Tell us about yourself? What grade are you in, how long have you been homeschooling/online schooling? I’m in twelfth grade now, and I started homeschooling in ninth grade. Throughout high school I’ve mainly taken Kolbe online classes , but I’ve also taken a couple online classes from other sources, some community college classes, and some classes at homeContinue Reading
Category: College Preparation
What does an average day of teaching at Kolbe Academy look like? I have two really sort of busy days. I get up really early, and I’ll prep for the day. It usually takes a couple hours to get fully ready. Then I’ll log in at ten o’clock to a room ofContinue Reading
Our Director of Academic Services, Mr. Everett Buyarski, was born and raised in Southeast Alaska. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, where he spent two years in the seminary before discerning he wasn’t called to the priesthood. He is married to his beautiful wife Melissa, and has five sons, Nathaniel, Aaron, Peter,Continue Reading
By Eoin Suibhne I was reading recently a letter written by a diocesan priest (published anonymously) detailing the struggles that faithful priests undergo in these perilous times for our Church. The letter revealed from the inside the mindset of those priests who have chosen to break their vows and how they persecute those priests loyalContinue Reading
Porcupines and Temperaments In high school while browsing at a religious goods store, I came across a slim volume with the enchanting title The Delicate Art of Dancing with Porcupines: Learning to Appreciate the Finer Points of Others. The cover was adorned with a cartoon of chubby, grinning porcupines in mid-step, dancing in redContinue Reading
Last week, I was delighted to learn that one of our students had earned the highest score on the 2018 Classic Learning Test (CLT). I knew this was a major accomplishment, however, I wanted to learn more about the test itself. I reached out to the CLT who happily agreed to answer a series ofContinue Reading
Tell us about yourself: where do you live, what do you do, etc., etc. I’m an Oklahoma native, raised in Cushing , a small town with about 8,000 people, and now living in Tulsa , the state’s second largest city. I considered a variety of opportunities around the country for college and beyond, but found IContinue Reading
By Eoin Suibhne I have to smile ironically as I type this post, since in my days as a student, I absolutely loathed standardized tests . Even after serving as a college admissions director for several years, I’m hardly in love with them. But that’s me the unwilling test-taker writing, not me the father of manyContinue Reading
This past week, I posed a series of questions to the President of Northeast Catholic College, Dr. George Harne. I was eager to learn more about the school, having written many recommendations for Kolbe Academy students who are applying there–some of the best and the brightest among them–and wanted to find out more about theContinue Reading
Photo by chuttersnap on unsplash.com By Katherine O’Brien, MA CCPS Katherine O’Brien, MA CCPS is a Catholic homeschooling mother of six who has homeschooled since 1998. She is the founder of Celtic College Consultants and has served college bound teens all across the US since 2004. Students in her recent classes were offered over $225,000Continue Reading