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Kim Essenburg
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
One-Pagers: Enjoyable Assessment is NOT an Oxymoron
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Kim Essenburg’s Learn, Unlearn, & Relearn blog on October 10, 2020. A fun reading...
Steven Levy
- May 26, 2022
- 4 min
How to Use a Textbook for Deeper Learning: A lesson for our times
I always used textbooks in my classes … but never how they were intended. They were valuable for me, as the teacher, to identify the...
Edith van der Boom
- May 24, 2022
- 3 min
Kintsugi: Putting Broken Pieces Together
There is a story told of an emperor in Japan who broke his favourite bowl. He sent it back to China where it had originally been made to...
Kim Essenburg
- May 22, 2022
- 4 min
Learning about Poetry: Making It Active and Visible
The classroom is charged with the energy of learning – students collaboratively working with text to build meaning. These are the teacher...
Steven Levy
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
RAFTs: A Creative Way to Demonstrate Understanding
This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on April 14, 2020. Whether teaching on-line or face-to-face, RAFTs is an engaging...
Joanna Levy
- May 17, 2022
- 5 min
Cultivating a Spirit of Worship in the Classroom
One of the principles of Christian Deeper Learning is that all members of the community are invited to see their identity as God’s...
Kevin Taylor
- May 15, 2022
- 7 min
Teachers as Non-Anxious and Hope-Filled Presences
"What is the hardest thing about being a young person in our world today?” I recently asked students in my junior and senior high Spanish...
Steven Levy
- May 12, 2022
- 5 min
What Can Biblical Integration Look Like?
Every year, teachers in Deeper Learning schools plan projects that they hope will engage students in doing “real work for real people...
Laura Swan
- May 10, 2022
- 5 min
Lessons on Deeper Learning: A Maternity Leave Reflection
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to...
Steven Levy
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
Celebrate Learning!
In the 1960s, World of Inquiry School #58 opened as a progressive, inquiry-based school in the Rochester City School District, and for...
Dan Beerens
- May 3, 2022
- 6 min
Our Participation in Beauty
As Christian educators, what is our participation in the recognition, creation, and encouragement of beauty in our students? Let’s look...
Edith van der Boom
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Global Citizen Education: A Responsiveness to Culture
Deeper learning was first developed to make learning more relevant, rigorous, and effective for students both in the classroom and in...
Steven Levy
- Apr 28, 2022
- 9 min
Nurturing the Caterpillar: Ten Characteristics of Young Learners
A few years ago, I worked with a wonderful group of educators at EL Education to craft the Characteristics of Primary Learners. These...
Dan Beerens
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
Are You a Seeker/Explorer?
On March 7 and 8, an intrepid band of seeker/explorers met in San Diego to engage in school site visits and attend exploratory workshops...
Edith van der Boom
- Apr 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Why of Christian Deeper Learning: A Mindfulness Towards Learning Design
Growing up I attended a Christian elementary school located in the middle of farmland that had once been a marsh. It was not until I was...
Steven Levy
- Apr 21, 2022
- 6 min
Lessons from a Taxi Driver
One of my projects during the virus-forced sabbath was cleaning out my office. I still had files from decades ago: student work, lesson...
Kevin Huinink
- Apr 19, 2022
- 5 min
Navigating Through Rough Waters
During a school site visit in San Diego in March of 2022 at CDL5, I became fascinated by the fact that our school of interest was...
Edith van der Boom
- Apr 17, 2022
- 3 min
Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
There is a story about a western anthropologist who interacted with a group of children in South Africa. He placed a basket of sweet...
Steven Levy
- Apr 14, 2022
- 3 min
Are Your Students Crew or Passengers?
We are Crew, not Passengers. This is the motto of the organization I worked with for 20 years, Expeditionary Learning, now called EL...
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