To know God and to make Him known

Challenge

Age 12+

Students will rise to a challenge.

Every challenge is an opportunity for meaningful growth and a catalyst for lifelong learning.

Scroll down to learn more about our six Challenge programs. Explore each in more detail using the clickable timeline at the bottom of the page.

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The Challenge Program

Many parents question, “How can I homeschool through high school?” Our Challenge program outlines the steps many homeschooling parents want to know, like curriculum choices, where to purchase coursework resources, how to develop high school transcripts and even how to learn college credit.

Parents help their student to develop time-management skills and good study habits, assess their student’s work, and assign grades. Students learn by completing weekly coursework and participating in community. The Challenge Director works alongside the parents’ at-home efforts by facilitating weekly conversations and modeling learning. Throughout, Tutors partner with parents to mentor and disciple students to imitate Christ.

Challenge programs meet for fifteen weeks each semester for two semesters so that they can practice the classical tools of learning with six seminars of academic content. At-home and community assignments are described in the Challenge Guide for each program. Students read, research and practice at home and come to community prepared for public speaking, discussion, debate, and experiments.

How does the Challenge homeschool program stand out from other high-school aged, classical, Christian communities?

  • Community time is used by students to practice skills instead of sitting in a lecture.
  • Directors help students to see how knowledge glorifies God, cultivating lifelong learners and lovers of His creation.
  • Directors serve as a mentor, discipling and encouraging his or her small group of students.
  • Directors equip students to discover that all knowledge works together in an indivisible universe rather than a disconnected “multiverse,” helping students make connections between science, math, philosophy, theology, history, literature, and economics.
  • Directors guide students from knowledge, to understanding, to wisdom.
  • Directors focus on skills rather than subjects.

Support for the Journey

In this local community environment, parents receive support, training, resources and accountability from other homeschool parents, giving them confidence to homeschool their child throughout all of their high school years.

Challenge Learning

Consistent progression through each year-long Challenge program emboldens students to think critically, engage in dialectic discovery, and formulate original rhetorical arguments as they learn to see connections between themselves, their community, and their faith.

Additionally, in progressing through the Challenge program, students have the opportunity to participate in earning college credits even as their parents are working toward their own Associate, Bachelor or Master degree.

Our Programs

Foundations
Age 4+
National Memory Master
Scribblers
Age 4-8
Essentials
Age 9+
Faces of History
Challenge
Age 12+
Excellence in Education
A
Age 12+
Science Fair
B
Age 13+
Mock Trial
I
Age 14+
Debate
II
Age 15+
Protocol
III
Age 16+
Poetry Cafe
IV
Age 17+
Senior Thesis
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The cohort does a great job of helping parents, teachers, and directors, feel equipped to lead a lesson and a conversation. Each semester [builds] on the previous one nicely, giving a well-rounded picture.

Jakki

The CLC has given me the confidence to teach my children at home and to lead Essentials in my community.

Courtney

It has helped me grow in leading my classes and my own children to be more efficient, classical, confident, and gracious.

Stephanie

This has given me so much confidence in . . . my own skills, a desire to seek to improve in showing hospitality to my students, and encouragement that other moms are out there doing the same thing each week!

Brenna

My Essentials classes are far more engaging, and I am able to clearly see the important pieces of the lesson . . . with the specific students I am walking with, and I’m better able to bring those two elements together in a meaningful way.

Cheree

The CLC has had the single largest positive impact on my growth as a classical educator. It is the reason my class feels successful on community day, and it has changed how I give assessment.

Laura G

CLC has been great in helping me follow a form in preparing my lessons at home . . . I think through the lessons . . . and how to relate them to the students and create a desire to learn the material. The questions have been very helpful in assessing that the students are following the lessons, too.

Angela

CLC was the perfect amount of time: every other week for two hours, with six meetings. It was manageable and the cost was well worth it! The lessons my mentor presented each time were great, and it was a growing experience.

Kristen

The encouragement and support from other parents is vital. I enjoy learning from those before me in their journey, encouraging those beside me, and sharing with those coming behind.

Laura
CC Parent

I am a grandmother homeschooling my 9-year-old granddaughter who has been through a lot of trauma with both parents. The moms, Tutors and Director have truly been encouraging and most accepting of this old grandma and her granddaughter. We are going into our 5th year at CC.

Cindy
Grandmother

My CC community breathes flavor, energy, and structure into my homeschool. The steady support, motivation to learn perpetually, and sweet fellowship is vital to me personally and to my family.

Cecile
CC Parent

As a longtime homeschooler, you can find 350 Classically-centered curricula on the market. What sets CC apart isn’t the carefully crafted history sentences, the infectious list of pronouns the kids chant, or the way you can tweak it to be whatever you want at home. It’s the community.

Heather
CC Parent

But what about socialization? I have to admit, I heard this question a couple times when I first decided to homeschool, but most people I come across don’t ask it anymore. If they do inquire about how I keep my kids socialized, I get to tell them about the amazing community God brought into our lives with Classical Conversations.

Wendy
CC Parent

My CC Community has been an integral part of our homeschool experience. I can’t imagine being on this journey alone, as a ‘lone wolf.’ I love how CC covers aspects of homeschooling that I would not get to on my own, such as weekly science experiments and art projects, and memorizing a world history Timeline of events. CC provides a ‘one stop shop’ for all of my homeschooling needs.

Autumn
CC Parent
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