Tell Me a Story
I can still remember the day my little brother was born. It was a cool March day in North Dakota, and I was six years old. I remember my grandma and grandpa traveled to my family’s house around the time my mom was due to give birth. When it was ‘time’, my mom and dad...
How Can Curriculum Mapping Support All Learners?
Blog, Curriculum Mapping, Differentiation, Integration, Pedagogy, Teaching Strategies, The Teacher's Lounge | February 23, 2024
Earlier this week we welcomed Lynn Cuffari back to the Teacher’s Lounge again. She’s probably pretty well known to the Curriculum Trak community because she is currently serving as our primary trainer. She originally began using Curriculum Trak over 7...
Take a Minute to Think
The musical Fiddler on the Roof is a favorite of mine. It tells the story of a Jewish family living in Imperial Russia in the 1900s. The main character, Tevye, is a poor milkman who dreams of giving his family a rich life and successful marriages for his five...
K-12 Teachers’ Perspectives on Teaching Christianly: Part 2
Biblical Integration, Blog, Faith Learning, Integration, Pedagogy, Spiritual Formation, Teaching Strategies | February 7, 2024
What do teachers think about how faith should inform learning? Several years ago, over 1000 K-12 teachers answered this question in an online survey. In Part 1 of this blog, I described the study and began discussing what we can learn from the teachers’ responses. In...
