Insights

Welcome back and welcome home, Lions! It has been a true joy to see students, teachers, and parents on campus! Our goal this year is to spend time exploring and strengthening that which is rooted within. 

The core value focus for the 2021-22 school year is discipleship. This fits well with the educational focus of social and emotional learning (SEL). The teachers have enjoyed learning more about SEL in education while recognizing the natural connection between practices taught to educators regarding SEL and the principles taught in the Word of God that we will weave into our discipleship focus. Most of you have heard us discuss the Logos Prep philosophy of discipleship. Those interested in reviewing our approach to discipleship can find the document here. 

This year, as we connect social and emotional learning with discipleship, we will focus on teaching from the Word of God. More specifically, we will focus on the teachings of Jesus. It is Jesus who tells us in Mark 12:29-31 that love is the greatest commandment.

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

As you can see from our philosophy of discipleship, love is the first priority when working to impact hearts. Heart will be an overarching theme throughout the year. Specifically, we will focus on the hidden person of the heart. Proverbs 27:19 reminds us that, “as in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.” Within the hearts of our students, we want to hide the Word of God, the truth about their identity, true wisdom, biblical knowledge, and the strength of the Holy Spirit. We want to see the practice of emotional regulation, and positive social skills while also teaching students to engage in their community both near and far. Please join us by memorizing, as a family, scripture sent home from school and discussing both the biblical integration in your students' classrooms and the topics we will share here over the course of the year. 

We are excited to see what this year has hidden within as we work to cultivate the hidden person of the heart in each of our students and ourselves. 

Tammy McIlvoy
Head of School
Logos Preparatory Academy