February 2013
Editorial Thoughtful Christian educators, realizing that they live and work in a rapidly changing world, are constantly looking for ways to improve the [...] Feature Christian Education: Authentic and Sticky Four things have become clearer to me in recent years. First, Christian schools must be distinctively different. Second, the engagement of the [...] Feature Project-Based Learning: Culture-Making for Shalom Communities A Vision for Education Education reform has been a hot topic in North America for many years. In 2011, Barack Obama focused [...] Feature Adventures in Project-Based Learning I figured it would be a pretty easy thing to do. About eight years ago, I began teaching a college course called [...] Article Project-Based Learning and Gardening Like most teachers, I have asked students to work on projects in my classes. The idea of having students make and create [...] Article My Journey to Project-Based Learning Three Days into My Teaching Career, 1994 Twenty-nine students dutifully pulled out a worksheet. Words like erosion, deposition, and alluvial spilled into [...] Article Spaces Where Learners Flourish Spaces where learners flourish are spaces of discovery and possibility, where imagination and creativity are nurtured, where learners engage deeply and meaningfully [...] Column To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven . . . —Ecclesiastes 3:1 Welcome back! Now [...] P@nel.edu Al Boerema began the conversation by asking the panel members to reflect on the tension between the standards/accountability movement that has taken [...] Slouching Toward Bedlam Beware the Rex’s March, or It’s All Greek to Me “The books are here!” English teacher Christina Lopez shouted excitedly as she pushed through the faculty lounge door. She held a brown [...]