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Letter to My Father

Faithfulness, Part III Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash Clayton Shenk founded Tidings of Peace Christian...

A Servant Education: The Vision

This essay is a collective effort by seven administrators of conservative Anabaptist schools. This group of...

Parent-Teacher Conferences, Part Two

Parent/teacher conferences are vital to good communications between the home and school. The conferences give...

Girl Ear Pokers and Hair Pinchers:  Where to Seat Those Students

Having a good seating arrangement can be a tremendous help in the classroom. If the right students are in the...

The Treasure Challenge

Image by Goumbik from Pixabay Find the treasures in each day! I thought of this from a book I read to my...

Restart

Photo by Simon Hattinga Verschure on Unsplash Hmmmm...why won’t this DVD play? I remove the disk, insert it...

Field trip to Washington DC

It seems like school trips to our nation’s capital have been a part of my life since the day I was born. As a...

Thank You, Teachers

For the hours of energy poured into your students over the past nine months–thank you. For waking up every...

Setting the Tone: Clarity, Consistency, Composure

Over the years I’ve read various classroom management books. Many of them had excellent tips. I’ve also...

Jars of Clay

Recently I read this quote by John Dewey: “We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on...

Finish Line

File photo: 2019 FBCS field events Perhaps the only thing worse than flubbing the end of a project is not...

Of Snow and Marshmallows

By my standards, we never get enough snow in Kansas. While the news is heralding grand snowstorms in the east...

In-Class Time-Out

As a teacher, I’ve always struggled to find suitable consequences for classroom misbehavior and have usually...

Snapshots from My Classroom

Capturing a specific moment in time, painting a picture with words, a descriptive word picture—these are some...

The Gift of Responsibility

In 1963, a prominent American psychologist, Erik Erickson, proposed that life could be divided into eight...

From Children Who Listen to Young Adults Who Serve, Part II

Children who listen will be able to transition to young adults who are responsible and ready to serve? Why?...

Taking Stock: A Classroom Shopping List

“Do you have paper bags?” “Can I have a plate?” Yes, to both questions—I have all kinds of things in my...

Dear Second-Year Teacher

Photo by William Iven on Unsplash Dear Second-Year Teacher, Welcome back for another year in the classroom!...

Seven Creative Ways to Promote Reading

Reading opens the door to academic and career success, imagination, knowledge, understanding of others,...

Exploring Constellations

I’ve been looking for bulletin board ideas that grab and sustain the attention and learning of students...

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