Restful Teaching Principles for the Christian Educator
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 07/06/2026 at 4:00 PM (CDT)
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Mondays, July 6-August 10, 2026 4-5 PM CT
The root of our English word for school is the Greek term scholé, meaning “leisure” or “rest.” Sustained, satisfying, and successful teaching is not well suited to harried and exhausting environments. Yet modern educational pressures, such as workload demands and behavioral disruptions, often create fragmentation, haste, and anxiety. This six‑week course invites Christian educators, parents, and church workers to recover a more restful, humane, and biblical way of teaching through seven specific principles that have shaped teaching from antiquity through the Christian tradition and have nurtured restfulness. Participants explore the following principles: the best teacher is a good book; repetition is the mother of memory; make haste slowly; employ much, not many; by teaching, we learn; return to the sources; and leisure. Each is introduced with explanation, practical implications, and concrete examples for contemporary circumstances. The course offers Christ‑centered learning that enriches participants’ lives and strengthens the communities in which they lead and serve. Participants will complete the course with renewed vision, practical tools, and a restful posture toward their vocation as Christian educators.
Course Objectives:
- Evaluate modern teaching pressures through a humane and biblical lens
- Reflectively assess personal teaching in light of the principles shared
- Interpret and apply the seven principles to contemporary educational practice
- Implement learning endeavors that embody rest, adeptness, and humane pacing
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Leah Bromen (Moderator)
Classical Consultants
Leah Bromen is a recovering engineer, endeavoring to cultivate her own spirit in Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. She has spent decades equipping and encouraging Christian leaders and pursuing and promoting classical education locally and around the world. Most recently, she is consulting with forming and existing schools desiring to adopt the classical model of education.
Kate Deddens (Moderator)
Classical Consultants
Kate Deddens is a classical Christian educator, writer, speaker, and consultant with more than three decades of experience teaching and mentoring students, teachers, and schools. Formed by international study, the Liberal Arts at St. John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland), and graduate training in counseling, she has taught across PreK–12, led teacher‑training programs and adult education seminars, contributed to vision and curriculum development, and supported major classical initiatives, including work with Classical Conversations and other classical renewal efforts. Her writing appears at the CiRCE Institute, The Imaginative Conservative, and The Lutheran Witness. Kate holds that education is soul work – an invitation to cultivate wisdom, virtue, and faith.
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