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Lectern

Effective School Boards: 2. Structure That Works

You’ve had your school board meeting, now what? This talk will explore practical ways in which the board can be effective. Please come...

Effective School Boards: 1. Leading Productive Meetings

Effective meetings, whether in businesses, schools, or organizations, are an important part of developing and communicating direction,...

CSRC Update

CSRC Update by Lorne MartinStory by: Noah Kraybill

Evaluating the Effects of Digital Media

"Digital media has been invading and pervading our society now for the better part of the last 50 years. How has this change been...

Shaping School Culture – Panel Discussion

Moderator: Rodney Lebold Panelists: Noah Kraybill, Robert Heatwole, Timothy Gerber

15 Minute Period of Singing

Disorders - Finding the Balance

What is a disorder? How many are there? And what shall we do about them? “If the school board would just understand how serious this...

Assisting Without Competing

In the path of life, do you find yourself walking alongside a man with leadership responsibilities outside of the home such as school...

Working Through Serious Student Offences

NO! It can't be...! But yes, even our Christian schools have these difficult situations, and the response of administration and...

Maintaining Our Vision Through Curriculum Choices

Curriculum stands at the core of our Christian schools. A lot of work has been done in the last 50 years to provide Biblical...

Empowering the Educator to Engage the Learner

It takes authority to empower! How can Christian administrators stabilize and authorize their teacher teams so that there is a return...

Welcome & Devotional

Relevant Policies

What are relevant policies for a school? When are policies useful? Wesley Gingerich says, “Effective policies lay the foundation for...

Board Structure

What defines a successful school? Gerald Miller looks at various school board organization structures and methods of conducting...

A Word Fitly Spoken

Patrons, teachers, and board members all legitimately discuss school challenges with those beside them. Does your board adequately...

Understanding Achievement Tests

Do you understand the barrage of data on the achievement test results? What is it trying to say? Come for an explanation of the wealth...

Today’s and Yesterday’s Students

What are the similarities and contrasts between today’s students and those of forty years ago? How has time changed us? What should we...

The Discipline of Hard Communication

When the air is filled with fur, we tend to either clam up or speak up to our regret. How do we keep communicating profitably in the...

Surviving Failure

A man may fall seven times…because he gets back up each time. How can we keep our school ideals shining brightly, while slogging...

Supporting Purity in Our Schools

Incidents of sexual misconduct and allegations are rising in our schools. How can we proactively support the personal purity of our...

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