Effective Communication by School Leaders: A Case Study from COVID-19
Schools are not immune to crises. Whether it be an earthquake, wildfire, shooting, or global pandemic, schools will always be required to […]
Art Education Toward Community
Community is not a place; it’s a people. It’s persons sharing. Artists can make communities more positive because art forms character. Character […]
Engaging God’s World for the Sake of the Kingdom
Why Should We Engage? The mission statement of Surrey Christian School is “Educating for wholeness by engaging God’s world in the servant […]
Community, Communion, Classrooms
Missing Community Years ago, when I first began teaching at a Christian university, I asked a student at the start of a […]
Building Thriving Science Laboratory and Classroom Communities
Science is a collaborative endeavor. Understanding of observed phenomena improves over time, as the findings of one scientist generate new questions that […]
Cultivating Space for Christian Practices in our Science Classrooms
Our shared imagination of classroom science is created by the images, words, texts, and activities in which the class participates. For example, […]
Could Humility Be the Heart of Our Classroom Communities?
If we desire humility to be an important value in our life together in community, especially in the classroom or science labs, […]
Ἄγωμεν: School Staff and the Power of an “Us-Together” Culture
In his classic book Teaching to Change Lives, Howard Hendricks made the case that effective communication leads learners to understand truth and […]
Fostering the Christian Teaching We Espouse
Over the past year, much of which was spent in COVID lockdown, I have had many opportunities to reflect on the Christian […]
Nurturing Cultures of Authentic Collegiality
When people talk about the “culture” of an organization, they are often referring to the unwritten norms and practices undertaken by the […]