C.C. in Kyle
Starting fall of 2015!
Our Foundations/Essentials Director will be Laura Haiker. Check out our community on the Classical Conversations Website.
To Know God and to Make Him Known
Our Outreach Events
Please join us for an Informational Meeting on February 1st and/or March 8th at 6-8pm at Fellowship Church at Plum Creek.
The great mission of Classical Conversations
Purpose
The purpose of CC is to lead the home-centered education movement by teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning in order to discover God’s created order and beauty, and as a result, enable others to do the same.
Vision
CC fulfills its mission and purpose by empowering parents in the classical, Christian teaching of their children through Parent Practicums and also through establishing and supporting CC communities across the US and in several countries. We enable parents everywhere to equip their children with a biblical worldview and the classical tools of learning in order to impact the world for God’s glory.
Goals
1. Provide compelling, influential Christian leadership in the home-centered, classical education movement.
2. Provide Parent Practicums across the US that empower parents to teach any academic subject classically.
3. Provide a curriculum framework with a biblical worldview, while engaging the current culture in which we live.
4. Provide weekly, classical, Christian communities that hone students’ academic and classical skills of recitation, logical thinking, and persuasive rhetoric.
5. See to partner with like-minded businesses to provide quality products and services for families.
Core Beliefs
1. Bible: A biblical worldview is the foundation through which all subjects must be viewed and eventually integrated.
2. Parents: Parents are a child’s first and most influential teacher.
3. Method: Modern education has failed, and we would like to recover the knowledge of how to teach and learn effectively, using the “tools of learning” or the classical model.
4. Community: A healthy academic community provides accountability, structure, fellowship, and the ability to impact the culture on a grander scale.
5. Mentors: An experienced, inspirational, learning mentor, who facilitates a weekly community meeting and models learning, offers exponential rewards in the “learning life” of the parent and student.
6. Students: All students can learn to “train their brains to retain”, use information logically, and communicate well.
7. Skills: There aren’t any difficult subjects, just poor learning skills.
8. Curriculum: Classical Conversations provides visionary, skeletal curriculum guides and syllabi, allowing parents to continue to direct and own the details that best suit their personal priorities and student dynamics.
9. Model: By nature, a homeschool family of younger children closely resembles a one-room schoolhouse model- multiple ages under one primary teacher, the parent.
10. Resources: If America’s one-room schoolhouse teachers could produce some of our greatest leaders with very limited resources, then so can today’s homeschool family!