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Tracey Leary

Tracey Leary

about the teacher

I am a 30-year resident of Alabama, where I homeschooled my three boys. For most of our homeschooling years, we were involved with a large homeschool co-op, where I served as a director and teacher, and complied the upper school curriculum. I have degrees in music and English from Huntingdon College, a Masters degree in Education from Auburn University at Montgomery, and am currently in the doctoral program for humanities at Faulkner University. In my spare time, I enjoy sewing and reading.

Teaching Philosophy

To paraphrase Charlotte Mason, I believe that what a student knows is not as important as how much a student cares about what he or she knows. To that end, I believe that a quality education for students consists both of reading works that inspire and challenge them and providing a format for them to discuss those works in a group setting with a teacher who is herself inspired and challenged by them. As an educator, my desire is that no student feel intimidated by the Great Books. Rather, I want to help students to see first and foremost, that the reason these books have endured for centuries and are still being read today is not …

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Publications

Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant
The Dragon of False Memory
Klara and the Sun
Hagiography of an AI
Published in the Circe Insitute's Forma Journal, Winter 2022
Miss Prim and John Senior
Originally published in the The Consortium: A Journal of Classical Education, Volume 1: Issue 1 as *The Awakening of Miss Prim and John Senior: An Embodiment of the Reclamation of Culture in Early Education*
The Chief End of a Homeschool Co-op
Poetic Knowledge in the Dialectic Classroom
Story-based Progymnasmata

Education

M.Ed.
Auburn University at Montgomery - 1997
Elementary Education
B.A.
Huntingdon College - 1994
Music and English