Article VII: The Headmaster Unpacks the School's Mission, Vision and Ends statements When the Board of Directors of Coram Deo Academy, which I founded in 1999, voted unanimously to amplify ENDS Policies, as Headmaster I sought to unpack each statement to help all school constituencies understand the significance of the Board’s action and how it [...]

CiRCE National Conference July 2010 The Liberating Affects of a Liberal Arts Education The education of Alexander contrasted with the Spartans Rodney J. Marshall Classical schools advance great ideas with the prayerful hope for an American renaissance. The education of youth for God in the great ideas will engender ethical leadership and wise thought which [...]

Article VI: Every Headmaster Can Use a Good Advisor Mentor, trusted counselor, coach, advisor, guide, tutor, teacher are synonyms that describe the kind of person The Headmaster needs to gain wisdom for good decision-making.   Sometimes, The Headmaster needs to talk to someone that is not in one of his or her many constituencies [...]

Article V: Introducing The Headmaster as Chief Executive Officer As Chief Executive Officer, and the only direct report of the board of trustees, the Headmaster is comprehensively responsible for successful achievement of organizational ends while maintaining organizational integrity.  The board will link governance and management functions through a single chief executive officer, titled Headmaster by [...]

Article IV: The Headmaster as Head Teacher Head master means head, or lead teacher.  The origin of the word in Latin is caput magister, meaning the capital, like the capital on a column, teacher.  The Headmaster’s learning audience includes every constituency related to the organization.  He teaches directly, and indirectly, the board, the administrative team, [...]

Article III: The Headmaster as Visionary The Headmaster as visionary acts as the ardent proponent of the Academy’s stated mission, and one that reads well the signs of the times to deftly lead the academy to achieve its unchanging mission in the midst of a changing world.  He thinks and leads strategically.  While managers care [...]

The Headmaster as visionary leader will run an organization of excellence that maximizes achievement of the vision, and therefore maximizes satisfaction of all the various constituencies, while assuring solid business administration and organizational integrity.  The key difference is that The Headmaster is first a leader then a manager.  A leader can learn to manage but [...]

The Headmaster’s calling is a broad and exciting one because the Headmaster is leading an organization that changes the lives that will influence the future, and everything rises and falls on leadership. I am planning multiple articles on each of the three characteristics of the effective school Headmaster as 1) visionary, 2) head teacher, and [...]

Dear Friends, and Colleagues, We write to wish you a merry Christmas, inform you of some life changes we have experienced this year and to provide you with our new contact information. May God bless you in this time of Advent and Christmastide as we all celebrate the first coming of our Lord and Savior [...]

Class of 2010: Classical, Christian School Students Best Their Peers on the SAT Exam Reposted from accsedu.org Students in classical, Christian schools earn higher scores than their peers in independent, religious, and public schools on the critical reading and writing portions of the SAT exam. Classical, Christian school students are tied with their peers on [...]