One of the primary goals of education is to prepare students for college and life.  I like to get discussions with people, and this week I asked some faculty about what helps students to really succeed in life.  One response I found very interesting was sports.  The...

Last week at the vision and strategy meeting we explained how our mission as a school has been restated (not changed) to be, “The goal of Fortis Academy is to develop Christian thinkers and communicators.”  Everything we are doing at Fortis is being aligned toward...

Fortis Academy is maturing and professionalizing as an academic institution.  Our beginnings were grounded in a passion for Christ and for our children that expressed itself through education.  In the early days we were driven by homeschoolers who united around a...

The other day Mr. Paone and I were discussing an article that he read concerning interpreting literature.  He explained to me that the first step was to understand the original meaning and intent of the text.  For example, Proverbs tells us “dishonest scales are an...

These are exciting times for Fortis Academy for many reasons.  One of them is the clarity of a strategy and plan to execute on the vision of our school at every level, but especially in the upper school.  With that in mind, there is a vision and strategy meeting...

Fortis Academy’s Vision Statement: “Partner with families to classically educate and disciple our sons and daughters to lead and serve others for the glory of God.” Our vision statement clearly expresses the purpose of our school, and almost every word of our vision...

Every day there are more students and more schools that are joining the classical education movement.  Just as there was a wide diversity of how students were educated in antiquity, there are many ways of expressing classical Christian education today.  Diversity can...

In Antioch, disciples of Jesus were first called Christians.  This is a fitting term, because believers are called to reflect the image of God to the world.  The greater our understanding of the image of God is, the more we can shine like a light in the world.  In our...

Classical education is actually a modern term used to describe what was once simply called education.  The term was birthed out of asking what type of education those in the past received that created the type of faith, character, thinking ability and skills of...