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CDL Digest
I sent a note out to our blog contributors this week about the significance of our shared work in Christian Deeper Learning and...

Dan Beerens
Sep 23, 20226 min read


Moving from Residential Schooling to Truth and Reconciliation
In May of 2021, many people were shocked to hear about the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential...

Edith van der Boom
Sep 21, 20222 min read


Classroom Discipline in Light of the Cross
He stood in front of my desk, red hair blazing, with eyes deep-set and jaw muscles taut, steeling himself for the rebuke to come. I can...

Kevin Taylor
Sep 19, 20225 min read


CDL Digest
Welcome back to the CDL Digest! We hope to share with you each week articles of interest that you may have missed. This will include...

Dan Beerens
Sep 16, 20223 min read


Simplicity Makes the Profound Happen!
These words were spoken by a Chinese educator experiencing Redemptive Education for the first time. Now she is sharing that “simplicity”...

Amy Imbody
Sep 14, 20221 min read


Inviting My Walls into My Classroom Conversation
All those years that I worked so hard to make attractive bulletin boards, and then they just sat there on my walls, fading all year...

Kim Essenburg
Sep 12, 20222 min read


Christian Deeper Learning Digest
Welcome to the CDL Digest! We hope to share with you each week articles of interest that you may have missed.

Dan Beerens
Sep 9, 20222 min read


Listening to that Voice in Your Head
You know that nagging voice you get in the back of your head as a teacher? Not the one pointing toward those last few papers to grade, or...

Peter Welle
Sep 7, 20225 min read


Starting Well: Remembering Who I Am
If you’re a teacher, you know all about the dreaded back-to-school dreams. Even if you’re one of the rare teachers who doesn’t have them (I

Kim Essenburg
Sep 6, 20224 min read


Experiencing Deeper Learning
God was faithful to provide what he called us to do.

Steven Levy
Sep 2, 20224 min read


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Dan Beerens
Aug 31, 20221 min read


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
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