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Wednesday, June 24
1:00-2:00 pm | Pre-Conference
- Louis Markos | Professor, Houston Baptist University
- David Diener | Headmaster, Hillsdale Academy
- Keith McCurdy | President & CEO, Total Life Counseling
- Gordon Pennington | Managing Director, Burning Media Group
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9:00-10:15 am | Live Main Stage Session I
- John Stonestreet | President, Colson Center for Christian Worldview
- Brooke Hempell | Senior VP of Research, Barna Group
- Keith McCurdy | President & CEO, Total Life Counseling
- Cherie Harder | President, The Trinity Forum
10:30-11:15 am | Breakout Session I
- Keith McCurdy | "Raising Sturdy Kids"
- Gretchen Gregory | "Kindergarten Recruitment and Testing"
- Mike Roberts | "How to Build a Successful Athletic Program"
- Jerry King | "'The Arts Are So Extra!' Really? Sound Thinking About the Arts in CCE"
- Athena Oden | "The Grammar Classroom: Are Students Thriving?"
- Valerie Rennie | "The Lower School Morning Meeting: The Power of Intentional Routine"
- Leslie Moeller | "Being a Good Boss: Building a Healthy Relationship with Your One Employee"
- Peter Baur | "Clarity is King"
- Dr. Brian Williams | "The Classical Mandate for the Church"
- Timothy Griffith | "Getting Students to Pay Attention to Endings"
- Chris Corley | "Should Your High School Teach AP Math and Science Courses?"
- Jeffrey Mays | "All Things Vile and Vicious: Seeing God's Glory in the Horrors of Nature"
- Todd Buras | "Moral Philosophy as Capstone Experience"
- Brandon Shufflebarger | "Building an Affordable and Effective Computer Lab"
- Russ Gregg | "Classical Christian Education for All: New Schools for Children of the City"
11:30-12:15 pm | Breakout Session II
- Keith McCurdy | “Wisdom to Guide Families into an Uncertain Start to School”
- Kristin Cole & Kerri Ridenour | "Crucial Crisis Communication Elements Schools Need"
- Eric Boerboom | "Athletics is Essential to Classical Education"
- Wade Butin & Maryanne Navickas | "Music is Core, Especially in Small Schools"
- Dr. Cristina Dube | "Just the Math Facts; Not the Anxiety"
- Jason Barney | "Implementing Charlotte Mason's Practice of Narration in the Classroom"
- Eric Cook | "What Every Board Must Do"
- Paula Dwyer & Yvette Cavender | "The Importance of a Classical Aesthetics"
- Ravi Jain | "Christian Classical Education: For Every Nation, Tribe and Tongue"
- Marcus Foster | "Loving Languages in the Youngest Years""
- Dr. Jason Merritt | "Beginning a Greek Curriculum: Two Models"
- Dr. Janet Andreasen | "Rethinking Grades: When is an A not an A?"
- Dr. Steve Mittwede | "Rejecting Disciplinary Insularity and Irrelation"
- Dr. David Diener | "Classical Education as Preparation for a Changing World"
- Ken Hosier | "Discipleship as the Root of Classroom Management"
- Matthew Breazeale | "CCE Factors Contributing to a Resilient Faith"
- Brandon Shufflebarger | "Resources for Choosing/Writing a CS Curriculum"
- Dr. Anika Prather | "Living in the Constellation of the Canon"
12:15-1:00 pm | Break
1:00-2:15 pm | Live Main Stage Session II
- John Lennox | Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
- Amy Burgess | Marketing Consultant, Amy Burgess Consulting
- James K.A. Smith | Professor of Philosophy, Calvin University
2:30-3:15 pm | Breakout Session III
- Dr. Chris Perrin | "Slimming Down the Curriculum"
- Patio Q&A on "The Future of College Entrance Exams"
- Clay Vaughn & Amy Burgess | "Effective School Websites"
- Anthony Davis | "Developing Relationships Between Academics and Athletics"
- Jerry King | "Welcoming All and Pursuing Excellence"
- Leslie Collins | "Cultivating a Thriving Use of Memory in the Grammar Stage"
- Kristina Pierce & Gretchen Geverdt | "Story-Based Learning in Early Classical Education"
- Jean Kim | "Building a High Performance Leadership Team"
- Gordon Pennington | "Communicating In The Midst of Chaos"
- Panel on "Classical Christian Education in Dallas/Fort Worth"
- Panel on "A Testimony: Implementing Classical Christian Education Internationally”
- Lisa Snyder | "How Languages Impact Learners & What We Can Measure in Learners"
- Dr. Jason Merritt | "Socratic and Platonic Pedagogy: Four Lessons from the Masters"
- Panel with CCE Students on "Engaging in a Meaningful Mathematics Harkness"
- Dr. Steve Mittwede | "A Survey of Oft-Neglected Factors in Scientific Inquiry and Instruction"
- Dr. Louis Markos | "Temptation in a Time of Quarantine: How Screwtape Uses Pandemics"
- Dr. James Tallmon | "When Orality Abides Rhetoric Thrives..."
- Panel on "What CCE Should Learn From Teach for America?"
3:30-4:15 pm | Breakout Session IV
- David Seibel | "The Classical Apprenticeship"
- Rim Hinckley | "New Parent Orientation"
- Patio Q&A on "Admissions in CCE"
- Panel on "Loving the Hard Stuff: Raising Up Young Artists With a Prophetic Voice"
- Patio Discussion for Preschool-2nd Grade Teachers on "Phonemic Awareness"
- Patio Discussion for 2rd-4th Grade Teachers on "History & Literature Coming Alive"
- Eleanor Wells | "Principles for Practical Stress Management"
- Robyn Burlew | “The Ideal Classical Educator”
- Trisha Sefton | "Assessment—Friend or Foe?"
- Panel on "What's the Value of Learning (your) Language?"
- Panel on "Tinkering and Visualizing: Gateways to Building Intuition and Rigor"
- Amanda Patchin | "Leisure is Essential for the Classical Educator"
- Patio Q&A on "Training Teachers Without a Computer Science Background"
- Patio Q&A with Russ Gregg and Dan Olson
4:30-5:30 pm | After Hours Patios
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9:00-10:15 am | Live Main Stage Session III
- David Goodwin | President, ACCS
- Jennifer Marshall | Senior Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation.
- Angel Adam Parham | Associate Professor of Sociology, Loyola University-New Orleans
- Fr. Robert Sirico | President, Acton Institute
10:30-11:15 am | Breakout Session V
- Robyn Burlew | "Partnering with Parents"
- Panel on "Assessment within the Classical Christian Tradition"
- Panel on "Building a Successful Athletic Dept Starts at the Top"
- Jerry King | "Interdisciplinary Connections in CCE: The Arts Can Lead the Way"
- Valerie Rennie | "Connecting the Dots: The Practice of Oral Narration in the Lower School"
- Allison Buras & Alisha Barker | "Dyslexia at Your Door"
- Waldemar Kohl | "Renewing My Motivation to Lead"
- Panel on "Building a Successful Athletic Dept Starts at the Top"
- Dr. Grant Horner | “Augustine: An African Classical Educator”
- Karen Moore | "St. Patrick’s Confession: A Story of Faith and Work of Beauty"
- Andrew Elizalde | "Mathematical Reasoning and Rhetoric"
- John Mays | "Other Voices: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Science Instruction"
- Chris Schlect | "Effective Classroom Discussion"
- Patio Q&A with Jennifer Marshall
- Andrew Kern | "Rhetoric Divine, Rhetoric Diabolical"
- Angel A. Parham | "Drawing from the Black Intellectual Tradition in Our Classical Curricula"
11:30-12:15 pm | Breakout Session VI
- Dusty Kinslow | "A Long Obedience in the Same Direction"
- Brad Layland | "Fundraising During and After COVID-19"
- Nick Gordon | "Shaping a Child's Development Through PE"
- Scott Gercken | "Teaching Music Classically"
- Jessica Gombert & Dr. Melissa Siller | "The How of Reading Insruction in a Classical Education"
- John Skillen | "Rhetoric, Architecture, and School Design"
- Peter Vandebrake & Alfonso Clark | "Strength in Diversity"
- Panel on "Leading an Effective Faculty Meeting"
- Dr. Chris Perrin | "Lessons from America"
- Marcus Foster | "Inspirational Assessment and Accountability in Languages"
- Dr. Joseph Tipton | "The Letter Killeth: Novice Spoken Greek"
- Rapid Fire Roundtable on "Cultivating Mathematical Communities"
- John Mays | "Science: Discovery and Discipleship "
- Dr. Phillip Donnelly | "The Art of Rhetoric in the Light of Christ"
- Chris Browne | "A Guide to Common Placing Practices"
- Andrew Kern | "One Art to Rule Them All"
- Patio Q & A with Brandon Shufflebarger on "Practical Takeaways for Starting a CS Program"
- Panel on "School Culture in a Virtual Urban World"
12:15-1:00 pm | Break
1:00-2:15 pm | Live Main Stage Session IV
- Senator Ben Sasse | U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Francis Su | Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
- Louis Markos | Professor, Houston Baptist University
- Susan Wise Bauer | Author and Founder, The Well-Trained Mind
2:30-3:15 pm | Breakout Session VII
- Leslie Collins | "Helping Students with Disabilities Thrive in Classical Christian Schools, Part I"
- Brad Layland | "The Seven Keys to Success for Capital Campaigns"
- Beck Brydon | "Coach Training & Development"
- Patio Q&A on "Ideas for Effective Arts Teaching Under COVID Realities"
- Peter Baur | "Seeing God’s Glory in Our Students-"
- Keith Nix | "The Fundamentals: Principles for a Healthy Board"
- Rapid Fire Roundtable on "COVID: How Various Heads of Schools are Planning"
- Patio Q & A on "Christian Classical Education for the World"
- Lisa Snyder | "Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Teaching a Modern Language in a Classical School"
- Dr. Joseph Tipton | "Beginner Spoken Greek"
- Patio Q&A with Francis Su
- Dr. Louis Markos | "Men Without Chests: The Dangers of a Values-Free Education"
- Martin Cothran | "A Defense of Western Civilization"
- Dr. Tom Vierra | "The Rhetoric of CCE Online"
- Panel on "City School Responses to COVID-19 & Lessons Learned"
3:30-4:15 pm | Breakout Session VIII
- Leslie Collins | "Helping Students with Disabilities Thrive in Classical Christian Schools, Part 2"
- Kelly Blake | "How to Achieve True Financial Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic World"
- Panel on "What We Desire For Our Graduates"
- Patio Discussion for 3rd-6th Grade Teachers on "Math: Simplifying Problem Solving"
- Patio Discussion for 3rd-6th Grade on "A Sense of Wonder in Grammar School Science"
- Alex Markos | "Greek Myths and Gospel Truths"
- Jon Eckert | "An Educational Redesign in Response to COVID"
- Panel on "Contracts during Covid, Gender Legislation, and Sexual Abuse, Oh My!"
- Dr. David Diener | "The Nature and Vision of Classical Christian Education"
- Rapid Fire Roundtable | Best Practices: Procedures, Formative Practices, Assessments...
- Patio Q&A with Josh Wilkerson on "Teaching Math in a Time of Uncertainty."
- Dr. Chris Perrin | "Lessons Learned: What We Have Learned After 40 Years of Renewing CCE"
- Hilary Dotters | "Guiding Grammar Students through Beginning Socratic Discussion"
- Joanna Hensley | "Discussing a Great Book Online"
- Patio Q&A with Angel Adams Parham and Anika Prather
- Debbie Harris | "Does Aristotle Belong in the City"