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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...

You Are What You Teach

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...

The Transformative Power of “Real Work for Real People”

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

To Build a Canoe

They are going to build a canoe. They don’t know how yet. I don’t know how yet, either. But this year, they are going to build a canoe,...

The Invitation to Learn

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on October 2, 2019. I’ve worked with many teachers designing deeper...

The Redemption and Promise of Service-Learning

This post was originally co-published by the CACE Blog and the ACSI Blog on September 25, 2018 in an effort to bring innovative and...

Engaging in Deeper Learning: Poor Economic Thinking Hurts the Poor

For fourteen years I taught AP Micro and Macroeconomics at Minnehaha Academy, and believe me when I tell you that I love ideas. The...

Real Work for a Real Audience

Lauren was walking away from the copy machine with a stack of copies from the Spanish workbook. She looked like she had just been...