SCHOLÉ Homeschool Center of Harrisburg
Equipping students to be virtuous leaders through a restful pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Serving Families of Students
Ages 3 - 12th Grade
Our culture is crying out for a new generation of leaders who embody Christian virtues and remember the best ideas of the past. Together and at home, we are taking time to contemplate truth, goodness, and beauty from an early age. As our students grow older, we invite them to participate in the Great Conversation of the authors and thinkers who have shaped our world. We challenge our students not just to take all this in, but to articulate what they’ve learned, to craft solid arguments, and write and speak persuasively. Our students graduate with strong writing skills, resilient character, and the ability to interact with diverse worldviews.
This is hard work, but as a community of Christian parents, we believe this kind of education is a critical component of raising our children to be disciples of Christ. Alone, we could never give our kids the rich feast of ideas and learning experiences they share at Scholé. So we pool our time and talents as a cooperative (co-op, for short) of homeschool parents.
Scholé Homeschool Center of Harrisburg is just one of a growing movement of classical Christian schools and co-ops across the world that seeks to launch a new generation of well-grounded disciples into the future.
Our Educational Philosophy
We are a community of Christian homeschooling families seeking to provide a beautiful classical education for our children. Our approach has also been influenced by the writings and ideas of Charlotte Mason. By modeling a love for learning about the world God has made, our goal is to instill the desire to seek what is true, good, and beautiful. In the midst of our academic focus, we want to foster in our children the virtues of humility, courage, perseverance, love, and temperance—the prerequisites for being a true student. The word scholé comes from Greek and means “restful learning.” We believe academic work can be both challenging and balanced without being frenetic, monotonous, or stressful. We hope to allow for undistracted time to study the things that are most worthwhile. As Christians, we place our trust in Jesus, the Good Shepherd, as the Source of wisdom and the Guide in our learning journey.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Kristi Book
Director of Scholé
As director, Kristi coordinates the rest of the leadership committee to ensure that the Scholé mission is fulfilled. She shares her love of learning by teaching in the Grammar School, and this year she’s teaching a Government class for high schoolers, as well!
Dulci Brubaker
Upper School Director
Dulci leads the Upper School, including teacher support and student involvement. A homeschool graduate herself, she values the opportunity that homeschooling provides to focus her time and energy on the formation and nurture of the whole person. Her idea of fun is delving into time-honored literature and poetry with teenagers.
Jessica Margeson
Grammar School Director
Jessica coordinates and supports Grammar School teachers. She maintains tone and discipline and oversees the functioning of the Grammar School on co-op days. Jessica enjoys learning alongside her children, receiving a classical education the second time around. She loves connecting with kids, particularly over great books and poetry.
Melanie Kopano
Pre-Grammar School Director
Melanie oversees and coordinates Pre-Grammar teachers. She maintains order and discipline and manages the Pre-Grammar school on co-op days. She firmly believes that when the seeds of meaningful truth, playful wonder, and delight in learning are planted amongst our youngest learners, beautiful fruit will follow for years to come!
Building Partnership
As we have grown, we have discerned the need for both a larger space and a strong relationship with a local church committed to Christian education. We have found a partner in Living Hope Church of Middletown, Pa., where we hope to build an education wing. This will become both our new home and an enlarged ministry space for Living Hope’s ministries to families and children.
“My favorite part of Scholé was that the teachers were focused on developing students as whole people, rather than simply ensuring that we succeeded in their particular class. They encouraged me to evaluate what I was learning and consider how what I learned would become an aspect of what I believed, and thus influence who I was as a person.”
— Anna, a college sophomore majoring in psychology and global studies
“We found that learning and teaching with a co-op helped provide needed structure for both myself as teacher and for Nick as a student. Scholé was a place and a group where students and teachers could dive deep in various subjects, undergirded by love for God, each other, and the subject, and learn together. It has been a place for joyful, whole-hearted learning.”
— Carolyn, a parent of one graduate and two high school students
“Scholé enabled us to still be very involved in our children’s education, yet to have assistance in areas that we did not feel as able to teach. We appreciated that Scholé operated in the classical tradition by teaching a foundation of knowledge in the elementary years as well as subjects such as Latin, logic, and rhetoric which have been abandoned in many other settings. Classes and teachers at Scholé sought to cultivate truth, goodness, beauty, and piety as well as a connectedness and cohesiveness of knowledge in Christ.”
— Jody, a parent of two graduates
“My experiences with Scholé prepared me well to take initiative an work independently throughout my college career. I appreciate being able to bring a strong background in written communication—something that can easily go unpracticed in the natural sciences—to my studies. My teachers and mentors within Scholé consistently emphasized to me the interconnected nature of every subject—a mindset that has proved to be essential in my field and has helped me engage with ecology through an interdisciplinary lens.”
— Teresa, a college senior studying forestry and environmental science
“The Scholé community is quite unique in the way it nurtures the development of the parents as teachers. Many hours of online teacher development, peer observations, and in-service training provide the tools for teaching well and the shared knowledge base for a cohesive educational experience”
— Vanessa, a parent of two graduates
“My education has served me by helping me to see how the world works through a Christian worldview and it has helped me make educated decisions.”
— Nick, a graduate who recently completed an internship at Wycliffe Bible Translators’ JAARS Center, in their Aviation Department, doing research & development work
EMAIL
scholehch@gmail.com
ADDRESS
Harrisburg, PA
