2023 Workshop Talk | 1:02:11 | General Classroom, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
We believe all education is discipleship. Committed to what F.E. Gaebelein calls “the integration of faith and learning” throughout all aspects of our curriculum- from our classrooms all the way to our rowers on the Hudson—we seek to integrate Christian principles with an “education of a type high enough to merit intimacy with such exalted ideals” (as F.E.G. says) so our school is both academically rigorous and intricately woven full of virtue/spiritual formation such that, for example, things like “chapel” or “virtue/spiritual formation” programs would be redundant.
Speaker
Tamra Hopkins serves as Dean of Curriculum and Instruction at Augustine Classical Academy, a classical Christian school in Saratoga County, New York, that she helped to found in 2009. She earned her B. A. in English and MAT from Union College (Schenectady, NY) where her love for literature and curriculum compelled her to write her thesis on Dead White Men and Other American Myths. Her faith in Christ, and the limitations she encountered in public education, caused her to look for other educational paradigms as she considered ways to disciple her own children. Since 2002, she and her husband Matt have leaned into the vision of classical Christian education, initially homeschooling their children through a cooperative they helped found, and eventually establishing Augustine Classical Academy to partner with parents to disciple their children to faith in Christ rooted in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. She is recently widowed and a mother of nine aged 26–10, five of whom have graduated from Augustine.
Jason Radcliff serves as Head of School at Augustine Classical Academy in Saratoga County, New York, a K–12 classical Christian school. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant Pastor at a church in South Carolina and was previously on the faculty for many years at The Stony Brook School, a Christian boarding school on Long Island. Jason holds a B. A. in Student Ministry from Geneva College as well as an M. A. and a Ph. D. in Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and The University of Edinburgh, respectively. He is passionate about the overlap of Education and Theology and is the author of three books on the subject: Thomas. F. Torrance and the Church Fathers, Thomas F. Torrance and the Orthodox-Reformed Dialogue, and Grace and Incarnation: The Oxford Movement’s Shaping of Modern Anglicanism. Jason discovered the rich and ancient tradition of classical Christian education through the early Church Fathers. Also an Episcopal Priest,
Jason is committed to the integration of faith and learning and believes discipleship is at the heart of Christian education.
thopkins@augustineca.org and jradcliff@augustineca.org
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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