

Your Leadership's Proprietary Training
Orient your school teams with a customized learning track that can include your leadership’s proprietary training content alongside of some of our standard content. We’ve included an example of our own below with a welcome from Dr. Christopher Perrin.
Foundations in Classical Teaching with Dr. Christopher Perrin
This faculty orientation will support you where you are at in your classical education journey as you study through select ClassicalU courses. Each course linked below has a professional certificate available upon completion. To get you excited to begin, here is a brief 11-minute lesson with Dr. Christopher Perrin contemplating the foundational question of “What is Classical Education?”
Certificate Track for Transitioning to Classical Adjacent Schools
Grammar School Teaching and Leadership
In this course, master grammar school educator and principal Lori Jill Keeler harmonizes classical principles of education with modern research on the brain, blends her knowledge and insights with practical counsel, and makes practical suggestions for how to wholly engage every student when teaching.
Performing Shakespeare in the Classroom
In this course, Timothy McIntosh works with five students to demonstrate his approach to teaching Shakespeare’s plays through performance. Tim insists upon starting with performance as the key to loving Shakespeare. This inhabiting of the plays first allows for other forms of understanding and analysis to follow in their proper place.
The Art of Poetry
This course features poet and professor Christine Perrin as she describes the major elements of poetry familiarizing us with the forms and elements and discusses them with four upper school students in a seminar format. Christine also shows us how to read a poem closely and absorb its beauty.
Awakening the Moral Imagination through Fairy Tales and Stories
In this course, Dr. Vigen Guroian presents three lectures on the ways that classic literature awakens the moral imagination. He also leads several discussions with three classical educators in which they discuss six classical stories and explore the ways these stories awaken the moral imagination and thus cultivate virtue.
Certificate Track for New Classical Schools
A Brief History of Classical Education
This course presents a pithy introduction and overview of ancient and medieval education, tracing the roots and genesis of the classical tradition of education. Dr. Matthew Post is a precise and clear teacher who does a superb job of summarizing and capturing the essence of important thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine and their contributions to the classical tradition of education.
Wendell Berry’s Virtues of Renewal
In this course, Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro explains how the virtues of renewal are alternatives to the dominant virtues of our time. Instead of specialization, competition, and techniques he advocates the virtues of attention, gratitude, humility, hope, memory, fidelity, and convocation.
Include Custom Courses within a Pathway
School Culture Symposium: Top Presenters on Community and Virtue Formation
Learn from an assortment of twelve top presenters (from across fifteen other courses on ClassicalU.com) as they each share how to cultivate a flourishing school culture. Their concepts are vital to growing communities that encourages student virtues.
Classical Teaching and Writing Symposium
In this course, we have combined content presented by Andrew Pudewa in the four arts of language with a survey by Dr. Christopher Perrin on the key elements of pedagogy in classical education with particular applications in the language arts that are useful across multiple subject areas.

NHA Custom Course
ClassicalU is glad to build custom courses from lessons across multiple courses using our existing courses even with your proprietary content at no additional cost for team subscribers.
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