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Growth and Grief: A Cautionary Tale

Blog, Curriculum Design, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Pedagogy | May 26, 2023

Like many teachers, I like to view myself as an innovator when it comes to my instructional practices. As I grew from a novice to a more experienced practitioner, I prided myself in being willing to try new things while applying what I was learning from the experts in...

Curriculum Development Is Change Management

Blog, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Efficiency, Leadership, School Leadership | May 19, 2023

“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” —George Washington Carver I am aware that I have a thin threshold for change. Anybody else with me? I find security in the way things have always been done. However, I am willing to be one of the biggest...

Preserving the Integrity of Your Curriculum

Blog, Accountability, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Pedagogy, School Leadership, Textbooks | February 21, 2023

Teaching is a unique career, and there are elements of the job that are very dissimilar to other work situations. One is autonomy. When a teacher closes the classroom door and begins the day, he/she is in charge. Routines, classroom management, assignments,...

Resilience, part 2: Look Back, Move Forward

Blog, Character Development, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making, Pedagogy, Reflection, Spiritual Formation | February 17, 2023

Reconnecting with a possible future, as the teacher helped her student do in the previous post, does not prevent progress from ever getting bogged down. When forward movement stalls, revisiting how one has been working toward that future can be helpful. A few days...

Exploring Humanity and the Holocaust: The Choice Between Good and Evil

Blog, Decision-Making, Discipleship, Resources, Spiritual Formation | January 19, 2023

“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.” — Genesis 1:27 These words in Genesis form the basis of Christianity’s beliefs about what human beings are, what they are capable of, and ultimately...

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Announcements, Blog, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Teaching Strategies, Why Mapping? | December 16, 2022

Decisions have consequences. Educators live and die by this maxim. While there might be some inconsequential decisions (i.e. – what side of your toast do you butter), most of the decisions we make (even as minute as decaf or regular), have the potential to change the...