Dean’s Dispatch: April 2026

Welcome back from Spring Break! Even more importantly, welcome back from Holy Week and Easter! We have taken time to rest and rejoice, and are ready to continue a journey toward the end of the school year. This is a yearly trek we make together. Our Systematic...

Dean’s Dispatch: March 2026

What to do with Little Ones While Big Ones are Working One of the best features of our collaborative model is being home with, and available to, all our children several days a week. We parents get to play an active role in our kids’ education, to know what they’re...

Dean’s Dispatch: February 2026

It is February, 1776. Relations with our country’s sovereign and legislature have been crumbling for years now. You remember the Stamp Acts, don’t you? And the Tea Tax? We had such fun unloading those tea crates into Boston Harbor! Last spring British troops tried to...

Dean’s Dispatch: January 2026

On January 1, 1804, after the final battle defeating the French, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the Haitian revolution, declared independence for the colony and renamed it “Haiti” after its Native American Taino name. The freed Haitians made a humble squash...
Dean’s Dispatch: December 2025

Dean’s Dispatch: December 2025

As we come into December most of us can’t help reflecting on God’s goodness. We look back on a year and remember previous Christmastimes; we imagine what we might buy (or get!) over the holidays; we look forward to laughing with family and – we hope – some...
Dean’s Dispatch: November 2025

Dean’s Dispatch: November 2025

There’s one Bible story that stands above so many others in discipling and disciplining kids, and it’s kind of a pet peeve of mine that it’s in hardly any children’s Bibles! The one defining story that can be used as a picture for interpersonal relationships,...