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Liz Morgan’s top priorities are integrating classical education with a God-centered worldview to encourage virtue and academic excellence. She currently teaches 4th grade and Spanish as an elective to grades K-5 at Fortis Academy in Texas, previously taught 3rd grade at Regents School of Austin for 8 years, facilitated a Christian speech and debate club for 13 years, and holds a M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in bilingual education from The University of Texas at Austin. She has taught for 39 years, including experience in private, public, and home education venues.
Using Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian as inspiration, this workshop encourages teachers to see the value in highlighting story to teach students of all ages how to deepen their conviction toward virtuous living. Stories can be interactive tools to help people ponder well and live virtuously when we filter story conflicts through the grace-driven wisdom of God.
We will do the following:
-Discuss the value in moral education
-Come up with a list of “Moral Goals for our Graduates” while seeing how this colors education for all ages
-Define the moral imagination through examples
-Practice applying our life journey to the identity quest of story characters
-Discuss the power in sharing our connections to text to inspire students to do the same
-Learn more about CS Lewis’ life
-Flesh-out some of the themes in the Narniad
-Discuss the concept of classical “schole” and practice applying it to themes of grace, repentance & redemption
-Walk away with a list of general “Example Questions to Stimulate Moral Imagination” for any reading material
Liz Morgan’s top priorities are integrating classical education with a God-centered worldview to encourage virtue and academic excellence. She currently teaches 4th grade and Spanish as an elective to grades K-5 at Fortis Academy in Texas, previously taught 3rd grade at Regents School of Austin for 8 years, facilitated a Christian speech and debate club for 13 years, and holds a M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in bilingual education from The University of Texas at Austin. She has taught for 39 years, including experience in private, public, and home education venues.