We are delighted to share with you that we finally found a wonderful artist & designer to clean up and finalize our Paideia Northwest logo!
Sarah at Doorpost Designs did a beautiful job helping our logo portray our vision and capture a clean feminine artistry that my quickly handsketched version last summer couldn’t quite nail.
Please check out Sarah’s beautiful work in her shop and follow her stories on instagram for how-to and fun information!
WHY PAIDEIA? /pʌɪˈdʌɪə/ pie-DAY-uh According to the Greek, paideia is a word which encapsulates the entirety of one’s educational input, learning system, and cultural influence. It is a word which has no direct, concise English equivalent. Did you know that it is this very word which Paul uses in Ephesians 6:4 when he instructs fathers…
Have you ever wondered who works to put on Paideia Northwest events, or where the idea came from in the first place? Amy Sloan from Homeschool Conversations with Humility and Doxology interviewed Paideia Northwest founder Melissa Cummings in 2021, and you can watch the vlog version right here if you want to know more about…
After much dizzying excitement and planning, it was really thrilling to reveal the announcement yesterday for our upcoming conference for moms, Courage for the Daily, which will feature Mystie Winckler, Adam Andrews, and Rachel Jankovic as keynote speakers. It will be an entire Saturday of filling up your vessel, focused on how we as moms need…
If you are interested in reading more about paideia, particularly how it relates to Christian education, we recommend the following: Podcasts on Paideia from The Scholé Sisters The Paideia of God by Douglas Wilson Classical Education and the Homeschool by Callihan, Jones, and Wilson On Secular Education by R.L. Dabney Recovering the Lost Tools of…
We are delighted to sponsor Andrew Pudewa coming to Spokane in November 2019 to bring two days of IEW workshops to families in our NW region! Last summer, I traveled to the opposite corner of our state to take two of my children to IEW workshops… they enjoyed them so much, they basically begged me…
Have you taken the time to survey your children about things like truth vs. tradition when it comes to your family’s holiday observances? Specifically asking what they actually remember year by year? Have you ever giggled at their responses or given yourself a face-palm for what they say? Melissa from Paideia Northwest and Jenn from…
