Dogwood Classical Academy

04/12/2024

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺.

As you are aware, for several years we have been working diligently to secure a building for Dogwood Classical Academy. The Charter School Review Board met on Monday, March 11, 2024 and approved our request to delay the school opening until 2025 as we persist in our search.

It is important for our school leadership to create a school that preserves parents’ freedom and responsibility to educate their children well. We have experienced unexpected obstacles to opening Dogwood Classical Academy within the initial time frame. We can understand that many of you share in our disappointment. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused you and your family in the school planning process. We want to assure you that we are still committed to offering an excellent classical education option to your family, and we look forward to partnering with you more fully in the coming days! Thank you for your persevering support.

10/17/2023

Our Board of Directors met this past weekend for our annual retreat. We continue to pursue property leads in Cabarrus County. Our goal continues to be opening a K-12 tuition-free charter school where students learn through traditional American classical education with an emphasis on civic virtue. Thank you for your ongoing support.

07/04/2023

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies’ separation from Great Britain. 🇺🇸

𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸? On April 12, 1776, North Carolina became the first of the colonies to officially call for independence from Great Britain. The resolution became known as the "Halifax Resolves" and that is why April 12, 1776 is included on the NC flag. ❤️🤍💙

06/20/2023

We are our founding Head of School! For more information, visit www.dogwoodacademy.org/careers.

06/14/2023

Today we celebrated Flag Day with the heroes at Richard's Coffee Shop. Thank you Mayor Miles Atkins for leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance, Mr. Gary for teaching us flag etiquette, Mr. Bob for our tour and Ms. April for graciously agreeing to partner with us for this event!

06/01/2023

Join us as we celebrate 🇺🇸Flag Day 🇺🇸 with the wonderful folks at ! June 14 | 11 am

❤️ flag etiquette demonstration
🤍 museum tour
💙 read-aloud

Free to attend. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

05/11/2023

The curriculum used in Hillsdale-affiliated schools is content rich, balanced, and strong across the four disciplines of math, science, literature, and history. Each of these are essential to a liberal arts based-curriculum, which at its core focuses on studying humanity and the world around us from a variety of perspectives. In the Hillsdale curriculum, students study at minimum physics, biology, and chemistry in their upper school science classes. Chemistry in particular explores the smallest, most fundamental level of ourselves and the physical world around us. To dive deeper into the question of why we study chemistry, we highly recommend the new free Hillsdale College online course, “The Great Principles of Chemistry.” https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/chemistry

04/25/2023

Dogwood Classical Academy's core virtues are compassion, courage, gratitude, humility, integrity, justice, perseverance and prudence. 📜

Dogwood is a candidate Member School of the Barney Charter School Initiative (BCSI). BCSI is an outreach program of Hillsdale College devoted to the revitalization of public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools. This initiative promotes a model of education that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, offers a firm grounding in civic virtue, and cultivates moral character.

04/19/2023

A fantastic opportunity for the students at another Barney Charter School. We are looking forward to using our school community to honor local veterans. Thank you for your service and sacrifice! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

03/29/2023

Did you know? Cabarrus County boasts the first documented gold find in the US at Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site!

HCA is beginning several new featured posts on specific days each week, including "Spotlight Saturday"! In today's Spotlight, we're focusing on a local favorite, Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site. For those newer to the area, you may not realize that Cabarrus County's own Reed Gold Mine is the site of the first documented gold find in the United States.

The gold was discovered by John Reed (Johannes Reith), a Hessian soldier who left the British army and settled in this area near the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.

According to their own website, "The life of farmer John Reed would have been long forgotten had it not been for a chance event one Sunday in 1799. On that day, Reed's son Conrad found a large yellow rock in Little Meadow Creek on the Reed farm in Cabarrus County. This rock reportedly weighed 17 pounds and for three years was used as a doorstop at the Reed house.

In 1802 a Fayetteville jeweler identified the gold nugget. He purchased it for the asked price of $3.50—one-tenth of one percent of its true value."

Reed Gold Mine is a great place to visit, especially on a tight budget. Admission to the park is free, but guided underground tours and gold panning are optional fun paid activities.

Reed Gold Mine is located at:
9621 Reed Mine Rd
Midland, N.C. 28107

Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Sunday, Monday, and most major holidays
Admission is free, Fee for underground guided tours

Gold Panning Fees
Panning is available Tuesday through Saturday only between April and October 31. Tickets are $3.00 plus tax for ages 8+.

Check out more about this historic landmark at:
https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/reed-gold-mine

03/24/2023

"But the leading minds in classical education are fixated by the future as much as the past. Pitching a humanistic alternative to both progressive and state-sponsored school reform efforts, established players like the southwestern Great Hearts network and Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative are attracting more families and diversifying their offerings. With millions of students leaving traditional public schools since the beginning of the pandemic, classical education providers are attempting to step into the breach with not only a content-rich model, but also a worldview extending deep into the foundations of (another phrase that gets used frequently) Western civilization."

“We need to return to a better way of doing things,” one scholar says. But as it looks to the past, the movement faces distinctly modern headaches

03/17/2023

We are ! The Board of Directors is currently accepting applications for our founding Head of School. For more information and application instructions, please visit www.dogwoodacademy.org/careers.