CMER Team

It is with great joy we announce

the 10th Anniversary

of the Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat.

WHO?

The CMER Team and our plenary speaker, Art Middlekauff

Art and his wife Barbara have been home educating their three children for two decades. Over this time, Art has been studying Charlotte Mason’s writings and applying her living ideas to his family’s homeschool. Art tells the story of how his discovery of Charlotte Mason led to a personal transformation and a dangerous adventure.

Art has written several essays about Charlotte Mason’s theology and philosophy which have been published in the two volumes of Essays on the Life and Work of Charlotte Mason, published by Riverbend Press. Art has also produced a popular video about Charlotte Mason’s twenty principles. Art walks in Mason’s theological tradition as a member of an Anglican church near Detroit, Michigan.

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WHEN?

Friday, February 6, to Sunday, February 8, 2026

WHERE?

Colorado Spring, CO
The Hideaway

More information will be available in September.

Registration will open on October 1st, 2025, at 8 AM MST.

It is with great joy we announce the 2025 Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat.

WHO?

The CMER Team and our plenary speaker, Donna-Jean Breckenridge

Donna-Jean Breckenridge lives with her family in northern New Jersey. She considers herself blessed to be a founding member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, the creators and sustainers of the AmblesideOnline curriculum. Donna-Jean was involved for many years in church ministry with her pastor-dad, she homeschooled her four children, and she now homeschools two of her five grandchildren. She is a frequent public speaker, writer (“This Country of Ours – Annotated, Edited, and Updated” and “Six Voices, One Story – The Heart of AmblesideOnline”), and audiobook narrator – yet she considers her most important roles that of Mom, Mom-Mom, and friend. Her heart’s desire is to encourage others that God is safe to trust, no matter what.

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WHEN?

Friday, January 31, to Sunday, February 2, 2025

WHERE?

Colorado Spring, CO
The Hideaway

More information will be available in September.

Registration will open on October 1st, 2024.

Don Rhymer’s session – ‘The Way of the Will’ and a New Parenting Book – will happen during Session D in place of The Fifth Teacher.

‘The Way of the Will’ and a New Parenting Book

How Purposeful and Persistent Parenting Reflects CM’s Principles

Workshop Presented by Don Rhymer
For Parents

John and Cindy Raquet wrote a book decades in the making as a practical guide to fill in the gaps of a Biblical parenting philosophy. Much of this practical guide was written to systematically help parents “who struggle with teaching their children to respectfully obey them” as Scripture commands. It turns out, much of their practical guide resonates with Charlotte Mason’s principles. This session will unpack how many of Miss Mason’s principles, like “The Way of the Will,” intersect with the Raquets’ practical advice on basic parenting, especially for children 10 and under.