Teamwork is the ultimate competitive advantage for organizations, particularly schools. Ryan draws from examples such as the 1936 University of Washington rowing team, Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team , and Jesus’ leadership...

Christian Light is pleased to announce the 45th Annual Christian Educators’ Workshop. Please click here for the brochure that details the itinerary, program, and speakers. Pick the location you’d like to attend and register with the local...

Christian Light offers a teacher training course at various locations during Summer 2025. And YES, this course is good for teachers using any curriculum, not only Christian Light curriculum. Beginning teachers wanting to get equipped,...

What I do doesn’t matter So you’ll never convince me that The words I say and the things I do are important Every new day of challenges can remind me that I’m not making progress It’s a lie to think I am making a difference in my students’...

Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. The Fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23. One school in which I taught had banners with these words hanging from the ceiling in the main hallway, so...

How to come together when we’re being pulled apart? Given our current polarizing political climate, Christians have an opportunity to come together and work towards peace and healing in communities. We need each other—to witness to the way...

“You sound like a bullfrog when you sing,” the child was informed by her music teacher. These unkind words stuck with the child and still hurt as she confided them many years later at her child’s parent-teacher conference. I’ve been...

Consider this scenario: You are teaching art class, and things are not going according to schedule. In what you now realize was a moment of temporary insanity, you chose a project that included white glue and glitter. Now you are...

Dan Sullivan likens the school year to a 30-ft cliff jump: prep is everything, mid-air is short, landing depends on what you set up before Day 1. His main points are: Stay Salty Build the Culture, Not Just Rules Pattern Early & Often Surf...

A worksheet that walks high school literature students through a poetry analysis. The assignment is adapted from Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2nd ed.).

This PowerPoint introduces students to several early American poets: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Phillis Wheatley.

This evaluation sheet is meant to be a companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Self-Reliance." Students are asked to compare statements in the poem with Biblical truth.

This assignment provides guidance to students as they watch a short documentary: https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/regional-realism/ . Students are asked to summarize and interact with the material in the...

Recently, a non-profit ministry leader asked me this poignant question: “What are we going to do about our Mennonite boards?” As we developed this question more specifically, we recognized a need to develop our future board members. As a...

This assignment provides guidance to students as they watch a short documentary on the American South's literary renaissance: https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/southern-renaissance/ . Students are asked to...

This is the first journal prompt for students as they read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

This document contains discussion questions for chapters 13-14 of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. It also includes a final reading journal prompt so that students can reflect on the book.

This documents contains a journal prompt to help students interact with Earnest Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea . The prompt focuses on the existentialism found in the book and asks students to compare this philosophy with...

This document contains a reading schedule for Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time . It also provides many journaling prompts for students to chose from as they read the book. Many of the journaling prompts in this document were taken or...

The journaling prompts in this document are related to Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard proverbs. Students are asked to evaluate proverbs from the collection.