and pore over Hilary’s wonderful
document, offering suggestions and
comments.
We have spent this entire school
year meeting twice a month to
complete the editing. The guide book
was sent to the printer on May 31,
2017. This will enable the book to be
distributed to the Girls School faculty
prior to summer break. It will make a
fascinating beach read!
We will begin the fall discussing ways in which each faculty member
can implement this study into her existing curriculum. The idea is that the
doctrine of conjugial love should infill the entire curriculum across grades
and subject matter. Those of us on the committee have a sense that this is
already happening in many places in the curriculum. The faculty discussion
will formalize that observation.
It is also our hope to develop a guide book for parents. This will be less
comprehensive than the faculty guide book and will only include the highlights
but it will enable us to ensure that parents understand the reason behind our
integrated curriculum. Thus the committee has not disbanded. We intend to
begin work on the parent guide book in the fall.
While I have been a committee member since the inception of the
committee, this work was the vision of Susan Odhner, Girls School Principal
from to 2007 to 2016. A debt of gratitude is owed Sue for her love and care in
the business of raising girls with the knowledge that the Lord loves them no
matter what.
Her deepest desire was that our girls grow into caring, compassionate,
kind women, who are morally grounded and spiritually motivated. I believe
the integration of the doctrine of conjugial love throughout our curriculum
will make Sue’s dream for our girls possible.
The idea is that the
doctrine of conjugial love
should infill the entire
curriculum across grades
and subject matter.
Kira R. Schadegg is a former science teacher and current
Principal of the Girls School of the Academy of the New Church
in Bryn Athyn. She and her husband, Bob, live in Huntingdon
Valley, Pennsylvania. Contact: [email protected]
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