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Education
Flourishing Together: Global Opportunities for Lutheran Schools
In an increasingly connected world, Lutheran schools have before them a remarkable opportunity: to extend the mission of ...
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What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel?
Working through emotions is one of the uniquely demanding tasks of being human. Feelings don’t arrive in neat, ...
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Classroom Management – Where to Begin?
I have been a teacher for 27 years, and one question I am often asked by colleagues, future ...
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Comprehension Begins Before Page One
Let’s play a little game. I’ll give you just the first few words of a text, and you’ll ...
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Adding Movement to Any Lesson: A Teacher’s Guide
Why Movement MattersAs educators, we often feel the need to keep lessons tightly structured. Yet God designed our ...
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So Close to Being Fairly Good
I enjoy doing puzzles. It is fun for me to see the small details in the big picture ...
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Celebrate Good Times, COME ON!
“Celebrate good times, COME ON!” If you are a child of the early 1980s like I am, you ...
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Benefits of Knowing Parents
Most of us have moved, full steam ahead, into January. I pray you had a blessed, refreshing Christmas ...
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Why Handwriting Still Matters in a Digital World
In today’s classrooms, students are more likely to swipe, tap, and type than pick up a pencil. With ...
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