Thanks to many generous donors, we are pleased to be able to now offer limited financial aid to families who enroll their children in Redeemer Classical School. The tuition page of our website has been updated, most pertinently with a new section at the bottom titled "Pathway to Financial Aid." The aid process includes a … Continue reading We’re Now Offering Financial Aid. Here’s How To Apply
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Poetry And Other Highlights From Our Fall Recitation Day (Part 2)
You can find part 1 of our fall 2018 recitation day posts right here. "The Solitary Reaper," by William Wordsworth (recited by an 8-year-old) Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy … Continue reading Poetry And Other Highlights From Our Fall Recitation Day (Part 2)
Wine And Shakespeare Adult Discussion Group Schedule, Spring ’19
A great group has already signed up for our first adult event offering. There's still time for you to join us! We will begin each discussion night at 6:30 p.m. in the undercroft at Redeemer Lutheran Church. You can sign up online here. The events are all free and open to the public, but if … Continue reading Wine And Shakespeare Adult Discussion Group Schedule, Spring ’19
Poetry And Other Highlights From Our Fall Recitation Day (Part 1)
Each semester the Redeemer Classical community gets together for a recitation day, in which students (and grownups) recite poems, scripture, hymns, and similar things they've selected and memorized on their own. This is a Western school tradition that goes back centuries. Readers may be familiar with it from the Anne of Green Gables series, as … Continue reading Poetry And Other Highlights From Our Fall Recitation Day (Part 1)
Learn About The 1,600-Year-Old Advent Hymn We’re Singing At School
This Advent season, the children, faculty, and families of Redeemer Classical have frequently sung the hymn "Savior of the Nations, Come" in our daily morning matins services. Many of the children have nearly memorized it. In singing and memorizing, they are participating in nearly 2,000 years of Christian faith: The famous Ambrose, bishop of Milan, … Continue reading Learn About The 1,600-Year-Old Advent Hymn We’re Singing At School
See What We’ve Been Doing On Nature Walks This Fall
Due to Thanksgiving, today school is out and so is nature walk. Last Friday, however, and thanks to all those who brought their daddies and power drills, we completed a rather big project for young children: Building wood bird feeders. You can see some of the activity in the pictures below. Those of you who … Continue reading See What We’ve Been Doing On Nature Walks This Fall
Teacher At Cutting Edge Of Tech Fad In Schools Explains Why He Tapped Out
AltSchool is a highly hyped $21,000 per year K-8 school in Silicon Valley. As a teacher there, Paul France has been profiled in some of the nation's leading outlets, including The New Yorker and Wired. You can see a brief overview of the school model in the 2015 CBS video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyV7zQbnX7E Yet after several … Continue reading Teacher At Cutting Edge Of Tech Fad In Schools Explains Why He Tapped Out
Researcher: Parents Who Think Their School District Is Good Are Usually Wrong
One of the big disconnects between those close to the research about U.S. student achievement and parents is knowledge about school quality. This blog has quoted Dr. Thomas Korcok explaining that most parents have never been taught how to evaluate school quality, so they often go by feelings and perceptions such as how modern the … Continue reading Researcher: Parents Who Think Their School District Is Good Are Usually Wrong
Do You Have A Name For Our Shakespeare + Wine Nights? Do Tell
We need a snazzy name for our biweekly grown-up gathering to watch and discuss Hillsdale College's online Shakespeare course while drinking pairings selected by Wine Down starting in January. Anyone got any ideas? Put them in the comments below or on Facebook. Also, the original post about the event series has been updated to reflect … Continue reading Do You Have A Name For Our Shakespeare + Wine Nights? Do Tell
Why A Christian Education Is Built Upon The Ways We Worship
How we think about distinctively Christian education would not be primarily a matter of sorting out which Christian ideas to drop into eager and willing mind receptacles; rather, it would become a matter of thinking about how a Christian education shapes, us, forms us, molds us to be a certain kind of people whose hearts … Continue reading Why A Christian Education Is Built Upon The Ways We Worship
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