November 13-15, 2025

Convivium

Convivium

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CON VIV IUM

This year's theme is "to know and to love."

The Forum's flagship event, Convivium is the only conference in the world designed specifically for male teachers. Convivium combines the focus of a professional workshop with the leisure of a spiritual retreat by offering teachers the time, space, and camaraderie needed to think deeply about broader educational questions and their impact on the craft of teaching.

During the event you can expect lectures and breakout sessions, featuring both Heights faculty and our friends beyond the walls. Equally important, the conference will feature plenty of good food and drink, lively conversations, and local excursions.

In addition to plenary sessions, Convivium will also feature a set of breakout workshops led by teachers and scholars from schools around the world. If you are interested in leading a breakout session, stay tuned: proposal submissions will open June 2. Selected breakout leaders will receive a scholarship that covers the entire cost of registration to the conference.

Thanks to the generosity of the Herzog Foundation, which recognizes the importance of formative education and the teachers that make such education possible, Convivium will be free of charge. This includes conference registration, all meals at the conference, and lodging for the evenings of November 13 and 14.

Events

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Meet Our Keynote Speakers

Mr. Alvaro de Vicente

Mr. Alvaro de Vicente

Headmaster, The Heights School

Headmaster of The Heights School, and an advisor to hundreds of school leaders, both of start-up schools and established schools seeking to revamp their offerings, especially for boys.

Dr. Arthur Brooks

Dr. Arthur Brooks

Author, Professor at Harvard Business School

Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and social entrepreneurship.

Dr. Matthew Mehan

Dr. Matthew Mehan

Associate Dean, Hillsdale Graduate School of Government

Dr. Mehan is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus. He has been teaching and designing humanities curricula for twenty-five years, and has written for outlets both scholarly and popular. He is also the author of The Handsome Little Cygnet, as well as Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals.

Thursday, November 13

Keynote
7:30 PM

To Know and To Love

Alvaro de Vicente

Friday, November 14

Keynote
11:30 AM

A Good Mother Wit: On Forming the Imagination

Dr. Matthew Mehan, Hillsdale College

Breakouts
2:00 PM

Guiding Knowledge: Lessons on the Socratic Method from a Law Professor and Judge

Ryan Holte, Judge at United States Court of Federal Claims

On Feasting Well

Kyle Blackmer, Teacher at The Heights School

Seminar Discussion

Austin Hatch and Tom Steenson, Teachers at The Heights School

Teaching Religion Class with Students of Many Faiths

Bill Dardis, Teacher at The Heights School

Forged By Endurance: How the Path of Suffering Shapes Spiritual Grit and Christlike Character

Dr. John Walker, Superintendent at Central Christian School

Implementing Poetry in the Classroom: A Return to a Poetic Metaphysics

Rinju Chenet, Teacher at Father Gabriel Richard High School

Saturday, November 15

Breakouts
9:30 AM

Authoring Heroes: Storytelling For America's Next Generation of Virtuous Leaders in the AI Age

Bill Rivers, Office of the CEO at Palantir Technologies

Teaching Plutarch Lives

Tom Cox, Teacher at The Heights School

Testing that Teaches

Mark Grannis, Teacher at The Heights School

Teaching Moments in Great Works of Literature

Colin Gleason, Lower School Head at The Heights School

Supporting Students with Disabilities

Brian Peppiatt, Assistant Headmaster at Chelsea Academy

Learning from History to Rediscover Education

Dan Murphy, Teacher at Western Academy

Keynote
11:00 AM

Your Calling… and How to Find It

Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard Business School

Breakouts
1:30 PM

Teaching Penmanship to Boys

Rob Greving, Teacher at The Heights School

Teaching Science Scientifically

Michael Moynihan, Upper School Head at The Heights School

Workshop on Teaching Students to Write in the AI Age

Rich Moss and Nate Gadiano, Teachers at The Heights School

Digital Monasticism

Rev. Seth Hedman, Teacher and Pastor at Marshalltown Christian School

An Introduction to the Art of Narration

Ted Watkins, Director of Advancement at Ambleside School

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To submit a seminar proposal for this coming event, click here.

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