Greetings, Live Oak Owls!
Like you, the Live Oak leadership has been monitoring the impact of COVID on our Family Orientation, scheduled for May 9. It is now clear that our civic responsibility requires continued avoidance of large gatherings.
In lieu of an in-person New Family Orientation, we are preparing a series of eight informative modules—GHLO 101—to be released every Friday over the course of the next two months.
Together, these modules will cover a wide range of topics from the pragmatic to the philosophical and will provide an overview of what it means to be part of the Great Hearts Live Oak community.
In our last newsletter, I included the Ephebic Oath of Athens, an oath which commits Athenians to the preservation and magnification of that which is good and noble for the polis and its citizens. It is worth returning to a portion of the Oath:
We will fight for the ideals and Sacred Things of the City... We will revere and obey the City's laws... We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty.
At Great Hearts Live Oak, we too have a purpose, an identity, and particular habits and activities. If you ask any Great Hearts teacher about our mission, you are likely to hear some version of the following:
We are passionately committed to cultivating the hearts and minds of students through the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness.
Our success depends on a shared understanding of a classical liberal arts education, high expectations for ourselves and our students, and a commitment to a set of structures and behaviors that ensure the safety and well-being of the members of our community.
Becoming aligned in our mission and acquainted with these structures and expectations is the purpose of GHLO 101. The topic of the first module will be
Campus Operations
and it will include important information on several essential structures and procedures for the safe and effective operation of the academy. I look forward to this prelude to our journey as Live Oak Owls!
May you soar on wings of wisdom and strength,
Headmaster Audelo
