2025 Classical Exemplar Excellentiae Domi Award

The Board of the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education has established the Classical Exemplar Excellentiae Domi award for CCLE members who homeschool their children:

• To promote excellence in the practice and understanding of classical Lutheran education
• To recognize and honor excellence in the performance of classical Lutheran homeschooling

If you wish to apply for the Classical Exemplar Excellentiae Domi Award, please review the whole application below to familiarize yourself with the requirements. All documentation should be emailed (as a zip file, portfolio, etc.) to executive.director@ccle.org by December 31, 2024. There is NO application fee.

The CCLE board will evaluate your application and documentation. Decisions to award the Classical Exemplar Excellentiae Domi Award will be made after consideration by the entire CCLE Board and announced in the spring 2025.

Individuals selected for the award will receive a certificate, a modest financial award and waived conference registration for the next conference.

The recipient of the Classical Exemplar Excellentiae Domi award will be officially recognized at our summer conference, CCLE XXV, at Concordia University, Wisconsin. Eligibility and criteria for the Exemplar Excellentiae Domiaward includes:

• CCLE membership
• Sincere commitment to Lutheran doctrine
• Committed to and organized use of the trivium and quadrivium
• Two or more years experience operating a classical homeschool (evidence)
• Identification, description, and documentation of a specific practice including description of the outstanding practice and documentation of the outstanding practice (for example: video recording, example of assignments, student projects, photographs, etc.)
• Transferability—how can other homeschools implement this practice

If you have any questions, please contact Anna Martin, executive director, at executive.director@ccle.org.

In order to apply, please submit the form below by December 31, 2024.