Cyndi McCallister
about the teacher
Originally from south Arkansas, Cyndi McCallister moved to South Carolina to attend Columbia International University where she earned a BA in Biblical Theology and Education in 1985. After homeschooling her three children, she completed the CiRCE Apprenticeship in 2019 and has served as a literature, writing, and rhetoric instructor with CiRCE Academy Online for five years. In 2022, she was trained as a CiRCE consultant and workshop leader. She is currently a graduate student in the MA in Liberal and classical Education program at Belmont Abbey College. Over the past several years, Cyndi has developed a classical Christian teacher apprenticeship in Nigeria, where she serves as the head mentor. She just completed an interview on classical education abroad with FORMA Journal that will appear in the next issue. Cyndi and her husband Karl have three grown children and five grandchildren and live in South Carolina where her husband is a pastor. Her favorite activities are reading to her grandchildren and hiking.
Teaching Philosophy
I began learning about classical Christian education while I was homeschooling our three children. At the beginning of our homeschooling journey, I read For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. These beautiful truths based on Charlotte …