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Archives for Grit

Grit

Why We Have High Expectations in Kindergarten

October 3, 2022 by Sydney Ackerman

This is adapted from a talk that Mrs. Ackerman gave at a parent education event called Lightning Talks on September 28, 2022. Watch it here. On the front end I want to warn you that this talk may make kindergarten sound like a battlefield, but in this short time I don’t have time to go […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character, Character Education, Culture, Discipline, Failure, Faith, Grammar School, Grit, Growth Mindset, Habit, K-12 education, Kindergarten, Parental Partnership, Rigor

Harvesting Where We Did Not Plant: The Story of a Brick-and-Mortar School

October 12, 2021 by Caroline Hummel

In the summer of 2017 on a sweltering weekday morning, I parked just south of the Capitol and walked to the Michigan Department of Education, holding the hands of my two toddlers, in order to get a letter of approval declaring us a school. I had tried and failed to register our school with the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Culture, Faith, Grit, K-12 education, Mission Statement, Rigor, Stewardship

Introduction to Latin

February 10, 2021 by Amelia Stieren

While reading Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., the 3rd and 4th graders came across the phrase terra incognita. A student asked what it means, but already knew half its meaning since he knew that terra, a vocabulary word they learned in their first year of Latin at Cedar, means “earth” or “land.” Why do we teach […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Curriculum, Grammar School, Grit, Homework, K-12 education, Latin, Latin School, Lifelong Learning, Parental Partnership, Rigor, The Liberal Arts

Count the Cost, Part IV: Failure

February 6, 2021 by Katherine Bradford

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Count the Cost is a blog series designed for prospective parents. In our fourth installment, we asked Miss Katherine Bradford about how a classical school’s high standards inevitably mean that students will deal with failure. (Spoiler Alert: We think that is a good thing.) Katie was a founding teacher at Oakdale Academy in Waterford Township […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Admissions, Character Education, Count the Cost, Culture, Curriculum, Grit, K-12 education, Parental Partnership, Rigor, Virtue, Worldview

Training to Serve: Our Physical Education Curriculum

October 7, 2020 by Sydney Ackerman

Human beings are composed of Mind, Soul, and Body. As a classical and Christian school, you are right to assume that we care about the mind and soul. But how many classical school graduates do you hear about in the NFL? Did we forget about the body? (The short answer is “no.”) The education of […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character Education, Curriculum, Grammar School, Grit, K-12 education, Lifelong Learning, Logic School, Physical Education, Rigor, Virtue

From Great to Okay: What we’ve learned about distance learning

May 19, 2020 by Caroline Hummel

We at Cedar Classical Academy are confident that, right now, mid-pandemic, we continue to offer the best K-6 educational option in Lansing. Now beginning our ninth week of distance learning, we have kept our mission alive. Cedar Classical Academy’s culture has been marked since our founding by parental partnership, high standards, character emphasis, and real […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character Education, Culture, Curriculum, Grammar School, Grit, K-12 education, Literature, Mathematics, Online Learning, Quarantine Chronicles, Science

“And they lived happily ever after”: Training kids’ moral imaginations to meet life’s demands and to demand more out of life

May 23, 2018 by Caroline Hummel

Clear thinking first requires imagination that is trained to expect things to make sense. Dragons get defeated, stories end happily ever after, 2 + 2 = 4, truth is objective — all of these ideas make sense to a well-trained imagination. If a person does not expect life to make sense (or, more crippling still, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Grit, Moral Imagination

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