Bona Verba

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

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,

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

At Cincinnati Classical Academy, we believe that literature is not merely something students study—it is something that forms them. The books we read, and the way we read them, shape how young people understand the world, human nature, and themselves. For that reason, how literature is discussed in the classroom

As we turn the calendar to a new year, I want to wish every member of the Cincinnati Classical Academy community a happy and hope-filled New Year. January is always a fitting moment for reflection and anticipation, looking back with gratitude on what has been accomplished, and looking forward with

As families gather on New Year’s Eve, many will mark the transition with Auld Lang Syne, that haunting melody that invites us to honor what has passed while embracing what lies ahead. Robert Burns, himself a collector and preserver of Scotland’s oral traditions, would have appreciated our work here at CLASSICAL.

There is something extraordinary about the quiet presence of a library. In our age of screens and instant digital information, the library stands as a sanctuary where thought finds refuge and reflection takes root. Here the mind discovers focus; here imagination and reason find room to breathe and grow. At

Last week, our Office of College and Career Readiness welcomed the first college representative ever to visit Cincinnati Classical Academy: Cadet Mary Arengo of the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was a fitting beginning. West Point is not simply another college. It stands as a living institution

Each year as Thanksgiving approaches, Americans participate in a tradition older than the Republic itself: the deliberate act of giving thanks. Long before the first presidential proclamation, men and women on this continent paused to acknowledge the gifts they had received—gifts unearned, gifts unexpected, gifts that pointed beyond themselves. As

At Cincinnati Classical Academy, we take seriously the ancient conviction that education concerns the whole of a human being: mind, body, and soul. The classical tradition has never understood learning as merely the acquisition of information or the sharpening of technical skills. It is, rather, the cultivation of virtue and