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Tifany Borgelt was born in Schleswig-Holstein to a German nurse and Japanese-American serviceman. Her favorite pastimes include reading, thrifting, and exploring the Good, True, and Beautiful. For the last 17 years, she has filled multiple roles in classical Christian collaborative communities, beginning in 2008 when she and her husband embarked on the adventure of a lifetime by classically educating their children from elementary through high school.
She loves co-laboring alongside parents to equip their children with the classical arts and tools of learning so that they might become articulate ambassadors of Christ who winsomely and intelligently engage the world around them to the glory of God.
Mrs. Borgelt holds a BA in Communications from Pepperdine University and briefly studied in their Master of Divinity program before moving to Nashville to work in the Christian music and publishing industry. Today, she resides in Parker, Colorado, with her beloved, Chris.
Understanding that rare are the teachers or families who come from a classical Christian background, what intentional steps can you take to build a beautiful classical Christian culture that entices joy and wonder in your faculty and staff so that it can’t help but trickle down to the families you serve?
Creating a common language through professional development, parent equipping events, and purposeful curricular sequencing and integration choices lay the foundation and increase the opportunity for ephiphany in the classroom and in the at-home classroom, allowing teachers, students, and parents to experience for themselves the beauty of the classical Christian model. The classical model works!
Collaboratives can be messy, and the tyranny of getting through all the material “because we don’t have students five days a week” can steal the joy of the Good, True, and Beautiful from both the teachers and at-home, co-teachers…the parents.
At the heart of this talk, is the desire and need for schole in school – not just for the students but for teachers and parent co-teachers. While we may not be able to perfect schole within the classroom, we can create processes that increase the likelihood of schole and the epiphany moments for which we all long, both for ourselves and our students.
This interactive session walks down the Trivium path to investigate, celebrate, and effectively communicate the common denominator that defines the success of any classical Christian educational model that meets less than five days a week.
The classical tools of learning are not just for the classroom. The goal of this session is to celebrate the Good, True, and Beautiful things that God is doing in collaborative models by walking the path of the Trivium with fellow travellers to discover the various ways this type of model can operate.
Attendees will recall and recount (memoria) the ways and means by which God has provided for their school, walk through the five common topics* to investigate the differences between the schools represented, and walk away with insight to the various ways a collaborative can structure themselves administratively and academically in order to bless faculty, staff, and the families they partner with.
*In his work Topics and Rhetoric, Aristotle introduced and wrote extensively on topoi – the conceptual places or locations that a thinker could “go” to help generate arguments. Cicero would later organize these topoi more systematically, placing them within the canon of invention among his five canons of rhetoric. He asserted these tools were just as valuable to investigate a matter as they were in effectively arguing a point.
Tifany Borgelt was born in Schleswig-Holstein to a German nurse and Japanese-American serviceman. Her favorite pastimes include reading, thrifting, and exploring the Good, True, and Beautiful. For the last 17 years, she has filled multiple roles in classical Christian collaborative communities, beginning in 2008 when she and her husband embarked on the adventure of a lifetime by classically educating their children from elementary through high school.
She loves co-laboring alongside parents to equip their children with the classical arts and tools of learning so that they might become articulate ambassadors of Christ who winsomely and intelligently engage the world around them to the glory of God.
Mrs. Borgelt holds a BA in Communications from Pepperdine University and briefly studied in their Master of Divinity program before moving to Nashville to work in the Christian music and publishing industry. Today, she resides in Parker, Colorado, with her beloved, Chris.