For Scholé Academy parentsStart for freeYou are giving your child the education you wish you’d had.
You chose Scholé because you want your children taught with patience, wonder, and depth. Then the questions start coming home: why Latin, why narration, why read the old books so slowly? And underneath them, a quieter one: I was never taught this way myself.
ClassicalU lets you learn the tradition alongside them, from the teacher’s side of the table, in lessons short enough for an ordinary weeknight.
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- 110+ courses
- 90 presenters
- 17,000+ learners
- 24 countries
- festina lente make haste slowly
- multum non multa much, not many
- repetitio mater memoriae repetition is the mother of memory
- docendo discimus by teaching we learn
- optimus magister bonus liber est the best teacher is a good book
The teachers behind the lessons
Every ClassicalU course is taught by someone who has done the work. Christopher Perrin and Carrie Eben walk you through the ten principles of The Good Teacher, the same principles at work in your child’s Scholé classes, so you can see why a good teacher slows down, asks questions, and comes back to the same poem twice. Josh Gibbs shows how to teach a great book you are reading for the first time, which is often exactly where a homeschooling parent stands. Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain hand you the whole tradition in one map. Behind them stand more than ninety presenters and eight hundred hours of lectures, and you can listen to any of it while you fold laundry or drive to practice.
“You are a teacher. And what could be better than that for a student than to have a great teacher? And you, to be that good thing, must be a growing thing.”
Who teaches you
More than ninety presenters. A few of the voices you will hear first.
Free for Scholé Academy parents
A course made for you, at no cost.
Did you know that as a Scholé Academy Parent, you can take a course designed specifically for you, for free? Scholé Academy Family Talk Time is a course for Parents at the Dinner Table. You’ll name the quiet habits that pull a household apart (phones at dinner, hurried meals) and replace them with ones that draw everyone in: eye contact, narration, memory, Sabbath rest. Short sessions, ordinary weeknights, no new to-do list — just a rhythm of restful learning you can keep.
FREE COURSE
Scholé Academy Family Talk Time
For Parents at the Dinner Table
Leave behind
Phones at dinnerHurried meals
Draw everyone in
- Eye contact
- Narration
- Memory
- Sabbath rest
Short sessions. Ordinary weeknights. No new to-do list.
Trusted by the people who form classical teachers.
“ClassicalU invites outstanding thinkers and practitioners of the ongoing renewal into one place. I’d recommend it to any teacher looking for guidance without losing the joy that brought them to the classroom in the first place.”
Brian Williams
Dean of Templeton Honors College, Co-Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching, and Associate Professor of Ethics and Liberal Studies
“As a qualified teacher and home educator, I encourage you to heighten your professional development with ClassicalU. These courses are expertly taught, flexible, and offer masterful guidance into classical pedagogical concepts and methods.”
Andrea Shadgett Brown
B.A., B.Ed., Educator
What families and educators are saying.
Questions parents ask before they start.
- I’m not a trained teacher. Is ClassicalU for me?
Yes. Many subscribers are homeschooling parents, and the courses assume no background in classical education. If you want to understand what your children are learning, and why it is taught the way it is, the courses are for you.
- How does ClassicalU connect to my child’s Scholé classes?
Scholé Academy and ClassicalU are both part of Classical Academic Press and share the same vision of restful, classical learning. What your children meet in class, you can study here from the teacher’s side of the table.
- Is Family Talk Time really free?
Yes. Scholé Academy Family Talk Time is free for Scholé Academy parents. Start it from the course page.
- How does starting for free work?
Start a seven-day free trial and begin learning right away. Cancel any time. You can also preview any course without an account. Compare plans at classicalu.com/pricing.
- Does it work on my phone?
Yes. The ClassicalU app for iOS and Android lets you watch lectures on the go, download courses for offline viewing, or switch to audio and listen like a podcast. Your progress syncs with your account, so you can pick up on your phone right where you left off on the web.