Dan is the administrator of Terre Hill Mennonite School in Pennsylvania.
Beyond Black and White: Guidelines to Thrive By
As you become an adult, you need to know where you stand. Do you want to live with confidence, conviction, and credibility? It would be nice if our choices were simply about black and white, right and wrong. They are not. In this...
The teenage years are full of transitions and effective communication requires understanding. We will seek to understand these transitions and equip participants with strategies to connect with teenagers. Communicating...
The exchange below occurred in Spring 2019 in a school administrators' email group. Travis Rutt Would anyone be willing to share curriculum ideas in science? Right now we are using BJU but our editions are outdated. We did not...
How does God's story apply in the classroom? How does it guide us in navigating interpersonal difficulties? Dan points out that Biblical integration is more than acquiring knowledge of the Bible; our schools must operate in the...
In the final talk in the series on biblical integration, Dan urges teachers to be faithful to their callings and to avoid false ideas that distract us, and our students, from serving Christ in the classroom.
In the opening message of the series, Dan describes the arc of God's story, and urges us to see our lives--and the lives of our students--in the light of God's story. In Him is life, and it is the light of men. Only in Him do we...
In the closing session of his series on Scripture in the classroom, Dan reminds us of the greatness of little moments. We tend to emphasize the big tests and great acts of God's people in history. But many of the important events...
More than Bible Facts: God's Wisdom in Our Classrooms
How do we bring the light of God's word into our daily classroom experience? Dan encourages us to look beyond mere factual knowledge, and to build a culture of the fear of God. "Before obedience," says Dan, "there has to be a...
How does the Bible change how we teach? How does it change our students' learning? Dan Rutt explains that the God's story gives meaning to everything we teach and every student we serve. This video is a summary of the first of...
