2016 Workshop Talk | 1:00:47 | All Grade Levels, Culture & Faith, Marketing & Growth
Summary
Our schools’ parents today aren’t like the ones we had ten years ago!? Millennials, the generation born from 1982 to 2000, are now having children and enrolling in our schools. As schools who strive to be “in loco parentis,” our success is directly linked to the active engagement of our parents. Do we understand how these digital natives tend to view the family, time, and work? What are their attitudes and expectations when it comes to issues ranging from conflict to self-sacrifice? How do schools’ strategies for recruiting volunteers or raising funds need to be changed to attract these parents? And are there ways schools need to present their vision for classical Christian education that resonates well with a generation typically suspicious of the past and traditions? Millennial parents also bring unique gifts and strengths that schools would do well to understand and embrace. The future of our schools are in the hands of the Millennials. This workshop will provide practical insights and guidance in how to best partner with this new generation of parents.
Speaker
Davies Owens is the head of vision and advancement at the Ambrose School in Boise, Idaho, where he also served as the dean of the upper school. Prior to moving West two years ago, he served for ten years as a board member, and later, as head of school of Heritage Preparatory in Atlanta, Georgia. Five years prior, he was the executive director of BlueSky Ministries, an innovation lab and consulting organization launched after he worked in the dot-com days for Christianity.com in Silicon Valley. He is also an ordained Presbyterian minister who served as a local church pastor for twelve years. Davies has a BA in sociology from Furman University, an MDiv from Duke Divinity School, and a doctorate from Gordon Conwell Seminary in Boston. He has studied on a number of occasions at L ÍAbri Fellowship in Switzerland and England. He and his wife, Holly, see the consistent fruit of classical Christian education in the lives of their three children: Hannah, Liam, and Bennett.
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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