Meet Studia Vitae instructors Leah Bromen and Kate Deddens

Leah Bromen and Kate Deddens of Classical Consultants are passionate to embolden Lutheran schools to distinctively cultivate the human spirit by reclaiming timeless tools of learning. Between them, they have nearly 60 years of experience invested in nourishing classical Christian education. In May, Bromen and Deddens will also serve as instructors for Concordia University, Nebraska’s non-credit continuing education and lifelong learning program called Studia Vitae, teaching a course titled “Biblical and Human Assessment.” Studia Vitae offers Christ-centered continuing education opportunities in a variety of focused areas through an online scheduled and self-paced learning platform.  

Leah Bromen is a recovering engineer, endeavoring to cultivate her own spirit in truth, goodness and beauty. She has spent decades equipping and encouraging Christian leaders and pursuing and promoting classical education locally and around the world. Most recently, she is consulting with forming and existing schools desiring to adopt the classical model of education.  

Kate Deddens is a classical Christian educator, writer, speaker and consultant with more than three decades of experience teaching and mentoring students, teachers and schools. Formed by international study, the Liberal Arts at St. John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland), and graduate training in counseling, she has taught across PreK–12, led teacher training programs and adult education seminars, contributed to vision and curriculum development and supported major classical initiatives, including work with Classical Conversations and other classical renewal efforts. Her writing appears at the CiRCE Institute, The Imaginative Conservative and The Lutheran Witness. Kate holds that education is soul work – an invitation to cultivate wisdom, virtue and faith.  

Bromen and Dedden’s Studia Vitae course invites participants to explore assessment methods shaped by biblical principles and educational wisdom reaching back to the foundations of Lutheran education during the Reformation. 

Registration is now open for this course and additional offerings in Concordia University, Nebraska’s Studia Vitae program. Each CEU course is $150 and is delivered in six one-hour sessions. Exclusive pricing is available for program participants who are members of preferred partner organizations. The short, focused sessions are available as scheduled webinars that will also be recorded for future viewing. Enrollment is flexible and open to anyone with no prerequisites required, and no commitment is needed to take additional classes.  

Registration is available at ceu.cune.edu.   

For more information about Studia Vitae, please visit cune.edu/ceu.  

For more information about preferred partnerships, please visit cune.edu/partners.