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Darrell Hershberger

Darrell Hershberger, Urban Mennonite Ministries

Elementary Subject Teacher | HCS | Baltimore, MD

Elementary Subject Teacher (Reading, Math, History, Science, PE) Hampden Christian School – Baltimore, MD Hampden Christian School, located in the vibrant neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore, MD, is seeking an elementary subject...

Elementary Subject Teacher | HCS | Baltimore, MD

Elementary Subject Teacher (Reading, Math, History, Science, PE) Hampden Christian School – Baltimore, MD Hampden Christian School, located in the vibrant neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore, MD, is seeking an elementary subject...

Kindergarten intern in urban school.

Hampden Christian School in Baltimore is looking for a kindergarten intern. HCS serves a middle-class urban community, and our mission is growing flourishing students who love God. Currently we serve around 80 students infant-8th...

Practicing Humility in School Relationships

What does it look like to exercise humility with our co-teachers, our leaders, our students, and our patrons?

Nurturing Humility in Our Students

How can we cultivate intellectual humility, respect, and a servant heart?

Appreciating the Beauty of Humility

How and why do we nurture this essential virtue?

Education's Purpose

I have long been fascinated with Booker T. Washington and his methods of education as displayed at the Tuskegee Institute in the late 19 th century. Washington firmly believed that education, especially for the African American...

A Servant Education: The Method and the Call

This is Part II of a collective effort by seven administrators of conservative Anabaptist schools. This group of administrators believes that our schools are poised to aid our churches and homes in the call to be the hands and...

A Servant Education: The Vision

This essay is a collective effort by seven administrators of conservative Anabaptist schools. This group of administrators believes that our schools are poised to aid our churches and homes in the call to be the hands and feet of...

Strategies for Motivation

The topic of motivation excites me a good deal more than procedures, rules, and other necessary-but-dry aspects of running a classroom. Here are three motivational strategies for any classroom: Make sure the students (and you)...

What Is Good Literature?

Cosette in Les Miserables from Wikimedia Commons On a school administrators' email group, Darrell Hershberger posed this question: What makes literature worthwhile? We're working on coming to an answer to this question that will...

Clear Your Desk, Open Your Heart

Looking at the life of Jesus, interruptions [were] a big part of him fulfilling his mission, and if our mission is to love and serve people, it can be the same way for us. Interruptions can be thought of as God-sent adjustments...

What Is Our Big Why? The Mission for School

(In a devotional at the Conservative Anabaptist School Board Institute, Darrell reflected on how American education in the mid-20th century was shaped by the competition between the USA and the USSR.) Education became something...

The Time Crunch: Homework, Family Time, School Time

How do we order our time so that we do not live in vain? Darrell discusses prioritization, goals, and systems for connecting daily tasks with larger goals.

How We Built a Little House

So last year we had a group of three twelfth grade boys and there's an eleventh grade boy as well who was included in the group. These students were very strong in academics but I wanted to ground them in some practical skills....

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