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2025 Workshop Talk | | Culture & Faith, Teacher & Classroom

Summary


In a culture where boys struggle for success at every level in the academic world, classical Christian educators must determine the boys in their classrooms will succeed. It is no mystery why boys are the most frequent visitors to the headmaster’s office: school is necessarily an institution, yet boys are difficult to institutionalize. Should they be? How can we learn to look at our rowdy little boys with hope about their futures as godly, brave, and self-controlled young men? This talk aims to provide a vision for little boys and encourage their teachers.

Speaker


Christie Wright serves as the academic dean at Highland Rim Academy in Cookeville, TN. She was instrumental in founding the school in 2007 and has spent most of her instructional time in the humanities and rhetoric classes. She earned a BA in English Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from Tennessee Technological University. She enjoys her count

Additional Materials

The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.