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Conference Program
Please note: This
schedule is subject to change
Wednesday, July 25
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7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Registration Desk Open
- Residence Inn, Uptown Charlotte
(Holiday Inn van service will shuttle to Residence Inn)
Reception at the Residence Inn, Uptown Charlotte |
Thursday, July 26
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7:00am |
Breakfast Available
at the Residence Inn and Holiday Inn |
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7:45am |
Registration Desk
Opens at St. Gabriel’s Church |
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8:15am
– 9:45am |
Reading: Psalm
120, 121
Exordium I:
Welcome
and Commencement:
A Contemplation of
Rest
Andrew Kern
Reading: Psalm 122 |
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10:00am
– 10:50am |
Reading: Psalm 123
Pillar I:
Reflections on the
Definition of Classical Education
Laura Berquist
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Time |
Leadership |
Purpose |
Essence |
Practice |
Colloquy
A |
Colloquy B |
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11:10am -
Noon |
Kerin
Hughes |
Michael
Eatmon |
Martin
Cothran |
Bryan
Smith
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Laura
Berquist |
Peter Vande Brake |
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Recruiting, Hiring, and Developing Superstar Teachers |
How We Intend to Bring Rest to Geneva |
What is
Classical Education?
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Reading Homer in Byzantium:
The Nuts and Bolts of Classical Instruction in Byzantine Schools and
What We Can Learn from Them
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"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in
which he took little interest."
--TS Eliot |
Is rest
opposed to
productivity? |
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NOON
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Lunch |
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1:30pm – 2:20pm |
Andrew
Kern |
Ken Myers |
Laura
Berquist |
Bryan
Smith |
Andrew
Tadie |
Peter Vande Brake |
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That Hideous Strength: Modern Management Theory and the Unavoidable
Corruption of Christian Classical Education |
Communications Technologies as
Engines of Restlessness |
The
Grammatical Stage:
The Beginning of Contemplation: Theory and Practice
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A Few
Things Well:
Simplifying and Limiting the Curriculum
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"Ah, foolish man, that wouldst debase with them, and mortal glory, Heaven's diadem!"
--Andrew Marvell, From The Coronet |
What causes unrest
in a school? |
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2:20pm – 4:00pm |
REST:
Time for prayer, contemplation, Bible study, and naps. |
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4:00pm
– 5:30pm |
Reading:
Psalm 124
Poetic Knowledge
Conversation
TS Eliot: Ash
Wednesday: V (The Unstilled Word)
Michael Eatmon, Laura
Berquist, Andrew Kern
Reading: Psalm 125 |
Friday – July 27
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8:15am -
8:45am |
Reading: Psalm
126, 127
Exordium II:
Guides, Pagan and Christian:
Athena, Venus, Lady Philosophy, and Beatrice
Dr.
Andrew Tadie
Reading: Psalm 128 |
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10:00am-
10:50am |
Reading: Psalm 129
Pillar II:
The Principles of Classical Education:
The Principle of Cultivation
Ken Myers |
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Time |
Leadership |
Purpose |
Essence |
Practice |
Colloquy A |
Colloquy B
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11:10am -
Noon |
Bryan
Smith |
Michael
Eatmon |
Andrew
Kern |
Martin
Cothran |
Ken Myers
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Vigen Guroian |
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Leavening the Lump: How Three Medieval Educators Tried to Change the
World |
The
Language of Anxiety: On the Corruption of the Arts & Letters and How It
Affects Our Teaching |
The Great Castration:
Genetics, Neuroscience, and the Ablation of the Soul in Conventional
Education |
The
Ceremony of
Innocence: How to
Ensure Academic Tranquility |
"The
natural habit of truth is in interpersonal communication. Truth lives in
dialogue and conversation."
--Joseph Pieper |
Can we
rest in education? |
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NOON
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Lunch |
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1:30pm -
2:20pm |
Nick
Gennett, Marty McCarthy, & Andrew Kern |
Martin
Cothran |
Kerin Hughes |
Leah Lutz |
Michael Eatmon |
Bryan
Smith
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Perils and Promises:
A Conversation On Getting Started with the Leadership Team from
The Regent School of the Carolinas |
"Perhaps
They Were Remembering Eden":
On Reading Pagan literature in a Christian School |
Teachers
as Marketers:
Empowering Your Teachers to Communicate the Vision
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The
Lost Tools of Writing™I |
"As certainly as ours is a time of the expert and the technician, we are
living under a dynasty of the intellect, and the aim of the intellect is
not to wonder and love and grow wise about life, but to control it..."
--Harold Goddard
The Meaning of Shakespeare |
What,
if not numbers? |
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2:40pm
– 3:30pm |
Michael
Eatmon |
Vigen
Guroian |
Laura
Berquist |
Leah Lutz |
Andrew
Kern |
Charles
Clendinen |
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Sound Mind In a
Sound Body: The Sacramental Principle Meets the
Management Revolution |
Reflections on
The Giving Tree
by Shel
Silverstein |
The Dialectical Stage:
The End of Argument is Rest
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The
Lost Tools of Writing™ II |
"The
Man that hath no music in himself/ Nor is not moved by concord of sweet
sounds/ Is fit for treasons"
Shakespeare |
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6:00pm –8:00pm |
Paideia Prize Giving
Banquet
Reading: Psalm 130
Presentation of
The Paideia Prize for Lifetime Contribution
to Classical Education
Acceptance Address: Dr. James Taylor
"My Teacher"
Reading: Psalm 131 |
Saturday – July 28
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7:00am |
Hot Breakfast Available
At the Residence Inn
and Holiday Inn |
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8:15am
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9:45am |
Reading Psalm
132: 1-18
Exordium III:
The Eighth Day: The
Day of the New Creation
Vigen Guroian
Reading Psalm
132: 13-18
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Time |
Leadership |
Purpose |
Essence |
Practice |
Colloquy A |
Colloquy B
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10:00am -
10:50am |
Kerin
Hughes & Andrew Kern |
Debbie Harris |
Laura
Berquist |
Bryan Smith |
Vigen
Guroian
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Martin
Cothran |
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Headmasters' Roundtable |
Understanding and Instilling a Love of
Beauty |
The
Rhetorical Stage:
Leading the Student to Wisdom |
Training the Inward Eye:
Memorization
and
Contemplation |
"Getting and spending we
lay waste our powers."
--
William Wordsworth
The World is Too Much With Us |
Can
student achievement be quantified? |
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11:10am -
12:30pm
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Reading: Psalm 133
Commencement:
A Contemplation of Rest
Andrew
Kern
Reading: Psalm 134 |
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12:30 |
Lunch and Closing Benediction |
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