As a member of the school board, you are responsible for overseeing many aspects of the school: finding staff, facilitating communication among school staff, parents, and church, providing finances, and giving oversight. What is the most...

Edward Edward is a normal boy in fifth grade. He likes being with his friends, playing soccer, and building elaborate Lego structures. But there's one way that Edward doesn't feel normal. Edward struggles with reading. Ever since his class...

Members of the board of Oceola Christian School discuss the value of educators' conferfences such as CASBI: to ask their questions of others who labor in the field. Courtesy CASBI.

Children scarred by trauma require extra time and energy. How should schools respond to these students? Can we be flexible enough in our methods and expectations to accommodate them? How can school boards help bear the load to keep...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Howard Bean shares his own stories and ideas and also taps his audience for ideas on getting parents involved in children's education. Many of the ways to do this involve...

These are just a few teaching tips that I've picked up over the years, a lot of them from other teachers. Cards that leave out nobody One of my favorites is to put all the students’ names, on these names, on these little cards, and that...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, John Troyer talks about how to be efficient and effective in everyday classroom matters like grading, Bible memory, class planning, and homework management.

Piper: I've worked in food service and I've gotten people who don't know how to make a recipe three times larger than it should be. I can say to them, “You need to double that recipe or you need to triple that recipe,” and what they'll do...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Luke Bennetch shares stories and gives insights on relating with care and understanding to boys who are being boys. Having a vision of what boys can become helps inspire a deeper...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Howard Lichty talks about the advantages and disadvantages of being a male in the classroom. Along with the need for humility and authority, Howard spends significant time...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Jason Croutch discusses ways principals can do well at supporting teachers, such as helping with teacher-parent relationships, supporting new teachers, joining in with student life,...

I teach in a very large class. There's twenty students, and we typically have somewhere between fifteen to twenty-three students in our classes. So that requires some classroom management in a way that you may not need if you are doing a...

Howard When I sat down with the school board to talk about looking for a replacement and charting a course for that, one of the things they came back to me with was, "can you quantify what it is that you do?" Transition is Hard Howard One...

In this session at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Jason Croutch discusses reasons and ways to stay in touch with students' parents, sharing numerous stories and addressing some audience questions. Healthy communication fosters parent...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teachers Week 2010, Glendon Strickler shares many specific and creative tips for effective discipline. He discusses the purpose of discipline, examples of matching the seriousness of a punishment to the...

How do teachers maintain human contact with their students during the shutdown? How can relationships grow during enforced separation? What are some tips for using Zoom effectively? How can students maintain their drive to learn? On April...

In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Pete Peters shares stories from his thirty years of teaching relating his burden for students to grow up as true disciples of Christ. The ways we think of competition vs teamwork...

When I first started doing some staff development sessions probably 10, 12 years ago, we, as my typical fashion is, I probably went into it too gung-ho and scheduled way too many and didn't do a very good job with them, and staff probably...

Classroom confrontations. So, I have a few things to say about that to help you when it happens—if it ever happens. Two Anecdotes So, a long time ago I had a teacher that replaced a very popular teacher, and the parents didn't like him,...

On March 28, 2014, Anchor-Cross Publishing and Followers of the Way sponsored a debate on the subject of just war. We sought to bring leading thinkers together to discuss the issue in historic Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston. Speaking of...