Wickenburg Christian Academy
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Equipping Children, Enriching Families, Elevating Community
 
Program Director - Heather Lloyd
  • Literature
  • History
  • Theology
     Heather studied at BIOLA University, Grand Canyon University and is currently working on her Political Philosophy Degree with New Geneva Leadership Academy.  She is a mother of five and has been married for twenty-one years.  She has been home schooling her children (two of whom are currently in college), as well as classically teaching students, for the past five years. She has accomplished a successful educational process for these students through ATOMIK 12  (a not for profit ministry that provides drama productions to schools and churches). 

     Heather has a passion for encouraging foundational faith precepts, fostering a desire to learn, and instructing holistic knowledge in preparation for Christian Leadership.  WCA contacted Heather in the summer of 2010 in regards to implementing a high school to supplement the K-8th program currently held.  After intensive research and development, Legacy High School was born and its' innovative approach to Classical  instruction was developed.  Months of planning, curriculum review and staff resourcing gave way to the "Legacy" for which Heather desires to foster in students who attend Legacy High School.
 
 
Legacy High School Partners with King's Way Classical Academy for Video Conferencing
and faculty sharing.

     King's Way Classical Academy imparts not only information, but a method of learning that will last a lifetime.  Graduates of this approach to education are uniquely equipped and highly motivated to assume positions of leadership in their chosen profession.  Because every aspect of instruction is saturated in the Word of God and its practical application, the model produces young people who are true “ambassadors for Christ.”  They enter the ranks of those who establish the tone and direction of our culture -- the Christian nobility.  Thus, we contribute directly to Christ's Great Commission to disciple the nations one student at a time (Mt. 28:19,20).
 
Dr. Jim Bartlett, Ph.D
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Economics
     Dr. Bartlett taught mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering subjects while performing related research at North Dakota State University from 1987 to 2004.

     While at NDSU, his teaching and research foci included lean manufacturing, design for manufacturability, aircraft structures certification, failure analysis, electronics manufacturing, medical device development, nano-scale process engineering, family-based rural economic development, and implementation of the Christian philosophy in science, mathematics, engineering, technology and education. He was safety officer for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at NDSU for many years.

     Dr. Bartlett and his wife Lynn have been happily married for over 17 years and home school four boys. The Bartletts led Christian ministries for college singles and married couples for over seven years, developed and advised college campus Christian student and faculty ministries, and see the Biblical worldview (Isaiah 55:8-9; 1 Corinthians 1:27) as foundational for Christian education at all levels of learning and for maturity in the Body of Christ.

     Dr. Bartlett learned automotive technology (AAS, NH Vocational Technical College, 1979), mechanical engineering (BS General Motors Institute & Purdue University, 1983 & MS, North Dakota State University, 1989), and Engineering (PhD, North Dakota State University, 1992). He received Christ in 1983. He and his wife began home educating their sons in 1994 (Deuteronomy 6:7).

     Dr. Bartlett taught and performed research in bone bio-mechanics, aircraft manufacturing, and electronics manufacturing engineering for 17 years at North Dakota State University. His 10 years of industry experience derive from General Motors, Northwest Airlines, and his engineering consulting business. In 2003, The Society of Manufacturing Engineers awarded him the prestigious international Sargent Americanism Award for innovatively teaching the business of manufacturing.

     As God revealed to Dr. Bartlett that western culture had been secularized by Christian educators, the Holy Spirit led him to depart the secular university to pursue the implementation of a thoroughly Christian philosophy of education in his teaching, research and service, as an example to his own children and others (John 13:15; 1 Timothy 4:12). He integrates the Christian faith with his teaching as exemplified in his papers titled Corrosion Illustrating Sin, Learning Pedagogy from the Master Teacher, Learning Biblical Business, Learning through Entrepreneurship, Secularization by the Christian Educator, The Family University and Network, and others.


      Dr. Bartlett was a leader in the development and implementation of a funded three million dollar National Science Foundation grant (2000 to 2004) to improve science and math education in the public schools of Minnesota and North Dakota. This experience further convinced him that large amounts of money are not needed to improve math and science education. Instead, the Biblical view of math, science, technology, engineering, business, and education (Matthew 6:24) are needed to optimize the learning of science and math.