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May 12, 20225 min read

What Can Biblical Integration Look Like?

Every year, teachers in Deeper Learning schools plan projects that they hope will engage students in doing “real work for real people...

Apr 14, 20223 min read

Are Your Students Crew or Passengers?

We are Crew, not Passengers. This is the motto of the organization I worked with for 20 years, Expeditionary Learning, now called EL...

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...

Feb 17, 20225 min read

The Invitation to Learn

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on October 2, 2019. I’ve worked with many teachers designing deeper...

Feb 15, 20226 min read

Love, Engagement, and…… Data?

An earlier version of this article was published in the winter of 2017. In October 2016, we were honoured to welcome Steven and Joanna...

Feb 10, 20224 min read

Is There Such a Thing as Teaching Christianly?

The original version of this article was published on the CACE Blog on May 22, 2019. There is power in the naming of things. I imagine...

Feb 3, 20225 min read

The Hook: What’s in a Name?

The original version of this article was published on the CACE Blog on July 24, 2019. The language we use has a real power to influence...

Feb 1, 20225 min read

A PBL Classroom is an Inclusive Classroom

Is there Really a Way to Reach All of My Students? How can we meet the needs of all our students? Educators are tasked with the daunting...

Jan 4, 20224 min read

One Teacher at a Time: What does it mean to be made in God’s image?

There are moments in our lives when people are placed in our path to challenge us to clarify the way we communicate something. One of...

Dec 2, 20214 min read

Where Do the Subjects Come From?

This article was originally published on the CACE Blog on February 2, 2017. I always scheduled a parent evening about 3 ½ weeks into the...

Oct 19, 20214 min read

Project-Based Learning: A Christian Pedagogy?

When she saw from my nametag that I was at the conference representing the PBL Residency, she said, “It’s so important that we provide...