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Conference
CCLE XIII - Practicum for Classical Lutheran Educators
July 16-18, 2013
Concordia Theologial Seminary, Ft. Wayne, IN
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Simply ClassicalThis revolutionary new book guides parents and teachers in implementing the beauty of a classical education with special-needs and struggling students. Cheryl is an advocate of classical Christian education for special-needs students. The love of history, music, literature, and Latin instilled in her own children has created in Cheryl the desire to share the message that classical education offers benefits to any child.
- Increase your child's academic success
- Restore your child's love of learning
- Regain confidence to teach any child
- Renew your vision of hope for your special-needs child
- Receive help navigating the daunting process of receiving a diagnosis
- Learn how to modify existing resources for your child's needs
- Find simple strategies any parent or teacher can implement immediately
- Appreciate a spiritual context for bringing truth, goodness, and beauty to any child
Cheryl Swope, M.Ed. has home-schooled her 18-year-old adopted special-needs twins from their infancy with classical Christian education. She holds a lifetime K-12 state teaching certificate in the areas of Behavior Disorders and Learning Disabilities. She has worked with special-needs children, youth, and adults for over thirty years.
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Reviews
- Cheryl Swope’s new book is perhaps the best story of classical education ever written. This book will take classical education from the perceived ivory towers of academia into the real life of all people, especially those uniquely blessed with learning disabilities. Here is classical education at its very best, an education that nurtures each soul on purity, truth, and beauty: castitate, vertitate, et pulchritudine animam enutriens.
- Cheryl Swope’s book is exactly what the title suggests, “simply beautiful.” She has woven together a tapestry of personal narrative; an apologetic for classical Christian education and home schooling; and resources for anyone wishing to pursue the trivium with the simplest and most challenged children. Cheryl understands the nature of fallen humanity, Christ’s accomplished plan of saving mankind, and the beautiful service an education saturated in Christian catechesis and the liberal arts has on any child. She carefully articulates what is lacking in progressive education and asserts an education that pursues what is the true, the good, and the beautiful. Her book is a timely contribution to those pursuing home education as well as formal education with children who have special learning needs.
University of Colorado, Boulder
- Cheryl Swope’s Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child gives a clear and practical introduction to Classical Christian education and its significance for children with physical and cognitive disabilities from Helen Keller to her own daughter, Michelle. The reader will be excited by the ideas and deeply moved by her story.
- The theory of classical education is that children become educated and responsible adults who improve their lives and the world around them. Cheryl Swope’s Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child is a well-written, well-researched book which reminds readers that all children deserve a valuable education, even those with special needs. This wonderful work instructs parents and educators, so children who receive a classical education can be surrounded with daily opportunities to learn, even as they remember that the greatest gift they can give is to serve those around them.
Inservice Class in Wyoming
Classical Lutheran Education: Past Foundations, Future Challenges
Intensive Class, Wyoming District Educator In-service
June 24-28, 2013
Wyoming District Office
Casper, Wyoming
Dr. Steven A. Hein, Instructor
For all CCLE friends! This informative class will reflect as Lutherans on the question: Why should we educate our children? To what end, for what purpose? The course will explore these questions in the context of the roots and development of classical, Lutheran education from 16th century Wittenberg to the current day. The influences of Pietism and Rationalism on Lutheran education in the 18th century will be explored leading to the decision of confessional Lutherans to immigrate to North America. The development of Lutheran education in North America, especially in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod will be charted within the backdrop of the emergence of progressive pedagogy, and the recent resurgence of the classical, Lutheran model. You are invited to come in person ($200) or attend online through GoToMeeting ($100). For Syllabus and further info contact Dr. Hein, stevenhein@ix.netcom.com.
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Download Audio FileDr. Steven Hein talks on The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education conference July 16 -18 at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
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Classical Christian Education – Dr. Steven Hein, 2/15/13
Dr. Steven Hein of the Concordia Institute for Christian Studies
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The Concordia Institute for Christian Studies
Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education Conference
11/3/2011
Cheryl Swope of
The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education
Purpose
The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education
advances and promotes classical education
within the context of confessional Lutheranism
among teachers, administrators, pastors, and home educators
by providing school accreditation,
standards, conferences, professional development,
resource materials, and consulting services.
The Classical Lutheran Education Journal
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What's Old is New Again...
Want to revisit your time at a previous CCLE Conference?
What if you were not able to attend one?
23 May 2013