An Examined Education

Jim Hamilton walks us through a unique lesson that he created for 8th grade history in which the students role play citizen on the brink of the Peloponnesian War to see if they would make the same mistakes. This lesson presents an opportunity to learn through history and practice empathy.

Melissa Gingrich, our Upper School Principal, joins us to discuss the what and why of the Upper School Advisory Program. Melissa brings a unique perspective - being both the Upper School Principal as well as the mother of two graduates and a current Sophomore - that makes her especially equipped to discuss the program's objective and implications.

DJ Goodwiler, our Humanities Chair and Rhetoric Teacher, walks us through the Junior and Senior trips to DC and Italy. These trips culminate their studies of rhetoric and history, allowing the students to put their studies into practice as they interact rhetorically with historical places and spaces.

Alice and Ben, two of our 6th graders, join us to talk about their experience as Cambridge students. They offer unique insights into the Cambridge experience and advice for other Cambridge Students. It was a blast having Alice and Ben on and we were blown away with what they had to say! This is an episode you definitely do not want to miss!

Eric and Shelly Potwardowski join us to share their experience as parents at The Cambridge School. The Potwardowskis currently have children in every stage of The Cambridge Education (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Aluma), making their experience an especially unique one. Listen in to hear about how their children's experiences have differed and how, as parents, they have handled the ups and downs as t...

3:16 on amazon Hermann Zapf's illustration of John 3:16 1 Tim 3:16  " note the Russian orthodox cross in the negative space" -Dr. Settergren literateprogramming.com The Annotated Turing , Charles Petzold Eyes in the Sky , Arthur Holland Michel Beauty and Joy of Computing: "We also think that computer programs (not just the pictures that programs can produce) can be things of beauty.... good progra...

DJ Goodwiler joins us back on the show to discuss progymnasmata, a series of "pre-exercises" that our students practice before entering Rhetoric School.

Amy Tollefson, Business Manager at The Cambridge School, joins us to take us behind the scenes of operations--the human endeavor that keeps the wheels turning at Cambridge.

Jeff switches roles and joins us as a guest to talk development at The Cambridge School. Alli Kaye, our Development Coordinator, steps in as host for this episode. We hope you enjoy!

Leslie Yoder, our Director of Enrollment Management, joins us to discuss admissions at The Cambridge School. Leslie has a lot to say about the what makes admissions at Cambridge different than your typical admissions process.

Jean Kim speaks at the Society for Classical Learning on building a high performance leadership team

Jean Kim, founder of The Cambridge School, talks about the formation and importance of a leadership team.

Hana Rodgers, our 2nd and 3rd Grade team lead, sits down to walk us through a bit of the early Grammar School curriculum. She talks about feast days, 3rd grade events, our unique teacher partnerships, and how virtue development is cultivated in our students from a young age.

Jean gives her speech from Back to School Night 2016.

The Class of 2020 joins us on the podcast to describe their college admission process and how Cambridge has shaped their decision on which schools to pursue.

Jean speaks at Back to School Night 2015 about the need for Robust Rebirth of a Classical Christian Education.

Jean Kim, Founder of the Cambridge School, speaks to the need of an education like the Cambridge education. Listen Now!

Jean Kim joins our hosts Jeff and DJ to discus the way that Cambridge reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic--the decision process of closing the school, the migration to an online teaching format, and where we are at now as an educational program and as a community.

This is a speech that Jean Kim gave in 2017 at Back to School Night.  We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe!  

2020 College Acceptances 

Jump back in to Math at Cambridge with Par II of our discussion on what Math looks like at Cambridge.

The Cambridge Math Department joins us this week to talk about math at Cambridge and how we approach math a little differently. This episode will be broken into two parts, so make sure that you tune-in in two weeks to hear part 2!

As we continue to cover our curriculum at Cambridge, we welcome Dr. Melissa Gingrich, our Upper School Principal, who has been with the school since its inception and has been a big part in writing our Science Curriculum and refining it over the years. She speaks on the scope and sequence of our Science curriculum and talks about what makes Cambridge unique in its study of Science when compared to...

Welcome back to the continuation of How is Cambridge Christian, this week we will pick up the conversation we were having with Russ Kapusinski, Brent Baber, and DJ Goodwiler about how exactly Cambridge is Christian. Last episode we talked about a lot of the explicit ways in which Cambridge is Christian and in this episode we talk a bit more about some of the implicit ways Cambridge is Christian. A...

Join us this week to hear from Russ Kapusinski, Brent Baber, and DJ Goodwiler, all teachers who have been part of creating and implementing the Bible Curriculum at Cambridge. We begin to discuss what the Cambridge Bible Program looks like. This episode will be continued in Part III. Stay Tuned!