Each year, eleven years counting, we’ve hosted a conference on the purpose, practice, and essence of Christian classical education and at each of these conference some of the wisest, most brilliant minds in classical education spoke. That means that over the past eleven years we’ve collected more than 200 insightful, inspiring talks from speakers like [...]
Each year we host or attend dozens of workshops, webinars, conferences, conventions, and retreats. Sometimes we speak, sometime we’re just vendors. But everywhere we go our goal is to help you cultivate wisdom and virtue by providing tools and resources that present the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. We’d love for you to come [...]
Good writing does not spring up from formulas or systems. There is no “secret” or “break-through” method that will make your students good writers or you a good writing teacher. Rather good writing is the product of dedicated practice developing key skills. To write well one must look at it like an art, like a [...]
Our good friends over at Eighth Day Books are once again hosting an excellent symposium later this month. If you’re in the Wichita area (or really like C.S. Lewis) we certainly recommend you drop by and check out the good work they’re doing there. And take a look at this fascinating topic:
2012 is ALREADY quite the exciting year around the CiRCE headquarters. The 2012 conference is filling up and the speaker list is growing (to say nothing of the fact that Wendell Berry will be receiving the 2012 Paideia Prize); Andrew Kern is busy working on the newest edition of his book, Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping [...]
St. Monica Academy, a Catholic classical-liberal-arts high school in Pasadena, CA, seeks candidates for new position of Vice Principal and Academic Dean. Requirements: strong skills in teaching high schoolers; thorough knowledge of Catholic doctrine and Church history and fidelity to entirety of the Magisterium; command of history and the classical canon of Western literature; keen [...]
This week in our end-of-year fundraising auction, we have three great items available for your bidding pleasure, one of them brought to you by the fine, fine folks at The Institute for Excellence in Writing. 1. Teaching the Classics DVD and workbook from IEW By using short stories as models, Adam systematically prepares you to [...]
Date: January 13th, 2012 Time: 11 am EST Instructor: Leah Lutz About: In this Lost Tools of Writing webinar, CiRCE certified master teacher and longtime program developer, Leah Lutz, will show participants how to effectively build a powerful exordium that captures a reader’s attention. Don’t miss this great – AND FREE – opportunity to study [...]
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Grammar School Principal: The Cambridge School, a rapidly-growing and dynamic young school in beautiful San Diego, CA is seeking to hire a full time grammar-school principal for the 2012-2013 school year. Hired and supervised by Head of School, the Principal of the Grammar School (GS) will assist the headmaster by providing leadership and oversight in grammar school operations [...]
After keeping it a secret for a few weeks, we’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Russell Kirk Paideia Prize, presented at our conference annually to an educator who has dedicated his or her life to the cultivation of wisdom and virtue. This year’s winner is: Mr. Wendell Berry The 2012 Russell [...]
The fifth week of our Further Up and Further In fundraising auction began today and we have some fantastic items on which you can bid. We are offering: 1. The Russell Kirk Book Collection from ISI Books: 6 books from one of the leading conservative thinkers of the twentieth century ($125.00 value starting at $10) [...]
From Trinity Christian Academy, Lexington, Kentucky: Trinity Christian Academy in Lexington, KY is a classical Christian school ministering to children from Preschool–12th grade. The curriculum is academically excellent, well balanced, and holds the Bible as the foundation of truth. Through our Classical curriculum, we have been teaching the art of learning for over 20 years. Our mission [...]