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A school year begins long before the first bell rings. It begins in a classroom, when students meet their teacher—or, for Upper School students, teachers—who will challenge them, encourage them, correct them, inspire them, and, over the course of the year, come to know them in ways that extend far
One of the best ways to begin a new school year is to return to the source of what we are trying to accomplish together. For Cincinnati Classical Academy, that source is our commitment to a classical education, and one of the great privileges of being a Hillsdale College k-12
A new school year is upon us, and I confess I look forward to the first days of August as much as any stretch on the calendar. There is a kind of hope that belongs to a school in late summer, when the halls are freshly waxed awaiting the footfalls
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,
