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Online Conference – Teaching in Place: Education Like Your Child Belongs
April 26
- April 27, 2024

The cost of this conference is a donation of whatever size you feel you can make. Please do not let cost keep you from attending. If you can’t afford a donation, please feel free to come at no cost. If you can, we welcome your partnership.
(Suggested donation $67)

Can’t make it live? Don’t worry, all registrants will receive the video recordings of the conference for FREE!

View our Conference Program here (Access Links are also available)

Wendell Berry once lamented that education is one of those enterprises that teaches children to hate their homes and their hometowns, and education is that thing that serves as a stepping stone to greater and better adventures: the big city, the bright lights, power, and fame! Many of the children who grew up with an education like that, went on to big cities and bright lights, but found the same old rat wheel waiting for them that they thought they were escaping. Other children grew up to discover they just didn’t matter. They weren’t all that important because their dreams and desires were aimed a little too low: stay-at-home mom, a dad who works with his hands, a neighbor in the same small town they grew up in.

What if education was different? What if education didn’t teach our children to abandon the community they grew up in, but taught them to bring their education, their skills, their hopes, and their dreams to their community? What if education taught our children to love the sky they are under? The land they are standing on? The neighbors they grew up with? What if, moreover, education taught our children that they “belong,” that they have dignity and value simply because they are good neighbors who love and abide wherever they are, all the while acknowledging that it’s okay for them to be called to something else, to somewhere else?

Join us online, for our annual “pay what you can” conference on “Teaching in Place: Education like your child belongs.” Join our amazing lineup of speakers as together we contemplate and consider what it means to teach in place, and what it means to educate like your child belongs.

Confirmed Speakers

Dr. Thomas Pope

Ben Crocker

Katerina Hamilton

Director of Press

Christopher Perrin

CEO/Publisher of Classical Academic Press

Martin Cothran

Andrew Pudewa

Dr. Carol Reynolds

Michael Buck Holler

Director of Consulting

Heidi White

Jonathan Councell

Sarah-Jane Bentley

Angel Adams Parham

Dr. Gary Hartenburg

Anne Marie McCollum

Dr. Matthew Bianco

COO

Andrea Lipinski

Vice President of Training and Consulting
Schedule
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April 26
Friday

2:00-3:00pm - Opening Plenary - The Beginning of a Meaningful Life  - Dr. Matthew Bianco

3:30 - 4:30pm - Breakouts

  • Home is where the hearth is: stoking the home fires and trimming great expectations - Sarah Jane Bentley
  • "Music and Moral Virtue - A Guide to Sir Roger Scruton's Philosophy of Music - Benjamin Crocker
  • Loving and Learning from the Places We Call Home - Angel Adams Parham

5:00-6:00pm - Breakouts

  • Knowledge, Skill, and Virtue: Reflections on Mortimer Adler's "Three Columns" of Teaching - Martin Cothran
  • Memory and Place: an Exploration of Indigenous People's Memory Practices - Katerina Hamilton
  • Legendo Discimus: How Reading and Listening Build Fluency - Buck Holler

6:00-7:30pm - Break for dinner

7:30-8:30pm - Q&A Panel

9:00-10:00pm - Closing Plenary - Ordinary Things: Life at Peace in a Frantic World  - Heidi White

April 27
Saturday

2:00-3:00pm - Plenary III -  A Renaissance (in?) Education - Andrew Pudewa

3:30-4:30pm - Breakouts

  • Enthusiasm, Passion, and the Arts - Carol Reynolds
  • Great Expectations: Dickens’ Social Critique of a “Gentleman’s” Education - Jonathan Councell
  • Memory and Membership: How the Stories We Share Shape Our Souls - Thomas Pope

5:00-6:00pm - Breakouts

  • Welcoming the Stranger Who is Your Child: Hospitality and Education - Christopher Perrin
  • For the Love of Place: the Cultivation of Wonder - Anne Marie McCollum
  • The Best City Is Above and Within, Not Here: Plato on Community - Gary Hartenburg

6:00-7:30pm - Break for dinner

7:30-8:30pm - Classical Consortium Panel

9:00-10:00pm - Closing Plenary - Belonging: Cultivating Community Stewards - Andrea Lipinski

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