PACES & PAideia

Parents,
If you missed the Culturative History webinar tonight at 8 p.m. you missed a treat. It was great information about the first semester on every grade level. Melanie Golden explained all of the great learning activities (including the architecture field guide and sugar cube Colosseum) as they related to the objectives. Don’t dare miss another one of these AWESOME ways to keep up with what is going on in your child’s education.
Tomorrow: English conference call. Check your campus newsletter for details and CALL!

Dear Students!
I know that blogging on wordpress can seem difficult. Don’t despair. Write your comments that you would like to post. Copy and paste as “comments” if your original blog site won’t work. We will continue to post “helps” on walking you through the posting process.

Remember BLOGGING…including using different sites to post…is a skill. You are learning to put classical content into the 21st century. You didn’t expect it to be easy. Did you?

Dear Fellow Leaders,

Did you think PAideia Classical Program was just for kids! HA! This PAideia program is a total learning for the whole family. In order to TOTALLY prepare you as a home educating parent we offer a Leadership Book of the Month Club each month! Don’t miss it!
Our first book of the month for the Leadership Book of the Month club for the 2010-2011 school year is

the classic Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner.

This outstanding landmark book is a must-have in every family’s library.  I will be discussing this book September 28 (North) and October 6 (Northeast) for those of you who would like to participate. Leadership Book of the Month club has two requirements: read the book, bring your lunch! We meet during lunch on the campus during your child’s campus day.

I was so thrilled to find the book (fourth edition) on Amazon for less than $12 and the third edition for $ 0.25! In January I paid $50 for mine for a class I was taking on leadership! What a bargain, plus in our club you receive the benefit of other  great home educating leaders to discuss the content!  In addition: I will blog topics the weeks of September first through 15th to prepare you for the discussion.  Be sure and watch for the discussion questions so you will be prepared!

Blessings!

Are you excited about the upcoming PAideia Conference? As we all prepare our hearts and minds remember we are focusing on the priorities: Romans 12:1-2. We are renewing our minds. Pray this week and consider YOUR Christian worldview. Where does it need an update?Pray that God will convict you in areas your mind needs renewing.

DEFINING WORLDVIEW
The term ‘Christian worldview’ identifies the Christian philosophy that the actions of a person who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ should allow that identity to influence every area of his/her life. This commitment to allowing Christianity to influence all of a person’s daily decisions would influence the culture in which the Christian lives.
The term ‘Christian Worldview’ is credited and defined by Francis Schaeffer in his Christian Manifesto which he gave in 1982:
Christians, in the last 80 years or so, have only been seeing things as bits and pieces which have gradually begun to trouble them and others, instead of understanding that they are the natural outcome of a change from a Christian World View to a Humanistic one;
things such as over permissiveness, pornography, the problem of the public schools, the breakdown of the family, abortion, infanticide (the killing of newborn babies), increased emphasis upon the euthanasia of the old and many, many other things.
All of these things and many more are only the results. We may be troubled with the individual thing, but in reality we are missing the whole thing if we do not see each of these things and many more as only symptoms of the deeper problem. And that is the change in our society, a change in our country, a change in the Western world from a Judeo-Christian consensus to a Humanistic one. That is, instead of the final reality that exists being the infinite creator God; instead of that which is the basis of all reality being such a creator God, now largely, all else is seen as only material or energy which has existed forever in some form, shaped into its present complex form only by pure chance.
I want to say to you, those of you who are Christians or even if you are not a Christian and you are troubled about the direction that our society is going in, that we must not concentrate merely on the bits and pieces. But we must understand that all of these dilemmas come on the basis of moving from the Judeo- Christian world view — that the final reality is an infinite creator God — over into this other reality which is that the final reality is only energy or material in some mixture or form which has existed forever and which has taken its present shape by pure chance.
My worldview uses the lens of the Holy Word of God to determine how I make choices, teach my children, look to the future, and study the past. ‘There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’” said Abraham Kuyper (1837– 1920).

From A Wonderful Life by Johnnie Seago