WE TEACH PEOPLE,
NOT JUST SUBJECTS.
Curriculum
The Good
Classical education is character education. We are not just teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. We are teaching humans. Parental involvement, classroom management, recess, physical education, lunchtime, and opening ceremony are all vital components of education as we train students to be good citizens in their communities. A classical curriculum cannot educate as well as a classical school culture. A healthy culture will graduate students who can keep a sturdy life outlook through trials.
The True
Truth does not mean indifferent memorization of cold facts. Truth shapes lives, which is why sound reason is essential. Since theology is the apex of education, we teach all subjects from a Christian worldview to cultivate in our students an informed faith. At the same time, properly viewing the world requires letting each subject stand on its own merit. History, science, and literature have some messy edges; we train students to graciously navigate them as they gain robust understanding of the world around them.
The Beautiful
We offer a rich arts and music curriculum, incorporating memorization of old hymns and great speeches, embodied learning, nature study, poetry, singing, and the copying of masterworks into the daily classroom routine. Students master language through a sequential course through phonics, grammar, composition, Greek & Latin, rhetoric, and more. We give beauty the time it deserves to form grooves in children's lives that train their aesthetic.
Curriculum from Hillsdale College
Cedar Classical Academy is a Hillsdale College Curriculum School, a distinction that offers our school access to a tried and true K-12 Curriculum from the Hillsdale College K-12 Education Office.
About Hillsdale
Hillsdale College was founded to provide the kind of sound learning necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty. For over 175 years, it has offered an outstanding liberal arts education for undergraduate students. Restoring excellence to American K-12 education is a natural extension of the College’s mission, and Hillsdale has been helping K-12 schools for over three decades.
Hillsdale teaches K-12 schools to provide an education that is both classical and American in its orientation; one that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, offers a firm grounding in civic virtue, and cultivates moral character.
Hillsdale’s curriculum, contained in the Hillsdale College K-12 Program Guide, is available to Cedar Classical Academy at no cost; it is made possible by the generous support of friends of Hillsdale College.
Helpful Links
For more information about Hillsdale College support for schools like Cedar Classical Academy, visit k12.hillsdale.edu.
"Nay, but let every good and true Christian understand that wherever truth may be found, it belongs to his Master."
Augustine
Curriculum At a Glance
Our part-time kindergarten class meets three mornings a week. Kindergarten courses include theology, music, mathematics, PE, literature, and phonics. Kindergartners get two recesses each day, and eat lunch with the older kids. In literature, Kindergarten read-alouds include Winnie the Pooh, St. George and the Dragon, The Princess and the Goblin, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and fairy tales. Our three primary goals in Kindergarten are literacy, numeracy, and growth in self-control.
More about our theology curriculum:
We were thrilled to pilot The Rafiki Foundation's Bible study curriculum in 2019. The Rafiki Foundation's classical schools attached to their orphanages in Africa have developed this robust theology curriculum that takes their students through the entire Bible between grades K and 12. Our K-8 theology classes include expositional Bible study, hymn practice, catechism memorization, and Scripture memorization.
