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The Valor Institute is honored to host poet and critic Dana Gioia for an evening lecture exploring the vital role of poetry in education on Friday, February 21st at Valor North Austin. Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet, writer, and arts advocate. His lecture promises to inspire educators, students, and lovers of the arts to embrace the enchantment of poetry as a pathway to deeper human flourishing. We are grateful for this opportunity to host Dana Gioia. Please consider joining Valor Education for this free evening lecture! Further details in the comments below. 

The Valor Institute is honored to host poet and critic Dana Gioia for an evening lecture exploring the vital role of poetry in education on Friday, February 21st at Valor North Austin. Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet, writer, and arts advocate. His lecture promises to inspire educators, students, and lovers of the arts to embrace the enchantment of poetry as a pathway to deeper human flourishing. We are grateful for this opportunity to host Dana Gioia. Please consider joining Valor Education for this free evening lecture! Further details in the comments below. 

“To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.” - Josef Pieper   The Valor Institute is very excited to announce Dr. Jonathan Sanford, President of The University of Dallas, as our keynote speaker on Plato’s Apology for our annual Winter Symposium. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Buffalo in 2001 and later served as a philosophy professor and associate vice president of academics at the Franciscan University of Steubenville for 13 years. Dr. Sanford began his time at the University of Dallas as Dean of Constantin College of Liberal Arts in 2015, was elevated to Provost in 2018, and became President in 2021.   Dr. Sanford has published widely on foundational questions of moral philosophy, including the critically acclaimed book Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics, as well as a work in progress on virtue and education.   In addition to his vital work at the University of Dallas, Dr. Sanford is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hildebrand Project, a member of Legatus International, and a Fellow of the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture.    The Winter Symposium this Friday is an important time of true leisure with our Valor community. We will meet together for shared meals, rich seminar discussions on Plato's Apology, inspiring speeches, and a festive social to follow.

The Valor Institute looks forward to hosting our annual Winter Symposium at Valor North Austin on Friday, January 31, 2025. True celebrations and festivals are not to be understood simply as days without work but instead as days set aside for participating in the ars liberalis, or “in the realm of activity that is meaningful in itself." Our daily labors are worthy and honorable, but man is made for more than work.   This is an important day of true leisure with our Valor Education community. We will meet together for shared meals, rich seminar discussions, inspiring speeches, and a festive social to follow.

Recently, all of the second-grade classes at our five Valor Education schools honored their study of D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. The photos shown are from Valor San Antonio, where students donned togas, made leaf wreaths while listening to Greek music, crafted a cardboard labyrinth, created paintings of vases and decorated them with ancient designs, and snacked on honeycomb, olives, and pita bread. Students also played a mythology-themed math game, built an acropolis with graham crackers and marshmallows, and received a Greek medal to end the day. This is just one of the many ways that we cultivate wisdom through wonder for our students, faculty, and families.

Find your next adventure with Valor! As a teacher at one of Valor’s classical schools, you can foster a deep love of learning in your students while working within a supportive team environment. Our intentional school culture and faculty formation program equip and support teachers within a community of friendship. At Valor, you can pour into others as others pour into you. We are excited to begin conversations for roles in the 2025-26 academic year. Reach out today! https://lnkd.in/gftvwqYx

The foundation at Valor Leander is poured! We're grateful for the hard work and dedication as we guide Valor Education students at this campus to grow in wisdom through wonder.

“Once well underground, you know exactly where you are. Nothing can happen to you, and nothing can get at you. You're entirely your own master and you don't have to consult anybody or mind what they say. Things go on all the same overhead, and you let 'em, and don't bother about 'em. When you want to, up you go, and there the things are, waiting for you.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”  ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!’ ‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then some day, some day long hence, jog home here if you will, when the cup has been drained and the play has been played, and sit down by your quiet river with a store of goodly memories for company.”  ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows