Listening to Holden: A Case for Teaching The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger issues several salvos against traditional education in his bildungsroman The Catcher in the Rye. The first occurs when Holden […]
Let Music Be Music: An Educator’s Journey through the World of Music
A Teacher’s Example My love of music began rather unexpectedly in grade eight when I met Mr. Weedmark. I entered his classroom […]
“We’re More Popular than Jesus”: Teaching John Lennon’s Body of Work in a Christian School
Almost six decades ago, in an article for The London Standard, Maureen Cleave, a journalist and friend of the Beatles, wrote an […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hospitality, Politics, and Human Nature
While there is still a little over a year before the formal election day takes place in November 2024 for American voters, […]
Our Civics and God’s Hospitality
What makes a civics course “Christian”? While there are an infinite number of ways in which a teacher might approach such a […]
Calling All Boundary Pioneers: Making Sense of Science and Religion
Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond, by Joseph W. Shane, et al. (National Science Teaching Association, […]
Elephants in the Classroom
Teaching argumentation in the high school English classroom in fall 2016 proved more challenging than any other leading up to it thanks […]