As a former elementary grade teacher, at the end of a school year, I would often send summer math drills home...
Image by James Baldwin via Unsplash On a quest to hear from young people and understand our Christian...
Photo by Florian Schmetz on Unsplash “We must be invisible!” my sister and I said to each other when a truck...
Softball is a great recess and PE activity for the warmer months of the school year. I’ve found that a few...
Photo by Jeremy Yap on Unsplash Father, We are weary. We admit that sometimes the task before us seems too...
Recess. Do you rejoice? Moan? Feel uncertain? Yes, I have been there too. Recess is designed to give students...
Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash While every classroom should reflect the personality of the teacher who...
Photo by Iuliia Isakova on Unsplash A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean....
Presentation software is one of my favorite teaching tools. Programs such as PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi...
Stock image from Unsplash As a foster parent, I regularly come into contact with children who have been...
As your school year ends, it’s a good time to think about how you can grow in preparation for next year....
Patiently waiting for a first grader to painstakingly sound out a word, resisting the urge to help him out or...
During the summer the 25-mph speed limit sign was moved up the hill a few hundred yards. This morning on my...
Dedicated teachers should be able to make just about any curriculum work well for their students. It may be...
After assigning the research paper (addressed in this blog post ), you should have mini-classes to guide your...
Some of you may have just finished a fun month. Others may just be ready to dive in. A little spice goes a...
Photo by Ikhsan Sugiarto on Unsplash Sympathy Ice A sobbing child shows the teacher a bump on his arm....
In this post, we continue digesting the input from the 85 Anabaptist educators who filled out our survey. For...
Daniel T. Willingham, a cognitive scientist, wrote this fascinating book about how the mind works, how this...
The school desks are stacked, the bells silent, the hallways empty, and the schoolhouse doors locked. It is a...
