Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

This page features original research on teacher education, analyses of curricula, and resources to ensure our classrooms are places of respect and sincere inquiry.

Circe Institute Teaching Apprenticeship 

Teachers can improve their teaching skills by participating in this apprenticeship where they receive mentorship and delve into classical education.

Institute for Classical Education

The Institute's mission is to promote civic and personal virtue through the strengthening and expansion of classical, liberal arts education.

• VIRTUE
  • A publication that emphasizes how the good, true, and beautiful shape the lives of children in the classroom.
  • Find a Classical Education Academy

Institute for Catholic Liberal Education

The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education inspires and equips Catholic educators to renew today’s Catholic schools by drawing on the Church’s tradition of education, which frees teachers and students for the joyful pursuit of faith, wisdom, and virtue.

• Workshops and Consultation Services
• Find an ICLE school near you
• Programs for school leaders
  • 2020 National Conference
  • School Leaders Forum
  • High School Leaders Forum
  • Spirit and Craft of Teaching
  • Academic Retreat for Teachers

Society for Classical Learning

The Society for Classical Learning exists to foster human flourishing by making classical Christian education thrive.

• Resources for Educators
  • 2020 Annual conference
  • Cultivating Soulful Mathematicians
  • 2020 Alcuin West Retreat
  • Head of School and Board Symposium

Bill of Rights Institute

The Bill of Rights Institute is non-profit educational organization that works to engage, educate, and empower individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society.

• Student Programs
  • Constitutional Academy
  • AP Prep Webinars
  • Student Resources
• Educator Resources
  • Professional Development
  • Institute Curricula
  • Free Online U.S. History Resource
  • Founding Documents and Resources
  • Documents of Freedom
    • A comprehensive digital course on History, Government & Economic
  • Voices of Freedom
    • A free digital storehouse featuring twelve of BRI’s best primary source-based lesson plans.

Arts of Liberty Project

The Arts of Liberty Project is an online, interdisciplinary resource for teachers and students of the liberal arts and liberal education. Our resources include lesson plans for entire courses the classical liberal arts of logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy as well as study guides for great books on mathematics, natural science, literature, history, politics, philosophy, and theology.

• Liberal Arts Courses
  • “In the Liberal Arts section of the website, we have lesson plans for complete, one- or two-semester courses on the liberal arts.”
  • These course include subjects such as Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry and Arithmetic, and Astronomy
• Study Guides
  • “Unlike our lesson plans on the liberal arts, which are organized into courses, our resources on the great books take the form of study guides for independent reading or reading as a group.”
  • Politics
    • The study guides focus on the highly influential political writings of authors such as Cicero, Machiavelli, the U.S. Founders, Aquinas, and Epictetus.
  • Other study guides include Theology, Philosophy, History, Literature, and Natural Science.

St John’s College

St. John’s offers a certificate in the liberal arts for teachers. The certificate is completed over two summer semesters.

• Liberal Arts Education Certificate (for teachers)

University of Dallas

Classical Education Graduate Program aspires to form educators as master teachers. Students in the program explore the historical, philosophic, literary, aesthetic, rhetorical, and scientific roots of the liberal arts in the Western tradition.

• Classical Education Graduate Program
  • Master of Arts with Classical Education Concentration
  • Master of Humanities with Classical Education Concentration
  • Certificate in Classical Learning

Classical Academic Press

A program designed to prepare teachers for the classroom, mentoring, and administration.

• ClassicalU
• Ambrose Curriculum Guide for K-12 students

The Templeton Honors College at Eastern University

A master’s program designed for teachers at classical schools. The program is completed in two years.

• Templeton’s Master of Arts in Teaching
• The Summer Scholars Program
  • A summer program for high school students exposing them to liberal education.

Arizona State University: School of Civics and Economic Thought and Leadership

ASU undergraduates can major in this program. The university also offers a Masters of Arts (Fall 2020) which is designed for teachers at classical schools.

• Master of Arts in Classical Liberal Education and Leadership
• Civic Leadership Institute (for high school students)
  • Constitutional Rights and Liberties Program
  • Abraham Lincoln and American Principles Program
• The Arizona Constitution Project
  • This project aims to help Arizonans better understand how their state constitution works in conjunction with U.S. federalism.
• The Civic Discourse Project