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Our School Profile: The Comparison Will Speak for Itself

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

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The Next Chapter of Sentinel Athletics

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,

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What Spring Break Is For: On Leisure as a Serious Thing

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

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From the Parthenon to the Summit Park Campus

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

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A Night Worth Remembering, a Mission Worth Defending

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

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Choosing Flourishing Over Fragility

This past Monday, our faculty gathered for a full day of professional development. I want to share something of what we explored together, because the ideas at the center of our conversation go directly to the heart of what Cincinnati Classical Academy is trying to build—and why. The theme of the

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The Heart of the School: Why We Hire the Way We Do

This past week I made my annual pilgrimage to the snowy plains of Michigan for the Classical School Job Fair at Hillsdale College. For those unfamiliar with this event, imagine several hundred classical school leaders gathered in one place, all competing for the attention of the brightest young educators committed

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How Do We Prepare Students for ‘The Real World’?

One of the most common questions parents ask, especially as our high school grows, is some version of this: How will Cincinnati Classical Academy prepare my child for the real world? It is a fair question. It is also, I think, a revealing one. For many schools, “preparation” means exposure: more electives,

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Why Beauty Belongs at the Center of Education

There are moments in a student’s education when learning shifts from acquisition to admiration, when something studied becomes something loved. This is often the moment when education begins to do its deepest work. Beauty has a peculiar power to bring about such moments. It quietly forms the soul long before

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