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Archives for Virtue

Virtue

Cedar Hallways

January 25, 2022 by Sydney Ackerman

You come into Cedar Classical Academy for the first time and many unique practices fill your first impressions. You notice our uniforms, the orderliness of the students’ boot mat, the friendly greetings of students when you enter a classroom. You say, “Wow! A school in a church!” (To see how the Lord orchestrates this weekly, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character Education, Culture, Grammar School, Habit, K-12 education, Logic School, Moral Imagination, Observation visits, Parental Partnership, Rhetoric School, Stewardship, Virtue

In Defense of Mastery: Our Approach to Assessment

October 28, 2021 by Amber Knapp

One of the primary goals outlined in our mission statement is to “offer a rigorous course of study in the Western liberal arts tradition, teaching students to discover goodness, truth, and beauty in every discipline as a reflection of God.” A great deal of preparation goes into the fulfillment of this statement. The governing board supports the school by upholding the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Assessment, Character Education, Culture, Curriculum, Family, Grades, Grading, Grammar School, K-12 education, Lifelong Learning, Logic School, Mission Statement, Parental Partnership, Rhetoric School, Virtue

Family Worship

June 21, 2021 by Jason Helopoulos

A Neglected Grace

Jason Helopoulos is a Cedar dad since 2019 and pastor of University Reformed Church. He is author of A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home which calls parents and church leaders to reclaim the practice of family worship. To encourage Cedar families to build strong family cultures in their own homes, we asked […]

Filed Under: Blog, Building a Strong Family Culture Tagged With: Building a Strong Family Culture, Character Education, Culture, Faith, Family, Habit, Lifelong Learning, Moral Imagination, Parental Partnership, Parenting, Theology, Virtue, Worldview, Worship

Count the Cost, Part IV: Failure

February 6, 2021 by Katherine Bradford

count the cost

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

“A fountain of joy alive in you”: How Music Tunes the Soul

May 13, 2019 by Jon Anderson

What did Plato observe in music that prompted him to label it the most important of the liberal arts? He perceived that, of all seven, music best “tunes the soul.” Here Plato addressed the development of character, for music can inspire the unfolding of moral and mental qualities needed to be a virtuous person. Our […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Character Education, Mathematics, Moral Imagination, Music, Quadrivium, The Liberal Arts, Virtue, Wonder

The Mission Series, Pt. IV | “The joy of finding hidden treasure”: The Classical Curriculum

April 5, 2019 by Jack Hummel

Thinking is hard work. Being disciplined in your thinking is even harder. This is not always obvious because thinking requires little or no physical exertion, it has not been made into a sport, and you cannot post pictures of it on Instagram. It is often taken for granted that kids will learn to think clearly […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Mission Series, Mission Statement, Virtue

The Mission Series, Pt. II | “Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue”: On Moral and Intellectual Virtue

February 4, 2019 by Emma Setterington

This post is the second in a series aimed to continue educating you about the kind of education Cedar Classical Academy will offer to students and their families. We have begun expositing our mission statement, one line at a time. In the previous post in this series, Caroline Hummel explained the God-given role of parents […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Faith, Mission Series, Mission Statement, Virtue

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