Help your students develop a different way of thinking! The way students think about learning has major implications on what and how they actually learn. We will discuss Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindsets versus fixed mindsets to… Continue Reading
We are counseled to, “Be diligent to enter his rest,” but what does it mean to enter His rest and how can we do so in our schools and classrooms? The answers are surprisingly practical, and unsurprisingly important. Come and reflect on how… Continue Reading
Contextualize through storytelling; love your subject out loud; color your classroom with traditionas and routines; engage all of the senses as often as possible; contemplate truth, goodness, and beauty; present archetypes worthy of… Continue Reading
In contemporary schools we often imagine that all the natural sciences fit neatly together. Casual observers sometimes assume that the scientific approach offers a simple methodology which must only be applied in each subject. But woe to… Continue Reading
The integration of faith into the learning enviornment requires a delicate balance between guidance and permission to wrestle with core issues, including faith and doubt. Young people need leadernship but they also need the freedom to be… Continue Reading
How do we as Christian educators instill in students an appreciation for the inherent goodness of math? This question is of vital importance as many students (and, let’s be honest, some teachers) experience mathematics as confusing… Continue Reading
How much time do you spend in conflict with others at school? Whether it is teachers and parents, students and students, administrators and teachers, board members and administrators, every type of relationship in your school community has… Continue Reading
The ancients do us the great courtesy of providing many wonderful examples of orations with both invention and arrangement already selected and crafted. With these first two canons of rhetoric already in place, the use of such orations… Continue Reading
Come to this seminar to participate in a discussion about the best practices of embodied education. This conversation will be a follow-up to Jenny Rallens’s talk on classroom liturgy and virtue formation at last year’s SCL and Alcuin… Continue Reading
There are significant benefits to building an upper school science sequence around an introductory physics course in 9th grade. On the other hand, there are serious weaknesses and missed opportunities associated with the common practice of… Continue Reading
Many 21st century teachers view themselves primarily as technicians: they are professional educators who have been trained with a set of skills that, when correctly employed, will produce the prescribed outcomes. In this seminar, however… Continue Reading
A contemplation of the first of the Liberal Arts: Some oddities about teaching it and some thoughts about learning it. Continue Reading
