Teacher as Mentor
August 8-9, 2025

Modern education often presents teachers as specialists tasked with imparting expert knowledge to students. Yet the focus of a specialist in pursuit of imparting facts and information too often becomes overly narrow and overlooks the development of the whole student. This kind of oversight can leave a graduate with major blind spots in his or her understanding and outlook. By contrast, the teacher as mentor embraces the project of delivering more than subject-specific content and works to cultivate the moral, spiritual, and intellectual health of the whole student. In this education conference, we will explore the nature and practices of mentorship in pursuit of equipping students with tools, skills, and wisdom to live faithfully before God.

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Registration opens February 1, 2025.

I attended my first Gutenberg Education conference in the summer of 2023 and was surprised by the quality of the conference. Because of that experience, our school brought 13 faculty and staff in the summer of 2024. The conference was once again exceptional, affording us an excellent team-building road trip! Both conferences were relaxing and challenging, the speakers were knowledgeable and approachable, and the schedule was full, including a great variety of topics and presenters. The hospitality–food, coffee, organization–was wonderful, and our school was very well taken care of. In my mind, the Gutenberg Education Conference is a great value, and it is now a part of our permanent school calendar! Congratulations Gutenberg, and thank you!

—Matt Greco, Head of School for Seattle Classical Christian School

Confirmed Speakers

Matt Bianco

Matt Bianco

CiRCE Institute

Heidi White

Heidi White

Classical Education Consultant
CiRCE Institute, The Atrium

Eliot Grasso

Eliot Grasso

Gutenberg College

Chris Swanson

Chris Swanson

Gutenberg College

Previous Conferences:

2024 Education Conference: The Independent Mind
Guest speakers: Amanda Butler, Andrea Lipinski, and Davies Owens.

2023 Education Conference: Faith and Learning
Guest speakers: Susan Wise Bauer, Wes Callihan, Jennifer Courtney, and Andrea Lipinski.

2022 Education Conference: Learning for Life
Guest speakers: Amanda Butler, Scott Postma, Andrew Pudewa, Kathryn Smith, and Andrew Zwerneman.

2021 Education Conference: The Art of Learning
Guest speakers: Leigh Bortins, David & Crystal Downing, Nancy Pearcey, Andrew Pudewa, John Seel, Wes Callihan, Diane Gray, Scott Postma, and Jon Robertson