Dearest Families,
My name is Beth Hall and I am overjoyed to be a part of Duc In Altum Classical Academy. This program was born of a shared desire and a deep sense of duty to create a place where every child is reminded of the beauty of their creation and is free to learn, grow, and take risks while surrounded by supportive and loving peers and mentors.
My husband Nathan and I have been married for 22 years and have three wonderful children: Grace (17), Mary Catherine (14), and Jude (11). I received my Bachelors of Science in Special Education with an emphasis in Behavior from Texas A&M University College Station in 2004. My professional experience includes working in both public education and Catholic education. In the public school system I have served as a Behavior Specialist, Inclusion Teacher, Resource Teacher, Consulting Teacher, and classroom teacher in both elementary and high school.
After serving in the public schools and seeing the difficulty that parents faced when navigating the Special Education system, I felt called to begin working as a Family Advocate, allowing me to use my school experience to walk alongside families as they faced testing, diagnosis, and educational planning for their children with disabilities. Advocating for these families and students is a great honor and has brought me tremendous joy while also growing me in my own understanding of the beauty, uniqueness, and dignity of each and every student.
My own children have attended a collaborative Catholic school for the past ten years, and I have had the great joy and privilege of being their homeschool educator during that time. I also served as the first grade classroom teacher for three of those ten years. With my oldest daughter entering her Senior year of high school, I realize now more than ever before, what a precious gift this model has been for me and for our entire family in allowing us to spend this time together. “The days are long, but the years are short,” and time has passed me by, but I wouldn’t trade this time at home with her for anything on this earth!
Children are truly gifts from God and every student I encounter is counted among ‘mine’. The hugs, the smiles, the high-fives, the tears, the struggles and the triumphs fill my heart in a way that I cannot put into words. God has given me a deep love for students as well as a clear sense of responsibility and obligation to do my best for them at all times. To be entrusted with the academic and spiritual formation of a child is an enormous responsibility. The joy my students have added to my life is immeasurable and I cannot wait to meet all of the new ones that God will bring for me to serve at Duc In Altum Classical Academy. It is my joy to welcome you and walk alongside you in this adventure as we ‘put out into the deep’!
Hugs,
Beth Hall
Director of Staffing and Admissions
Beth Hall
Dear Families,
Christ's call to "put out into the deep" is the heartbeat of everything Duc in Altum Classical Academy is building. It is a call to trust, to risk, and to go further than comfort allows, for the sake of something truly worth striving for. I am honored to answer that call as your Head of School, and as the parent of four DIA students myself.
My husband Philip and I have been married for seventeen years and have four wonderful children. Our children are the reason I have dedicated my professional career to education, and the reason I said yes to DIA.
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My vocation as an educator began in a small, classical Catholic school, where I fell in love with classical education and was formed by extraordinary colleagues. When my family grew and I wanted to move away from full-time teaching, I transitioned to a collaborative education program, allowing me to homeschool my own young children and continue the work in education I so loved. Over the years, I served students at every age level, and took on local and national administrative roles covering staff management, curriculum development, family formation, scheduling, and fundraising. All the while, I was homeschooling my own children: teaching them to read, memorizing the Catechism, sketching birds, wrestling with hard moral questions, and factoring polynomials. My vocation as an educator is lived out both inside my home, serving my own children, and outside it, serving the many.
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What has animated every role I have held is the conviction that education, rightly ordered, is about much more than academic success. Education ought to lead a child to truth — to Him who is Truth itself — and that is what we are here to cultivate at Duc in Altum. We recognize each child as unrepeatable and deeply loved by God, and we believe that the formation happening in your home and the work happening in our classrooms are not separate things; they are one mission, pursued together.
I look forward to knowing your families and seeing what God does when we are bold enough to cast our nets into the deep.
Yours in Christ,
Katie Boos
Head of School
Katie Boos
Meet Our Team
Meet Our Team
Katie Boos
Head of School
Educational leader with nearly two decades of experience in classical education.
Beth Hall
Director of Admissions and Staffing
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Jesse Neimus
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Drew Carlyle
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Community Building
A School of Love
At Duc in Altum, we strive to cultivate a welcoming and loving community built on respect and charity, where all students feel valued. By practicing intentional virtue formation as the foundation, we expect our students to grow in love and knowledge of the faith, thus enabling them to become effective disciples for Jesus Christ.
Our staff desire for each and every student to feel a deep sense of belonging and acceptance, allowing them the freedom to take risks and to grow academically and spiritually. This is accomplished by acknowledging the dignity of each child as an individual and uniquely made creation of God, possessing all the gifts and beauty thereof, and loving them as Christ has called us to do.
In loving our children, we are teaching them how to love one another, and in turn, love God.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- St. Teresa of Calcutta
"Love is the beginning and end of education because love is the way we become more human."
- Stratford Caldecott,
Beauty in the Word
The family is a
'school of love.'
- St. Pope John Paul II
Stella Maris,
ora pro nobis
Hail, bright star of ocean,
God’s own Mother blest,
Ever sinless Virgin,
Gate of heavenly rest.
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Taking that sweet Ave
Which from Gabriel came,
Peace confirm within us,
Changing Eva’s name.
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Break the captives’ fetters,
Light on blindness pour,
All our ills expelling,
Every bliss implore.
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Show thyself a Mother,
May the Word Divine,
Born for us thy Infant,
Hear our prayers through thine.
Virgin all excelling,
Mildest of the mild,
Freed from guilt, preserve us,
Pure and undefiled.
Keep our life all spotless,
Make our way secure,
Till we find in Jesus
Joy for evermore.
Through the highest heaven
To the Almighty Three
Father, Son, and Sprit
One same glory be. Amen.
Ave, maris stella,
Dei Mater alma,
Atque semper virgo,
Felix caeli porta.
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Sumens illud Ave
Gabrielis ore,
Funda nos in pace,
Mutans Evae nomen.
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Solve vincula reis,
profer lumen caecis,
Mala nostra pelle,
bona cuncta posce.
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Monstra te esse matrem,
Sumat per te preces,
Qui pro nobis natus
Tulit esse tuus.
Virgo singularis,
Inter omnes mitis,
Nos culpis solutos
Mites fac et castos.
Vitam praesta puram,
Iter para tutum,
Ut videntes Jesum,
Semper collaetemur.
Sit laus Deo Patri,
Summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto,
Tribus honor unus. Amen.