2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off: Full Schedule

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

10:35am CDT

From the Influenced to the Influencer: 9th-12th grade years

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

Students in Rhetoric school learn to speak and write, no longer simply digesting the information, but expressiing themselves eloquently. In this session we will discuss how to engage at home with children in the mature teen years and how to intentionally help challenge and shape their convictions and the skills to express them.

Speakers

Dr. Beau Dollins

Director of University-Model Operations, Second Baptist School University Model

Beau Dollins is currently serving as the Director of University-Model Operations at Second Baptist School University-Model in Houston, which is a five-site Classical, UM School that will have over 1150 students this fall. He co-founded the school that eventually became SBSUM with... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT
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9th-12th Grade

Company 9th-12th

12:30pm CDT

All About 3rd Grade

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

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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
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1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade

1:25pm CDT

Portrait of a Classical Home

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

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The valuation of truth, beauty, and goodness in all things is trained first at home and there are many strategies parents can use to incorporate this viewpoint into every day life. Additionally, changing our expectations of of children as they transition through the Trivium phases of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric can impact our parenting efforts as they grow and mature. Come and learn how to bring classical education into all things as we raise our chidren in the admonition of the Lord.

Speakers

Steve Marshall

Dean of Upper School - Memorial Campus, Second Baptist School University-Model

Dean Marshall has been called into the education arena displaying a sincere passion for the Lord, for teaching, and for families. He has a genuine and proven love and appreciation for the classical Christian pedagogy serving as a headmaster for 27 years and many years in the classroom... Read More →

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

Company All

2:30pm CDT

Right Start Math Game Lab

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

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Let's play math! Come and learn to play all of the RightStart math games to develop a math whiz on your satellite days. These games end up giving students hundreds of presentations of math concepts rather than completing one worksheet of homework. Seeing the games in action is worth days of trying to interpret them from merely reading the instructions. Come enjoy this hands-on workshop that will jumpstart your satellite and make mth one of your child's favorite subjects!

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 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT
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Pre-4th Grade

Company Pre-Kindergarten
Audience Kindergarten
Subject 1st Grade
Area 2nd Grade

2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off