Join us for a day of encouragement and meet Marc Hays, renowned CC leader and academic advisor for the Challenge programs. Marc and Jamie Hays have been married for 20 years. They have 6 children: a single, a double, and a triple. Yep, that’s right—triplets and twins. They have been home educating since 1999 and a part of Classical Conversations since 2009. Marc serves as the Lead Curriculum Developer, and Jamie serves as the International Product Liaison for Classical Conversations MultiMedia. Jamie is the Foundations/Essentials director, and Marc directs the Challenge I program in Hartsville, Tennessee. Marc is the author of a new CCMM resource, Analogies for All of Us, to be released in 2019.

In the morning session, Marc will walk us through an introduction of the biblical creation account emphasizing "relationships": within Trinity, Christ as incarnate, humanity to God, humanity to nature, and humanity to each other. He will provide us with a breakdown of the history of classical education from Moses to the 20th Century using Classical Conversations and other current methods, and the integration and relationship between the arts. After an overview of the merits of the grammar and dialectic stages through the lens of our Foundations and Essentials programs, led by his wife Jamie, we will break for a spaghetti meal (details to follow) together as a community. After lunch, we will resume with an overview of the Challenge programs, including the F/E connection to the curriculum and design, and participate in a mock Challenge class time together. After a brief Q&A session, we will conclude for the day.

Please contact Rachel Meyer, at rmeyer@classicalconversations.com.