Photo by Bruce Mars Many, many times during the eighteen years of starting, growing and managing two private K-12 Christian schools, time...

Photo by Annie Spratt. “Many mothers and fathers return each evening from their paid jobs only to serve as homework monitors, a position...

How is that for a catchy title? But first, that is our school board Andy, Diana and I along with Eric from the Maricopa Chamber at our...

The question is "Why"? Why did we use part of our meager start-up funds to join the Association of Christian Schools International? Think...

Hello. This is part two of ways to help you pay for your children being educated at Maricopa Christian Academy. This blog will focus on...

Arizona has amazing and supportive ways to help support parents in choosing a private school option to educate their children. One of...

Photo by Anna Earl Good news! We do not have parent volunteers in the classrooms at Maricopa Christian Academy. But I do very much want...

Photo by Jorge Aguilar Sorry, but I still can't figure out how to put the inverted question mark in front of the sentence from my laptop,...

Photo by Vitolda Klein I love being on field trips with my students. Yea, the time is educational and all that. But, all field trips have...

Photo by Dries Augustyn I am sure you have heard of one-to-one computing. The idea that every student has a computer assigned to him or...

Photo by Jess Baily How do we justify an educational system that ignores competence and achievement, and utilizes chronological age as...

Photo by Michael Dziedzig Here is the beginning quote from an article by Thomas Lifson in The American Thinker. This is the path of...

Photo by Alef Vinicius “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against...

Photo by CDC "Much of what we know about class sizes comes from an experiment called Project STAR (also known as the Tennessee Study)....

This is me, Tim Ihms, the founder, headmaster, teacher, athletic director and lead custodian here at Maricopa Christian Academy. This is...

Photo by Jessica Lewis I am sorry, but trying to find a photograph let alone a quote about multigrade grade classrooms without referring...

My last high school I managed had over 65% of its graduates going to science or engineering as their major declared for their first year...

Photo by Zach Vessels Less than 100%. Over 50% for sure. And probably closer to 90%. That is the percentage of dads who made a statement...

Photo by Aaron Burden “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons...

Photo by Ben McCloud "There is only so much a student can learn by reading a book or attending a lecture. These types of passive learning...