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John Ruplinger301 E. Main St. St ♦♦ Fairchild, WI 54741715-533-8365 ♦♦ [email protected]

In the course of almost nine years, I have taught most classes, grades six through twelve, in Latin, English, and math, in addition to several in religion, Scripture, and history. I worked at excellent schools, classical and Catholic, whether Diocesan or independent. More recently I helped found a school in Eau Claire but suffered a head injury working on our home and had to resign. I greatly enjoy teaching, especially Latin, theology, English, and history. I have ever studied to improve my methods and thus developed considerably as a teacher, to which end I’ve both read voluminously and visited many schools throughout the country. The same subjects are also my reading in leisure, in particular great literature, philosophy, and theology, and ever since college reading groups with friends served as diet to my love of learning.

I assisted the development of curriculum, especially at St. Ambrose, as well as assembled the curriculum for John Paul II Academy. With keen interest and also profit, I have read many authors on education: among the best are Erasmus, More, Aristotle, Plato, Vives, Sr. Miriam Joseph, the Jesuits, St. Jean Baptiste de La Salle, Quintillian, Jeffrey Bond, Pope Pius XI, and John Senior. I have special admiration for the Jesuit model, as described by Fr. Thomas Hughes in Loyola and the Jesuit System of Education. The Jesuits in the course of seventy years developed perhaps the finest school, outlined in the Ratio Studiorum, and I hope to imitate them more in my future endeavors. They were famous for their efficiency as much as the sheer delight the students had in learning such that the student progressed far faster and the labor was unnoticed because of the fun he had. In this, my success is satisfactory, and my aim to be better still.

Youth naturally love learning, and leading them is reward in itself. The teacher's task or art is first to reveal the delightfulness of some skill to be mastered or the matter itself under study; next, to train them in those arts useful first in themselves for coming to understand truth, only secondarily as mere tools in the workforce. Certainly, my first aim is to secure the love of learning and fuel the love of truth, Who and which is our own ultimate end. From my experience, I see the main failings of schools today are the poor quality of what is studied and, where there is good material, the lack of delight in it by teachers themselves; of secondary importance are the methods. But the most important part is the character of the teacher himself and his love for the students. That covers a multitude of defects in other matters.

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Finally, I have come to see that Faith and moral character are the most important aspects of a child's education (broadly understood), and these instilled and first fostered at home must be fortified, and certainly not undermined, at school. Without these, all gains in learning are vanity; for reason without Faith grows blind, and learning without virtue is puffed up. That said, I compromise on many things, and rarely have had serious conflict on curriculum. I can teach and have taught all subjects, science excluded, which I prefer not to. Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri is an underappreciated and wonderful document on education, and our Lord as last and paramount end of education is his first and most urgent point. As to means and subject matter, otherwise, I am open. And I try always to take direction from superiors to heart and tried to improve. Indeed I am always grateful for such.



T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E

John Paul II Academy ♦ Eau Claire, WI June 1, 2011 - Aug. 16, 2011

Headmaster ♦ Developed curriculum for a newly starting, classically orientated middle and high school among many things necessary for such an enterprise. Unfortunately I sustained a severe head and neck injury from which I am finally almost fully healed.

St. Ambrose Academy ♦ Madison, WI Aug. 2008- June 1, 2011

Full time middle & high school teacher: Latin I through AP Latin; Algebra II; most of the cycle of literature: High School Ancient, Medieval, American, Modern, and middle school; Medieval History; significant curriculum development.

Trinity Academy ♦ Pewaukee, WI Aug. 2006-Aug. 2008

Full time middle & high school teacher: first, second, & third year Latin; AP Calculus, Old Testament, Classical Literature.

The Atonement Academy ♦ San Antonio, TX Aug. 2003- Aug.2006

Full time middle & high school teacher: first, second, & third year Latin; Algebra ½, 1, and 2, Pre-Calculus, Religion (grade 7), Ancient & Medieval history; also curriculum development for the new high school.

The Highlands ♦ Irving, TX spring 1999

Full time high school teacher ♦ taught two courses each: Latin I, Latin II, and Old Testament.

E D U C A T I O N

University of Dallas fall 1997 – fall 1998

PhD program (unfinished) ♦ Interdisciplinary Philosophic Studies

Marquette University spring 1994 – fall 1996

MA ♦ Political Science (political philosophy) ♦ GPA 3.7



Marquette University spring 1991– fall 1994

BA ♦ Political Science (Political philosophy)/ Classical Languages ♦ GPA 3.7



PERSONAL REFERENCES

Darrel Dobbs (friend; professor at Marquette) 414-429-6690 [email protected] 4908 W. Woodlawn Ct. Milwaukee, WI

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John Lyle (friend and coworker; lawyer, former headmaster) 585-208-4502

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Jared Tomanek (friend & coworker; commercial construction) 210-237-9739 [email protected]

EMPLOYER CONTACT INFORMATION

John Paul 2 Academy (closed)Kevin DeCook (Chairman of Board) 715-214-7175 [email protected]

St. Ambrose Academy 608-827-5863 (Scott Schmiessing – principal)603 Everglade Dr. Madison WI 53717

Rob Marsland (former chairman of board) 608-216-6920 [email protected]

Trinity Academy 262-695-2933 Robin Mitchell (principal)W225N3131 Duplainville Rd. Pewaukee, WI 53072

Atonement Academy 210-695-224015415 Red Robin Rd. San Antonio, TX 78255

Richard Arndt (former headmaster) 210-854-4130Stephen Hollingshead (former headmaster) 703-945-9392





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