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Telling Our Stories – Archive

Teaching

When History Meets Literature

By Molly Dombrowski on March 21, 2025

One of my favorite moments is when our study of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution meets the imagination of Baroness Orczy in The Scarlet Pimpernel. 

Stories

The Power of Literature

By Jennifer Mulvey on February 16, 2025

The school day is ripe with opportunities to help cultivate students’ morality, and I find literature to be one of the most powerful.

Teaching

Shaping Our Character Through Practicing Courage

By Gabrielle Lewis, Core Virtues Director on January 8, 2025

What better time is there to focus on building good habits that will lay the foundation for not only our health and well-being but also our character?

Stories

5 Ways to Cultivate Moral Imagination Through Literature

By Karissa Moschel on December 6, 2024

Stories help us learn what we ought to feel, how we ought to respond to things that are beautiful, and how we ought to respond to evil and hardship.

Virtues

Cultivating Virtues That Lift Our Eyes to Others

By Gabrielle Lewis, Core Virtues Director on December 5, 2024

A time to slow down and take in the blessings of family, friends, and life, a well as the opportunity to look out into the world to see and attend to the needs of others.

Teaching

How Pinocchio Helped Him

By Lyna Heaton on May 3, 2024

Thank you, Pinocchio and my new student, for a forever-lasting memory and example of why I teach at a Hillsdale classical school.

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