2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025-2026 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off Information

10:35am CDT

A Fine Foundation: 3rd and 4th grade introduction

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT

This session will cover the overarching the goals of the later Grammar years (3rd and 4th grade). Parents will review the Progression book targets for 3rd and 4th grade which encompasses the main learning objectives for this stage. The ancient progymnasmata is introduced in 4th grade as students discover the joy of learning to understand, revise and create effective Fables following the great writers before their time.

Speakers

Stephanie Dace

Campus Coordinator-Cypress Campus, Second Baptist School University-Model

Mrs. Dace has taught 3rd grade for 19 years. She has worked in coordinating roles with student teachers, provided professional development for teachers in her district, and served her first year at SBSUM Cypress in 2023-2024. Mrs. Dace has served as the Director of Awanas, Director... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT
L330

1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade
Audience 4th Grade

10:35am CDT

Building the Glossary for Greatness: 1st and 2nd grade introduction

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT

Worship Center

Every truth that is memorized to song or chant in Grammar school sticks for life. SBSUM has carefully crafted our Progression Book to help parents and classroom teachers to focus on the main components of the developmental stage. Come and Learn about the value of startin 1st and 2nd grade right as your child enters the Classical Trivium.

Speakers

Sara Paradoski

Faculty

After earning a degree in Elementary Education, Sara worked in education for many years, both public and classical. She has taught several different grades, including 1st, 2nd 3rd and 5th. Through the professional development on campus and at home, Sara has completed the requirements... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT
Worship Center

1st-4th Grade

Company 1st Grade
Audience 2nd Grade

12:30pm CDT

All About 3rd Grade

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT

L327

This session is a thorough review of third grade curriculum and how to navigate your lesson plan and materials at home. Parents are encouraged to attend even if they have taught a child enrolled at SBSUM in this grade level in the past, as currciculum is enhanced and revised every year.

Speakers

Rebecca Stringfellow

Faculty

Becky has taught multiple subjects in a variety of grade levels in both public and private school settings. Last year was her first year at SBUSM and she taught 3rd grade. Her experience, education, testimony and passion have helped shaped her into the educator she is and ability... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
L327

1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade

12:30pm CDT

All About 4th Grade

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT

L330

This session is a thorough review of fourth grade curriculum and how to navigate your lesson plan and materials at home. Parents are encouraged to attend even if they have taught a child enrolled at SBSUM in this grade level in the past, as currciculum is enhanced and revised every year.

Speakers

Ligia Castro

Dean of Lower School - Memorial

Ligia has more than seven years of teaching experience; she has taught Spanish for lower school grades, 1st grade, and 3rd grade. She is part of our academic team contributing in curriculum development for our lower school grades. Ligia also teaches in our upper school; she has taught... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
L330

1st-4th Grade

Company 4th Grade

12:30pm CDT

Breaking Down the Rules of Spelling

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT

L 243 Jump Theater - 2nd floor L Building

This session presents an in-depth overview of our philosophy as well as explicit training instruction for spelling at SBSUM. Rather than memorizing a finite list of sight words, students are taught foundational phonetics and spelling rules that will equip them to independently decipher and spell every word in the English language. Come and learn about the curriculum we use in the spelling years, and how to instruct your student in our materials at home.

Speakers

Alisa Bennett

Lower School Academic Coordinator - Memorial

Alisa has served in the church volunteering in Sunday School and VBS throughout her life. She continued her love of teaching children in Dallas area public schools until she had her own children. In her search to find a good education for their own children, the Lord brought her family... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 12:30pm - 1:20pm CDT
L 243 Jump Theater - 2nd floor L Building

1st-4th Grade

Company 1st Grade
Audience 2nd Grade
Subject 3rd Grade
Area 4th Grade

1:25pm CDT

All About 1st Grade

Saturday August 16, 2025 1:25pm - 2:15pm CDT

L330

This session is a thorough review of first grade curriculum and how to navigate your lesson plan and materials at home. Parents are encouraged to attend even if they have taught a child enrolled at SBSUM in this grade level in the past, as currciculum is enhanced and revised every year.

Speakers

Alisa Bennett

Lower School Academic Coordinator - Memorial

Candace Bourgeois

Faculty

This school year will be Candace’s 10th year in education. She currently serves as a Grammar teacher at the North campus. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. Candace is a Grammar teacher at the North campus. She has been married to her husband Jeremy for 10 years. They... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 1:25pm - 2:15pm CDT
L330

1st-4th Grade

Company 1st Grade

1:25pm CDT

All About 2nd Grade

Saturday August 16, 2025 1:25pm - 2:15pm CDT

L 243 Jump Theater - 2nd floor L Building

This session is a thorough review of second grade curriculum and how to navigate your lesson plan and materials at home. Parents are encouraged to attend even if they have taught a child enrolled at SBSUM in this grade level in the past, as currciculum is enhanced and revised every year.

Speakers

Sara Paradoski

Faculty

Megan Stivers

Lower School Academic Coordinator - North Campus

Megan Stivers holds a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and a master's degree in educational leadership. Her academic background strongly supports her dedication to academic excellence and leadership in the lower school. Megan has been married to Chase Stivers for ten... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 1:25pm - 2:15pm CDT
L 243 Jump Theater - 2nd floor L Building

1st-4th Grade

Company 2nd Grade

2:30pm CDT

Derivatives to Dialogue: How to Navigate Greek and Latin in the Grammar Phase

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT

Williams House (North Side across parking lot)

Greek is taught in 1st and 2nd grade as a foundational to the English language. Latin is introduced in 3rd and 4th grades as an additional support for helping students to understand the way the English language has been contructed, which will aid them in mastery for the years in English language arts for years to come. Come and learn how to teach Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes at home with the supporting materials in your satellite lessons.

Speakers

Lana Kates

Lower School Academic Coordinator - Cypress Campus, Second Baptist School University-Model

For the last 15 years, Lana has had the opportunity to work with families in education, children's ministry and women's ministry. In recent years, she has taught Third Grade at SBSUM and obtained her provisional classical teaching certificate. She is currently the Lower School Academic... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT
Williams House (North Side across parking lot)

1st-4th Grade

Company 1st Grade
Audience 2nd Grade
Subject 3rd Grade
Area 4th Grade

2:30pm CDT

Procedural Math : The Transition from KNOWING your work to SHOWING your work

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT

J-High Room (SE Lobby)

This session is designed to bring you in the loop as parent partners in the Saxon phase of our mathematics curriculum here at SBSUM. The transition from conceptual to procedual math is a big change for your students, but with the right guidelines, the tools they have been equipped with in Rightstart will begin to look more polished as they are tasked with demonstrating the mental math they have been performing since Pre-K in a more logical manner. Your role as a parent will begin to shift from an mathematics instructor to a format trainer, guiding them in important concepts like proper headings, boxed answers, and labelled units. These guidelines will seem trivial to your student at first, but homework legibility is piviotal in pre-algebra all the way through advanced calculus and statistics.

Speakers

Megan Stivers

Lower School Academic Coordinator - North Campus

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT
J-High Room (SE Lobby)

1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade
Audience 4th Grade
Subject 5th Grade
Area 6th Grade

2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off