Bona Verba

Summer vacation is almost here, and I want to say something to your children before they walk out our doors for the last time this year. I want to say it to you as well, because you are the ones who will shape what these next two and a half

On Tuesday evening, May 12, Dr. Hartings and I delivered the fourth annual State of the School Address. Each year, this occasion gives me the chance to step back from the urgency of daily school life and account honestly for what we have built, what we have learned, and where

Cincinnati Classical Academy exists to form young people — not to credential them, not to prepare them for a sequence of standardized tests, but to hand them a civilization and teach them to inhabit it. That work happens in Latin class and in the study of Euclid. It happens when

When we launched Citadel Life last year, I wrote that we hoped this house system would foster a stronger sense of community, encourage character development, and provide a platform for the kind of camaraderie and competition that has long animated the great schools of Europe. What I did not fully

We are living through an era of extraordinary knowledge and extraordinary confusion. Human beings have never known more about the material world, and yet we seem increasingly unable to answer the questions that matter most. Part of the reason is this: the questions that most urgently need answering cannot be

This year, for the first time, Cincinnati Classical Academy has a School Profile to send to college admissions offices. Our oldest students will be going into tenth grade next year, and our first graduating class will walk across a stage in 2029, which means we have not yet had occasion

As we approach the end of the school year, we want to share a transition in school leadership. Mr. Joshua Wellen, our Director of Athletics, will step down from his position at the end of June. He has expressed a desire to return to full-time teaching at his previous school,

Something has shifted in the air this week. The afternoons are longer now, the light is softer and stays later, and the school grounds on both campuses carry that faint green smell of things waking up. Spring has arrived, and with it comes a welcome convergence of beginnings: our summer

On Tuesday evening, CLASSICAL hosted the latest Veritatis Splendor talk in our Summit Park campus’s symposium room. Originally, we had scheduled classical architect James McCrery to present on the subject of classical architecture. Because Mr. McCrey’s schedule changed and could not be with us, I stepped in to provide an

Last Saturday evening, nearly 500 friends of Cincinnati Classical Academy gathered downtown in the Hall of Mirrors for the third annual Classical Renaissance Gala. I am grateful to each of you who were there. For those who couldn’t make it, I want to share something of what was said because