This coming fall of 2011, Grace Academy of  North Texas will open its doors as a school rooted in the Classical education model. Which means I am once again  being asked, “Jody, why Classical? What is it exactly?” I love answering this question. This is not the first time I have opened a school based on [...]

This post originally appeared on my blog for parents: Cultivating Kids The Surprise Symphony by Franz Joseph Haydn was playing softly in the kindergarten classroom as the students worked quietly in their various learning centers. The children loved waiting for the sudden loud chord that came in the slow movement. A visitor of some prominence came [...]

This post originally appeared in Jody’s humor blog Lessons Learned in the Little Red Schoolhouse. You can subscribe to the blog from the original site. In case you are yearning for a geography lesson, it is 1,000 miles from my home-town in Minnesota to Dallas, and then another 1,000 miles from Dallas to Puebla, Mexico. [...]

Today at our church, our music pastor, Don McMinn, explained the history of one of my favorite songs, Non Nobis Domine. The men’s chorus sang it flawlessly. My heart was so full. I traveled back in time to three different schools where I served as head of school where we sang that song for chapel [...]