I am! I tutor little folks and big folks in literacy whenever I have the chance.

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I had a rather circuitous educational journey which offered me the opportunity to embark on what I do presently. I completed a double major in Elementary Education and Deaf Education from Augustana College. I later completed post-graduate work in Linguistics and Language Development at the University of South Dakota and Neuroanatomy  at The Ohio State University.

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During leisure time, I enjoy spending time with my family, reading, hiking, fishing, canoeing, camping and cross-country skiing.

Melody Furno
My husband and I live in Columbus, Ohio where I taught an Orton-based Method for literacy in Kindergarten and first grade classrooms for 19 years. Encountering struggling readers in the classroom motivated me to enroll in coursework and to research current information on reading disabilities and dyslexia to set up interventions in the classroom.

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Since leaving the classroom, I have used an Orton-based Method to train and consult teachers in literacy across the country and tutor struggling readers in 4th and 5th grades for Columbus Public Schools. 

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I enjoy nature, fishing, hiking and biking. My special interest is to encourage faith-based ministries to play a part in addressing youth and adult illiteracy.   

Show Notes
Phonics programs are an important foundation for teaching students how to read. There are many programs and they differ widely. Learn about the unique features of this program. Discover what is important when looking for a phonics curriculum for your students. 

Dorothy Kardatzke  and Melanie Furno are the founders of Access Literacy.  Their phonics curriculum,  Literacy Essentials: Journey from Spelling to Reading is commonly used in classical schools.  In this interview, they articulate the details that explain what a good phonic-based program looks like and why it matters. The Access Literacy program supports the road to integrating the components of writing, thinking well, and reading well.
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Note: Adrienne does not recieve compensation for recommending any curriculum on her podcast. The purpose of presenting curriculum on the podcast is to help parents and school leadership make well-informed decisions on curriculum that is most aligned to the classical tradition.
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Resources
Link to their Home page: https://www.accessliteracy.com/

Parent page including phonogram videos: https://www.accessliteracy.com/parents

Link for ordering teaching materials through Hillsdale: https://www.accessliteracy.com/projects-2

Link for ordering the Student Orthography Notebook: https://www.accessliteracy.com/projects-2

Books mentioned
Why Our Children Can’t Read, and What You Can Do About It by Diane McGuinness

Author in the Science of Reading field — Dr. Louisa Moats

The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton- Porter
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
How To Read a Difficult Book (free link to one page essay) by Mortimer Adler
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Guests
Rhonda Bedee is an instructor endorsed by SWR author Wanda Sanseri for Spell to Write and Read seminars. My specialty is finding solutions for individual spelling needs via spelling coaching, Mom & Dad encouragement, accountability, and assessments. Experience comes from four decades of home education, public schools, private classical academies, homeschool co-ops, tutoring, English language ESL learners, and teaching special ability students.

Credentials: B.S. Secondary Education, Lamar University-Beaumont, Texas; extensive all-level SWR classes & mentoring under Wanda Sanseri.
Rhonda's Training Site

Niki Wise
Although Niki Wise currently resides in Georgia, her BASIC Seminars are offered both in Zoom & in person beyond her borders. She began using Spell to Write and Read back in the 1990s when it was Teaching Reading at Home and School. Not only using this program during her homeschool years, Niki also shared this program with many friends, & even introduced her oldest grandson to spelling & reading with Mrs. Sanseri's proven program. When she is not offering a BASIC seminar, she can be found playing with her 6 grandkids, teaching at Colquitt Christian Academy, & planning road trips with her husband.
Contact Niki: [email protected]


Show Notes
This interview with Rhonda Bedee and Niki Wise is part 1 of a 2 part series on phonics. Part 2 (the next episode) will feature the creators of Literacy Essentials: The Journey from Spelling to Reading. You will learn a lot of great information about both programs to help you make your decision on which program best suits your needs. 

Historical efforts to teach reading, writing, and spelling have been developed, applied and studied for centuries. Integrating  lessons from “sound to symbol” equips students with the ability to work through the process of learning to read. The unique features and history of Spell to Write and Read is explained in this episode. We discuss not only why it works, but also how it can (in many cases) help prevent the need for future reading remedies.

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Resources
Spell to Write and Read Forum (free or for more resources there is a small membership fee)
Free Blank Book Template

Where to buy:  https://swrforum.com/where-to-buy/

Articles & Podcasts Mentioned

NY Times Article: In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

PODCAST Episode that Rhonda Mentions:  Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

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Guests

Michael Fitzgerald (Principal)

Michael is an experienced educator with an M.S. in Brain-Based Education. After a decade teaching in a variety of school models, he is using his knowledge of classical education to lead Northern Schoolhouse, all while pursuing his doctorate in education.

A dabbler in logic, philosophy, hiking, archery, chess, music, and handiwork, he brings his deep interest in the great minds of history to our Schoolhouse culture.

Katherine Fitzgerald (Instructional Coordinator & Music Teacher)
Katie has nearly two decades’ experience with children in education and humanitarian work. Her studies in educational history, methodology, curriculum, and child psychology form the basis of the programs developed for Northern Schoolhouse.

Music, math, baking, knitting, drawing, and gardening are among her many interests, and she shares her passion for doing and making with our Schoolhouse community.

Show Notes
The Fitzgeralds have built their whole model around what they call the Three Paths of Attention: Knowledge, Genius, & Heart. Through these pillars, they have developed their assessments and cultivated a culture of students who care.  By attending to Knowledge, they steadily progress in their academic studies. By attending to Genius, they strengthen their ability to think and create. By attending to Heart, they become kind people who contribute to their families and communities.

Katherine and Michael Fitzgerald offer frontline practical details about daily routines and expectations they’re experiencing in Northern Schoolhouse. In this episode, the Fitzgeralds provide information about the classical culture of Northern Schoolhouse. They merge beautiful principles that operate under the three pillars of Classics, Nature, and Arts. 

They share stories about how student invest in their own work and greatly enjoy opportunities to grow; there is an essence of excitement about doing well. Most of all, the students care about their scholarly projects and they love working on them. Rather than testing, they use assessments, character maps, and are mindful about the regard for virtues and habits. These, and complementary ideas are outlined in practical ways. 

Resources mentioned

Plato

Socrates

Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

Charlotte Mason

Confucius 

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Aeneid 

Odyssey

The Bible
"The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher" by John Taylor Gatto (from Dumbing us Down)

Zhuan Falun by Hongzhi Li

Podcast Episode on Motivation and Praise: How to Encourge Intrinsinc Motivation

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ANNOUNCING A NEW PROGYMNASMATA CURRICULUM
Benjamin Lyda in partnership with Adrienne is launching a pilot for Scriptorium: Writing with the Progymnasmata for grades 3-8. For more information about participating in this pilot, visit the website: https://www.beautifulteaching.com/pilot

ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST CLASSICAL EDUCATION ONLINE CONFERENCE!
11 speakers, 2 days, online and recorded if you cannot attend all of the sessions! Early bird pricing only $69 though April 1. Visit our website for more information.

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