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The Hearth

Welcome to The Hearth!

There’s a seat for you at the table. (Let’s face it. Most of us homeschool at our dining table, so this makes perfect sense!)

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What is The Hearth?

The Hearth is a community of mommas who are in the journey of pouring into their children by means of a Christian classical education. This community is meant to help do this well by offering, not only the support of like-minded moms in various points along this journey, but also by equipping with foundational knowledge about classical education and what it can look like in your family. This is Titus 2 in action. – Tonya Rozelle

Your Guide

Tonya Rozelle has been classically educating herself and others for the past 20 years. This adventure began when she started homeschooling her own children, an action that quickly led to her realization that there was much she did not know. Not wanting to end the adventure after her own children graduated, she began teaching in a private classical high school. She is forever thankful to the Lord for, among other things, leading her to this crazy thing called classical education.

Tonya especially loves digging into connections between the liberal arts, studying history, and reading from an ever-growing booklist. She graduated from CiRCE’s Certified Master Teacher Apprenticeship program in 2020.

How will we do this?

2025-2026 Registration Now Open!

First Gathering: September 2, 2025

$297

This schedule was selected with you in mind. My hope is that, no matter where you live, you can carve out this time for yourself, perhaps during an extended lunch break or afternoon naptime. This is essential time for mom to learn and equip herself for an incredibly important task with which the Lord has entrusted her. 

1st & 3rd Tuesdays @ 5-6pm ET for equipping and discussion 

2nd Tuesdays @ 5-6pm ET for bonus book club discussion

The first Tuesday  of each month will be our first look at the topic for that month. (See the annual Schedule of Topics for more details.) You will receive 20 to 30 minutes of information followed by discussion when you can ask questions and wrestle with the topic a bit.

The third Tuesday of each month will be our second look at the topic for that month. This will be an opportunity to go deeper in your understanding of the topic through guided questions and to discuss how this new knowledge can be woven into your homeschooling journey, both that week and in years to come.

The second Tuesday of each month will be our bonus book club. Each book will focus, in either a general or specific way, with our pursuit of Christian classical education. It will be conversational in nature and open to all Hearth members regardless of where you are in the book.

Additional Member Benefits

Join the Hearth today to receive special member benefits!

During the summer, Tonya Rozelle will offer a bonus book club on Andrew Kern’s Unless the Lord Builds the House.  The Summer Book Club will meet June 3 – July 29, Tuesdays, 5:00-6:00pm ET. Members are welcome to join at anytime during the summer. 

Hearth members receive access to previous Hearth monthly topic calls with Renee Mathis and Tonya Rozelle after registration.

An important goal for The Hearth is to help provide a community for online learning and gathering in person. We are planning to offer in person gathering opportunities at our CiRCE seasonal and national conferences each year. Special discounts for registration will be available for members for our fall and spring regional conferences. 

Calendar and Topics

2025-2026

September Norms: The Virtue of Learning
October Norms: Mythos & Logos
November Christian Classical Education: Order of Learning
December Liberal Arts: Piety & Gymnastics
January Seven Liberal Arts: Trivium & Quadrivium
February Liberal Arts: Philosophy & Sciences
March Liberal Arts: Virtues & Vices
April Pedagogy: Mimetic & Socratic Teaching
May Restful Teaching

 

 If you are unable to attend any sessions, recordings will be available on The Hearth Canvas course page. All late registrants will pay full price and have access to the Canvas course and all recordings.

FORMA contemplates ancient ideas for contemporary people. We are a community of classical educators and thinkers who seek to better understand the classical tradition and enact it in a contemporary context. 

We are now inviting submissions in the following areas: book reviews, papers, poetry, and opinion pieces.

Our upcoming winter edition will explore the topic of “What is History“. Submissions should relate, either directly or indirectly, to this theme; the author may determine his or her own interpretation and use of the theme.

Please submit your article and a short bio to formamag@circeinstitute.org. Please specify whether you are submitting to the FORMA Symposium (which automatically counts as submission to the Journal) or just the FORMA Journal. Submissions are due by October 31st. By submitting, you are agreeing to allow CiRCE exclusive publication rights to accepted works. Authors maintain the copyright to their own work.

Editor-in-Chief
Katerina Kern
katerina@circeinstitute.org

FORMA contemplates ancient ideas for contemporary people. We are a community of classical educators and thinkers who seek to better understand the Great Books and their influence on contemporary literature and the arts.

The FORMA Review, now open for submissions, seeks to shed light on classic texts. Unlike most journals, we review not only the newest books but the most influential books. Today, many of the Great Books have been sidelined, forgotten, or passed over for more “relevant” texts. We hope to return the classic works of the past to the forefront by sharing new reviews of old books.

We also believe excellence and beauty incite imitation, so we look for the influence of the Classics on modern texts and invite reviews of contemporary works that note this influence on both form and content.

While the content of these book reviews may seem unexpected, the form does not; submitted book reviews should follow the standard form of the book review: summarizing the existing conversation on the topic, noting how the book enters into that conversation, analyzing the content, and assessing the success of the author (summary should only be done to the extent that it enables these four). Submissions should be between 1,000-2,000 words.

Please submit your review and a short bio to formamag@circeinstitute.org. There is no deadline for submission. By submitting, you are agreeing to allow CiRCE exclusive publication rights to accepted works. Authors maintain the copyright to their own work.

Editor-in-Chief
Katerina Kern
katerina@circeinstitute.org