2020 Workshop Talk | 1:09:15 | 7-12
Summary
Adolescence is not a mistake, but a God-ordained time of final preparation of a child for adult maturity and independence. Yet all too often, we want to ignore these incredibly formative years and wait for the students to “grow up!” However, it is during these years that most students build their identity and make formational life decisions about their faith, their self-worth, and their goals in life. This talk will argue that the health of a CCE school can be best gauged by the effort the faculty devotes and the relationships they build during these important years. It will also provide ways to think about dialectic students and ideas on how to engage them and minster well to them.
Speaker
Ralph Janikowsky is the headmaster at Westminster Academy in Memphis, TN, an ACCS accredited school with over 400 students. He graduated from the US Naval Academy with honors and has a masters degree from the National War College . Prior to arriving in Memphis, Ralph served as the upper school principal at Rockbridge Academy after a career in the US Navy as Surface Warfare Office that included command tours of a destroyer, USS HEWITT (DD 966) in Yokosuka, Japan
and a cruiser, USS PRINCETON (CG 59) in San Diego . Ralph served as a ruling elder at the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Bowie in Maryland for nearly 20 years before moving to Memphis and is currently an elder at Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis. He has taught Sunday school to middle school students and coached middle-school boys’ basketball. Ralph and his wife Linda have two daughters, Leslie, who is Reformed University Fellowship staff at Rhodes College in Memphis, and Kristen, who is a civil engineer in Memphis, both graduates of Rockbridge Academy.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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