Location Options:

  • Saturday February 22, 2025 – Lancaster, PA
    (as part of the Midwinter Conference)

  • Monday, February 24, 2025 – State College, PA

  • Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – Pittsburgh, PA

State College, PA

Monday, February 24, 2025

  • 4:00pm-4:30pm – Registration

  • 4:30pm-6:00pm – Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School with Q&A

  • 6:00pm-7:00pm – Lite Dinner

  • 7:00pm-8:30pm – Conquering Corrupt Culture by Raising Christian Communicators with Q&A

Where?

State College Alliance Church
1221 W. Whitehall Road
State College, PA 16801

Cost?

This low cost event includes a lite dinner, with an afternoon and evening session with Andrew Pudewa of IEW.

Pittsburgh, PA

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

  • 4:00pm-4:30pm – Registration

  • 4:30pm-6:00pm – Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School with Q&A

  • 6:00pm-7:00pm – Lite Dinner

  • 7:00pm-8:30pm – Conquering Corrupt Culture by Raising Christian Communicators with Q&A

Where?

LifePointe Alliance Church
Franklin Park Campus
2298 Rochester Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15237

Cost?

This low cost event includes a lite dinner, with an afternoon and evening session with Andrew Pudewa of IEW.

Topics

Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School

Listening and reading well, speaking and writing clearly, and thinking and debating effectively are abilities that most parents hope to cultivate in their children. With that goal in mind, Andrew Pudewa explores various environments and activities that accelerate the development of these language skills, beginning with the youngest students and continuing into the high school years.

Conquering Corrupt Culture by Raising Christian Communicators

Today, many of us have an intuitive sense that major changes are coming. When this happens, our lives may become very different in ways not necessarily convenient or comfortable. At the same time, we must live each day as though things will continue pretty much as they are. Resolving this cognitive dissonance requires that we carefully contemplate our circumstances because we are in a cultural war, fighting the “non-gospel” of aesthetic and moral relativism on three fronts: personal, familial, and social. What should our priorities be? How can we prepare children to be culture warriors?

Presenter

Andrew Pudewa

Founder and Director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing

Andrew Pudewa is the founder and director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing. Presenting around the world, he addresses issues relating to teaching, writing, thinking, spelling, and music with clarity, insight, practical experience, and humor. His seminars for parents, students, and teachers have helped transform many a reluctant writer and have equipped educators with powerful tools to dramatically improve students’ skills. Although he is a graduate of the Talent Education Institute in Japan (Suzuki Method) and holds a Certificate
of Child Brain Development, his best endorsement is from a young Alaskan boy who called him “the funny man with the wonderful words.” He and his beautiful, heroic wife, Robin, have homeschooled their seven children and are now proud grandparents of fifteen, making their home in northeastern Oklahoma’s beautiful green country.