by Tim Woods, Logic School Director and 9th G Humanities Teacher Hello TCS families, friends, students and faculty! I hope you have been enjoying a restful summer. What a curious thing it is, to wish someone a restful summer? But it’s true, isn’t it? We build up the end of a school year and look forward to a rejuvenating period …
The Greatest Commandment in Education
by Michelle Duncan, Second Grade teacher I believe the most critical element of successful education is love. Not only sincerely loving the person you are educating, but also communicating that love consistently and effectively. As a teacher, whether in the classroom or at home, if we have not love then we are only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. …
Regarding Religion
by Tim Woods, 7th grade Humanities teacher Have you ever sat down in church and just felt empty? Have you ever left a service immediately forgetting whatever you just experienced? Perhaps you’ve been disenfranchised with church as a whole for a myriad of reasons. Maybe Sunday has become a day of fear or frustration. Let us not kid ourselves, even …
Observations and an invitation
by Kyle Bryant, Director of the upcoming TCS Heights Campus My first few weeks at Trinity Classical School have been many things—informative, encouraging, challenging, and life-giving. There is so much to learn, understand, and implement that sometimes it feels overwhelming. But through all of that, I still walk through the halls of TCS thinking, “This exists?” What a gift from …
Redeeming the Time
by Mary White, TCS Grammar Academic Director “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. …
The Gospel of Flatland
By Dr. Lindsey Scholl, Logic School Director Imagine that you were flat as a pancake – flatter, even. And not only are you flat, but everyone and everything in your world is also flat. In fact, you are only a shape and your world is two-dimensional. How would such a world look to you? How could you tell the difference …
Turning Ten
by Dr. Christi Williams, Logic School Teacher As a new teacher at TCS this year, teaching middle schoolers for the first time, and being the perfectionist that I am, I began the school year with a plethora of worries. After all, I remember myself as a middle schooler: shy, insecure, full of brooding and questions, longings that I didn’t understand, …
From the Desk of Mrs. Anderson…
by Marian Anderson, Pre-Grammar Academic Director At the end of every school year, I start a mental yearly review and summer planning list. I know all the different aspects of this model of schooling and what it takes to get my four kids out the door, ready and in proper uniform, on the first day of school. I know what …
There is No Other Stream
by Neil Anderson, Head of School In our lunchroom Narnia reading, we have picked up this year with The Silver Chair. Here is a passage we encountered a couple weeks ago. It documents Jill Pole’s first encounter with Aslan after she has been without water for an extended period of time: “Are you not thirsty?” said the Lion. “I am …
