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Paideia Week 2023: August 7-11

Paideia Week is held each summer to equip, educate, and inspire the Veritas community, and attendance is required for new students, families, and faculty/staff. Our purpose is to create an ideal atmosphere while connecting you with people who share the same passion as you to strengthen your family and raise your children in the paideia of the Lord. The lessons you learn, the advice you take in, the friendships you deepen, and the new relationships you form will leave you (re-)oriented, (re-)energized, (re-)connected, and (re-)inspired. We pray you will leave full of zeal for the Lord, your family, and our upcoming school year!

 
MONDAY
ORIENTATION
 
NEW Students, Parents & Faculty AND
ALL Kindergarten, 5th & 9th Grade Students        
 
 
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
CONFERENCE
 
ALL Veritas Parents & Faculty/Staff   
 
 
 
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
GRADE LEVEL LAUNCHES
 
ALL Co-Teachers/Parents & Faculty   
 
 

Attendance Reminder: Attendace at Paideia Week is required for new families, specifically the co-teacher, and is strongly encouraged for all enrolled families. Dates are published each year in all acceptance letters and enrollment packets to emphasize just how essential Paideia Week is to supporting the school-family partnership that Veritas is built on. We are, unfortunately, unable to offer a make-up opportunity. If you have any questions about your family's attendance at Paideia, please contact Enrollment@VeritasAcademy.net.


Meet Our Paidea 2023 Speakers: Brett & Erin Kunkle

We are excited to announce that Brett & Erin Kunkle will be our guest keynote speakers at the 2023 Paideia Conference. Brett is the founder and president of MAVEN. He has more than 25 years of experience working with junior high, high school, and college students. Erin is a full-time stay-at-home homeschooling mom of five. 

  meet our keynote speakers  

 


As we gear up for Paideia later this summer, we hope you will enjoy this set of podcast recommendations from our 2023 keynote speakers, Brett & Erin Kunkle!

  Great for All!  

How Your Worldview Matters for Every Single Area of Your Life (Kunkles)

  great for GS parents!  

How to Teach Your Kids the Bible — Part 1 (Kunkles)
 

  great for SL parents!  

Teaching Kids Truth in a Post-Truth Culture (Kunkles)

  great for SR parents!  

Restore God’s Design for Human Sexuality (Christopher Yuan)
 


FAQs & Helpful Resources

 

We are excited to announce that Brett & Erin Kunkle will be our guest keynote speakers at the 2023 Paideia Conference. Brett is the founder and president of MAVEN. He has more than 25 years of experience working with junior high, high school, and college students. Erin is a full-time stay-at-home homeschooling mom of five. 

  meet our keynote speakers  

 

In addition to signs that will be posted around campus and throughout the SLR Academic Building where all sessions will be held, THESE MAPS will help you know exactly where to go during Paideia (and the school year!).  

Campus Maps

 

Everyone is asked to register for Paideia, even new families and faculty who are expected to attend. Registration not only helps us with a final headcount, but makes sure we have lunch orders, name tags, and everything else ready for your family!

NOTES:

Please note that when completing your family's enrollment, all new K-12 students (including new siblings) were pre-registered for Paideia, along with ALL Kindergarten, 5th, and 9th grade students. We ask that you still complete the registration form to complete your registration since additional information is needed for each family.

 

Due to the size of our student body and the limitations of our campus facilities, we will not be able to offer childcare or camp for our K-12 students this year. We know that setting aside these days during Paideia Week to prepare for the new school year together is important, and we hope that between now and August you will be able to make other childcare arrangements for your K-12 children for Tue-Wed, Aug 8-9—the two on-campus days of the parent/faculty conference.

All NEW Students and all Kindergarten, 5th & 9th grade students will still attend orientation on Mon, Aug 7.

Childcare for enrolled PreS/PreK will be available Mon-Wed, Aug 7-9.

Only sessions held in the Auditorium will be recorded for viewing after Paideia.

 

Grade Level Launches are for parents—and specifically the co-teacher in Grammar School grades—to hear directly from their teacher or school head about the specifics of that class/grade level. Students will have the opportunity to meet their teachers later in August during the GS Come-and-Go Open House and SLR Connect Conference.

 

Yes! The conference schedule will be available later this summer.

 

 

 


More Family Resources 

Contact Information
Joanna Heflin
Paideia Conference Coordinator
 
 
Sarah Windham
Defender Date Night Coordinator
What is Paideia?

Paideia is the ongoing transmission of a cultural heritage of goodness, truth and beauty by impressing those values upon each generation, through discipline and instruction, with the telos (purpose, end, goal) of creating excellence and virtuous minds, body and souls. In short, Paideia is the disciplined crafting of a man—the whole man—in excellence and virtue.