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Lessons Learned 2: What I Learned About Learning in K-2 (2/5)
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...

Trent DeJong
Mar 22, 20225 min read


One Teacher at a Time: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…for His Purposes
You are fearfully and wonderfully made…for His purposes. This simple affirmation statement started as a daily prayer over my three sons...

Christy Mactavish
Mar 20, 20224 min read


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

Steven Levy
Mar 17, 20225 min read


Lesson Learned 1: 4 Phases of Teaching (1/5)
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...

Trent DeJong
Mar 15, 20225 min read


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

Julie Winn
Mar 13, 20227 min read


Second Thoughts on Curiosity
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...

Steven Levy
Mar 10, 20224 min read


The Too Big and the Too Small
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...

Peter Welle
Mar 8, 20224 min read


What matters? . . . What matters! Three Foundations of Christian Deeper Learning
A school’s true mission is its lived mission. As educational institutions, who in their very names identify themselves as Christian,...

Darren Spyksma
Mar 6, 20225 min read


Lessons for Teachers From the Sons of Sceva
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...

Steven Levy
Mar 3, 20224 min read


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

David Michel
Mar 1, 20224 min read


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...

Joanna Levy
Feb 27, 20225 min read


Aligning Philosophy and Practice to Propel Potential
This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on March 8, 2016. I’ve been working in the past several years with schools that...

Dan Beerens
Feb 24, 20224 min read


High quality student work: Shaping self and forming the world
Within the Christian Deeper Learning framework of Teaching for Transformation, teachers root their learning within God’s story (See the...

Darryl DeBoer
Feb 22, 20221 min read


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,...

Amy Imbody
Feb 20, 20222 min read


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...

Steven Levy
Feb 17, 20225 min read


Love, Engagement, and…… Data?
An earlier version of this article was published in the winter of 2017. In October 2016, we were honoured to welcome Steven and Joanna...

Justin Cook
Feb 15, 20226 min read


The Contemplative Teacher
These are not easy times to be an educator: the pandemic has forced all of us involved in the work of Christian teaching and learning to...

Kyle Hughes
Feb 13, 20223 min read


Is There Such a Thing as Teaching Christianly?
The original version of this article was published on the CACE Blog on May 22, 2019. There is power in the naming of things. I imagine...

Steven Levy
Feb 10, 20224 min read


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...

Dan Beerens
Feb 8, 20223 min read


What Are Students Learning? Ask Them!
This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on January 29, 2022. Fiction offers us a powerful marriage of information...

Kim Essenburg
Feb 6, 20225 min read
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