Coram Deo Academy Ceremonies Attended by Over 1,500

Coram Deo Academy conducts annual end of the school year awards assemblies and graduation exercises at each of its schools. With Mrs. Charlotte Campbell presiding and Rodney Marshall giving a brief address, the Flower Mound Lower School presented completion awards to students in K-4 and medals to students in grades five and six with cumulative year-end average in the A range. Five hundred students, mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers attended the Carrollton School Assembly where students received the same awards. Additionally Mr. Joseph Fox, School Director presented each mother of an enrolled student with a long stemmed red rose in appreciation for outstanding support at home. The Flower Mound Upper School presented Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude to a high percentage of its two hundred thirty students. High School students also competed throughout the school year for recognition as outstanding athletes, artists and distinguished students. Megan Duran and Hannah Spalding and Josh Hicks and Kevin Minuch received Outstanding Athlete awards while Hannah Chupp, poet, Abigail Marshall, visual artist and B. J. Schaefer, classical guitarist each received the prized Artes Elegantes award. Caleb McKinnon, Natalie Price and Bryan Wakefield received the Academy’s highest annual honor in the form of the Distinguished Student Award. Twenty seniors walked the platform as they culminated their high school education. Dr. Ryan Brown, Professor of Social Psychology, University, presented the Commencement Address to the six hundred that gathered while School Director Bill Rector presented diplomas. Valedictorian Lindsey Sobolik and Salutatorian Natalie Price exhorted the assembly. The senior class presented an original painting by Dianne Walker-Gladney, CDA studio artist also well known for gallery presentations of her own works throughout the central south. For a list of award recipients and for a slide show of the Class of 2005 [click here].

CDA Plans Awards Ceremonies

Coram Deo Academy will host awards ceremonies for all three schools in May.
The North Dallas School will hold its awards ceremony on Tuesday May 10, 1pm at the Carrollton campus.
The Flower Mound Lower School will hold awards ceremonies for Monday/Wedneday students on May 9 and for Tuesday/Thursday students on May 10. Both ceremonies will take place at the Lower School campus at 10:30am.
The Flower Mound Upper School will hold it awards ceremony and graduation exercises on Saturday May 14, 11am. Ryan P. Brown, Ph.D. will deliver the Commencement Address at the ceremony. Dr. Brown is professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oklahoma and a founder and acting administrator of Veritas Classical Academy in Norman Oklahoma.

Flower Mound campuses of Coram Deo Academy (K-12) achieve candidate status for accreditation

Last Friday, April 22nd, CDA hosted a visit from Dianne Shaw, a representative of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. SACS is the largest accrediting institution in the world and, since 1895, has been helping member schools to improve student learning. Dianne made it clear that her role as a SACS representative was to provide expert support as we pursue our own goals and realize our own vision. She repeatedly stressed that all our efforts at accreditation should be mission-driven; driven, that is, not by SACS' mission, but by CDA's own high ambition to educate students classically, embracing an historic Christian worldview, all done in the presence of God. Herself a former Christian school administrator, Dianne understands our commitment to educating for the glory of God, and she was markedly impressed by the embodiment of the school's vision in the teachers and students she met.
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Wichita Creek Congregation Votes to Sell Flower Mound Campus to CDA

Sunday, May 1, The Church at Wichita Creek voted to sell its campus to Coram Deo Academy. One month ago, The Church and The Academy signed a Letter of Intent to Sell/Purchase the campus. The Church then entered a month of prayer and discussion culminating in the positive vote. During the same period, CDA has pursued third party financing, discussed the project with architects, engineers and Town of Flower Mound planning staff, toured the facility with its leadership/management team and reflected on strategies for a phased move to and development of the site. Now it appears probable that the sale will close in about a month. CDA will make necessary improvements in June, move the Lower School this summer and the Upper School at Christmas. For this, we give thanks to God.
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Parental Praise for a Fine Administrator

Mr. Fox,
Thank you for a wonderful first year at Coram Deo Academy! [____] has LOVED school this year and has really blossomed under the strong classical Christian curriculum. I credit you for making him feel so welcomed and loved! From the moment he met you at our parent interview he knew he wanted to go to Coram Deo! You have always been so encouraging and welcoming to him. Thank you for always greeting him with a big smile and a "Good morning" Thank you also for the day when you noticed that he had too many things to carry into school and you offered to carry in his "beloved" football--you have such a wonderful heart!
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