English as a Stressful Language: A Challenge and an Opportunity in Writing Instruction

“The foreigner living among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I […]

The Task of Christian Education in Creating an Inclusive Worldview

  In many ways, the lives and experiences of students with disabilities have improved since the late 1970s when federal legislation requiring […]

Drawing a Line or Choosing Inclusion? The Place of Special Education in a Christian School Setting

Last November, I was blessed to be a part of leading a wonderful, integral, and responsive discussion on the role of special […]

Issues in Classroom Diversity

November 17, 2010 Al Boerema introduces the topic: The theme of this issue of CEJ is diversity. Let’s talk about this from […]

Catching Rainbows: Sharing in Diversity

“The heavens tell of the glory of God. The skies display his marvelous craftsmanship … God has made a home in the […]

Diversity in the Classroom

Question 1 How would you go about handling a classroom that has seven Individual Education Plans (IEPs) out of twenty-two students? This […]

Being a Hospitable Community for Those Outside the Heterosexual Mainstream

It was a story I’d heard before, but hearing it in the Christian school I’d graduated from brought a level of emotion […]

Wonderfully Made: The Story of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re […]

Open Enrollment in Christian Schools: Three Great Reasons

Why have we opened the doors of enrollment at Kleinburg Christian Academy? Is it because we, like many other small Christian schools, […]

The Tree of Life School

Diversity is something that never seems to happen naturally. Because of our fallen nature, we tend to gravitate to people, places, and […]