The University Model brings together the best attributes of traditional schooling with the best attributes of home schooling and integrates them into one model. A required 15 to 18 hours per week are spent in the classroom. This classroom structure makes the focus on character development and parent involvement both necessary and possible. Students learn in an environment that integrates instructors and parents in academics, and structures classroom time so that more time is allotted for character growth. Parents work with instructors and are guided as to the amount of daily interaction and instruction to give to their children when working on projects and homework, depending on the grade level of the student. For more information on the parent roles within the University Model, please see the Course Catalog. The university model schedule enables students to receive individualized attention in the academic realm while encouraging growth in extracurricular activities and non-academic areas.

Dominion Academy of Dayton adopts the following philosophy of education:

1. The Scriptures clearly command parents to train their children to think, read, write, and speak well.  Educational tasks include academics, relational skills, vocational skills, personal disciplines, character development, life skills, worship, and service. We recognize, however, that for many good reasons (time, expertise, the enormous cost of private education) parents seek to partner with others to assist them in fulfilling their role as educators. Dominion Academy of Dayton exists to do just that.



2. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Man glorifies God through worship, obedience to His commands, and fulfilling his God-given calling to "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it," (Genesis 1:28), and "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Matthew 28:19) We believe knowledge is for use in glorifying God. We supply students with theological, philosophical, and academic tools to help them effectively engage in their callings and employ their gifts in service to the King.
   


3. Worship must be the context in which learning takes place. Man is a worshiper (homo adorans) before he is man the thinker (homo sapiens). Each week students are required to attend worship instruction and a worship service.



4. Classical Education. We utilize the classical education concepts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric in structuring our curriculum and in our teaching methods.



5. Small Class Size. Classes are usually limited to 12 students so instructors can give personal attention to each student, and to allow for optimal class interaction.



6. Compacted Schedule. Students taking five courses will spend roughly 15 hours each week in class. This means they will be attending classes only 2-4 days per week. Class schedules mirror the "University Model."



7. Since "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Proverbs 1:7), we endeavor to provide truly Christian education in every subject.  We reject the popular “Christo-Humanist sandwich approach to “Christian ”education: have a prayer at the start and end of class, and then sandwiched between these prayers are  the same humanistic philosophies and techniques of instruction and the same humanistic textbooks that the government schools use.  Rather than baptized humanism, we seek to teach each subject using a classical model of education, Christian instructional techniques, and subject matter that is Christian from the ground up.

Concerning Christian Liberties:

We recognize that there are, among those who love God and truly are His people, differing views or convictions about the following areas because they are not clearly forbidden in Scripture: alcohol, tobacco, dancing, different forms of entertainment, the celebration of special days, dress, dating, etc.  Our position is one of caution.  What the Scriptures do not very clearly forbid in word or principle, we cannot forbid.  Neither can we judge those, who in faith and good conscience before God, choose to exercise liberty in a given area.  Nor can we criticize those, who by faith and for various reasons known to them and God, choose to abstain.  These are ultimately matters of conscience and faith before God (see Romans 14).

Our Philosophy of Ministry:

1. Dominion Academy of Dayton is a ministry of Christ the King Reformed Episcopal Church.  The trustees of CKREC and Dominion Academy of Dayton Steering Committee oversee the functions of this ministry.
2. Members of CKREC are given first consideration for enrollment in Dominion Academy of Dayton and the enjoyment of its benefits.