Formation Before Fixing: Aletheia’s Better Way to Teach
Formation Before Fixing: Aletheia’s Better Way to Teach A response to current professional development trends in literacy remediation. Context & Source This reflection was prompted by Caitlynn Peetz Stephens’ article, “Teachers Need Help Reaching Teens Who Missed Basic Reading Skills. Can PD Help?” published in Education Week on November 24, 2025. Stephens documents a growing […]
Understanding Federal School Choice
Federal “school choice” programs promise opportunity, but history reveals that state funding often expands state oversight. This Theopaideia analysis explores the biblical, historical, and structural implications for Christian families and schools as they steward the formation of children’s hearts and minds.
Theopaideia: Learning as the Knowledge of God
“For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6).
Education, at its root, is not the acquisition of facts but the formation of souls. Theopaideia means God-centered formation—the recovery of learning as worship. This session shows how Scripture, family, and the unity of truth lead us toward wisdom—so what we know becomes who we are.
The Grammar of Creation: Reading God’s First Textbook
Before we learned to read books, we were meant to read the world. Creation’s patterns teach the grammar of divine order—revealing that knowledge begins not in mastery but in marvel.
First Tuesday: Optimizing Learning— Replay
Optimizing Learning: Aligning the Mind with God’s Design Optimizing Learning: Aligning the Mind with God’s Design This month’s First Tuesday presentation explores how God designed the human mind to grow through the biblical pattern of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom (Proverbs 2:6). Drawing from Theopaideia’s fourfold framework—Scripture, Family, Integration, and Wisdom—this session examines how motivation, memory, […]
Rhetoric and the Practice of Wisdom
Rhetoric and the Practice of Wisdom Speech as Stewardship; Truth Joined to Love By Theresa Willen · October 30, 2025 Speech as Sacred Trust In a fractured age where words have become currency for power, speech as stewardship restores the moral weight of language. Every word becomes an act of obedience, a reflection of the […]
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a Name? Recovering Naming and Meaning in an Age of Confusion The Lost Grammar of Truth Introduction — Naming as the Foundation of Knowing Language is not neutral. From the opening chapters of Genesis, Scripture reveals naming as a sacred act that bridges creation and understanding. When Adam named the creatures, he participated […]
Education as Sanctification
Education as Sanctification: A Biblical Path from Knowledge to Wisdom The Crisis of Clarity Across America’s classrooms, teachers feel the ground shifting beneath their feet. Curricula change with each new initiative; moral frameworks dissolve in the name of neutrality; words like truth and goodness are treated as private preferences. Amid this disorientation, Aletheia—“truth”—becomes both our […]