by Shirlene Kazmaier | Apr 9, 2020 | Athletics, Classical Christian, Middle School, Parenting, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Rowing in the Basement: Athletics During COVID-19 We love Whitefield Academy! Not only are our 3 kids (twelfth grade, ninth grade, and seventh grade) able to continue their school year online through Zoom classes, but they are also able to...
by Sarah DeConink | Feb 6, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Middle School, The Classroom, Upper School
Whitefield Academy Blog The following post is edited from a speech given by the Whitefield Academy Head of Math and Science, Sarah DeConink.Math is often categorized as a collection of patterns and comparisons. Some people describe it as a language of order. Both of...
by Anne Rabe | Nov 14, 2019 | Classical Christian, Extracurriculars, Middle School, Private Schools, Reading, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog “Oh gods, what is she plotting? What vast new agony? What huge horror lurks in the House? What evil plotting? The family cannot bear it, there is no cure, and help is so far away” (Agamemnon, 1100-4, translated by Peter Meineck). Thus utters...
by John Hutson | Oct 3, 2019 | Classical Christian, Elementary School, Media, Middle School, Parenting, Private Schools, Technology, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog Does Tech in the Classroom Make a Difference? In the past few decades, we’ve seen a revolution in the way most students are educated in this and many other countries. Countless hardware and software products have been produced with the promise...
by Andy Castro | Sep 19, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Middle School, Private Schools, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog I Will Never Use Algebra in Real Life “I will never use this in real life,” says almost every exasperated junior high Algebra student. The hours of solving algebra problems. The random letters. The complex terminology: factors, commutative,...
by Andy Castro | Aug 8, 2019 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Middle School, Parenting
Whitefield Academy Blog The Math Teacher Who Failed Fourth Grade Math Math did not come easily to me in school. I remember being bored with long division. I found it difficult to concentrate on the problem-solving processes that we were taught. So many steps and so...
