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Editor’s note: This is the last post of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out “4 Phases of Teaching,” “What I Learned About...

Were you ever unlucky enough to be taught by a teacher who had long since departed their growth zone? Someone who had been doing the same...

Exploring deeper learning through the study of ‘labels’ in a first grade classroom. Deeper Learning is not an exotic new curricular...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first three posts, “4 Phases of Teaching,”...

This article was previously published in the CACE Blog on March 29, 2022. On March 7 and 8, an intrepid band of seeker/explorers met in...

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein I love when I am invited into schools to do model lessons. I might demonstrate a...

Editor’s note: This is the third in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first two posts “4 Phases of Teaching,” and...

Christian schools and learning communities frequently feature a daily or weekly “chapel” – and often this is a “mandatory attendance”...

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson These people honor me with their lips, but their...

Editor’s note: This is the second in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first post “4 Phases of Teaching” and stay...

You are fearfully and wonderfully made…for His purposes. This simple affirmation statement started as a daily prayer over my three sons...

The dualistic mind, upon which most of us were taught to rely, is simply incapable of the task of creating unity. It automatically...

Editor’s note: This is the first part of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Stay tuned for the rest of the series: “What I Learned...

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And...

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on December 5, 2019. One thing I am curious about is the heart. I wonder why your...

I love a good vision statement, but on many days they’re no help. I’m lucky enough to teach at a terrific Christian school, and I care a...

A school’s true mission is its lived mission. As educational institutions, who in their very names identify themselves as Christian,...

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on August 4, 2020. Bet you don’t know who they are. I didn’t remember, not until I...

Education systems worldwide are wrestling with changes in curriculum and pedagogy, moving away from solely teaching content to a...

Christian schools that pursue deeper learning will have a number of image-bearing characteristics at the foundation of their design, one...