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At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to...

In the 1960s, World of Inquiry School #58 opened as a progressive, inquiry-based school in the Rochester City School District, and for...

As Christian educators, what is our participation in the recognition, creation, and encouragement of beauty in our students? Let’s look...

Deeper learning was first developed to make learning more relevant, rigorous, and effective for students both in the classroom and in...

A few years ago, I worked with a wonderful group of educators at EL Education to craft the Characteristics of Primary Learners. These...

On March 7 and 8, an intrepid band of seeker/explorers met in San Diego to engage in school site visits and attend exploratory workshops...

Growing up I attended a Christian elementary school located in the middle of farmland that had once been a marsh. It was not until I was...

One of my projects during the virus-forced sabbath was cleaning out my office. I still had files from decades ago: student work, lesson...

During a school site visit in San Diego in March of 2022 at CDL5, I became fascinated by the fact that our school of interest was...

There is a story about a western anthropologist who interacted with a group of children in South Africa. He placed a basket of sweet...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...