David Bryant Hellos and Goodbyes
Providence Classical Christian School is glad to welcome Mr. Hoback Fisher to its faculty. Mr. Fisher will teach mathematics in the 6th grade and Upper School during the 2021-22 school year. Originally from Michigan, Mr. Fisher graduated from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, with a bachelor’s degree in Physics. Most recently, he has served as […]
David Bryant Parents, Teenagers
A while back I gathered with the 5th and 6th grade parents and considered what’s ahead for their students: Logic School and the teen years. We had a productive discussion, and I hope these parents feel encouraged in their journey. The meeting got me thinking about teenagers – a topic that doesn’t leave my mind […]
David Bryant CCE, Cultural context, History
What lesson does a student learn in history class if history is a story without God at the center?
David Bryant Parents, Providence Parents
Parenting is gift giving. Every day parents give their children an abundance of precious gifts. We provide food, clothing, and shelter, as well as transportation and education, in addition to intangibles like guidance, sympathy, boundaries, accountability, kind words, and so many more. These provisions are gifts of love, a duty that is a delight, and […]
Let me invite you to consider three excerpts that, taken together, provide clear and compelling support for Christian parents to embrace Christian education for their children. That embrace entails sacrifice and perseverance and devotion, but its eternal consequences are worth it. Providence Classical Christian School can partner with parents who seek many things in their […]
What does Easter have to do with education? We are educating in light of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus alone is Savior. “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). This means that education […]
David Bryant Hellos and Goodbyes
Providence Classical Christian School is very glad to welcome Mr. Anderson Underwood to its Upper School faculty for the 2021-22 school year. Mr. Underwood is certainly no stranger to our school community. He taught at Providence for 3 years before taking a hiatus last year is excited to return to the classroom. His excitement is […]
Some of the most well-known documents and speeches in history were extraordinarily brief. The Ten Commandments are composed of only 301 words. The Mayflower Compact was but 298 words. The Declaration of Independence was a little more than 1,330 words. On November 19, 1863, minister and politician Edward Everett spoke for two hours at a […]
David Bryant Providence Parents
I want to make two requests of you, Providence parents. But before I do, let me give thanks for a couple of things. First, thank you, Lord, for protecting us during this season of the pandemic. We have been in school nonstop this school year, with just one small disruption, and though we have had […]
Education is teleological. “Teleological” is a big word that comes from the Greek word telos, which means end, goal, or purpose. To say that education is teleological is to say that it shapes children to be a certain kind of adult, and education always works because it always forms students toward its inherent telos, its […]