Mrs. Eisenbarth Joins WCA Music Department
At the start of the new year the Academy welcomed Mrs. Maggie Eisenbarth as its new upper school music teacher. Mrs. Eisenbarth joins...
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Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Themes In Literature and Life
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...
Mrs. Rachel Erickson
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
A Letter from Mrs. Erickson
As I reflect upon the last year, I am thankful for the wonderful people who are involved in our school community. 2021 has been a...
Mason Loeffler
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
The Proud & The Humble in King Arthur
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...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Good Art Takes Time
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...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Nature Studies at WCA
Jonathan Edwards, who by many is considered one of America’s foremost theologians, and who wrote great works such as The Religious...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
A Letter from Dr. Brunson
When our board chairman Dr. Krezowski and I discussed the prospects for reopening school last September, one of us remarked, “We might...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Why study Latin?
It’s a question as likely as April rain. Many Academy students ponder it, though only before they’ve taken the class, and rarely...
Haidyn Hudson
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Thoughts of a New Academy Student
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...
Mr. James Chertudi
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Improving Student Rhetoric Through Immersion
A critical role of the classical educator is to guide students to the rhetoric stage, the summit of a classical education. Young...
Mr. Holden Sieler
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Rhetoric of Virtue
Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of persuasion. Mobilizing the weapons of word, emotion, and credibility—what the philosopher...
Valentina Boyle
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Doomed to Live
Irony is a literary device by which language or expectation is undermined in a narrative. There is a significant use of irony in the...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Little Things Make Big Things Happen
“It’s the little things that are vital,” John Wooden once stated; “Little things make big things happen.” Anderson, a 7th grader at the...
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
The Heart of Science
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...
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- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
For Such a Time as This
Too often we overlook the biblical heroine Queen Esther, a good-hearted, beautiful, and truthful young Jewess of the 5th century B.C....
Mr. Burton Gildersleeve
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
When Good is Great
At the Academy, we speak often of academic excellence. This is rightly so; our students strive not to be middling multipliers or so-so...
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- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
The Bow and Arrow
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of thy youth.” Psalm 127:4 You are familiar with the bow and arrow. The bow...
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- Mar 9, 2020
- 2 min
Inside the Academy
Did you know that students who graduate from Classical-Christian schools score an average of 325 points higher on the SAT? In other...
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