I had the exciting opportunity to travel with nearly all our high school and staff members to Washington, D.C., for an entire week. There we met groups from all the other Ambleside high schools around the country. In the same hotel, no less. If that sounds rather insane to you, it is because it is […]
Relationships: The Charlotte Mason Experience
Looking back at our first family picnic in August of 2011, I wonder if we had any idea we were joining something much larger than a great place to educate my children. My now-9th grade daughter reached out her then 5-year-old hand to quietly take the hand of our now-8th grade teacher. They walked and […]
Living By Faith
“Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and the assurance about what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1 Well, hello, beautiful Ambleside community! What a privilege and joy it has been teaching your children here at AO for almost seven years! Whether I taught your child in Kindergarten or out on the […]
Adults Are Meant to Author Free and Full Lives, Too
At Ambleside, the daily work we purpose to accomplish is to educate children so they are empowered to attain the fullness of life for which they were created. Teachers, staff, parents, and board members have a passion to set children on the path so they can “author free and full lives”. Ironically, we as adults […]
Christmas Reflections – A Hint of Christmas
I have before me a six-year-old’s rendering of a giraffe. Its body has the shape of a large tennis ball, yellow with streaks of orange. Its neck reminds one of a long rigid cane cut from a Louisiana sugar field. A banana seems to serve for a tail, and four large green tree trunks for […]