About the Christiana Homeschool Academy

Christiana Homeschool Academy is a classical, Christ-centered classroom based program for homeschoolers. If you would be interested in a two day a week structured program, which offers group learning for your children, please read on. It provides the “best of both worlds” of homeschooling and private school education.  The following is a brief overview of the CHA program.

In the Beginning

We began as a group of families who ran this program for the first time in 2001-2002 as a pilot program on a cooperative basis.  We had great success!  The kids and the moms grew and learned faster than we had ever imagined possible!  Happily, we decided to open the program to the public based on the facility we procured, as well as the tremendous fruits we experienced during that first year. 

Very Christ-centered in nature, we are Catholics and Evangelicals working together to produce Godly leaders for our society.  Our common beliefs unite us at school, while our individual doctrines are studied at home.  The program of education follows the Classical Methodology largely taken from ideas in The Well-Trained Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer and The Thomas Jefferson Education, by Oliver DeMille.  Our curriculum is varied and pulls from what we believe to be the best on the market from both Christian and secular sources.  We choose the Classical approach because it will best prepare our children to be articulate, well educated, and respected members of society who will truly make a positive impact on the world because of their faith and their training.

The Classical methodology is based on the Trivium, which is made up of three distinct developmental stages of education.  The Trivium is comprised of the Grammar stage, the Dialectic (or logic) stage, and the Rhetoric stage, and is implemented at Christiana.

Click here to read more about the Trivium

Formation of the Student

At CHA we seek to form the whole child, not just the academics.  By building an environment which is at once Christian, and academically stimulating, we hope to develop leaders who are self motivated and will effect positive changes in our culture at large.  By imbuing them with values and morals which are commensurate with a Christian worldview, in an intellectual environment, we will be giving them a gift for life, which will serve them, their future families and the societies they live in, immeasurably.  Our program includes not only intramural sports after school, but organized outreach projects to develop a sense of mission and stewardship of the gifts they have been given.  Field trips to tie in with current studies are organized several times a year, and families are encouraged to participate in several family activities throughout the year in order to promote a sense of family and fun.  Our goal at CHA is to produce wholesome activities and learning situations to meet the needs of minds, hearts, souls and bodies of the students and their families.

A final factor to the integral formation of the student is that of the involvement of the parents.  Because children have differing abilities at varying stages of their education, CHA parents as the primary educators, have the flexibility to modify homework in order for each child to be successful.  The parents, who have the final responsibility for their children’s formation and education play an integral role in making CHA a successful program.  Those students whose parents are invested in the mission of raising leaders for Christ according to a classical methodology will be confidently equipped to build the Kingdom of God with excellence.  Parents who are constantly in formation themselves, by taking opportunities to read,  learn and grow are positive role models for their children and reap the best fruits.   Our hope at CHA is to not only support, but challenge and stimulate the parents in addition to the students, to be the best parents and mentors they can be for each of their children in all of their many stages of life. 

We believe that the comprehensive program that we offer at CHA is truly the “best of both worlds”!

For more information on “What is a Classical Education”, please visit the following website and read “Recovering The Lost Tools of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers. 
www.logosschool.com/files/LostTools.asp