Joy Lambrecht grew up in Granville, Ohio, and attended Hillsdale College to study economics and French. During her undergraduate studies, she worked on campus as a Resident Assistant and as a student assistant in the Hillsdale K-12program. Additionally, she studied abroad in Tours, France, over the summer of2019. She graduated summa cum laude as the valedictorian of the Class of2021. After graduating, she taught upper-school economics and French at a classical charter school in Colorado, where she developed curriculum sequences and resources for her classes, coached middle school sports, counseled a student organization, and advised senior thesis projects. This year, she married her college sweetheart and returned to her alma mater to further explore her vocation in classical education.
Recent professional developments
Over the last three years, I have gained experience in K-12 curriculum research and development through my work in the Hillsdale K-12 department and a Hillsdale-affiliated charter school. As a teacher, I helped restart my school’s French program, designing the French I and II courses to incorporate a grammar-rich approach with French literature, history, and culture. Additionally, I attended the Hillsdale K-12 Summer Conference for two years of professional development, where I benefited from learning about classical pedagogy, techniques for teaching specific content areas, and philosophy of education. In 2023, I partook in a focus group of economics teachers to provide feedback on Hillsdale K-12’s economics curriculum, and I presented a training seminar for high-school teachers on “Keys to Teaching Economics” at the Summer Conference.
Post-graduation plans:
After graduation from the Classical Education master’s program, I hope to contribute to the classical education movement in school administration, consulting, training, or curriculum development.
What has been the thing you’ve appreciated most about your time here?
One of the things I have appreciated most about my time in the master’s program so far is the selection of authors in the Western tradition that we have read. From Herodotus and Isocrates to Hugh of St. Victor and Aquinas, we get to read some of the most profound representations of what it means to be human and how education helps us to cultivate that humanity. Amidst our research and work, reading these great works keeps the leisure in learning for me, and I am excited to share them with future students of my own.
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