Rocky Mountain Christian Academy

On this episode of Anchored, Soren Schwab, M.Ed is joined by Leslie Hisle Voorhees, director of member schools at Ambleside Schools International, an organization that offers a Charlotte Mason educational approach to schools around the world. They discuss Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy and how it translates into principles at the Ambleside schools. They explore the benefits of an education that centers and values the potential of every child. They conclude by discussing the differences and similarities between Charlotte Mason and classical education. Tune in now: https://lnkd.in/gKTK6gdV

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Did you know there are Ambleside Schools around the world? Ambleside Schools are making a profound impact in communities across the globe, transforming lives through this joyful, life-giving education. From the U.S. to Africa and beyond, this network is growing—and we believe there’s so much more to come. Learn more about starting a Ambleside school in your community: https://lnkd.in/eTfUUjxN. #CharlotteMason #AmblesideSchools

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It's CELEBRATION time! I have the distinct honor to support Rocky Mountain Christian Academy as a volunteer Board Member and all around fan. We're blessed that our daughter attends an Ambleside Schools International school with the most exceptional educators in Colorado's front range. If you're interested in learning more about our community, the Ambleside difference or have the heart to support us with a tax deductible donation this is your chance. https://lnkd.in/d8HTD-bi

Who hasn’t been defined by a trait or ability? “You are very musical… or athletic, bright, or mathematically inclined,” says a teacher. “You are tone deaf, clumsy, average, and have no aptitude for math,” says another teacher. Children are commonly identified by what adults perceive as strengths or weaknesses. In so doing, adults stigmatize and harm children, however benevolent their intent. At Ambleside, we do not define children by their strengths or weaknesses. Children are not—like unmolded clay—"incomplete and undeveloped” beings. Instead, we view all children as persons, created in God’s image, with a vast potential for a fruitful life filled with interests and relationships.

Research from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation reveal that only 51% of Generation Z feel prepared for the future, with those engaged in their education ten times more likely to feel confident. Bethany shared that, "In the five years since graduating from Ambleside, I have held close the loves that it shaped in me. I love peaceful learning; Ambleside formed in me a diligence and deep interest which outlasts and supersedes the bribery of grades, the perfectionism that drives procrastination, and the harshness of hurry." The Ambleside method emphasizes engaging in inspiring work and developing lifelong habits—essential skills for students' futures. This approach, known as a Living Education, aims to help students feel not only prepared but also empowered to live life to the fullest. Research article: https://ow.ly/c3iR50TVrU4 Bethany's story: https://ow.ly/2Hjr50TVrU3 #LivingEducation #RenewEducation #StartLiving #AmblesideSchools

One of Charlotte Mason’s most important principles is what she named “The Great Recognition.” Ambleside schools hold to the revolutionary idea that God is not only the foundation of all knowledge, but that the Holy Spirit is the principal educator in every subject. The ramifications of such an idea are far reaching: "Supposing we are willing to make this great recognition, to engage ourselves to accept and invite the daily, hourly, incessant cooperation of the divine Spirit, in, to put it definitely and plainly, the schoolroom work of our children, how must we shape our own conduct to make this cooperation active, or even possible? We are told that the Spirit is life; therefore, that which is dead, dry as dust, mere bare bones, can have no affinity with Him, can do no other than smother and deaden his vitalizing influences. A first condition of this vitalizing teaching is that all the thought we offer to our children shall be living thought; no mere dry summaries of facts will do; given the vitalizing idea, children will readily hang the mere facts upon the idea as upon a peg capable of sustaining all that it is needful to retain. We begin by believing in the children as spiritual beings of unmeasured powers — intellectual, moral, spiritual — capable of receiving and constantly enjoying intuitions from the intimate converse of the Divine Spirit." - Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children, 273-274. #AmblesideSchools #CharlotteMason #LivingEducation #RenewEducation #StartLiving