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Lessons Learned 5: What I Learned About Learning in Grades 5-7 (5/5)

Apr 12, 20224 min read

Lessons Learned 5: What I Learned About Learning in Grades 5-7 (5/5)

Editor’s note: This is the last post of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out “4 Phases of Teaching,” “What I Learned About...

Peter Welle

Apr 10, 20224 min read

Finding Our Growth Zone

Were you ever unlucky enough to be taught by a teacher who had long since departed their growth zone? Someone who had been doing the same...

Looking Under the Label: A Journey in Deeper Thinking

Steven Levy

Apr 7, 20223 min read

Looking Under the Label: A Journey in Deeper Thinking

Exploring deeper learning through the study of ‘labels’ in a first grade classroom. Deeper Learning is not an exotic new curricular...

Lessons Learned 4: What I Learned About Learning: Whales (4/5)

Trent DeJong

Apr 5, 20223 min read

Lessons Learned 4: What I Learned About Learning: Whales (4/5)

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first three posts, “4 Phases of Teaching,”...

Dan Beerens

Apr 3, 20222 min read

Are You a Seeker/Explorer?

This article was previously published in the CACE Blog on March 29, 2022. On March 7 and 8, an intrepid band of seeker/explorers met in...

Steven Levy

Mar 31, 20224 min read

Deeper Play

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein I love when I am invited into schools to do model lessons. I might demonstrate a...

Lessons Learned 3: What I Learned About Learning in Grades 3 and 4 (3/5)

Trent DeJong

Mar 29, 20225 min read

Lessons Learned 3: What I Learned About Learning in Grades 3 and 4 (3/5)

Editor’s note: This is the third in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first two posts “4 Phases of Teaching,” and...

Amy Imbody

Mar 27, 20225 min read

The Welcoming

Christian schools and learning communities frequently feature a daily or weekly “chapel” – and often this is a “mandatory attendance”...

Steven Levy

Mar 24, 20225 min read

You Are What You Teach

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson These people honor me with their lips, but their...

Lessons Learned 2: What I Learned About Learning in K-2 (2/5)

Trent DeJong

Mar 22, 20225 min read

Lessons Learned 2: What I Learned About Learning in K-2 (2/5)

Editor’s note: This is the second in Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Check out the first post “4 Phases of Teaching” and stay...

One Teacher at a Time: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…for His Purposes

Christy Mactavish

Mar 20, 20224 min read

One Teacher at a Time: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…for His Purposes

You are fearfully and wonderfully made…for His purposes. This simple affirmation statement started as a daily prayer over my three sons...

Steven Levy

Mar 17, 20225 min read

The Third Way

The dualistic mind, upon which most of us were taught to rely, is simply incapable of the task of creating unity. It automatically...

Lesson Learned 1: 4 Phases of Teaching (1/5)

Trent DeJong

Mar 15, 20225 min read

Lesson Learned 1: 4 Phases of Teaching (1/5)

Editor’s note: This is the first part of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Stay tuned for the rest of the series: “What I Learned...

Julie Winn

Mar 13, 20227 min read

Stories of Hope in a Hopeless Time

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And...

Steven Levy

Mar 10, 20224 min read

Second Thoughts on Curiosity

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on December 5, 2019. One thing I am curious about is the heart. I wonder why your...

Peter Welle

Mar 8, 20224 min read

The Too Big and the Too Small

I love a good vision statement, but on many days they’re no help. I’m lucky enough to teach at a terrific Christian school, and I care a...

What matters? . . . What matters! Three Foundations of Christian Deeper Learning

Darren Spyksma

Mar 6, 20225 min read

What matters? . . . What matters! Three Foundations of Christian Deeper Learning

A school’s true mission is its lived mission. As educational institutions, who in their very names identify themselves as Christian,...

Lessons for Teachers From the Sons of Sceva

Steven Levy

Mar 3, 20224 min read

Lessons for Teachers From the Sons of Sceva

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on August 4, 2020. Bet you don’t know who they are. I didn’t remember, not until I...

David Michel

Mar 1, 20224 min read

IB Approaches to Learning

Education systems worldwide are wrestling with changes in curriculum and pedagogy, moving away from solely teaching content to a...

The Transformative Power of “Real Work for Real People”

Joanna Levy

Feb 27, 20225 min read

The Transformative Power of “Real Work for Real People”

Christian schools that pursue deeper learning will have a number of image-bearing characteristics at the foundation of their design, one...