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Charlotte Mason Educational Conference Lectures

Speaker: Lori Lawing Biography
Lori Lawing has come to appreciate Charlotte Mason’s love of “living books.” In addition to teaching her own children (ages 13 12, 9, 7, & 5) she delights in teaching Shakespeare to a group of 30 students ages five to thirteen. She has written six condensed scripts of Shakespeare’s plays (without altering the language of Shakespeare!) Lori is a pastor’s wife and a 1985 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in public speaking. She was a member of Chapel Hill's speech team, competing in oral performance of literature. For the past five years she has served as the Director of the annual competitive speech tournament for 100+ students in the southeast United States.

Topic: Integrating the Curriculum with History as
the Pivot and Living Books as the Medium (2008) Charlotte Mason said education is an atmosphere. With history as the pivot and literature as the primary medium, our schools and homes can provide an atmosphere where “children express ideas that fill them when exposed to great materials.” As we move through history, we integrate all the disciplines that apply: geography, art, music, literature, archeology, nature, church history, philosophy. We create a world for the children, not segmented, unrelated subjects. They’ll even role play their history; “living in a single time period until they practically think the same thoughts as the people they study, learning the intricate details of one person's life.” Participants will leave with samples of integration that span multiple disciplines and ways to make more of their own. Why bore them with out-of-context dates and lists, or detached, flat summaries from textbooks? A whole world is waiting to be recreated in the minds and hearts of our children.



Speaker: Nicole Hutchinson Biography
Nicolle Hutchinson graduated from a Christian liberal arts college with a degree in Elementary Education. After teaching in public schools for five years, she trained public school teachers and developed curriculum for Teachers' Curriculum Institute's middle and high school program, History Alive! and led the development of their first grade program, Social Studies Alive! My School and Family. In 2000, after a long search for an educational philosophy based on the Christian worldview, that, in Francis Schaeffer's words, “is true to the way things are,” Nicolle found Charlotte Mason's ideas. She studied and applied Mason's works and served as a teacher and leader in three Charlotte Mason schools. She conducted Charlotte Mason workshops, presented the Charlotte Mason session at the Florida Homeschooling Convention in 2004, and is now homeschooling in Pottsville, PA. In July she will begin her masters work at the University of Pennsylvania in the Education Leadership Program for Aspiring Principals. Nicolle is married to Storm, the pastor of First UMC-Pottsville, and the mother of Storm IV, an active nine year old.
Topic: Revealing the Beauty and Power
of the World through Science Instruction (2007) Recommended for: Science teachers, parents, administrators.

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