Community & School Partnership
For schools and communities desiring ongoing support, partnership allows for a deeper and more sustained work.
Formation does not happen in a single training or conversation—it takes time, consistency, and shared vision. Through partnership, I walk alongside your leadership, teachers, and families as you grow in a distinctly classical culture.
We offer tiered partnership options, allowing each community to engage at a level that fits both its needs and its season. Whether you are just beginning to clarify your vision or are ready to deepen and refine long-standing practices, there is a place to begin.
At the heart of this work is the opportunity to become a Juniper Hearth Community—a community committed not only to classical methods, but to a shared way of life and learning. A hearth is a place of warmth, gathering, and continuity. It is where culture is formed and passed on.
As a Juniper Hearth Community, you are joining a network of like-minded schools and families seeking to live out a coherent vision of education—one that forms students in wisdom, wonder, and virtue. This includes ongoing guidance, encouragement, and connection to others who are walking the same path.
The goal is not simply improvement, but transformation: a community that increasingly reflects a unified vision of education—the way we do it.
Philosophical Commitments of a Juniper Hearth Community
Behold the Beautiful
Poetic knowledge curriculum across studies
Great art, literature, music, poetry, nature
Liturgies in community, in the classroom, at home
Commitment to unhurried, unanxious education
Love the Good
Teaching stories that train souls to love that which is worth loving
Gymnastic training (say yes to a hard thing, no to a pleasurable thing) to train souls to be able to follow that which is worth loving
Perceive the Truth
Poetic, Mimetic, and Socratic teaching
Perceive the Truth
Engage in lessons that train students to ask, wonder, observe, and notice patterns of truth
Pray with Power
Regular and encouraged prayer in community, in training, in classroom
Deliberate with Wisdom
Presentation and participation in asking normative questions across studies and ages (ie - in Science class, high school students write an essay a year on whether should do something, not just if it can be done)
Choose with Courage
Cultivate wise decision making both in academics and in life
Abide in Christ
By the mercy of God, through extended and faithful attention to the Beautiful, the Good, by training the soul to perceive Truth, by submitting all this through a life of prayer, by cultivating habits of wise deliberation and decision making, Lord willing, students are humbly prepared to live a life of abiding in Christ.
Current Partner Schools
Foothills Christian School
WESTMINSTER, SOUTH CAROLINAFoothills Christian School is a private K–12 Christian school nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in upstate South Carolina. Located in the small town of Westminster, it is just minutes away from rushing rivers, rolling hills, and towering hardwoods. The school exists to provide a truly humane education—one that honors the image-bearing nature of its students, the goodness of reality, and Christ at the center of everything.
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COMMUNITY / SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPOngoing support to help schools grow in classical vision, culture, and practice.