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Joshua Gibbs co-founded The Classical Teaching Institute with Wade Ortego in spring 2024 and serves as its director and as a teaching fellow. He has been in the classical Christian orbit since 1994, when his family moved to attend Logos School in Moscow, ID. He met Paula (née Marston) in 1996 while both were competing on the Logos Mock Trial team and they married ten years later. They have two daughters, both of whom have seven names. Joshua has taught classic literature for nineteen years and he is the author of a number of books, including Love What Lasts and Something They Will Not Forget, a handbook for teachers about the use of classroom catechisms. He is also the creator of the Proverbial podcast and a prolific blogger, having authored more than six hundred articles for the CiRCE Institute between 2014 and 2024. In 2020, he created Gibbs Classical, an online classroom where he teaches classic literature. He proudly keeps in touch with many former students.
When students move from sixth grade to seventh grade, everything changes. The format of classes, assessments, expectations… Many of the pedagogical practices that work well in elementary school are summarily abandoned in seventh grade so that class can be reimagined as a kind of business meeting. But are there effective pedagogical practices from third or fourth grade that will work in tenth or eleventh grade, as well?