Selective Mentoring: The Case for Apprenticeship in Academic Discipleship

The summer after I graduated from high school, I walked into a piano lesson wanting to play like Ben Folds; I walked […]

Building Student Confidence through Creative Expression in Art Class

Schools today struggle to help students who daily deal with serious mental health issues that include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, and […]

Smiles at Graduation: A Student Assistance Program Story

The fellowship hall at my church was the last place I expected to be one Sunday night several years ago. We were […]

Eleven Standout YA Books for Curriculum, Read Aloud, or Classroom Libraries

Young adult literature continues to be fertile ground for an amazing range of books covering almost every subject imaginable. Below are quick […]

Review of: Confronting Christianity

I was teaching a grade twelve biblical studies class when something unexpected happened. In a class full of strong minds and bodies, […]

Christian Considerations for Choosing Books about the Holocaust

by Martha Mahtani and Bill Boerman-Cornell The Holocaust perpetuated on the Jewish people by the German Nazi party during World War II […]

God Is a Creator, Not a Manufacturer

Every morning in schools across America eager children enter the front door, walk down the hall to their classrooms, and are greeted […]

Sacred Space: Responding to God’s Presence

We live in a noisy world that seems determined to capture the attention and hearts of children. Noise is ubiquitous! Canned music […]

Educating in Places, Not Spaces

Geographer Mark Bjelland notes that a space is simply a set of geographic coordinates, whereas a place is a location that has […]

Get Outside: Creation as a Space for Learning

In this article, I am not going to cite the latest research. I am not going to analyze how all of what […]