Hope for the Anxious Generation: Engaging with Jonathan Haidt
If one book in the past year not explicitly about education has had an outsized effect on educational practice and policy, it […]
Using Christian Mindfulness to Support Student Thriving in a Pandemic Season
Mindfulness has emerged as a leading intervention for dealing with stress in the school setting. But the term has become overused and […]
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 […]
Ten Excellent Young Adult Books and Graphic Novels You Should Probably Read as Soon as You Can
Young Adult (YA) literature is exploding. A broad range of stories is coming out right now in the unprecedented numbers of books […]
The Top Ten Young Adult Books You Need to Read
This year I read a lot of young adult fiction, and I was struck by how much these books engaged social justice […]
Social Media and Christian Schools: What Are We Going to Do?
Katie (not her real name), a high school junior, walked briskly toward her first hour class, making sure to get in the […]
The Top Ten Best Adolescent and Young Adult Books (For You and Your Student to Read as Soon as Possible)
This year I read many excellent adolescent and young adult books. Many of these books have a common theme: they take readers […]
The Top Six Lists of the Best Books That You and Your Students Need to Read as Soon as Possible
This year as I looked over the books that I have read in the past year and I tried to figure out […]
The Top Ten Books for Adolescents and Young Adults That You Need to Read Right Now
10. Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. If you haven’t read it yet, do so now. Actually, that […]
The Spiritual Lessons of Emerging Adulthood
The student’s words unsettled me. We had been discussing the topic of courage, the letting go of our fears so that we […]