Teachers’ brains rarely shut off. I mean, we’re paid to encourage others to think! I vividly remember my wife, Grammar School teacher Tamara Smith, telling me about her "school dreams" during her first few years of teaching. While those have lessened (a little), they regularly make their way back at... Continue reading

{Jason Smith, Dean of Faculty and Instruction and 12th Grade English Teacher} Help from the Past As Christians, and citizens of a Kingdom here on earth (as well as in Heaven), we want our children to receive an education that enculturates them into the beliefs and practices of following Christ.... Continue reading

{Jason Smith, Dean of Faculty and Instruction} Work is often work. We concentrate, toil, and arrive at the finish line: thankful that another task is completed. However, many of us know, deep down, the Lord has created us to experience work as something deeper and more meaningful than just going... Continue reading

{Written by Jason Smith, Dean of Faculty and Instruction.} {Image from 21 Laps Entertainment's Arrival. Director Denis Villeneuve. Cinematographer Bradford Young.} Like an early Christmas present, last week I participated in something I love. It may be one of my favorite "school" things to do, and it always reminds me... Continue reading

{Written by Jason Smith, Dean of Faculty and Instruction and 12th Grade English Teacher} Teaching classically and Christianly is grounded in relationship. Every day, teachers at Providence invite students to a banquet of truth, beauty, and goodness as they gather around the grace of great things--literature, history, art, science, rhetoric,... Continue reading

{written by Jason Smith, Dean of Faculty and Instruction} Providence Christian School is different. The way that we teach, learn, and assess are different. What we choose to study and what courses we provide are different. We are drawing from an educational tradition that in many ways puts us at... Continue reading