Classical U focuses on six subject areas while welcoming posts on any related or overlapping topics. These subjects provide a structure to the Classical U curriculum and should guide the content of most posts and forums. Each heading provides a link to one of our contributing editor groups where you can collaborate with others who are interested in sharing regularly on a specific topic.
- Classical Christian Education: Along with the definition of classical Christian education in our Parent-Student Handbook, see this helpful document and our list of other “Outside Resources” on Classical U's home page to gain an idea of the many subtopics under this heading (heritage, discipleship, embodiment, trivium, liberal arts, languages, etc.).
- Reformed Theology: How can we best help CCA students to benefit from and be formed by historic Protestant theology, in the tradition of John Calvin and the Westminster Confession?
- Family Life: In the course of cooperating to raise our children, we wish to provide resources for wise and biblical parenting as well as material that touches broader issues of family culture and strong marriages.
- School Culture: Share resources that will help us all to be more attentive, thoughtful and deliberate regarding how to shape the details, atmosphere and habits of our school, in classrooms, hallways and lunch rooms as well as during all co-curricular activities and events. Sportsmanship is a large component of this area.
- Arts & Literature: Help and inspire us all to best invest the time and work that it is required to enjoy the fine arts. They shape and complete us individually and collectively as humans (as God’s image bearers and the chief stewards of His glory). Those who continually grow in their understanding of the arts find increasing value in popular culture and deepen in their compassion for others. (Fine art is not supposed to produce snobs.)
- Math & Science: Christians have much to contribute in these fields. As these disciplines began to develop exponentially during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, Christians lead the way. Today, our secular culture tends to have purely mechanistic and rational understandings of these subjects that strip them of their glory and wonder (as well as placing them artificially at odds with faith and spiritual realities). Help us all to benefit from the rigors of these subjects and to better enjoy and contribute in the maths and sciences.
Please consider signing up to help in any of these content areas, by
visiting our groups page and joining one or more of the contributing editor groups that interest you. Editors are willing to read and update the rest of us in a particular area--keeping us informed of events, lectures, articles and books through occasional posts on Classical U's blog or forums. Contributing editors should aim at posting at least twice per year. Some may find it helpful to use
this schedule. Also consider learning more about our school by working toward recognition as a CCA Parent Mentor. See more about this at our
curriculum page.