by ICLE Team | Feb 1, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
On a breezy and cold Washington, DC day, I, and many thousands of others, took to the streets of the Capital city to stand up for the dignity of human life. Each year, I marvel at the crowd’s joyful and friendly nature. Where else can you find a protest that includes...
by ICLE Team | Dec 29, 2016 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Fiat mihi. Our parish’s celebration of Midnight Mass is always spiritually uplifting and deeply satisfying. My wife, eldest daughter, and I sing in the choir. We have a lovely repertoire of Christmas carols, hymns, and instrumentals that we offer in honor of the...
by ICLE Team | Nov 3, 2016 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
The world of education is often rife with acronyms, and one that we hear frequently is “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and its latest iteration, “STEAM”, which includes all of those disciplines plus “the Arts”. A few years ago, I was at a social...
by ICLE Team | Oct 30, 2016 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
Michael Van Hecke reports on a talk by Martin Cothran, Editor of Memoria Press’s “The Classical Teacher”. Last week, St. Augustine Academy enjoyed the wisdom of Martin Cothran at our Parent Lecture. One of the first things he clarified was...
by ICLE Team | Oct 4, 2016 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
Last week, my wife, a painter-friend of ours, who wishes to be anonymous, and I did the Friday night walk down Canyon Road, the site of numerous galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a small town that is the third-largest art market in the United States. Halfway down...
by ICLE Team | Sep 27, 2016 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
In The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Milton Gregory’s little gem of a template for the art of teaching, Gregory takes on the apparent conflict between “inspired” teaching and a systematic, ordered approach to it. Early in the book, he states that “Unreflecting...
