October 2025
Reformation Day
By Steven Preston
Contextualizing Protestant Reformation history, encouraging humility through understanding both Protestant and Catholic perspectives on this pivotal religious conflict.
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Explore articles from our faculty and staff that dive deeper into what makes North Star unique—our philosophy, values, and approach to classical Christian education.
Brandi Buerstatte
March 2025
Exploring the balance between diligent work and intentional rest, emphasizing the concept of "Scholé" (leisure learning) and how Friday learning-at-home days provide space for personal growth and family time.
Kristy Adjei
January 2025
Reflecting on the school's founding journey, describing how the leadership team embraced obedience and dependence on God through scriptural themes about abiding in Christ and trusting divine guidance.
Julie Dockery
November 2024
Defining biblical hospitality as "love the stranger" and describing how the school extends radical belonging to combat adolescent anxiety and loneliness in contemporary society.
Glenn Wishnew
October 2024
Examining how gospel truth shapes education, arguing that "no area of academic inquiry could disconfirm God's love for us in Jesus Christ."
Julie Dockery
September 2024
Presenting the crystallized mission statement: students are anchored in Gospel hope, equipped by classical methodology, and prepared to lead wisely.
Julie Dockery
May 2024
Identifying four focus areas: Jesus, God's Word and World, community beauty, and developing character sturdy enough to withstand worldview challenges.
Kristy Adjei
April 2024
Chronicles the school's founding story, emphasizing how taking incremental "next things" led to God's supernatural provision across faculty, families, finances, and facilities.
William Adjei
April 2024
Connecting classical virtues to Christian education, featuring examples from Polycarp, Mother Teresa, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as models of perseverance rooted in faith.
Kristy Adjei
November 2024
Casting a vision of leadership for students through regular opportunities to lead and serve, including a leadership retreat at Covenant Harbor in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Judy Robinson
March 2024
Justifying classical Latin study, noting that "60% of the English language derives from Latin" and connecting language study to foundational thinking skills and American founding principles.
Steven Preston
October 2025
Contextualizing Protestant Reformation history, encouraging humility through understanding both Protestant and Catholic perspectives on this pivotal religious conflict.
Kristy Adjei
October 2024
Exploring the first tool of the Trivium—grammar—and how memorization and furnishing the mind prepares students to learn anything through the lost tools of learning.
Kristy Adjei
May 2024
A year-long capstone project that ties together all aspects of the trivium and serves as the culmination of twelve years of classical Christian education.
Kristy Adjei
February 2025
Explaining how Negro History Week (1926) evolved into Black History Month, noting the school's namesake comes from Douglass's abolitionist newspaper "The North Star."
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