PAIDEIA, Inc., is a comprehensive consulting firm dedicated to a biblical worldview that seeks excellence to the glory of God in all areas of leadership and development in education. Our clientele is elementary and secondary schools, as well as colleges, universities, seminaries, and other not-for-profit agencies, associations and institutions. We offer clients practical solutions to help them fulfill their mission and make possible the excellence they aspire to achieve.
Since 1965, we have provided wide-ranging consulting services in five critical areas of operation that we call “the 5 M’s:” mission, management, marketing, master planning and money.
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On August 1, 2024, we began our 36th year of publishing THE PAIDEIA LETTER, the only independent publication of its kind reaching Christian educators from K-12 schools through college/university and seminary throughout the world. The purpose of our publication is to inform, instruct, and even inspire Christian educators at every level of our vocation.
We publish multiple issues (more than 50 in 2023-2024) in four formats: THE PAIDEIA LETTER quarterly, multi-pages (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring); Subscriber’s Supplement quarterly extended essay; SPECIAL EDITIONs frequently; and THE PAIDEIA BULLETIN as an expedited messenger when critical issues arise.
Our subscription year runs August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2025, and new subscribers will receive recent back issues.
Mid-year subscriptions (February-July) are available for $100.00, payable to PAIDEIA, Inc. by check, credit card, or Pay Pal.
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Executive & Administrative Search-and-Placement
Mentoring of Heads of Schools
Strategic Planning
Sustainability
Board of Trustees/CEO Workshops
Advancement, Annual Giving, Endowment, Capital Campaign
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21st Century Technology
On March 14, 2025, the Spring Quarterly edition of THE PAIDEIA LETTER will be published. Its entire contents—fully documented and illustrated-- celebrate the 100th anniversary of a major ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, known officially as Pierce v. Society of Sisters, and informally as “the Oregon decision.” A century ago, the Supreme Court unanimously voted to overturn a state law (not yet in effect) requiring all school-age children 8-16 years to attend public schools. This law would have shut every independent non-public school in the State of Oregon and, by extension, could have prevented parents from choosing a faith-based education for their children.
If you are not a subscriber to THE PAIDEIA LETTER, you may request to receive a copy of the March 14 issue. Send your request to D. Bruce Lockerbie at dbl@paideia-inc.com.
Dr. Lockerbie is currently accepting bookings to deliver a lecture + Q/A on the Oregon decision and its significance to 21st century Christian schools, colleges/universities, and seminaries.
For further information, contact him at dbl@paideia-inc.com or by telephone at 516.659.9684.
PAIDEIA, Inc. issues the following declaration as a Manifesto for Christian persons to affirm individually or institutionally. It urges every believing Christian academic to end our seeming apolitical stance and announce instead how our claims of biblical authority and biblical worldview affect our nonpartisan instruction offered to students.
MANIFESTO
1. My soul, body, and mind belong to God who created me and sustains in me the breath of life.
2. I have committed myself to faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
3. As a Christian educator, my calling and life’s work is to demonstrate what it means to love the Lord my God with heart, soul, strength, and mind and encourage others to do so, whether as students, teachers, coaches, administrators, board members, or financial supporters of Christian academic institutions.
4. Although I have lived in a safe and comfortable culture where my Christian faith has been protected, I can no longer expect to practice my faith free from potential prejudice and even persecution.
5. My Christian nurture has always stressed the biblical commands to respect and obey those to whom God has given human governing authority. But I also believe that my duty as a citizen yields in priority to my obedience to God’s sovereign rule over submission to government, if and when its laws clearly conflict with divine authority.
6. I further believe that Christian institutions can no longer purport their apolitical neutrality regarding actions by governments, if and when such actions are based on principles and policies adverse to an institution's godly mission.
7. Rather, we who identify with these institutions—starting with the home, church, and school—must advocate unstintingly the biblical source of their respective mission and its implementing. We must also affirm non-partisan civil order while resisting without partisanship any authoritarian effort to negate the positive effect of our godly purpose, seeking to be fulfilled with integrity.
Anyone choosing to affirm this MANIFESTO and so informs PAIDEIA, Inc.
will receive a copy of its text suitable for framing and display.
D. Bruce Lockerbie, Chairman/CEO
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The 2016 revision of From Candy Sales to Committed Donors: A Guide to Financing Christian Schools is complete with new data, new illustrations and photographs, and new commentary by more than a dozen Christian school leaders. Originally published in 1996, the new version of From Candy Sales to Committed Donors is available in either of two formats: pdf version (to be copied once by the purchaser) or binder-bound version. The pdf version costs $45.00 and the binder-bound version costs $55.00, payable either by check or purchase online.
In 1952, Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, founding headmaster of The Stony Brook School, delivered lectures at both Dallas Theological Seminary and Denver Seminary. From these lectures developed his benchmark book The Pattern of God’s Truth: Problems of Integration in Christian Education, first published in 1954 by Oxford University Press. Since then this remarkable book has never been out of print. It continues to inform and challenge teachers in Christian schools, colleges/universities, and seminaries.
For information about how PAIDEIA, Inc. conducts a search or
for references from clients, contact dbl@paideia-inc.com.