Voices of bullying
Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell and two of his students at Trinity Christian College, Matt Mulder and Kaitlyn Manning, asked other Trinity students […]
Assessment Obsession and Evaluation Idolization
When educational policy makers first caught assessment fever from the business world some twenty years ago, like many teachers, I assumed it […]
Restoring Peer and Self-Assessment
In 2007, Elaine Brouwer unpacked some important ideas on assessment in the pages of the Christian Educators Journal. It was a remarkable […]
Eight Big Ideas about Assessment and Grading: Putting the Focus Back on Learning
I first became aware of the power of big ideas in an educational context during an early ’90s visit with colleagues to […]
An Art Curriculum for the Elementary School
As schools everywhere try to economize, one of the areas that, regrettably, they decide they can no longer afford is the position […]
Project Based Learning: The Perspectrum Project
The Motivation Paulo Freire, in his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, passionately challenges his audience to love one another actively and […]
Top Ten Tips for New Teachers of English Language Learners
Whether or not you graduated from college with an emphasis in teaching English language learners, chances are you will have ELLs in […]
Christian Education: It is about the Children
This article is adapted from a devotional presented at the annual general meeting of the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools in November, […]
Christian Schooling: A Spiritual Act of Worship
For many years, Romans 12:1–2 has been for me one of the key texts of scripture. So it surprised me when I […]
Courageous, Compelling and Coherent Christian Education: Living the Biblical Story
When a Christian family is choosing a school for their child, what factors do they consider? To what do we as Christian […]