
"I wish there never had to be a June 19th"
I knew the last day of school would be a bittersweet day. We were feeling the fatigue of this whirlwind of a year combined with immense excitement in anticipation for a summer full of regrouping and strategic planning. I knew it would be hard to say goodbye to the little buddies we’d spent the last 188 school days living life with, even if goodbye was just for 2 short months. Those kids will always be special because they were the inaugural class. They are the crew that saw o

Voyagers
Way back in the day when Mer and I were dreaming about the idea of starting a school, the thing that seemed the most daunting was giving it a name. We easily spent 5 hours of a road trip hashing out all sorts of clever ways we could use words to name this dream we had. The name Urban Christian Academy seemed too simple but it did it’s job in describing exactly what we wanted to be about. We are urban, we are Christian, we are an academy. But then a more difficult task present