Design a Dual Credit Program that Works

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Dual Credit

Administrators, students, and parents can easily get caught up in dual credit opportunities without prioritizing their value in a Christian education. I believe in the mission of Christian education and its eternal impact on students’ lives. The dual credit choices you make for your school must support that mission.

Reflecting on 2020, Working Toward Better in 2021

Erik EllefsenThe CACE Roundtable1 Comment

2020-2021

Through our strategic planning, data analysis, professional learning groups, and blog posts, CACE supported Christian school leaders through the challenges of 2020. The most read blogs from last year focused on three themes: COVID response, improving teaching and learning, and diversity.

Rising Leaders’ Guide to Change and Innovation: Keeping a Kingdom Mindset

Justin SmithRising Leaders’ Guide to Change and Innovation, The CACE Roundtable5 Comments

Keeping a Kingdom Mindset

Is a Christian educator the same as an educator who is Christian? For that matter, does Christian education differ from education of or by Christians? Approaching education with a Kingdom mindset requires that the school and her leaders view all aspects of teaching, learning, culture, sports, and the arts through the lens of the grace and truth of Christ. All … Read More

DEEP CONSISTENCIES: Five Essential Steps to Christian Deeper Learning

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Kids learning with Christian Deeper Learning Strategies

We hope that you enjoyed our series, The Many Roads to Christian Deeper Learning. We are inspired by the variety of partnerships Christian schools have developed to support their mission. Though we featured six approaches, we are aware that additional models are used by faith-based schools to engage students in kingdom life. We also recognize that some Christian schools have … Read More

Rising Leaders’ Guide to Change and Innovation: Lead from the Cutting Edge

Ryan BerensRising Leaders’ Guide to Change and Innovation, The CACE Roundtable1 Comment

Rising Leaders' Guide to Change and Innovation: Lead from the Cutting Edge

What makes technology unique is that it intimidates some school leaders who believe themselves to be incompetent, are afraid to vulnerably learn, and prefer to leave this instruction in the hands of the technology expert. But this year proved that if leaders are going to lead, they need to understand their school’s technology and its capabilities.

Words and Walls

Tim Van SoelenDiversity in the Christian School, The CACE Roundtable1 Comment

Diverse kids in a Christian Kindergarten classroom

Do we want diverse and inclusive schools? Absolutely. All of us who teach, lead, or chose faith-based schools for our children have good work to do in this space. Getting there is going to be a long process. It is challenging to do difficult work in a society obsessed with the immediate. Let us not grow weary.