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

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Kim Essenburg’s Learn, Unlearn, & Relearn blog on October 10, 2020. A fun reading...

I always used textbooks in my classes … but never how they were intended. They were valuable for me, as the teacher, to identify the...

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...

The classroom is charged with the energy of learning – students collaboratively working with text to build meaning. These are the teacher...

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...

One of the principles of Christian Deeper Learning is that all members of the community are invited to see their identity as God’s...

"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...

Every year, teachers in Deeper Learning schools plan projects that they hope will engage students in doing “real work for real people...

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...

In the 1960s, World of Inquiry School #58 opened as a progressive, inquiry-based school in the Rochester City School District, and for...

As Christian educators, what is our participation in the recognition, creation, and encouragement of beauty in our students? Let’s look...

Deeper learning was first developed to make learning more relevant, rigorous, and effective for students both in the classroom and in...

A few years ago, I worked with a wonderful group of educators at EL Education to craft the Characteristics of Primary Learners. These...

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...

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...

One of my projects during the virus-forced sabbath was cleaning out my office. I still had files from decades ago: student work, lesson...

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...

There is a story about a western anthropologist who interacted with a group of children in South Africa. He placed a basket of sweet...

We are Crew, not Passengers. This is the motto of the organization I worked with for 20 years, Expeditionary Learning, now called EL...