Classical School of Wichita

Guests: Headmaster Josh Dyson and Upper School Principal Grant BickellTopic: Discussing Homecoming week and all the activities involved.

Guests: Headmaster Josh Dyson and Upper School Principal Grant BickellTopic: The importance of the Liberal Arts, with a focus on the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric).

Join us as Josh and Grant chat with Jarrod Richey from Geneva School in Louisiana.This episode was originally recorded in January when Mr. Richey was here to help lead our winter dance. JARROD RICHEY has been teaching general music and choir classes at Geneva Academy in West Monroe, LA, since 2008. He received his Master of Music degree from the University of Louisiana Monroe. Mr. Richey completed his Kodály music teacher certification from Wichita State University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. Each summer, he teaches musicianship, folk-dancing, and special topics courses in July for the New Saint Andrews College Conservatory of Music and its two-week Kodály Music Teacher training program (Chenaniah Summer Music Institute). Mr. Richey is the author of “BACH to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today” (2016). He is the general editor and contributing author for the ACCS publication “Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education” (2019). He is the general editor for “Let Joy Resound: A Singing School Hymnal,” coming out in Summer 2024. When not working on the above projects, he’s writing at “Musically Speaking” (jarrodrichey.substack.com). Jarrod and his lovely wife, Sarah, have seven choristers in training ranging from toddler to seventeen.

Join Coby Dolloff and Grant Bickell as Coby shares about Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire."

Join Josh, Heidi, and Grant as they expand on some of the topics from our Mandatory Parent Meeting.