October 2015
Article
Speaking Students’ Language: Teaching from Your Heart to Theirs
I felt my heart beat faster and my hands become clammy as I stepped out of my car and shut the door [...]
Article
Resisting Homework as Solitary Confinement
This article appeared previously in the October 2014 issue of the Christian Teachers Journal (Australia). It is reprinted here with permission. Some [...]
Editorial
By the time you receive this issue, the summer holidays will likely be a fading memory for you, your students and colleagues, [...]
Article
Work, Play, Love . . . and Learn
by Matthew Biemers and Darryl DeBoer This article originally appeared in Comment magazine, published by Cardus: <cardus.ca/comment>. It is reprinted here with [...]
Article
Stepping through the Door: What Makes Books Easy for Kids to Fall Into?
by Andrew Blok and Bill Boerman-Cornell “These are the paired wonders of reading: the world-creating power of books, and the reader’s effortless [...]
Review
reviewed by Gideon Strauss Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Journey Toward Justice: Personal Encounters in the Global South. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013. This review [...]
Article
Thinking Inside the Box: My Piece of Your Professional Development
The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates Boxes vary widely in shape and construction, but they tend to all serve the [...]
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Setting Goals and Facing Challenges
This summer, the panel participants were asked to reflect on several questions related to preparing for a new school year. The following [...]
Slouching Toward Bedlam
How to Succeed in School Without Really Trying, or And Then There Was One
Gord Winkle sighed. School had started two weeks ago, but he still didn’t have his metal shop up and running the way [...]