We are a faculty of learners searching, together, for the TRUE, GOOD, and BEAUTIFUL.
At True North Classical Academy, we believe in building a culture of excellence in everything we do. This culture of excellence originates at the core from our faculty – the heartbeat of our school. We are dedicated, therefore, to building up and training an elite, world-class faculty of teachers and learners, who will continue to bring this level of excellence to the children of Miami, Florida.
- We bring in world-class trainers in the philosophy of classical education and its methodology.
- We bring in top-notch, nationally recognized trainers in Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion and use UnCommon School’s Get Better Faster coaching methodology to ensure our teachers are reaching their fullest potential.
- We bring in curriculum experts to train our faculty: Socratic Seminar, Reading Mastery, Singapore Math, FOSS Science, JGB, SOTW, Shurley English and IEW.
Who are our teachers?
Socrates, Bach, Franklin, Michelangelo, Virgil, Homer, Lincoln, Newton, Jefferson, Plato, Shubert, Hume, Washington, The Constitution, Aristotle, Copernicus, Yeats, Melville, Augustine, Churchill, Plutarch, Emerson, Cicero, Chaucer, Hawthorne, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas, Sophocles, Dickens, Milton
Content
The heart of a classical education is the Great Books curriculum. Students are exposed to adapted versions of great texts in the grammar and logic stage and read original classics in the rhetoric
stage.
Pedagogy
Teachers use direct instruction in the grammar stage and begin to employ the Socratic method of teaching in the logic stage, with its full use in the rhetoric stage. The teacher moves from “sage on the stage” in the grammar school, to facilitator in the logic school, to the authors of original classics themselves in the rhetoric school.
Culture of Excellence
True North’s culture of excellence is built upon two principles. First, all children should receive the highest caliber education, regardless of ability and individual differences. Second, there is a certain body of knowledge that is essential to human life and wisdom that all persons should acquire.
