The Challenge, Christian Homeschool Program | Classical ConversationsPracticum

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The Challenge Program

Many parents question, “How can I homeschool through high school?” Our Challenge program outlines the steps many homeschooling parents want to know, like curriculum choices, where to purchase coursework resources, how to develop high school transcripts and even how to learn college credit.

Parents help their student to develop time-management skills and good study habits, assess their student’s work, and assign grades. Students learn by completing weekly coursework and participating in community. The Challenge Director works alongside the parents’ at-home efforts by facilitating weekly conversations and modeling learning. Throughout, Tutors partner with parents to mentor and disciple students to imitate Christ.

Challenge programs meet for fifteen weeks each semester for two semesters so that they can practice the classical tools of learning with six seminars of academic content. At-home and community assignments are described in the Challenge Guide for each program. Students read, research and practice at home and come to community prepared for public speaking, discussion, debate, and experiments.

How does the Challenge homeschool program stand out from other high-school aged, classical, Christian communities?

Community time is used by students to practice skills instead of sitting in a lecture.
Directors help students to see how knowledge glorifies God, cultivating lifelong learners and lovers of His creation.
Directors serve as a mentor, discipling and encouraging his or her small group of students.
Directors equip students to discover that all knowledge works together in an indivisible universe rather than a disconnected “multiverse,” helping students make connections between science, math, philosophy, theology, history, literature, and economics.
Directors guide students from knowledge, to understanding, to wisdom.
Directors focus on skills rather than subjects.

Support for the Journey

In this local community environment, parents receive support, training, resources and accountability from other homeschool parents, giving them confidence to homeschool their child throughout all of their high school years.

Challenge Learning

Consistent progression through each year-long Challenge program emboldens students to think critically, engage in dialectic discovery, and formulate original rhetorical arguments as they learn to see connections between themselves, their community, and their faith.

Additionally, in progressing through the Challenge program, students have the opportunity to participate in earning college credits even as their parents are working toward their own Associate, Bachelor or Master degree.

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John

CC Parent

This was the first [Practicum] I was able to attend and I truly enjoyed it. I gained support and encouragement throughout the entire training.

Katy

CC Parent

I was encouraged, challenged, and equipped with new information. I was also reminded of wonderful tools I have used in the past and may need to sharpen a bit. Thank you Classical Conversations!

Melissa

CC Parent

I love Practicum because it reminds me to stop checking the boxes and pursue truth, beauty, and goodness.

Michele

CC Parent

The lost tools of learning we practice at Practicum can benefit everyone! Even if you’re not homeschooling. Even if you’re not parenting. The classical method can help anyone learn anything.

April

CC Parent

The encouragement and support from other parents is vital. I enjoy learning from those before me in their journey, encouraging those beside me, and sharing with those coming behind.

Laura

CC Parent

I am a grandmother homeschooling my 9-year-old granddaughter who has been through a lot of trauma with both parents. The moms, Tutors and Director have truly been encouraging and most accepting of this old grandma and her granddaughter. We are going into our 5th year at CC.

Cindy

Grandmother

My CC community breathes flavor, energy, and structure into my homeschool. The steady support, motivation to learn perpetually, and sweet fellowship is vital to me personally and to my family.

Cecile

CC Parent

As a longtime homeschooler, you can find 350 Classically-centered curricula on the market. What sets CC apart isn’t the carefully crafted history sentences, the infectious list of pronouns the kids chant, or the way you can tweak it to be whatever you want at home. It’s the community.

Heather

CC Parent

But what about socialization? I have to admit, I heard this question a couple times when I first decided to homeschool, but most people I come across don’t ask it anymore. If they do inquire about how I keep my kids socialized, I get to tell them about the amazing community God brought into our lives with Classical Conversations.

Wendy

CC Parent

My CC Community has been an integral part of our homeschool experience. I can’t imagine being on this journey alone, as a ‘lone wolf.’ I love how CC covers aspects of homeschooling that I would not get to on my own, such as weekly science experiments and art projects, and memorizing a world history Timeline of events. CC provides a ‘one stop shop’ for all of my homeschooling needs.

Autumn

CC Parent

Community is a very valuable part of CC. What other curriculum has weekly modeling lessons for us parents?

Heather

CC Parent

Our CC family is so much more than a group of fellow homeschoolers. They are the family who can truly understand my daily struggles as a homeschooling mom. They are the family who supported me emotionally and mentally when my husband passed away. They are the family that welcomed me with open arms when we had to move out of state and join a new CC family! There is nothing comparable to our CC family. I am so truly grateful.

Janelle

CC Parent

My director and fellow parents are tutors are more than colleagues; they’re friends. I’m thankful for the support, accountability, and friendship they offer.

Melissa

CC Parent

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