The TCA U Podcast Trinity Classical Academy

Collaborative Education takes on a different shape once our students enter the Rhetoric stage. As Susan Wise Bauer said, “The student of rhetoric applies the rules of logic learned in middle school to the foundational information learned in the early grades and expresses his conclusions in clear, forceful, elegant language.”
But how do co-teachers lead these maturing students when they aren't masters of the material? And how can co-teachers engage students who are ready to learn and study on their own? Listen in as co-teachers Jill Ramirez and Katie Bokowshi share how they are learning alongside their Rhetoric students,  engaging their students' character and trusting Jesus through the hard days.

One challenge of a collaborative education is that our students are constantly changing. While TCA offers guideposts like grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages, different students are at different levels of maturity; and their educational journey is not always linear, meaning that parents must constantly adapt to their students' changing needs. Co-teachers Sarah Sebranek and Steph Jackson address this reality as they share their experiences teaching students from Kindergarten to the Rhetoric stages.

What if being on a speech team was more than just learning how to be a good public speaker and win speech tournaments? At TCA, speech participants are learning to glorify God through their words in all contexts. On this episode of TCA U, TCA staff member Mrs. Rosenthal and TCA students Malachi and Julianna share their experience in the speech program, their growth, and opportunities coming up this Spring for our listeners to get involved.

Montana. The CIA. Homeschooling. Traveling the world. Learning and teaching Latin. These are just a few of things that describe the life of Sheri Green, one of TCA’s Board Members. We hope you enjoy learning about one of TCA's leaders - and that someday you will be able to say hello to Sheri in person!

What do we mean by liberal arts? How do the liberal arts interplay with the classical trivium and Christian, classical education? In this episode TCA teachers Kevin Estep and Jonathan Drake discuss these questions, revealing how they hope to grow students in wisdom through the Liberal Arts Track of classes in grade 7 and above.

Special guest, podcast producer, and TCA co-teacher Mike Kresnik joins Sara to talk about how systemic anxiety plays out in an educational system, specifically in a classical, Christian, and collaborative school. Culture and society give us solutions to cope with our anxieties, but the gospel offers a different solution. Sara and Mike consider how educators can rest in our Christian identity and calling, so that we might resist anxiety in education, our homes, and our souls.