Seeing All of the Faces in Your Classroom: Reaching Your International Students
As you scan your classroom or the halls of your school today, you may see some faces and hear some accented voices that stand out. A snatch of German or a few quick sentences of Chinese might pass between students in between classes. And these faces will look back at...
How Can Schools Respond to Enrollment Increases? Bradley Dunn, Valley Christian School
Blog, Podcast, School Leadership, School Mission, Stewardship, The Teacher's Lounge | August 3, 2022
“I think that [enrollment increases in Christian schools are] going to last. When I talked about how we get the chance to pull back the curtain and show families who we are, the families that have come to us, all of these new ones, they have said over and over, I...
How Can Schools and Students Benefit From Alternative Energy Education? with Ernie Delgado
Blog, Podcast, Resources, School Leadership, STEAM, Stewardship, Technology Integration, The Teacher's Lounge | July 27, 2022
“[I]t’s funny to try to explain that to people because when people think of fundraising, they think of: great, they’re going to ask me for more money. And that’s exactly opposite of what this is. I’m not asking – and I’m not only not...
Standards-Based Curriculum
The standards movement crept into education after the publication of A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform in 1983. Slowly, state by state education departments adopted standards and state-wide assessments. The purpose was to get all students in the...