in operation since
2019
116
students
offering grades
K-11
located in
Lansing, MI
What is classical Christian education?
Modern education trains your children for college and career, focusing on activism and power. Classical Christian education rightly orders students' loves and equips them to live good lives with joy and grit, focusing on truth and virtue.
Want to see it in action?
Consider attending an observation visit to sit in on classes and meet with staff.
CLASSICAL ED'S TRACK RECORD
OUR FOUNDING STORY
OUR OPENING YEARS
Communities We Serve:
Bath
DeWitt
Dimondale
East Lansing
Grand Ledge
Haslett
Holt
Lansing
Maple Rapids
Okemos
Perrinton
Saint Johns
Williamston
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Why Do We Follow A Strategic Plan?
Each summer, Cedar Classical Academy crafts a strategic plan for the year. What is a strategic plan and how does it benefit you and your students? A strategic plan is a list of specific and measurable goals that direct incremental improvements and initiatives at each level of the Academy’s governance: Board of Directors, Head of […]
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Math Facts: Proficiency Through Memorization
By Kim Sukta and Caroline Hummel Lately, I have been saying—jokingly, but actually quite seriously—that I want a sign outside of my 4th grade math classroom that reads, “You must know your multiplication facts to ride this ride!” Over the course of my teaching career, I have seen many students excel at math and I […]
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Cultivation of Virtue
Key to our mission statement is the word “cultivate.” Our mission states that we assist you as parents by cultivating in students the intellectual and moral virtue necessary for a well-ordered understanding of God, human nature, and the world. What does it mean to cultivate virtue? This fall, I have been meeting weekly with parents to discuss C.S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man. In […]
Read MoreWhy Do Folk Songs Belong in a Classical Christian Education?
As a part of the Kodály-based music education at Cedar Classical Academy, folk songs are utilized to teach musical concepts. Folk songs originate from a particular region and are passed down through generations by means of oral tradition. Aside from their value as a stepping stone towards music literacy, why do these songs rightly belong […]
Read MoreEight Tips for Less-Hectic Mornings (From the Parents Who Know Best!)
When I drive to school in the mornings, I do not have students in my car and it is still hard some mornings to be on time! That got me wondering what mornings are like for the other families in the Cedar Classical Academy community who do have students. I asked the six families with […]
Read MoreWhy Did You Assign This Book?
“Why did you assign this book?” At Cedar Classical Academy, we choose books for each grade’s literature curriculum by committee. Individual teachers do not independently choose their own literature books, but occasionally do have the freedom to select books from among the larger list. We follow the principle of multum non multa, which is Latin […]
Read MoreWhy the CLT? Pt. III: Why We Adopted It
When Cedar Classical Academy’s founding team began planning the school in 2016, we did not expect to adopt a standardized test for the school. We knew enough of the respective messaging and approaches of The College Board and ACT to be skeptical about their compatibility with our mission and goals for our own graduates. By […]
Read MoreWhy the CLT? Part II: Who and How it Serves
Classic or not, what is the point of a standardized test and why should you (and your student) care? The Classic Learning Test (CLT) gives the school administration and teachers another look at our students’ academic abilities and achievements from outside of our own institution. From a curriculum planning perspective, the CLT offers another point […]
Read MoreWhy the CLT? Part 1: Why It Started
In the early 2010s, former public school teacher Jeremy Tate began to question why American education had grown so bland and utilitarian. He came to the conclusion that high-stakes testing was partially to blame. High-stakes testing drives K-12 curriculum. David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, has stated publicly that “teachers will teach towards the […]
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