In Pursuit of Virtue

Join us for a conversation with Kaitlin Short, Terry Flores, and Phil Mendenhall about GCA life in the elementary years. In this episode we get a chance to know some of our teachers better, as well as learn about how we approach grades, discipline, and how parents and teachers can work together to achieve the best for our students. This is one of our longer podcast conversations, but well worth the listen. 

On this episode of In Pursuit of Virtue, Luke and Barry are joined by upper grades faculty Kirsten Daniel and Susan Tolbert to discuss all things grading. Grades are the point of school, right? Find out which teacher does not care about grades for their own kids and which one confessed to lying on a science experiment in 9th grade!

In this episode, Dean of the Upper School Luke Shawhan and Dean of the Lower School Kaitlin Short join teacher Barry Kinzer to go through orientation information for families at Grace Classical Academy.  

Upcoming episodes of In Pursuit of Virtue will discuss various topics related to Classical education in a Christian context, but this episode is specifically for our GCA community. 

It’s always encouraging to think back on all the ways God has blessed our school, from the opening of the doors to the people He has brought and all the ways He has shown His goodness. In this episode, we reminisce and tell some of our favorite stories of God’s faithfulness to GCA.  

It’s always encouraging to think back on all the ways God has blessed our school, from the opening of the doors to the people He has brought and all the ways He has shown His goodness. In this episode, we reminisce and tell some of our favorite stories of God’s faithfulness to GCA.  

In this episode, we chat with Caressa Gadd about what she feels her children gained from attending a classical Christian school, as well as what she saw in her classroom when she taught at GCA.

Michael Loftis attended GCA for a few years as a preteen. While he didn’t understand the value of the education he was receiving back then, he does now, and it has inspired him to open a new classical Christian school in Texas. In his interview, he discusses why he feels so strongly that CCE is what he wants for his own children.

One of the first questions many people ask when they are learning about classical schools is often why they teach Latin. In this episode, Deidre Cairns, Latin teacher from Summit Classical Christian School in Bellevue, Washington, discusses why Latin is such a valuable tool for students to have in their tool belt.

Now that you know what Classical Christian Education is, perhaps you would like to know how it plays out in the classroom. In this episode, rhetoric teacher Luke Shawhan discusses ways that he uses the classical approach to teach his students well.

Classical Christian education is not the system that most people grew up in, but now many are looking for something better than what they had for their children. In this episode, Jennifer Morris gives an overview of Classical Christian Education. If you’re new to the world of Classical Christian Education, or if you would just like to better understand what it is, this episode would be a helpful starting point.