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Kim Rama

Under Pressure: The Heart in a Culture of Cool Things

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education
  • Comments 1 comment
August 15, 2019
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In science our students learn that Pressure = Force / Area.     Essentially, pressure is calculated by measuring a particular force as it is applied to a particular area.  And as you might imagine from looking at the equation, Pressure increases

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Kim Rama

Classical Education: Attending Forward

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education
June 15, 2019
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In the last post on attention and formation, we looked at the ways in which both the farmer and the classical educator attend to the past.  By attending to our history, we recognize that we do not exist in a

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Kim Rama

Pre-K at Austin Classical School

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education
June 3, 2019
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Our Pre-K program at Austin Classical School is a wonderful place for our students to have a ton of fun while getting ready for Kindergarten! We asked some of our Pre-K teachers for the inside scoop about what happens in

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Kim Rama

Good Friday: Longing for the True, Good, and Beautiful

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education, Collaborative
April 19, 2019
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Over the course of Holy Week, many of you probably saw images and video clips of Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flame.  As the heart of France required 400 firemen to save it from collapse, the world watched and wept.

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Kim Rama

Updates from the track

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education, Events
March 30, 2019
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Our School of Logic Mustangs took to the track yesterday for their first-ever meet! The 5th-7th graders competed in the long jump as well as various distance running. Though it was a long day, their attitudes never waned, and we

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Kim Rama

Spring Break: Here we come!

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  • Categories Classical Education, Collaborative, Events
March 20, 2019
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When I played basketball in high school, the third quarter was always the most difficult eight minutes of game time. Any momentum our team built up in the first two quarters seemed impossible to maintain after that fifteen-minute break in

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Kim Rama

Spring Field Trips: School of Logic

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  • Categories Classical Education, Collaborative, Events
March 5, 2019
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On Friday, March 1st, the students in the school of Logic, 12 parents, and a handful of Logic Teachers spent the day out in the Hill Country at Camp Buckner. As you may know, our current School of Logic is

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Kim Rama

Educators Learning Together

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  • Categories Classical Education
February 14, 2019
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We have a saying around our hallways that “our teachers are the curriculum” – and we absolutely cherish that idea. We have some wonderfully-talented instructors in each and every grade level, and we get the opportunity to meet as a

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Kim Rama

Classical Education: Attending Backward

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  • Categories Classical Education
February 8, 2019
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In the last post on attention and formation, we looked at inward attention. By attending inward, the farmer recognizes the presence of wayward branches in a maturing evergreen that require pruning if the tree is to thrive.  Similarly, by attending

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Kim Rama

Getting the new year started!

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education
January 9, 2019
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Celebrating the New Year as a teacher or co-teacher is always a little confusing.  Doesn’t the “new” year start in August? And aren’t we about to spend the first five months of 2019 with the same group of students we

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Kim Rama

Holidays on homeschool days

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education, Collaborative
December 10, 2018
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One of the great things about our collaborative schedule is that co-teaching parents get to decide exactly how they’ll foster learning during their homeschool days each week. Every family goes about this differently, but the underlying elements of the curriculum

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Kim Rama

Classical Education: Attending Inward

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  • Categories Classical Education
December 6, 2018
1

Attending Inward In the last post on attention and formation, we looked at our outward gaze.  Both the farmer and the classical educator, by attending outward, recognize a responsibility to cultivate an environment that promotes flourishing.     At Austin Classical

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Kim Rama

Christmas at ACS: An opportunity to serve

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education, Events
December 1, 2018
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This Christmas season, we had the privilege of partnering with Pathways Youth and Family Services in caring for kids across Central Texas who are in Foster and Kinship placements! What a wonderful opportunity for our students to serve and love

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Dusty Kinslow

Classical Education: Attending Outward

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  • Categories Classical Education
  • Comments 1 comment
November 26, 2018
2

This semester, we’ve been looking at the idea of attending, and what that looks like not only in the world of Classical education but in a broader view, what that means as believers. This week, our Assistant Head of School,

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Kim Rama

An Austin Classical School Pilgrimage

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  • Categories Classical Education, Events
November 19, 2018
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As our study of medieval history continues, our Grammar students embarked on a pilgrimage this past week, which took them to the far reaches of our campus. They began their journey in “Canterbury”, wound their way through Europe, finally arriving

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Kim Rama

The castles have arrived!

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  • Categories Classical Education
November 13, 2018
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Cheezy Medieval jokes can only mean one thing! It’s castle week at Austin Classical School! Our 1st – 5th graders (and their dedicated parents) pulled out all the stops this week as they brought in their castles to show to

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Kim Rama

Resistance is Feudal – Not your typical Wacky Wednesday lunch!

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  • Categories Classical Education, Events
  • Comments 1 comment
October 24, 2018
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From time to time, we like to have just a little more fun than normal. Today was one of those days. In addition to our monthly “Wacky Wednesday”, during which we have dads come on campus to serve pizza, our teachers wanted

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Kim Rama

Classical Education: Attending Outward

  • Posted by Kim Rama
  • Categories Classical Education
October 17, 2018
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Attending Outward In the last post on attention and formation, we looked at our upward gaze.  Both the farmer and the classical educator, by attending upward, recognize who is in ultimate control.  Hint: It’s not us. At Austin Classical school

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Kim Rama

Classical Education: Attending Upward

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  • Categories Classical Education
September 12, 2018
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This past summer, the Atlantic published an article entitled The Dangers of Distracted Parenting.  In it, the author describes a curious situation parents find themselves in today.  They are more physically present in the lives of their children than in

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Kim Rama

Attending to Classical Education like Farmers

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  • Categories Classical Education
  • Comments 1 comment
August 27, 2018
1

When people ask me how I became involved in the Classical Christian movement, my default response is that God called me to it after Graduate school.  While that’s true, it’s not the whole story.  After I completed my Master’s thesis

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