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TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (AL)2023 Administrators Summit |
When: September 28-29 (Thurs-Fri)
Details: Learn More | Schedule & Speakers | *Hotels
Where: 1010 India Road, Opelika, AL 36801 (See Map)
Cost: $159
Join Us
This year’s Summits will be intentionally focused on relationship building and discussing the real-world issues you face within your school community. Join us for speaker presentations, discussions and situation rooms*, and meals together.
This opportunity to step aside for a couple of days, to relax with nearby colleagues, to discuss issues, to pray for one another, and to bear one another’s burdens should not be overlooked in the pressing daily battle for the souls of your students and the security of your school. You will return home invigorated, knowing that you have allies you can rely on.
If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].
*The Situation Room is a small group mixer where we discuss real-life or fictional situations, and where we ask tables of 6-8 administrators to work through solutions to 2 or 3 scenarios with a time for broader sharing at the end of each.
EVENTS
Fellowship with peers while visiting your host school. Join discussions, tap into keynote speakers and ACCS updates, and get input from others around the table.
SITUATION ROOMS
Experience small group mixers working through real-life and relevant fictional situations.
TWO DAYS
School visits on Day 1; meetings, speeches, situation rooms on Day 2.
CONNECTIONS
This is your opportunity to share experiences, strengthen your school in a local network, and make connections with the men and women working to move classical Christian education forward in your part of the world.
Images from 2021 Summits.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, September 28, 2023
12:00-12:45 pm: Arrival and Check-in – Church Narthex. Refreshments provided – Fellowship Hall.
1:00-1:45 pm: Welcome, Introductions, and Singing – Fellowship Hall
2:15-3:15 pm:
Situation Room 1 – Joel Bius, Fellowship Hall
Situation Room 2 – Emory Latta, Church Library
Situation Room 3 – James Cowart, Church Choir Room
3:15 pm: Check into Hotels
6:00 pm: Fellowship Meal. Attendees who wish to ride school transportation or carpool are asked to meet at the school at 5:30 pm.
Friday, September 29
7:30 am: Arrival and Check-in – Church Narthex
7:45-8:15 am: Continental Breakfast – Fellowship Hall
8:30-9:30 am:
Morning Worship and Devotion – Sanctuary
Keynote Address: Pam McKee, “Faithful Followers – Swimming Upstream or In the Lazy River”
9:45-10:30 am: Classroom Visits
10:30-10:45 am: Break
10:45 am -12:00 pm:
Development: Meredith Toflinski – Fellowship Hall
Roundtable: Admin Structure – Eric DeVrie – Church Choir Room
Roundtable for New Schools: Pam McKee – Church Library (“From Fraudulence to Fruitfulness”)
12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch – Fellowship Hall
1:00-1:15 pm: ACCS Update – Quentin Johnson – Fellowship Hall
1:30-2:45 pm:
Roundtable: Advancement – James Cowart – Fellowship Hall
Roundtable: School Culture – Eric DeVries – Church Choir Room
Roundtable: Admin in Small Schools – Justin Hughes – Church Library
3:00-3:30 pm: Time of Prayer and Dismissal – Fellowship Hall
Suggested Hotels
* Note: Since there is a major sporting event in the area during the summit, please make sure to book your hotel as early as possible.
1. Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort & Spa at Grand National
3700 Robert Trent Jones Trail
Opelika, AL 36801
(334) 741-9292
2. Hampton Inn Suites Opelika I-85 Auburn Area
3000 Capps Way
Opelika, AL 36804
(334) 778-7048
3. La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Opelika
3151 Capps Way
Opelika, AL 36801
(334) 748-9000
4. Home2 Suites by Hilton Opelika/Auburn
3150 Capps Way
Opelika, AL 36801
(334) 737-5155
5. Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Opelika
1701 Frederick Road
Opelika, AL 36801
(334) 528-0716
A Message from Devin O’Donnell
Fellow ACCS Administrators,
Classical Christian education is a mission. It can be challenging and at times overwhelming. This is especially true if you are an administrator. Sometimes you might feel alone. That’s why I am writing to you to encourage you to consider coming to one of the Regional Summits for ACCS administrators being held this fall all over the US.
Ty Fischer, head of Veritas Academy in Lancaster, PA, describes how these meetings began:
A few years ago, here in the Northeast, a few administrators started meeting regularly. We would spend time in prayer, share our problems and concerns, and help each other think through issues that were on the horizon.
At about the same time, we also got together with a number of faculty and staff members from our schools and had a day of training and fellowship. What a blessing it was to be with people who understood the challenges that I was facing. What a blessing it was to have people I could text or call who would be praying with me, laughing with me, and crying with me during Covid.
C. S. Lewis described friendship in “The Four Loves” as that sort of love where people stand side-by-side focused on a common goal. These summits are opportunities to learn together, pray together, work together, and stand side-by side. These sorts of meetings have been a great blessing to me, and I believe that they will be so for you.
I hope you can join us!
A Message from Katharine Savage
Building relationships with colleagues has been key to my growth as a leader. In the midst of all the immediate demands of a school year, it can feel like a detour to take time away to travel and connect with like-minded friends, but in reality it is an investment in the long game. Building a network of regional colleagues opens up new pathways and new knowledge previously unknown or unexplored.
In my region, leaders began by simply committing to meet at least once a year outside of the national conference. We rotated which school would host. Now these leaders are people who I see several times a year and who I text regularly. Leadership can be a lonely and exhausting road but it doesn’t have to be! I am happy to be a part of strengthening the relationships and thereby the growth of our classical Christian movement with these formalized regional events. ~ Katharine Savage, Founder and Head of School at Philadelphia Classical School.