Healthy and Honest Opportunities to Connect and Communicate with Parents
Our Why for Communication The definition of “communication,” according to Merriam-Webster, is “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through […]
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A Christian Community of Learners or a Christian Learning Community? How a Podcast Brought Us Together
It was a Tuesday afternoon in early September of 2021. I had only recently started working at Langley Christian School (LCS) when […]
The Great Debate: When Parents and Schools Disagree about Curricular Choices
By Lesley Dorhout, Laura Maxey, and Erin Conn Disagreement and misunderstanding over curricular choices present perhaps one of the greatest threats to […]
Twenty-First Century Strategies for Effective Parent Communications
Report cards, interims, and parent-teacher conferences were once the mainstays of teacher to parent communications. An occasional newsletter or notice home or […]
Parents as Co-Teachers
In 1992, a group of Christian homeschooling parents who desired to remain active in their children’s lives but also ensure their academic […]
Out of the Helicopter, onto Common Ground
Intro: As parents seek more involvement in their child’s education, let us lay out the welcome mat and explore ways teachers and […]
Are Teachers Parents or Pedagogues?
Teachers have it tough. Most are encouraged to maintain relationships with hundreds of students each year. We are taught by experts and […]
Hospitality and Schools: Four Lenses
If we want to think about hospitality and schools, we might be tempted to go straight to questions of personal warmth. We […]
Don’t Be a Jonah
As a teacher in a Christian high school—and a social studies teacher at that—the past few years politically have been a little […]
Herman Who? Hermeneutics, Hospitality, and the Bible Classroom
“I don’t like the apostle Paul.” The assertion came after reading one of the particularly thorny and hard-hitting passages from one of […]