Car(Line) Talk: A Coram Deo Academy of Dallas Podcast

This week I interrupted a meeting happening during Rhetoric 7th Hour, and share a brief peek into one of our Friday classes and pose a question for your family to discuss!

Mrs. Southerland's charge to the Senior Class at Convocation is one that all of our students—PreK through 12th grade—can aspire to follow.

Join us as we ask Dr. Andrea Woodard about her favorite childhood books, and then interrupt Dean Hatteberg to hear more about our Noonday Prayer theme this year.

We have an exciting but challenging year ahead. How can Hebrews 12 help us this year? Let's ask Mrs. Howard!

I am happy to introduce you to Car(line) Talk: a mini-Podcast designed to be listened to in the car on your way to school. Most weeks we will send out a very short episode featuring encouragements from our faculty and staff, highlights of some of our events, and updates to help you navigate the school year.As you will discover, very few of these moments are scripted. Much to the chagrin of our team, they usually involve me walking up to them with voice memos open on my phone to ask them a question, and then force them to answer off-the-cuff.Check in each week for more mini-episodes!

About this Episode CDA Dallas Campus leaders gather to discuss "The Lost Tools of Learning", an infamous essay presented by Dorothy Sayers in the 1940s, and referenced by Malcolm Guite in his May 2024 CDA Commencement address. Hear more about Dorothy Sayers, and how the Classical Christian school tradition has corrected, enhanced, and expanded upon her ideas generations later. Links The Lost Tools of Learning (PDF) The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (Interview and Book) Guests Michele Howard, Grammar Principal Jennifer Southerland, Logic Principal Tommy McCrory, Rhetoric Principal Jon Jordan, Headmaster

Coram Deo Academy was pleased to host Malcolm Guite as our Honored Speaker at our Class of 2024 Commencement ceremonies this year. In this episode: leaders from the Coram Deo Academy Dallas Campus discuss what they enjoyed most about Malcolm Guite’s commencement address, followed by the Commencement address itself. Rev. Jon Jordan, Headmaster Mrs. Michele Howard, Grammar Principal Mrs. Jennifer Southerland, Logic Principal Mr. Tommy McCrory, Rhetoric Principal Coach Drew Lott, Athletic Director

This week we continue our series reading Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. On our next episode we will cover chapters 7 through 12. We would love to hear from you! Email your comments to jon.jordan@coramdeoacademy.org or leave a voicemail at 469.620.0987. Curious about Classical Education or Coram Deo Academy? Visit us at coramdeoacademy.org

Welcome back to Piety & Paideia!  We are excited to introduce you to a new mini-series on the podcast where we will be reading and discussing C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet. Read the book on your own, and then join us each week to hear reflections from the book. We invite your own observations along the way! Email the host at jon.jordan@coramdeoacademy.org with your insights. This episode introduces the book and explains how we will "read the book together, even while we are apart." Be sure to read Out of the Silent Planet Chapters 1-6 before tuning in to next week's episode! Curious about Classical Education or Coram Deo Academy? Visit us at coramdeoacademy.org

Episode two explores the ancient technique of Narration. We are joined by Robert Terry, Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development at Coram Deo Academy. Our host Jon Jordan is also joined by several Logic school students for a special game called "This, That, or the Other." Be sure to subscribe to be kept up to date when new episodes are released!

This episode answers the questions: What is Piety? What is Paideia? What do they have to do with one another? Our host Jon Jordan is also joined by several Logic school students for a special segment called "An Intellectual Conversation About a Random Sentence from a Random Page in a Random Book!"

Welcome to Piety and Paideia: a podcast about Classical Education and Christian Formation brought to you by Coram Deo Academy, and sponsored by Communion Neighborhood Cooperative in Richardson, TX. I am your host, Jon Jordan, and I am the Logic School Principal at Coram Deo Academy’s Dallas campus and a pastor here in town as well.About once a month we will release short episodes about one aspect of Classical Education, and how it relates to Christian formation. Each episode will include tangible ideas for applying that episode’s topic to your own context, whether you are formally involved in Classical Education or not.

Mr. Jon Jordan continues our new CDA Dallas Fall Lecture series with a talk on Virtue and Social Media. Christian Virtue could be understood as the patient acquisition of holy habits that is started, sustained, and finally accomplished by God’s grace in each of our lives. All of us, including our students, are becoming virtuous. Thousands of small, daily choices are molding us into who we will become. In light of this reality, what role does Social Media play in our development as virtuous humans? What impact, positive or negative, does daily interaction with the digital world have on our souls? What can we do as parents, and as a school, in light of these questions?

Mr. Jon Jordan kicks off our new CDA Dallas Fall Lecture series with a talk on Classical Christian Education. This session is aimed towards helping us all understand—and be able to talk about—Classical Christian education better than we do now.