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02/01/2025

The most common reason we struggle with behavior in school or the home is the students have a different vision for success than the one we have for them. They are proud of the things aren’t proud of them for. They seek to imitate those we don’t see as worthy of imitation. They celebrate actions we deride. When this happens, they do NOT CARE about either our praise or our censure.

💫 We must begin with a shared vision for success and growth.

Once we have this, when a behavior issue arises, we can ask them to read again who they said they want to become and help them see they are becoming less like that person when they behave poorly. Then we can ask them how we can help restore their sense of self (that is, become that person they want to be).

Obviously this won’t solve every issue, but without it no behavior issue can be truly resolved. (Note: this is regarding behavioral issues and does not include disorders or regulation issues, which require a different approach as they arise from the body. Let us know if you’d like a separate post on that!)

And why pencil and paper? Writing things down gives our thoughts shape in the material world. This is one step closer to embodying virtue within our own lives.

08/11/2024

Try these lessons to liven up your history class this month! Let us know us how it goes!

31/10/2024

Halloween has a lot of pros and cons. We think a “pro” is that kids get to practice dressing up as brave heroes and facing their fears in a safe space. What do you think? Do you celebrate Halloween?

16/10/2024

Do you feel like you’re pulling teeth just getting your students to learn? We do a lot of consulting here at CiRCE, and we can attest that when this happens the issue is usually that “school” has become worksheets, checklists, and a stack of things other people want you to learn.

If your students are resisting school, consider whether you might need to set these things aside for a while.

Here’s how you can do a little self-check:

Is your “school” day mostly sitting around? Do you and your students feel driven by the to-do list? Do you dread certain subjects because they lead to melt downs or conflict?

We know these are “normal” today, but they don’t have to be. These are actually good signs it’s time for a change.

Sitting to work and completing tasks and sticking out in hard lessons are all good! But they shouldn’t be the driving force or main priority.

God’s creation is.
The True, Good, and Beautiful are.

And we should be in awe and wonder at what He has made. 👈 THIS is what the school day is for.

So how do we bring that awe and wonder back into the classroom? It’s fairly simple to start and builds on its own if you let it. If your textbook is telling you to learn about cells today, show your students something amazing about cells and ask them to write down at least three questions they have about cells. Then help them find the answers. Or if it’s telling you learn about ancient Egypt, find an amazing artifact related to the topic at hand do the same. Even in math, students should be in awe at how numbers work and seeking to answer more and more complex questions.

In any subject, follow this pattern:

✨offer them something worthy of awe,

✨ask them to ponder it,

✨ and help them find the answers to their questions.

30/08/2024

As classical consultants, we sit around discussing what we can do to best support you, the classical teacher. So rather than guessing, let me just ask! What would be the single most helpful thing we can offer you to help you become the best classical educator you can be? Let us know!

19/06/2024

Have you tried these? Want any explained further? Let me know below and I’ll do a video explaining it!

25/03/2024

Do you feel confident as classical educator? Let us know below! Or, comment and tell us how we can best support you!

14/03/2024

Have a blessed morning, friends! This is a prayer I’ve cherished in teaching, and I really believe it shaped who I am as a teacher (to the extent that I’m any good).

27/02/2024

Of course, discipline can’t get in the way of learning, it’s the most important learning students do! But we also need a functioning classroom and this question can help get you there! ASK: “WHAT YOU LIKE ME TO TREAT YOU AS AN ADULT OR A CHILD?” 👉If you ask this question before addressing the behavioral issue (and of course, don’t ask it pejoratively), the student gets to have more onus in the process. The initial behavior issue always stems from not taking responsibility somewhere, so this gives them a chance to correct that behavior even before the discipline occurs. 🙌🏼

If the student says they would like to be treated as an adult, ask them to explain what they did wrong and offer a fitting consequence that would develop an opposite habit. So if they are constantly in trouble for being mean, they might say they should write one kind letter a day this month, etc. The key is they see they need to correct a bad habit by forming a new one, and they get to decide how to do that. (There are times you may want to have a pre-planned punishment, that’s your call! That’s just not a part of this method).

If two students are fighting and they choose to be treated as adults, have them discuss their conflict together and come back offering their resolution to you. You then decide if it’s satisfactory.

It’s great when they choose to be treated as adult because classical education looks to the adult they’re becoming.

AND ITS OK IF THEY SAY THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED AS A CHILD. This usually occurs when there is conflict and they want the teacher to punish the other kid involved. If they choose this path, identify the real issue together (almost always a bad habit) and co-create the positive habit to practice. Again, THEY ARE WORKING WITH YOU TO SHAPE THEIR FUTURE SELF.

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23/02/2024

🏰 Medieval Christians relied on memory because they had very few books and almost never owned those books. A student most often had to travel to a monastery, request access, and read the whole book on that trip. This meant they had to memorize the book quickly and correctly!! So they used the Ancient Greek Memory Palace, which divides content into units and stores that unit into a pre-planned place in our minds using hooks.

This is where we get the phrase “In the first place, in the second place, etc”

✨ I have used this method in college courses instead of taking notes, to give talks without notes, and to help students memorize everything from poetry to the Periodic Table of the Elements.

For history, I prefer an adapted version that uses a street or path as a “palace.” Let me know if you’d like more details on that!

31/01/2024

Yup! Fairy tales and fables for ALL ages!

We’ve been saying it for decades: “read the fables without the added morals!” They stop thought in its tracks!! 🛑 Or even before it gets on the tracks. They stop it back in the station. Right when our students want to think about the characters and their choices, we tell them what to think.

We have to let our students think.

So we’ve published the only English version without the morals.

Of course, the stories still contain morals! But not a “moral-of-the-story.”

19/01/2024

Did your education cause patterns of thought and behavior you have to unravel now? How are you breaking the cycle? Even classical schools can cause damage when they follow the convention school model. None of us are above harming our students. We must pray for grace as we consider a new kind of education (an older kind of education, we’d say).

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