We’ll Remember the Alamo!

In June, three of us from the board went to a Society for Classical Learning (SCL) Conference in San Antonio, Texas. This was by all accounts a fantastic and inspirational conference with top-shelf plenary and breakout speakers, workshops, resources, and most of all ideas!

We were priviledged to listen to the remarkable John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down and The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (The Underground History Of American Education).

In addition to Gatto, we also met with several other authors, curriculum providers, school administrators and teachers. We were able to network with several other classical Christian schools around the country, and learn of the things they were doing. It was encouraging to see so many other schools pioneering in their efforts to classically educate. Also, we were able to share of the great things the Lord has done at Oak Grove in our first year with our friends from Veritas Academy in Austin. The Veritas folks have been instrumental in helping us in the establishment of Oak Grove.

The only problem with attending a conference like this, is coming home and trying to relate, share and implement all of the new ideas we came away with. We’re excited to see what the Lord will do in this next school year as we strive to make all things excellent for God’s glory! Soli Deo Gloria

Interview with Troy Simons

You can listen to a recent interview with Troy Simons, acting headmaster of Oak Grove here.

Welcome to the Oak Grove Blog!

We hope to use this area to simply post things that are going on and seem relevant to us as a Classical Christian School but that don’t really go anywhere else on the site.  We’re not going to worry about it if we don’t post every week, or every month, but hopefully we’ll out do ourselves and be posting quite often.

So… as they say, “stay tuned,” and we’ll see where we end up!