2015 Foundations Talk | 0:31:18 | Fundraising & Development, Marketing & Growth, Operations & Facilities
Summary
Demonstrate the beauty of classical Christian education by focusing on a handful of visible aesthetic activities and do them well These “Points of Excellence” can help your school engage in the arts and academics, build student excellence, and provide tangible and inspiring touch points for enrolled and prospective parents. This session will provide practical examples of “Points of Excellence” designed to cultivate a love of beauty, strengthen the arts and rhetoric, and recruit new families. A classical Christian school should be distinct in more than its pedagogy. It should reflect the beauty that our Lord has shown us in His world People will notice and be drawn to your school.
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 ‘Abri 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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