AMDG. What do parents need to know before their children enter middle school or high school? Curriculum Director Maggie Hayden and Principal Nicole O’Connor are back once again to discuss classical education at the 6-12 grade level.
Maggie and Nicole share their years of expertise working with students, outlining what parents and students can expect both developmentally and academically as they transition from elementary school to middle school and from middle school to high school. The duo emphasizes the importance of exploration, curiosity, and integration; explains why literature and grammar are the focal point of the middle school years; and details why the Classical Composition course is so highly recommended through middle and high school. Next, Maggie and Nicole turn their attention to high school, discussing the methodology behind Kolbe’s program, the “big questions” the program centers around, why “religion” becomes “theology” when studied in high school, and so much more.
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Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant
- 61 Middle Ground with middle school teachers Alex Pischke & Amanda Hayes
- 203 Guided Freedom with Classical Composition teachers Sarah Foulkes & Grace Berg
- 14 We Don’t Think Those Words Mean What You Think They Mean with Nicole O’Connor discussing the classical subjects of Logic & Rhetoric
- Kolbecast Humanities series:
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