I am so excited! As of today, Expanding Wisdom has been in existence for 1 whole year! Last year at this time, we were telling the world that we had been born, and here we are one year later. SO much has happened, so many ideas have been discussed, and more importantly, so many relationships have been cultivated. I had no idea I would make so many new friends through the life of this blog. I would not have kept writing this year if it was not for you. There were ups and downs, fast times and slow times, joys and sorrows, months I was super inspired and months where I doubted whether I ever should have started this thing. I am truly so grateful for each you being part of this blog community! To celebrate with you and thank you properly, I wanted to share what was the best of our first year together, give you a glimpse of what is to come, and give away a few goodies!
1st Year Highlights
Over 12,000 of you from all over the world have come to visit with us at one time or another this year!
Top 10 Posts/Pages
10. Five Life-Changing Ideas from the 2014 CiRCE Conference
8. Narration, An Introduction: From a Classical Perspective
7. What to Teach: A Curriculum Idea
5. Getting Started with Christian Classical Homeschooling
4. Pencil or Highlighting: On Helping Students to Read
3. Forms of Classical Teaching: Socratic Instruction
2. An Interview with Karen Glass ~ Author of ‘Consider This: Charlotte Mason & the Classical Tradition’
1. A Guide to Teaching Classically
We published our first E-Book, A Guide to Teaching Classically! AND it has been FREE, but not for much longer! 🙂 (more details below)
Favorite Interviews from the Year
We discussed her new book ‘Consider This: Charlotte Mason & the Classical Tradition’
We talked about Playing with Music and his one-of-a-kind Gap Year program for graduating seniors.
We discussed mathematics in the classical curriculum and teaching math classically.
A Glimpse into the Next Year
* We are turning the ‘Guide to Teaching Classically’ PDF into Kindle and Printed editions! The new editions will be available on Amazon and our EW Shop soon. That way you can read it on all you Kindle devices and in a real book form.
* Be looking for our Shop and Online Courses!!! We will be launching the first course late this Spring/Early Summer! More details will make their way to you as we come closer to the launch day!
Now for some Gifts & Giveaways!
I really am grateful for each of you and while I cannot do enough to completely express my gratitude, I can offer you a token of it! To celebrate you and our birthday we are giving away a few books and some Starbucks gift cards!
BOOK GIVEAWAYS
1 Person will win a copy of the new edition of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America by By Andrew Kern & Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Edited by Dr. Brian Phillips
3 People will win the opportunity to choose one of the new Classical Academic Press Classical Education books. If you win, you can choose ONE of the following books:
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education
Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty
C. S. Lewis: An Apologist For Education
John Milton: Classical Learning and the Progress of Virtue
Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator
The Classical Reader: A Comprehensive Reading Guide for K-12 Students
STARBUCKS GIFTCARDS GIVEAWAY
3 people will also win a $5.00 Starbucks gift card!
That is 6 total winners! All you have to do is enter the giveaway below. We will complete the drawing on June 20th!
I love learning with you!
Expanding Wisdom, Extending Grace,
Jen
Congratulations on your first year! I only came across your blog over the last few months, but I’m enjoying it greatly. I am definitely finding things to think about, and I really appreciate your emphasis on repentance and moving forward from that place of repentance.
Thank you Amber and thank you for reading! I really appreciate you saying so. Repentance is hard, but man, I need what is on the other side of it so bad!
Thank you for holding the giveaway, and congratulations on year 1! I started reading relatively recently & have learned a lot from your posts already (which actually tells me how much I still don’t know 😉 ).
Kristi! it is my pleasure, and we all still have so much we don’t know! Thank you for joining me in learning together.