Archives for 2019

Elizabeth Lewis

Awareness in the Garden

The first and most important lesson we learn in the garden is awareness. As a gardener your best tools are your own eyes.

Thalia WestmorelandSep 09Comments Disabled

Several students from the TSCS volleyball team on the court for a game.

Athletics, Academics, Savagery, Softness

Andrea Dunn

Andrea Dunn

Athletics, Academics, Savagery, Softness

At Saint Constantine we value the soul, mind, and body. We care about enriching and sharpening the whole student. Plato also saw value in the mind's connection with the movement of the body.

Thalia WestmorelandSep 06Comments Disabled

A cover for the pre-K and Kinder art book. The background is a blue, yellow, and green watercolor painting, on top of which is the title "The Beauty Book"

Beauty (Courtesy of the Pre-K/Kindergarten Art Class)

Beauty (Courtesy of the Pre-K/Kindergarten Art Class)

Last school year, during our last few weeks of class, I interviewed the students of my Pre-K / Kindergarten Art Class. We spoke one-on-one while the other students worked on drawings, and in our conversations I asked each one various questions about “beauty.”...

Author TestingAug 19Comments Disabled

A Season of Goodbyes

Kris Yee

Kris Yee

A Season of Goodbyes

This week, I bid goodbye to a truly remarkable group of students.

Content EditorMay 13Comments Disabled

A blog header picturing four students smiling and laughing together. One of them is smiling at the camera.

The Whole Duty of a Child

The Whole Duty of a Child

Recently we memorized the poem in Pre-K, “The Whole Duty of a Child” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Promising to describe the whole duty of a child in a mere four lines is a hefty task, but one I think Stevenson mostly achieves. “A Child should always...

Content EditorMay 13Comments Disabled

Looking a Little Longer: Conversation in the Classroom

Looking a Little Longer: Conversation in the Classroom

Early this year, I learned a ‘trick of the trade’ from one of my colleagues. When teaching a group of young children, it can be of great advantage to you to begin class by saying, “Who has something to say to our class? Please raise your hand.”...

Content EditorMay 10Comments Disabled

Only a Girl Can Save Us

Dr. Timothy E. G. Bartel

Dr. Timothy E. G. Bartel

Only a Girl Can Save Us

This somewhat rambling essay has a simple theme, which shall be illustrated at the popular and theological levels. As much as male heroes feature prominently in the Christian imagination, it is the female, especially the young woman, who is necessary...

Content EditorMay 09Comments Disabled

A student holding a handful of plants from the garden

Liberty at Four

Liberty at Four

If you spend any time at our school, you will notice that we value liberty. For example, we value the liberty of parents to be involved in their student’s education by offering a block schedule that can accommodate various sorts of homeschooling....

Content EditorApr 24Comments Disabled

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Dr. John Mark Reynolds