Schools that Inspire: Do you Belong?

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A Short Review of 2024-25 This year’s Schools that Inspire series showcases an extraordinary array of Christian schools around the world, each deeply rooted in its cultural context yet unified by a common mission to nurture students in faith and learning. From Memphis to Ghana, England to Indonesia, and Guatemala to British Columbia, the featured schools exemplify innovative approaches to … Read More

Leading in an AI World: Adapting Appropriately

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This is the third in a four-part series that looks at the theological foundations for a faithful response to AI in Christian schools. This post is an excerpt from Paul Matthews’ book A Time To Lead. Let me give you the bottom-line up front: the world we are teaching in now is radically different than it was three years ago. We … Read More

Scientific Storytelling, Part 4: Science Fiction and Fictional Science

Faith StultsFaith and Science, The CACE RoundtableLeave a Comment

In the first three parts of this series on scientific storytelling, we explored how students bring their own stories into the classroom, how the history of science reveals subtle but important elements of how science works, and how stereotypes can limit whether students feel they belong in the story of science. In this fourth and final part, we’ll look at … Read More

Practicing Incarnational Christian Education: Embracing the Place, Time, and Community of Your Call

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The context Duncan Christian School (DCS) exists on the ancestral (recognizing that land was traditionally passed down from one generation to the next), traditional (recognizing that these lands were traditional hunting, fishing, recreating, and family-making lands of a people group), and unceded (recognizing that the land was taken and never given over) territory of the Cowichan Tribes. This location is … Read More

Leading in an AI World: Engaging Ethically

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This is the second in a four-part series that looks at the theological foundations for a faithful response to AI in Christian schools. This post is an excerpt from Paul Matthews’ book A Time To Lead. In the first installment of this four-part series, we looked at how intentionally living under the lordship of Christ would allow us to navigate … Read More

Scientific Storytelling, Part 3: Who is a Scientist?

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In Part 2 of this series on Scientific Storytelling, we explored how stories from the history of science richly demonstrate the nuanced and sometimes surprising ways that science works. I shared the story of Einstein’s biggest blunder and highlighted a few insights into the nature of science that the story demonstrates. One of my big takeaways from studying the nature … Read More

The Genius of the AND

Tim Van SoelenThe CACE Roundtable1 Comment

I’m guessing each of you has encountered concepts that captured your imagination and led to a personal core value from which you now operate. Allow me to share one of mine with you. I first read about the “Genius of the AND” in Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras’ book Built to Last. This quotation explains the central concept: Builders … Read More