SVECA utilizes a Classical Christian Curriculum where living books are used to teach the humanities and all subjects are taught from a Biblical Worldview. We embrace the Charlotte Mason philosophy of learning that education should consider the whole person and not just the mind. We reflect this practically by allowing time to appreciate music, art, and the outdoors.
What is a University Model School?
The University-Model® combines the best attributes of traditional schooling with the best attributes of homeschooling and integrates them into one model. The result is quality, cost-effective, college-preparatory education that gives parents more time for imparting their own faith and values to their children. In partnership with one another, parents and the school work together toward a mutual goal: to produce wholesome, competent, and virtuous followers of Christ who will change the world in their generation.
University-Model® Schools International (UMSI) is a global family of Christian school communities pursuing a philosophy and system of education called the University-Model® (UM).
VISION
To strengthen Christian families and values by helping parents prepare college-worthy disciples of Jesus for the next generation.
MISSION
To Build Dynamic University-Model® School Communities Worldwide.
UMSI exists to help parents and others start University-Model® schools in their communities, while supporting existing UM schools with training, resources, onsite visits, school certification, and consultant services for accreditation.
What is Classical Christian Education?
Education that inspires depth and wisdom.
Classical Christian education (CCE) is a time-tested educational system which establishes a biblical worldview (called Paideia), incorporates methods based on natural phases of student development, cultivates the seven Christian Virtues, trains student reasoning through the Trivium(Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric), and interacts with the historical Great Books.
We Consider Great Books, Art, and Stories.
Students engage great books and art containing rich stories that shape both the soul, literary understanding, and moral imagination. A rich and nuanced command of language plays an unsung role in understanding God’s word, and in understanding our fellow man.
And, a thorough immersion in the study of history using original sources helps students step outside their own times and places and consider the world from very different vantage points. Going ad fontes, to the source in Latin, means we read original sources and avoid textbooks for history and literature.
We Use a Biblical Framework to Understand Everything.
Biblical standards of conduct are applied in all arenas of school life, acknowledging that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. The schools acknowledge that God has given parents the responsibility for the education of their children and that the schools instruct those students under the parents’ delegated authority. Most graduates remain faithful to Christ even through college and have a heart to serve others.
What is a Charlotte Mason Education?
Charlotte Mason
The Charlotte Mason method is based on Charlotte’s firm belief that the child is a person and we must educate that whole person, not just his mind. So a Charlotte Mason education is three-pronged: in her words, “Education is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life.”
Charlotte was a British educator in the late 1800s and early 1900s who emphasized respecting each child as a person and giving him a broad education. Her approach works with the way children naturally learn and presents a generous curriculum, including nature study, art and music appreciation, and handicrafts, as well as the usual academic subjects. It seeks to “spread a feast” before the child and let him digest what is appropriate for him at the time. And it uses methods that will nurture a love for learning and reinforce good lifelong habits, not just present a body of information. This is more than adding a bible verse to the curriculum. When history, science, math, philosophy, art, and other subjects are integrated around the truth that God is the Creator of all that exists, and therefore all knowledge is interrelated and points back to Him. Theology is the queen of the sciences, with all subjects understood through the revealed word of God and natural/human history and philosophy.