How do we know that faith is at work in our schools? How can we show the impact of Christian education in the faith practices of our students? These are the questions the Practicing Faith Survey seeks to address. PFS is a a self-administered online survey tool designed to help faith-based schools assess their impact on students’ faith formation.
Taking Up the Mantle: Having Your Own Confidence
One of the dangers of sitting at the feet of a legend, however, is that you can develop feelings of inadequacy. You do not understand and discern complexity as well as them. You cannot express yourself with such poise. You feel you have so much more to learn before you should contribute.
Emerging from Covid-19: Addressing Student Ability
As we emerge from the chaos that has been the Covid-19 pandemic, I am hearing a lot of messages and concern about learning loss. And with new government funding in the form of EANS funds and other Covid-19 related grants, schools are being encouraged to explore all kinds of options for addressing the ‘learning loss’ impacts of the pandemic. Leaders … Read More
Take the Long View
Delaware County Christian School head of School, Dan Steinfield, shares the five keys to becoming leaders for the long haul.
Getting the Big Things Right: Priorities for School Leaders
Axios founder Jim VandeHei built his nimble, voracious media channel on five words: get the big things right. My mind immediately recalled VanderHei’s mantra when Drs. Smith and Lepine asked me to write a follow-up to their foundational blogpost, “Keeping a Kingdom Mindset.” How do transformational leaders get (and keep) the big things right? Big Thing #1: Posture In both … Read More
The Expected Value of Sports in the Christian School
For our athletic programs, there is little evidence about who we are, what we do, why we do it, and for whom do we do it—questions that a school’s mission statement should answer. Helping schools tell the story of why high school sports are mission-centric is why CACE developed the Coaching for Transformation framework.
More Than a School: Teaching Kids How to Think
In their “More Than a School” video series, Hope Academy is seeking to spotlight the things that make them truly unique, through the voices of people who make Hope special. In this episode, Mr. Choi unpacks the ways they help students learn how to think as we shape hearts, minds, and affections through classical, Christ-centered education.
Do Christian Schools Contribute to Political Polarization?
Given that Protestant school graduates in the latest Cardus Education Survey were much more likely than public school graduates to describe their political ideology as conservative and closer to the Republican than Democrat Party, what does their lack of enthusiasm in 2016 suggest?
Sacred Spaces
Last year I was visiting a beautiful new school building (that’s you, Minnehaha), a facility rebuilt after a horrific explosion that destroyed much of the former campus. The staff spent countless hours with architects and builders to imagine the new space. Walking into a place that has been so thoughtfully imagined, so intentionally designed, so intimately prepared felt like a … Read More
Walking in the Shoes of a Giant (who also couldn’t get his act together)
In 2020, we mourned the passing of Christian education legend, Martin Hanscamp. Martin’s contributions to Christian education have been monumental. His words held people captive at conferences, around dinner tables, and in one-on-one conversations. He was confident in what he knew and clever in articulation.