Welcome Summer Conference Attendees to Educational Renaissance
It’s time once again for the summer conferences. Whether you attended in person or remotely, many of you will have discovered Educational Renaissance for the first time during either the ACCS Repairing the Ruins conference last week or the Society for Classical Learning conference this week. We welcome you summer conference attendees to explore the resources available here at Educational Renaissance. You can learn more about our past and future projects below.
You may have navigated to our site to download Jason’s eBook on implementing Charlotte Mason’s practice of narration, Patrick’s eBook on implementing Charlotte Mason’s practice of habit training, or Kolby’s eBook on applying Teach like a Champion 2.0 in the classical classroom. Thank you so much for you continued interest in our content offers. In an effort to serve you better, would you consider filling out a quick survey?
We invite you to read through the many articles that have been posted here over the years. We aim to provide a new article every week, linking thoughts from our classical Christian heritage to new ideas emerging in our own day about education, psychology, neurology and philosophy. We also have a new podcast. Look for The Educational Renaissance podcast on whatever platform you listen to. Here’s our link on Spotify.
We’re glad you found us, and we look forward to providing you with content that will inspire you and help you to grow in the craft of teaching. You’ll find a plethora of materials that draw upon the ancient wisdom that is the hallmark of our educational renewal movement, but also delves into recent research from experts in the fields of brain science and psychology. You clearly care about your craft since you attended a summer conference, now you can take your skill to the next level by learning from the resources we’ve made available.
What’s Next for Educational Renaissance?
We are entering our fourth academic year as an organization. Every year we try to enhance what we can offer to our audience. And to that end, we are already planning webinars that will enable our listeners to go deeper on a wide array of topics. We think this will enable us to engage more teachers, school leaders and homeschool parents who want a deeper level of training and coaching. To that end, if you haven’t done so yet, take a moment to fill out the survey above to let us know what kinds of materials we could produce that would most serve you.
Highlights from the Past Year
Patrick wrote a six-part series on “Training the Prophetic Voice” which explores concepts of discipleship and rhetoric. You can listen to our podcast on the Prophetic Voice on Spotify. This was followed by a three-part series exploring “Human Cognitive Development.”
After writing a series on Teach Like a Champion 2.0 and producing his eBook, Kolby has written several articles exploring theology in the classroom. Check out his articles “Three Premises for Teaching Theology” and “Educating for a Christian Worldview in a Secular Age.” Recently Kolby has started a new series reading through Plato’s Republic. Begin with his first reflections on justice in Book 1.
Jason had the opportunity last fall to produce a class for ClassicalU with Classical Academic Press. In preparation for that he shared a sneak peak on his class about narration. In conjunction with this, he wrote a multi-part series on the “History of Narration.” More recently Jason has been developing a thoughtful interaction with Bloom’s taxonomy, proposing an alternative informed by Aristotle’s intellectual virtues. You can get started with the first article in the series.