Professional Development They Won’t Stop Talking About
Through talks, workshops, discussions, and fellowship, a visit from Dr. Johnson feeds your faculty and parents with deep, considered reflection on wonder, imagination, truth, goodness, and beauty
Public Lectures
Invite parents, faculty, board members, and donors to classically grounded reflection on the nature and destiny of human persons and the magical nature of the world we inhabit.
Faculty Workshops
Gather your faculty to study a text together, to reflect on a theme important to your school, to discuss pedagogy, to dive deep into a piece of music, or to explore a theological or philosophical question
After Hours
Extend the visit with dinner with your board, an evening reception for faculty, or meet and greet with stakeholders, all marked by wide-ranging, engaging, and stimulating conversation
Dispatches: Notes from the Front Lines of Classical Education
While each visit is unique, and the talks I bring are tailored to that specific site, here are some excerpts from talks I have given at schools around the country, which provide a preview of the kind of content you can expect.
Love and Learning: Education as a Path to Wonder
I delivered this talk to parents and faculty at the Cambridge School of Dallas on February 4, 2025. In it, I argue that since the world is a place of wonder, we must educate our children to be a people of wonder.
Curiosity Killed Ignorance: The Secret to Lifelong Learning
This talk was delivered to faculty and parents at the Classical School of Dallas on February 3, 2025. It is an extended argument that curiosity is the chief intellectual virtue.
Liturgical Learning
A conversation between Junius, Christine Perrin, and Christopher Perrin about the rhythms of learning.
All Things Wise and Wonderful
This is an article I wrote for the Classical Difference magazine about helping children to grow into their sense of wonder.
Testimonials
Here’s what schools I have spoken at have to say about the visit:
It is a tremendous blessing to know there is someone I can rely on and trust completely to help build a truly classical program! To have Dr. Johnson at our professional development was not just a blessing to the school, it was a blessing to me personally. I could relax knowing that, with him at the wheel, the faculty were learning from a master.
Peach Smith, koinonia academy, new jersey
Dr. Johnson reminded parents and teachers of our true nature as human beings: that we are made for immortality, to be sanctified in Christ for eternal life. In his encouraging and challenging talk, Dr. Johnson gave me new ways to approach Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy with my senior students, and he helped our parents see that our role is to form our children in Christlikeness. Junius’s talk was surprising in the best way. He defamiliarized some of the most familiar concepts in the Christian vocabulary (for example, sanctification as a mode of being rather than just fighting against sin) and reminded us that our task as parents and educators is to invite students to ‘come and see’ God’s good world and His good and true character.
Jonathan Callis, Westminster academy, tennessee
At the end of a long day or stressful week, another professional development meeting is not always welcomed by faculty. Junius Johnson offers soul-refreshing words for faculty audiences, who need to be reminded that the love of their subject is key to capturing students’ hearts. His passion for the process of teaching draws you and inspires you to fully engage students, serving them as a muse for learning. Teaching as you ought, out of love, makes for the purposeful enculturation of students.
Alison Moffatt, Live oak classical school, texas
Junius Johnson’s visit to our school was an incredible blessing and experience. His expert knowledge of how education springs from the arc of the Western tradition was combined with his incredible ability to connect with our teachers on a personal level. Many of my teachers told me it felt as if Junius had been a member of our community for years. Going into February and the doldrums of the school year, the visit was perfect to lift the spirits of the faculty and reunite us around the vision of the Classical and Christian traditions.