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Summer Education

TELL you what I like the best— ’Long about knee-deep in June, ’Bout the time strawberries melts On the vines—some afternoon Like to jes’ git out and rest, And not work at nothin’ else! “Knee Deep in June,” James Whitcomb Riley On Doing Nothing We are in summer and school, …

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Kenneth Rolling June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016Essays education, piety, school, summer, Virtue, wisdom, wonder 0

Modern Tech / Ancient Wisdom

Considered from the perspective of someone pondering the ideals of Catholic education, there is a certain tension communicated by the phrases “ancient wisdom” and “modern technology.”  We might even feel an impetus to cast it as “Ancient Wisdom vs. Modern Technology.”  And why not?  It seems obviously right to extol …

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the.rolling.acres.school@gmail.com July 17, 2015 July 17, 2015Essays Ancient Wisdom, Modern Tech 0

Poetry ~ God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with …

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the.rolling.acres.school@gmail.com April 28, 2015 April 28, 2015Essays 0

The “Flipped Classroom” – What It Is and How We Use It

A trend has taken hold, as they often do, in schooling circles, called the “flipped classroom.”  The basic idea is that, in this model, the school day is “flipped,” in the sense that lectures, in a recorded form, are the homework, while all of the activities we called “homework” in …

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the.rolling.acres.school@gmail.com April 25, 2015 April 25, 2015Essays Flipped Classroom 0
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