From the Kolbe Archives, by Willa Ryan From September 17, 2004 Literature, the Heart of the Curriculum Literature is key to a Catholic classical education. In Kolbe’s reading courses, in the grade school years, children are expected to read at least several books in addition to the main reading selections, and to write severalContinue Reading
Photo by Pepi Stojanovski 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 overContinue Reading
Education as a Voyage The act of education is the undertaking of a guided voyage towards mastery. The guide is an original pathfinder who serves as a model for imitation. He guides our actions via the instrument of desire. We desire what he has or, more precisely, what he is. For example, if our modelContinue Reading
The Value of Civility As the year progresses and classmates get to know each other, discussions become more free-flowing, relaxed, and casual. This is a good thing! As shyness melts away, students begin to engage more readily in conversation and debate, exchanging ideas, opinions and knowledge in class and on forums. This kind of interactionContinue Reading
The End is Near! We are almost there! The school year is coming to an end and summer break is in sight! Our homeschool family definitely takes a summer break from school, especially since our kids are older now. When our family was younger and we were still having babies, we would school year-round toContinue Reading
Photo by Liam McKay 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 overContinue Reading
Photo by Debby Hudson 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 overContinue Reading
Activism for Homeschooling On Thursday, April 25th, I had the opportunity to practice activism for homeschooling by attending the public hearing on California Assembly Bill 2756. This bill would have posted the private information of every California home schooler on the California Department of Education’s public searchable database. While I expected a large turnout toContinue 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
originally appeared at http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2015/01/trasancos-online-catholic-education/ on January 14, 2015 Introduction I should explain my background before hypothesizing. I taught high school chemistry in a Texas public school in the 1990s for two years. I was 21, three years into a biology degree, and had taken no education classes because I had no plans to teach. But science teachers were inContinue Reading