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Church is weird, you know?
When I step back and consider the typical elements of the common American church service, I find myself wondering if the rest of the world thinks this is just crazy. I’ll elaborate. This morning we found ourselves in a different place of worship – we were there to hear a particular speaker in their Sunday…
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Teaching Redemptively: It’s about the students, really.
Teaching Redemptively: It’s about the students, really. Teaching is a subject that’s always on my mind, no matter what I’m actually doing at the moment. And finding a teacher who rants in line with my heart on teaching is just the best. 😉 I published my thoughts over on the Teaching Redemptively blog, so head there…
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A few thoughts on professional development
Teaching Redemptively: Time to realign professional development. ^ I wrote a post on Teaching Redemptively to address some thoughts to that bane of educators’ existence, professional development. And I got those thoughts from the promising research & work of Melissa Pelochino, one of the research fellows in the Design thinking program at Stanford University. She’s…
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Teaching Redemptively: Apologizing “for real”
Teaching Redemptively: Apologizing “for real” ^ I write (less often than I should) on a shared blog about Teaching Redemptively. Actually none of us write as often as we’d like, but you’ll find some thoughts over there about what it looks like to intentionally model classroom practices after the Gospel. This particular post highlights a…
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Resolving the resolve again! (she resolved)
The Power of Writing Every Day – A.J. Juliani. ^This post (above) was an encouraging yet needling reminder that I often fail to make the changes necessary to accomplish my personal goals. The author chronicles his development into a man who writes 1,000 words a day in pursuit of writing curriculum, blogging about education questions,…
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