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Cultivating the Imagination: Approaching Fairy Tales, Fables, and Moral Lessons

$30

with Adrienne Freas

Calendar Mar 27, 2025 at 6 pm

What: In this session, teachers will learn why fables and fairy tales help children develop a well-ordered imagination. We will discuss how to approach stories without getting in the way of the child's imagination. Experience the role, and proper ordering of the imagination through reading, narrating, and discussing a fable and a fairy tale. Teachers will learn the importance of respecting the imagination through reading, narrating, and properly discussing the moral of a story. We will include a progymnasmata fable writing exercise! 

Who: For parents, classroom instructors or home educators.

(good course for parents whose children are at classical schools)

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025

Time: 6-8 pm CST Central Time

Cost: $30 (non-refundable)

Zoom: A link to the class will be shared on the day of the class. 

(Live attendance is encourged for an immersive experience.)

Recorded: This will be recorded and available approximately 48 hours after the class. The video will be available to view for one month. 

About the Instructor

Adrienne is the founder and director of The Classical Education Podcast as well as Beautiful Teaching Consulting. Her expertise is in collaborating and guiding new, and established schools in classical curriculum and professional development needs. She has worked as the Classical Education Advisor for the K-12 Curriculum and Professional Development Project at University of Dallas and served as the Director of Classical Methods for Responsive Education Solutions. In both roles, Adrienne has collaborated with districts, boards, school leaders, and thousands of teachers, helping nearly 30 schools transition to a classical model. She has led teams creating classical professional development, leading parent education workshops, and writing customized educational materials that promote a strong virtue-based humanities curriculum for K-12 schools.

She specializes in Coaching and transitioning schools into the liberal arts tradition; K-8 classical curriculum development; Charlotte Mason pedagogy; Trivium-Based Lesson Planning, classical charter schools; Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant education; Homeschooling.

Adrienne has been married to Brian for 32 years. She is a retired homeschool mother of four adult children and the grandmother of five. She works part-time as a Classical Pedagogy and Curriculum Specialist for Coram Deo Academies in DFW. 

Poetic Language Lessons for Little People

Free

with Adrienne Freas

Calendar May 3, 2025 at 9:30 am

Description

I have written a new curriculum called Poetic Language Lessons: A Gentle Primer in Grammar and Rhetoric (primarily for children ages 6-8). This is a free introduction to the philosophy of the curriculum.

Ideas we will cover include:

  • What is a poetic imagination?
  • How do you truly integrate multiple subjects?
  • Introducing grammar to children
  • Rhetoric for little people
  • Elements of music as it pertains to the art of rhetoric
  • Incorporating wonder and a curiosity framework

When: Saturday, May 3, 9:30-11 am CENTRAL

Zoom: A link will be sent the day before the session

Recorded: This session will be recorded and available 24-48 hours after the session. It will be available for one month. 

About the Instructor

Adrienne Freas is the founder and director of The Classical Education Podcast as well as Beautiful Teaching Consulting. Her expertise is in collaborating and guiding new, and established schools in classical curriculum and professional development needs. She has worked as the Classical Education Advisor for the K-12 Curriculum and Professional Development Project at University of Dallas and served as the Director of Classical Methods for Responsive Education Solutions. She also served as a curriculum and pedagogy specialist for Coram Deo Academies, a university-collaborative model school in DFW. In each role,  She led teams creating classical professional development, parent education workshops, and writing customized educational materials that promote a strong virtue-based humanities curriculum for K-12 schools. Adrienne has been married to Brian for 32 years. She is a retired homeschool mother of four adult children and the grandmother to eight (plus a grand-puppy). 

 

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