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Thanks and Have a Great Summer!
We will be taking a break from filling your mailbox with thoughtful posts from Christian Deeper Learning for the summer weeks ahead!...

Dan Beerens
Jun 2, 20221 min read


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...

Kim Essenburg
May 31, 20223 min read


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...

Steven Levy
May 26, 20224 min read


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...

Edith van der Boom
May 24, 20223 min read


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...

Kim Essenburg
May 22, 20224 min read


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...

Steven Levy
May 19, 20222 min read


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...

Joanna Levy
May 17, 20225 min read


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...

Kevin Taylor
May 15, 20227 min read


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...

Steven Levy
May 12, 20225 min read


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...

Laura Swan
May 10, 20225 min read


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...

Steven Levy
May 5, 20224 min read


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...

Dan Beerens
May 3, 20226 min read


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...

Edith van der Boom
May 1, 20223 min read


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...

Steven Levy
Apr 28, 20229 min read


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...

Dan Beerens
Apr 26, 20222 min read


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...

Edith van der Boom
Apr 24, 20225 min read


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...

Steven Levy
Apr 21, 20226 min read


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...

Kevin Huinink
Apr 19, 20225 min read


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...

Edith van der Boom
Apr 17, 20223 min read


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...

Steven Levy
Apr 14, 20223 min read
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