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A Prayer for Ordinary School Days

God of miracles, God of the unusual and unexpected, and God of the extraordinary, You are also a God of my ordinary days. Thank You that You are present in the mundane. Thank You that no happening is too small for You to notice. Thank You...

January 2025 Progress Report

TESOL 2025: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

The course meets international TESOL requirements. 100 hours of lecture 40 hours of assignments 26 hours of student teaching

The Winter Doldrums

doldrums: a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump (Merriam-Webster) January and February are often the toughest months to be a teacher or a student. I recently had a few teachers ask me how we get everything at our school...

Lessons from a Climbing Wall

Last year a group of us met at a youth camp in West Texas to view the 2024 solar eclipse. One of the features of the camp was a long zipline. However, to sail down the zipline, one first needed to scale a rock-climbing wall or climb up a...

Christian School Administration Institute 2025

Program Moderators: CSRC Committee 8:30 Registration 9:00 Welcome 9:10 Opening Songs - Leon Weber, Mt Hebron, NB 9:15 Devotional & Prayer - Brian Bender, Kippen, ON 9:30 A Compelling Vision for Christian Schools - Carson Baer, Salmon Arm,...

2025 Conservative Anabaptist School Board Institute (CABSI)

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. Ps. 145:4. The Conservative Anabaptist School Board Institute is held annually to give school board members, principals, and members of the local ministry...

Work Studies

In Manitoba, students need 30 credits (17 compulsory + 13 electives) to graduate. The province has frameworks for Student Initiated Projects and Credits for Employment. We decided to combine them into what we call "Work Studies" and allow...

The Gift of Drought

How utterly frustrating. Week after week. Nothing seemed to help. Although I studied diligently, prepared carefully, and via text even sent study questions ahead of time, most of the class continued to simply warm their chairs. Stoic and...

The Motivation Mystery

The Things We Learn—and the Things We Don’t I have learned a number of things through the years such as how to operate an espresso machine and the proper way of pruning raspberry canes (to name a few). I learned how to work an espresso...

Helping Students Who Need More Processing Time

I carefully observed a few of my students this year in an attempt to understand how their brains work and how they learn so that I can help them do better in school. And that’s a wonderful thing to do—adapt your teaching to help your...

Book Review: The Anxious Generation

Is today’s generation of children and young teenagers more anxious than previous generations? Is mental illness more common than it used to be in adolescents, or is it only that it is more acceptable to talk about it than it used to be?...

When Grievances Arise

In John 17, Jesus tells his disciples that offences will come. These offences can come in many forms. The word offence in this setting refers to a snare. In my estimation, this snare can be temptation, it can be stumbling blocks, and it...

Faith Builders Teachers Week 2025

Teachers Week 2025 is planned for August 5-8. REGISTER HERE.

A Prayer for Challenging Students

God of love, who is Love Himself, Please pour Your love on me. I am weak, needy, and imperfect, and I need You to teach me how to love as You love. Remind me that I am undeserving of your grace to me, yet You freely give it anyways. Remind...

Faith at 500 - Sharing inspiration & insight on the Anabaptist vision at 500 years

A one-day conference celebrating the witness and faith of the Anabaptist movement birthed 500 years ago. We look to the daring courage of the first Anabaptists’ costly discipleship, and hope to be reinvigorated by the Spirit through...

Teaching English Language Learners

Perhaps a student has just moved into your area from another country and does not speak English. Or perhaps you are teaching in an area where English is not the first language of most of the residents. Either way, you may have a...

The Power of Forward Momentum

Last year, I welcomed a new sidekick into my classroom. After only a few weeks of school, he had earned the nickname ‘Doc’ as well as the place of honor at my right hand in front of the students. In that short amount of time, it became...

Getting Ready for Kindergarten

This document outlines IMF's expectations for enrolling a child in kindergarten, and ways parents can prepare their child for enrollment.

Opening Devotional and Prayer

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