Coram Deo Blog
Third Place – Creating a Place of Connection During COVID
Have you lost your family’s third place away from work or home? Learn some practical strategies for creating places of connection in a post-COVID world.
read moreBeyond COVID Slogans: Review of Coronavirus and Christ by John Piper
Learn how John Piper’s book can help encourage your heart to trust in Christ in the midst of this troubling season with the new coronavirus pandemic.
read moreBuilding a Great Partnership with Your Child’s Teacher: 4 Tips for Forging an Alliance Aimed at Your Child’s Growth
Learn 4 tips for fostering an ideal relationship with your child’s teacher so that you can have a great year of celebrating growth and allying together.
read moreProject Legacy: Dountonia Batts
This Project Legacy interview of Dountonia Batts shares how adversity is an advantage and about the importance of keeping a focus on mission for our children.
read moreProject Legacy: David Bell
This Project Legacy interview of David Bell shares about finding common ground to do common good and embodying grace and truth in our leadership and work for the Kingdom.
read moreAdversity: Sowing Fruit in Your Child’s Garden
Learn how adversity is a necessary part of the growth in character for your children along with a list of practical ways to let the natural bumps of life develop resilience in your children.
read moreExperience Is the Best Teacher: Making the Most of Current Events in Our Parenting
Parents can help their children learn from their experiences through incorporating reflection and guidance into their day. Learn how to help your children process current events and make experience the best teacher
read moreInterview of New 4th Grade Teacher: 10 Questions for Daniel Racke
Daniel Racke is joining Coram Deo Academy faculty as 4th grade teacher. Here is an interview to help families get to know him better.
read moreInterview of New Principal: 10 Questions for Jason Barney
A new principal is a big deal. And while many of us may have had a chance to meet Mr. Barney, we thought it would be a great idea to sit down with him (virtually) and ask him a number of questions, so that we can all get to know him better. So here are ten questions I (Susan) came up with and Mr. Barney’s answers to them.
read moreInvest Your Privilege
I would like to provide some biblical thought with the aim of promoting biblical living as it relates to privilege. First, I will provide a general background on privilege and then present a twofold offensive strategy: community-awareness and intentional privilege investment.
read moreProject Legacy: Greg Enas
With his collective experience, Dr. Enas can teach educators to minimize risk, enhance value, and accelerate high-impact solutions. These are the lessons I have learned from Dr. Enas during our meetings in 2018-2020.
read moreThe Habits of the Heart in the Home: Responsibility
After God gave Adam and Eve the command to “be fruitful and multiply,” He then gave them dominion over all of His creation. That’s a great deal of responsibility on all of us. We need to teach our children that God has given us the job to take care of what He has given us.
read moreThe Habits of the Heart in the Home: Respect
We all desire for our children to act respectfully, especially when we are out in public. How many times have we expected our children to act a certain way in front of strangers, but we have not necessarily taught them the correct way to behave?
read moreProject Legacy: Ron Brumbarger
The Great Conversation is the ongoing process where today’s students refine and innovate upon the great minds of the past– ultimately, Ron has showed me that this should be done in a community with a great mentors, great tools and great partners.
read moreThe Habits of the Heart in the Home: Obedience
Training your child in the habit of obedience is one of the most important jobs you have as a parent. Remember, good habits are formed by slow, methodical training – encouraging appropriate behavior and discouraging inappropriate behavior. You have been equipped by God to do this job.
read moreThe Habits of the Heart in the Home: Attention
The evidence that we are practicing attention is our actions afterward. If we act on what we are told or respond to what we have read or heard, then there is evidence that we have been practicing attention. All other habits need the habit of attention to be formed first.
read moreThe Habits of the Heart in the Home: Introduction
At Coram Deo Academy, we help our students practice habits that will benefit them for life, not just for school. Rather than using behavior modification, we focus on character by helping our students practice Attention, Obedience, Respect, and Responsibility. Over the next few weeks, I will share with you ways you can continue to use these habits in your home.
read moreMaking Vision a Reality with Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard
Mayor Brainard’s 20+ years of leadership in Carmel have yielded undeniable results. As he states, “Carmel has been one of the fastest-growing communities in the nation during the last decade. We take pride in the fact that we have stayed ahead of that growth.”
read moreA Musical Classical Education
In this article, I hope to demonstrate that our belief as a Classical Christian school is to educate our students by drawing out potential, creating enlightening experiences, and helping conform them to the image of Christ. So what does this have to do with music?
read moreThe Value of Music in Education
Plato once admitted, “Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else, rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained, and otherwise the contrary.” This leads to the main question I hope to answer this week: Why is music a valuable and necessary part of education, and what is its role?
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