When you first learned that we have a logic class at the Academy, if your response was like most of any of ours you likely nodded your...

Admittedly our title is already misleading: There are no typical days in Pre-K. There are some constants, though. Or as Mrs. Morrison...

In 5th grade students recently wrote their own myths. In conversation with Mr. Chertudi, I (Mr. Gildersleeve) asked a few questions about...

At the start of the new year the Academy welcomed Mrs. Maggie Eisenbarth as its new upper school music teacher. Mrs. Eisenbarth joins...

In 5th Grade Mr. Chertudi and his class are currently reading Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. In their study of that classic...

In King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Roger Lanclyn Green, pride is a great sin. Pride, in Biblical terms, is elevated and...

Art awakens us to the world as it truly is – complex and mysterious yet knowable, in shades, all at once. The best artists, if you think...

Jonathan Edwards, who by many is considered one of America’s foremost theologians, and who wrote great works such as The Religious...

It’s a question as likely as April rain. Many Academy students ponder it, though only before they’ve taken the class, and rarely...

The following is the transcript of a speech given by Haidyn Hudson at Friday Chapel in February, 2021: I was asked to give a short...

A critical role of the classical educator is to guide students to the rhetoric stage, the summit of a classical education. Young...

Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of persuasion. Mobilizing the weapons of word, emotion, and credibility—what the philosopher...

Irony is a literary device by which language or expectation is undermined in a narrative. There is a significant use of irony in the...

“It’s the little things that are vital,” John Wooden once stated; “Little things make big things happen.” Anderson, a 7th grader at the...

You’ve likely felt it, that inimical sensation that comes when you close the pages of a great book. The written words transport you to...